As part of Biff Bam Pop‘s annual 31 Days of Horror, the Gutter’s own Carol Borden writes about Cindy Sherman’s first and only film, the underappreciated genre-mixing, Office Killer (1997). “Though she’s not often thought of as a horror actor, let alone a scream queen, Carol Kane has been in some celebrated horror movies. She is iconic, though perhaps not also remembered, as the baby-sitter in When A Stranger Calls (1979), the film that launched a thousand homages and jokes based on, ‘Have you checked the children?’ and ‘The call is coming from inside the house.’ Kane seethes with an infantile malevolence in The Mafu Cage (1978) as Cissy, a woman who is obsessed with her sister (Lee Grant) and brutalizes primates. And as for her horror adjacent movies, She’s quirky, violent, frightening, and right in Scrooged (1988). But the film I want to focus on is a lesser known horror movie, Cindy Sherman’s genre-bending, neo-noir office horror comedy, Office Killer (1997).”

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