Penny Dreadful: dismembering and assembling the Victorian Gothic

Extraordinary Gentlepeople. Illustration by Daniela Attard As part of our ongoing run-up to Halloween, we invited Gothic scholar Conrad Aquilina to dissect Showtime’s popular Gothic panorama Penny Dreadful, aided along by illustrations by Schlock regular Daniela ‘iella’ Attard. by Conrad Aquilina Illustrations by Daniela Attard Nothing quite spells decadence, darkness, madness and excess than the Victorian

POP CULTURE DESTRUCTION – I WENT TO THE STARS AND ALL I GOT WAS BONED

Welcome to POP CULTURE DESTRUCTION for November, or as I like to call it NoIamnotgoingtodoathingfuckyouvember! Seriously, what is up with November? I’ve asked that question many a time and never got a satisfactory answer! DESTRUCTION NEWS Lars von Trier’s latest, Nymphomaniac, gets a trailer. It has heavy metal and also, how shall I put it,

Schlock’s Podcast #12 – Dracula, Pop Culture Destruction – April 2012

We’d like to think Nosferatu’s Count Orlok is watching over this podcast with pride. April – is it really (groan) the cruellest month? Probably not – but this month’s subject of podcast discussion is not the nicest of characters… Count Dracula! Joining Teodor, Marco and Kris is Bram Stoker scholar Charmaine Tanti, and the subject