So many pulp magazines!
Do you dare lose yourself in the Pulp Magazine Archive at Archive.org?! Weird Tales! Fangoria! True Detective! Amazing Stories!
Spookoween 2018
Spookoween has begun with “Spookoween 2018: 31 Days of Horror, Part I” by the Gutter’s own Carol! (There will probably be two more posts covering the rest of Spookoween!)
Princess Iron Fan, Animated
A 1941 animated version of Princess Iron Fan created by the Wan Brothers. (Thanks, Meredith!)
Eternal, Grandiose, and Gold: What Indian Cinema Makes of Ancient Egypt
Nothing says epic romance like a timeless wonder of the ancient world! via GIPHY The popular cinemas of India face a unique problem when it comes to the escapism that makes a significant component of their recipes. If your characters need to get away, to dream, where should […]
“Mom Let Me Love Horror”
“In 1989, I was a sprite seven years deeply hooked on the strange, imaginative spaces of genre cinema. Having a young, uncoiled mom afforded me the opportunities to ‘just happen’ to be in the living room while she watched questionably legal/video store rental copies of Poltergeist, Beetlejuice, Hellraiser, […]
Lois Weber’s Suspense
At Syfy, friend of the Gutter Sara Century writes about Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense (1913) and its impact on horror ever since. Lois Weber and Philip Smalley’s Suspense might only clock in at barely over ten minutes, but for the earliest run of home invasion films, […]
The Cultural Gutter 