You may have seen that rad poster Drew Struzan created for Joseph Ruben’s 1984 movie, Dreamscape. It’s the one with a smirking Dennis Quaid holding a torch while creepy heads float on the sides, implying an over-the-top, Indiana Jones-like escapade. That doesn’t strike an accurate tone, and it’s not the whole story.
The National Diet Library in Tokyo has scanned a copy of Sekka Zusetsu, an 1832 book of snow crystals observed and recorded by Doi Toshitsura. See them here!
Victor Frankenstein is a terrible father, a tech bro, and not a doctor.
Everything is real and everything is possible in Latitude Zero. It is both a secret utopia beneath the sea where scientists and artists work in peace, waiting for the day when humankind will be ready to embrace Latitude Zero’s wonders, and a Japanese/American science fiction spectacle directed by […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age tomfoolery, science fiction, horror, mysterious figures with antlers, UFOs, ghosts, cats with skulls […]
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