“How To Be Cool”
Friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman briefly reviews the new book by the Gutter’s own Keith Allison, Cocktails and Capers: Cult Cinema, Cocktails, Crime and Cool! Go on over and look and then make sure to pick up Keith’s book, too!
Princess Iron Fan, Animated
A 1941 animated version of Princess Iron Fan created by the Wan Brothers. (Thanks, Meredith!)
Eternal, Grandiose, and Gold: What Indian Cinema Makes of Ancient Egypt
Nothing says epic romance like a timeless wonder of the ancient world! via GIPHY The popular cinemas of India face a unique problem when it comes to the escapism that makes a significant component of their recipes. If your characters need to get away, to dream, where should […]
“Mom Let Me Love Horror”
“In 1989, I was a sprite seven years deeply hooked on the strange, imaginative spaces of genre cinema. Having a young, uncoiled mom afforded me the opportunities to ‘just happen’ to be in the living room while she watched questionably legal/video store rental copies of Poltergeist, Beetlejuice, Hellraiser, […]
Lois Weber’s Suspense
At Syfy, friend of the Gutter Sara Century writes about Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense (1913) and its impact on horror ever since. Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense might only clock in at barely over ten minutes, but for the earliest run of home invasion films, […]
The Phantom Playhouse
Friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs has some Spookoween appropriate material for you to read and thrill to at The Phantom Playhouse!
The Cultural Gutter 