Asian Cinema Digest #54!
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.
Space 1999: Aliens Are Jerks
Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The second is that, with few exceptions, aliens are jerks. At least in the first season, Space: 1999 (UK, 1975-77) captures malaise, chronic low-grade depression and inertia […]
BBC Archive 1986: “Cronenberg, Moore, and Campbell on Horror in the 1980s”
BBC Archive has a clip from Saturday Review. “Charles Shaar Murray interviews the prolific horror writer Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore – the writer of graphic novels Swamp Thing and Watchmen, and director David Cronenberg, whose latest film The Fly deals in grotesque body horror, about the resurgence in […]
“Lowell Dean’s ‘Dark Match’ Punches Above Its Weight”
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about Lowell Dean’s Dark Match! “I love a good, heady drama or a weighty horror that trades in the nuances of grief, or just fucks you up with a historical-based gutpunch of a story that you never want […]
“Jane Schoenbrun’s Energy: Hello, Fellow Trans Kids”
At Bright Wall Dark Room, Ari Lisner interviews filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun. “So much of [I Saw The TV Glow] is reflecting back on all of the ways in which I clung to media, fiction, music, and television as coping mechanisms for that lack of a real life or […]
“The Metaphor Years: Writing Lessons from The Twilight Zone”
At RogerEbert.Com, Matt Zoller Seitz has a fantastic piece on Rod Serling and how he used genre to write about political, social and moral concerns. “‘The writer’s role is to be a menacer of the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must […]
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