AI Generated Valentine’s Day Cards
It’s not Valentine’s Day and we don’t care because we just discovered these AI-generated Valentine’s Day cards and we love them. Behold their glory here. (Thanks, Ed!)
Walking with Ghosts
Carol’s piece on Mattie Do’s The Long Walk (2019) contains plot details. She doesn’t think they’d spoil the movie, but now you know. ~~~ The Long Walk (2019) is a slow-burning blend of genres. It’s a movie that requires some patience (and possibly a second viewing) as it […]
“From Goopy to Groovy: How Sam Raimi Approaches Horror Comedy”
Film School Rejects has a groovy video essay by Patrick Willems about Sam Raimi and horror comedies. “Raimi’s ‘funhouse gauntlet’ approach to horror comedy ultimately relies on a varied bag of tricks, from exaggeration and escalation to seeing how much slapstick punishment Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell is able […]
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies–The Body Genres in Ti West’s X and Mimi Cave’s Fresh
Horror, like porn, is meant to evoke a physical reaction. They, alongside melodrama, form the trio of genres which are described as “body genres” by my favourite media theorist, Jenna Stoeber*. Stoeber argues that the body genres evoke emotional reactions of “fear, sadness, or arousal” that spill out […]
Caught in a Spider’s Web, Seated on a Throne of Blood
April is Switcheroo Month at the Gutter. The time when Gutter Editors write something outside their domains. This year we’re writing about reputable art. ~~~ It’s hard to say what’s reputable and disreputable anymore. Things are not what they were when the Cultural Gutter was founded in 2003, […]
“A Women in Horror Research Project”
Filmmaker, film historian and friend of the Gutter Prof. Ashlee Blackwell’s students have a research blog and you can check out all the interesting ideas about women in horror here!
The Cultural Gutter 