Tag: gender

Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea

Enjoy this salvaged 1984 performance of Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea! The peformances, costumes and design are incredible. “This is an RF-rip of Yukio Ninagawa’s 1984 performance of Medea, aka, 王女メディア. Released by Toho video only on VHS….This performance itself was referenced in an episode of Chris Marker’s The Owl’s […]

Nosferatu, Jung and Freud

At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw watches Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (USA, 2024) with David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (Canada, 2011). “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is another shot at the same topic, using not a ghost haunting us from the past as a metaphor for the libidinous violence of men […]

“Chappell Roan Creates the Haunting Score for Horror Short ‘Posies’ (2022) from Writer/Director Rachel (R.H.) Stavis”

At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on Chappell Roan’s score for Posies. “2022’s horror short film Posies, written and directed by ‘non-denominational exorcist’ and prolific writer Rachel (R.H.) Stavis, is a body horror exploration of the transformation of humanity into monsters, at […]

What Ghost Would Dare Hate Us?

A dilapidated mansion. An eerie, mist-shrouded forest. A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a seemingly defenseless beautiful and refined young woman. So begins Kuroneko–Kaneto Shindo’s tale of cats, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women (and powerless men) by entitled men. Kuroneko is […]