The Gutter’s own Carol watches Michelle Garza Cervera’s Huesera and liked it! “Huesera: The Bone Woman (Mexico-Peru, 2022) was not what I expected. It’s Queerer and more Punk. From the trailers and stills I had expected it to be about pregnancy and the traps of domesticity. I had […]
I had an uninvited guest once, and it was inside me. If you’ve ever seen a sonogram of a cancer tumor, a demon analogy isn’t too much hyperbole. Tumors look objectively wicked and wrong. The barbs of its flesh under my own skin pricked. And while it was […]
This week Guest Star Nick Hanover gets ready to celebrate Mothers Day with Flesh Eating Mothers (1988) ~~~ I am not nor will I ever be a mother but as the oldest in a family of three rambunctious, mischievous children I suspect one unspoken fact of motherhood is […]
This week Guest Star Sara Century watches Secret Ceremony (1968) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum. Sara Century is a horror writer, podcast host, and a critic. You can find out more at http://www.saracentury.com ~~~ Trigger warning: This movie is upsetting and deals with sexual violence, […]
Our friends at Fox Spirit Books are posting a series of a pieces about women in horror for Women In Horror Month. So far there are pieces about Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House by Kate Laity; disability and motherhood in horror by K. Bannerman; and Crimson […]
“The experience of the mother—as a caregiver, as a woman in crisis, but most importantly, as a human—is often at the center of Netflix’s Stranger Things. And when I, like so many others, became captivated by it this summer, I felt myself exhaling as I watched Joyce Byers […]
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