After a great opening full of jet packs that affords the Joes an opportunity to pose on the top of the Statue of Liberty, the action picks up with Cobra Commander and a guy named Serpentor screaming at each other.
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Two recently-released compilations explore the many facets of Sun Ra’s music and serve as an introduction to the visionary art of one of the founding voices of Afrofuturism.
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At its core there is something very British about folk horror. However, as an American, I started thinking about US folk horror and, as is my way, the places where American folk horror and science fiction intersect.
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Unpacking Penda’s Fen can seem at first overwhelming. There is so much going on that one scarcely knows where to start, though the most common point is wondering how it got made in the first place.
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Mars Men kicks off with a little kid stumbling upon a hidden cave in which he finds a small statue of Yud Wud Jaeng. The kid insists on calling him “Hanamajin”, and the rest of the cast follows suit.
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On The Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about Hammer Films’ These Are the Damned and the intersection of science fiction, horror, and folk horror in the atomic era.
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Inframan is, in many ways, a perfect film, in that it is resoundingly successful in achieving what it sets out to do. Every one of its scenes could be bullet-pointed with the word “SEE!” in front of it.
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