The trailer for the Killers of the Flower Moon film has debuted today. Based on the 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth [ … ]
Category: Film & TV
Nightmare Alley (2021) – Southern Gothic Pulp Film
In the Southern Gothic pulp film Nightmare Alley a charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a traveling carnival, then [ … ]
Chopper Franklin To Score Southern Gothic Series
The Heathen Apostles’ Chopper Franklin has been hired to compose music for the Southern Gothic series The Goodbye Family. The Goodbye Family is the creation of Lorin Morgan-Richards, who has adapted the [ … ]
Killer Joe (2011) – Southern Gothic Black Comedy
Killer Joe is a 2011 American Southern Gothic black comedy crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 play of the same [ … ]
True Detective (2014) – Southern Gothic Themes
True Detective became a huge hit with audiences and critics upon its release in 2014. All the Southern Gothic themes are on display here: ritual murder, the pervasive influence of [ … ]
Dark Religious Film “The Seventh Commandment”
In the dark religious film The Seventh Commandment Ted Mathews (Jonathan Kidd) has just graduated from business college and he sets off with his girlfriend Terry (Lyn Statten) to celebrate. [ … ]
Three Gritty Southern Gothic films From James Franco and Tom Franklin
James Franco is developing three gritty Southern Gothic films based on novels by crime fiction writer Tom Franklin — “Smonk,” “Poachers,” and “Hell at the Breech,” Variety announced. Franco and [ … ]
Ethan Hawke as John Brown In New Series
Blumhouse TV has signed Ethan Hawke as John Brown to develop and star in a limited series based on James McBride’s 2013 National Book Award-winning gothic Civil War novel The Good Lord [ … ]
True Grit (2010) – Brooding Gothic Western Film
On the surface it would seem that in remaking the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit, the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) have remade a good gothic western film into [ … ]
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) – Southern Gothic Drama
In the southern gothic drama Beasts of the Southern Wild a storm approaches a southern Louisiana bayou community called the “Bathtub” (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee), [ … ]