Check out all the posts for our friends at Fox Spirit Books’ Women In Horror Month blogathon, including pieces by the Gutter’s own Angela and Carol. Angela wrote about Karen Black in Trilogy of Terror and Carol wrote about Cat People (1942).
Our friends at Fox Spirit Books are posting a series of a pieces about women in horror for Women In Horror Month. So far there are pieces about Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House by Kate Laity; disability and motherhood in horror by K. Bannerman; and Crimson […]
Dr. Nerdlove writes about The Punisher and Frank Castle’s broken masculinity. “Like the incredible Jessica Jones, Marvel’s The Punisher examines and elevates a character and a genre defined by tropes and clichés. Despite being one in a long series of knock-offs of the Lone Vigilante genre – codified in its modern […]
Friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs writes about Kaneto Shindo’s anti-war horror classic, Onibaba. “The film begins with a vicious murder. While making their way through a dense field of tall grass, two fugitive samurai are impaled on spears by hidden aggressors. Their killers are women who strip […]
“Why is it that I can easily remember the faces and voices of female cartoon villains, but if asked about female cartoon heroes, all I can remember is the clothes?” More on cartoon villainesses from Sarah Gailey at Tor.com. (Thanks, Adele!)
At Hazlitt, Emma Healey writes about a particular scene in the fourth season of Louis CK’s Louie. “By the time Louie was in its fourth season, its protagonist had a lot of audience goodwill to burn, and C.K. seemed to want to do something legitimately complicated with it: […]
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