The Feminine Critique: Recent Watches and Reading Rainbow Catch-Up!
Our friends at the Feminine Critique Podcast catches up on recent watches and recent reads. Listen here!
The Projection Booth interviews Ed Glaser
Our friend Mike White at The Projection Booth interviews friend of the Gutter and film scholar Ed Glaser about his work and his new book: “On this special episode Mike talks with Ed Glaser, host of the Deja View YouTube series and author of How the World Remade […]
“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 […]
Interview with James Hong
Vanity Fair interviews the legendary James Hong. “My parents obviously wanted me to be something other than an actor. I said, ‘I’ll be an engineer,” because I like to build things.’ I went into the Army for the Korean War. After two years of that, I didn’t know […]
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 […]
The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing
The Gutter’s own Carol recreates some scenes from The Wicker Man (1973) in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can see them here.
The Cultural Gutter 