Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss the Mr. Vampire kung fu horror-comedy series! “Released in 1985, the original Mr. Vampire was directed by Ricky Lau and stars Lam Ching Ying as a Taoist priest who battles the forces of evil along with his two inept students. This […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss the 1970 Toshio Matsumoto film, Demons! “We conclude a month of discussing Japanese films with a look at Toshio Matsumoto’s 1971 film Demons AKA Shura AKA Pandemonium. The story of the film is part of the fabric of the larger 47 […]
At the Projection Booth Podcast, friends of the Gutter Mike White and Emily Intravia join Samm Deighan to discuss The Apple Fell! “It’s the story of Adam Schmidt (Bobby Todd) who is torn between his wife Lilith (Joana Maria Gorvin) and his mistress Eve (Bettina Moissi). Despondent, Adam […]
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Karen Shakhnazarov’s Zerograd (1986). “The film stars Leonid Filatov as Aleksei Varakin, he’s from a Moscow Mechanical Plant and comes to a small town to meet with a man about air conditioners. He soon finds himself in an absurdist nightmare where […]
The Projection Booth Podcast’s Mike White hosts film critic Samm Deighan and the Gutter’s own Carol as we watch and discuss two film adaptations of Edogawa Rampo’s The Black Lizard. Friend of the Gutter Prof. Earl Jackson is interviewed about the films, Rampo, Yukio Mishima and drag and […]
Our friends at The Projection Booth discuss the Mr. Vampire series and all things hopping vampire / jiangshi / goeng-si. “Released in 1985, the original Mr. Vampire was directed by Ricky Lau and stars Lam Ching Ying as a Taoist priest who battles the forces of evil along […]