Sunday Scaries, May 28: Evil Dead Rise, Rose Red
Every day around 10am, I actually feel like updating my blog. This impulse will be overtaken by the concerns of the day, the week, the hour by lunch pretty easily, but still the urge persists. It seems as though the internet probably has enough content by now, to say nothing of the robot writers online,…
These Statements Have Not Been Evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration
Really enjoyed Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo (2022), streaming now on Shudder. Imma write more about it at the Gutter later this month, but if you felt that The Nanny (2022) lacks teeth and M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant needs to pick a lane, this just may be the story you were looking for. From imdb: “A fashion…
It Came From The Cultural Gutter
HEYYYYYYYYY. Just barely in time for this year’s 31 Days of Halloween, I am also celebrating 7 years of writing with the smartest, best humans and one (alleged) space lady at The Cultural Gutter! We are your source for thoughtful writing about disreputable art, lavishing on films, comics, books, and video games. Check us out…
31 Days of Halloween 2021, Days 3-7: Body Switches and the Devils You Don’t Know
[tunelessly] On the third day of Halloween, Sam Hain gave to me…a cool Swedish horror indie. Anyhoo. Skickelsen (Out of the Darkness), short film, written by Jonas Gramming and Mikael Holmström, directed by Jonas Gramming, 2020. Skickelsen stars Lars Väringer, who you may remember as the Hårgan elder with the game show host charisma in…
31 Days of Halloween 2021, Days 1-2: The Incredibly Strange Creature Who Stopped Living Because She Had a Migraine
So I began October with a freaking migraine. Great Pumpkin, how have I angered ye? But did that stop my Spooktobering? …It did dial me down from a speedy Living Dead pace to Romero zombie shamble, but I made some progress. And took two Witch Baby baths. More on that later. First, MEDIA CONSUMED: Scooby-Doo…
A Wait Off My Chest
Hi. Welcome to my blog! Kick your shoes off. Sit a spell. Inside the black salt circle probably is best, yeah. So. How’s the pandemic treating you? That good? Yeah, weird how normal it is, death hovering so near to us at all times, but at least we can get toilet paper now. No ER…
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