At The Tate blog, Susan Owens writes about how ghosts and spirits have changed. “I was intrigued to find the idea of the dead returning to their old homes so entrenched in the British imagination, and it made me reflect on the place ghosts have in our culture. […]
At The Movie Sleuth, friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner considers Talk To Me (2023). “Twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou up until now have been running RackaRacka, a successful YouTube empire with almost seven million followers. Their bread and butter were gory horror-themed shorts and pop culture […]
At the Denver Public Library’s Saturday Afternoon Film Discussion, “Actor, director and producer Alex Winter (act. Bill & Ted film series; act. The Lost Boys; dir. Zappa) joined film critic Walter Chaw on December 5th 2020 to discuss Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 haunting masterpiece, Ugetsu.” Watch here.
A piece on Ghost Story of Yotsuya / Yotsuya Kaidan by the Gutter’s own Carol Borden gets a nice little shout at Asian Film Digest, the magazine of the Asian Film Archive in Singapore! Read more here.
Tamiya Iemon is the absolute worst. I have seen multiple adaptations of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, from Keisuke Kinoshita’s Shinshaku Yotsuya Kaidan / Yotsuya Kaidan Part 1 & Part II (1949) to Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 adaptation, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan / The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959) to Takashi Miike’s […]
At Bright Wall / Dark Room, Ethan Warren discusses the excellence of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992). “Only one work of cinema has ever managed to effectively recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation in the traditional sense as through the more precarious […]
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