Bela and Boris on You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth explores the lives and careers of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff on You Must Remember This.
“The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft & Robert Barlow”
At the New Yorker, Paul La Farge writes about H. P. Lovecraft and poet, anthropologist and Lovecraft’s literary executor, Robert Barlow.
“31 Days of Feminist Horror Films: So You’re A Woman Who Loves Horror Films”
Kate Hagen is once again “celebrating horror films that explore the female experience throughout the month of October, creating 31 spooooky days of lady-centric viewing choices. And! since horror lends itself so well to double features, each title I write about will be paired with another horror movie […]
“Transgression and the Horror Porn of Richard Kern”
At Dirge Magazine, friend of the Gutter Less Lee Moore writes about the cinema of Richard Kern. “My introduction to Richard Kern was an issue of Spin magazine from the mid-1980s. Having recently fallen under the spell of the feral pleasures of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel – a.k.a. […]
Carol Talks Horror on the CBC
On CBC Radio’s Day 6 with Brent Bambury, the Gutter’s own Carol talks about horror movies directed by women and makes a few Halloween recommendations. (And here’s one of Carol’s favorite promotional pieces she wrote for one of the films for its premiere at the Toronto International Film […]
Now Cthulhu is Blofeld
The moons have aligned and given me the opportunity to slip two October articles in, which means you get (or are inflicted with) a third installment of the ongoing series Punching Cthulhu in the Face, a look at the many ways H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror has been corrupted […]
The Cultural Gutter 