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The Hollywood Reporter interviews director Takashi Miike about his new film, Shield of Straw: ” In Japan now, films are very safe. When I was young and went to old cinemas, they had a distinctive feel, an adult smell about them. As you got in your seat…
More Women In Horror Month business—Machiko Kyo and Tatsuya Nakadai play a game in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (1966). We think Kyo should be more celebrated for her role in horror, through films like The Face of Another and the more widely known, Ugetsu.
Image via Cinebeats.
Page from “The Master Puppet.” Jason Orfalas, pencils. Claude St. Aubin, inking. Peter Gutiérrez, story. It’s included in the Eisner-nominated collection, Shi: Kaidan, and is one of the perks for The Cultural Gutter’s indiegogo fundraiser.
“Soul of the Sword” page drawn by Stan Sakai for the collection, Shi: Kaidan. Shi: Kaidan was just unlocked as a perk in The Cultural Gutter’s indiegogo campaign. Get yourself a fine comic and help keep The Gutter going!
Science Fiction/Fantasy Editor James offers a “compilation of recent thoughts” on Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead; Rifftrax; The Incredibles soundtrack; and Summer Time Machine Blues.
When I watch the movie, I get a really physical sense of dread that accumulates in my chest. It’s almost immediate, considering how quickly the nightmarish events begin in the movie, and it doesn’t let up, really, even after the credits have started rolling. I’m generally not a fan of horror, or at least, I very rarely get that same sense of physical fear from other horror stories.
Happy Birthday, Godzilla!
(image via livefromplanetzero)
The faces of Toshiro Mifune, one of the world’s greatest actors.
Emi Ito:April 1, 1941 - June 15, 2012
‘Girl looking at two mirrors’ © unknown
it’s neat to see a girl from so long ago checking the back of her ‘do.
Miguel Rodriguez kindly invited the Gutter’s own Carol onto Monster Island Resort to discuss the late Kaneto Shindo, and his films, Onibaba and Kuroneko. Listen here, if you’d care to.
