“A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft, and Voodoo in Film”
Tanya Krzywinska has made her hard to find classic, A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft, and Voodoo in Film (2001) available for free on her website. You can read it here.
The Projection Booth watches The Long Walk
Friend of the Gutter Mike White interviews filmmaker Mattie Do, director of the sf / time travel / thriller / horror movie set in Laos, The Long Walk (Laos, 2019)! “Mattie Do discusses her career from being a ballet instructor to suddenly directing horror features in Laos.” Listen […]
Halaloween: The Fourth Annual Muslim Horror Film Festival!
Enjoy this Spookoween Season with Halaloween: the Fourth Annual Muslim Horror Film Festival presented by the University of Michigan’s Global Islamic Studies Center and features excellent films including: Roh (Malaysia, 2018); Beddua: The Curse (Turkey, 2019); and, Satan’s Slaves (Indonesia, 2017). These films are free and streaming online. […]
Ghoul (2018): Reveal Their Guilt
Ghoul (2018) is as bleak as might be expected for a series that starts with the line, “Strike a deal with your blood and out of the smokeless fire the ghul will come.” It’s a three episode miniseries that addresses fascism, state terror, and individual guilt in a […]
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 […]
Interview with Ritwik Pareek
Friend of the Gutter Robert Mitchell interviews Ritwik Pareek, director of Dug Dug (2021).
The Cultural Gutter 