Tag: horror

Filmi Ladies: Thamma!

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Thamma. Unfortunately, “the latest installment in the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe, which frankly feels a little…de-fanged. SORRY NOT SORRY.” Listen/watch here.

American Hysteria: “Bloody Mary”

On American Hysteria Podcast. Chelsey Weber-Smith considers the history of “Bloody Mary.” “Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…For our Halloween special, we are going to trace the history of the slumber party ritual known as Bloody Mary in which a young summoner stands in the dark in front of a […]

The Casebook of Dr. Louis Judd, Terrible Psychiatrist

thought that I was done writing about terrible people for the year. But I need to ponder just one more, Dr. Louis Judd. Judd is a supporting character played by Tom Conway in two RKO horror movies: Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (USA, 1942) and Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim (USA, 1943). Dr. Judd while suave, sophisticated, sardonic and lightly mustachioed is a remarkably bad psychiatrist. He drifts into and out of Manhattan’s occult and supernatural demimonde. Like many a tourist, he is not careful and he leaves more than memories.