One for the Ladies: How The Beguiled Is A Perfect Female Empowerment Film
When you think of the career of Don Siegel two items readily spring to mind: he helmed the...
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Tag: Southern Gothic
Book Review: Beneath (2017)
When I heard that Kristi DeMeester’s first novel Beneath had Southern Gothic leanings and a...
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Tobe Hooper’s Eaten Alive: Misunderstood, Maligned, Magnificent
Quite early in his career, Tobe Hooper became a formidable director with the success of The Texas...
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We Blind See More Clearly: The Surreal Southern Gothic of The Beyond
Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (L’aldilà, 1981) is a masterpiece. It was not always recognized as...
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The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire: Southern Gothic Cinema, Part Three
In parts one and two of my exploration of Southern Gothic films, I examined this murky subgenre...
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The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire: Southern Gothic Cinema, Part Two
In the first part of my series on Southern Gothic cinema, I examined the origins of the Southern...
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Interview: The Bloody Jug Band
Hailing from the Sunshine state The Bloody Jug Band have been described as Florida Swamp Noir....
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The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire: Southern Gothic Cinema, Part One
In the December 1, 1940 issue of Vogue, published just as the United States teetered on the brink...
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They are Just Like You: S. F. Brownrigg’s Scum of the Earth
“The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.” -Flannery...
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Diabolique Print & Digital
Daughters of Darkness
Hell’s Belles
Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
