I’ve decided to round off Switcheroo Month at the Gutter with ghosts. Are ghost stories reputable, you might ask? As a genre, not really, but as a literary device they’ve been used to explore some of the most serious themes imaginable, from personal tragedy and grief to unresolved […]
The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on 4 horror movies that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans! “This year I was fortunate enough to attend–remotely–the 2024 Overlook Film Festival. I would have loved to attend a horror film festival in New Orleans. I […]
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
It’s a new episode of “What’s Korean Cinema?” on Podcast On Fire as Kenny B and Paul Quinn watch R-Point (2004). “The Korean war movie gets spooky, in 2004’s R-Point. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn.” Listen here.
Angela Englert accidentally fed her mogwai after midnight, so she’s going to be afk this month. In the meantime, please enjoy this look back at MR James’s classic Christmas ghost stories, and with any luck, she’ll be back in the new year. Or something will. Imagine, if you […]
BBC Archives has a report from 1977 on a poltergeist in Ponder’s End, Enfield. “‘Either 17 people have all been having hallucinations – including the police – or this is the best-documented ghost story of all time.’ Nationwide’s James Hogg reports from a seemingly ordinary, suburban house in […]
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