The Gothic has always been an inclusive space, with room for voices from all sorts of marginalised spaces. Deciding who to celebrate (belatedly) this World Pride Day, I was happily spoilt for choice. As founding father and author of the earliest Gothic novel, Horace Walpole (who is commonly believed to have been gay) paved the… Read More Paris Was a Woman, Bristol her Admirer
Warning! The following review includes spoilers; if you’re yet to watch the Dracula (2020) miniseries, I would recommend saving this post and coming back to it once you have.Now, on with the show… [Reading note: Dracula refers to the character, Dracula to the novel, and Dracula (2020) to the TV series in question.] “๐ด ๐๐… Read More But One Word: Dracula (2020)
“๐๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐๐ฎ ๐ต๐ธ๐ธ๐ด ๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ถ; ๐ช ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ด๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ ๐ฒ๐ท ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ญ๐ต๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ท๐ธ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ?” – Lizzy, The Wind The bleak and blustering narrative of The Wind takes place during the pioneer days in a wild western state of America. Lizzy and her husband Isaac live alone, in a simple cabin surrounded by… Read More Flickering… in the Middle of Nowhere: ‘The Wind’
Season 1 Analysis, Part 2 True Detective is an HBO anthology series made up, currently, of 3 seasons. The initial eight-part mini-series (now known as season 1), which aired in 2014, is set in Louisiana, USA. Season 1 follows a pair of homicide detectives, Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Woody Harrelson), as they… Read More ‘True Detective’: The Eternality of the Gothic
Season 1 Analysis, Part 1 True Detective is an HBO anthology series made up, currently, of 3 seasons. Each season chronicles different crimes, start to finish, with an alternate cast of actors portraying entirely new characters in new settings. The initial eight-part mini-series (now known as season 1), which aired in 2014, is set in… Read More ‘True Detective’: Time is a Flat Circle.
Charming screens for close to a century, cinema is saturated with portrayals of witches, good and bad. To save you suffering through the latter, Generally Gothic has compiled a list of the ten topmost witchy watches… As if by magic! HรXAN (1922) Written and directed by Benjamin Christensen (who also features as the devil), Hรคxan… Read More Witch Watch: Top Ten
If you’re able to overlook the background modern cars, the stickers on the soles of Elaine’s black boots, and Trish’s mobile phone, ‘The Love Witch’ (2016) could easily be mistaken for a psychedelic, Italian giallo horror, or tantalising technicolour melodrama of the 1950s and 60s, to which it pays otherwise flawless homage. Written, directed, composed,… Read More Enamoured with ‘The Love Witch’
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