Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Cult Hero (Canada, 2022). Cult Hero (Canada, 2022) is a new entry into the proud and storied tradition of low budget Canadian exploitation films, from the Canadian tax shelter films of […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Legions (Argentina, 2022): When Fabian Forte’s Legions (Argentina, 2022) opens, Antonio Puyjo (Germán De Silva) has been committed to a psychiatric hospital. Antonio is proud of his bloodline, his family and […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Patrice Leconte’s Maigret (France / Belgium, 2022) Patrice Leconte’s Maigret was adapted from Georges Simenon’s Maigret & The Dead Girl / Maigret et la jeune morte (1954), one of the […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of Demigod: The Legend Begins (Taiwan, 2022): Fellow disciples in the Cinematic World, if you are looking for martial arts fantasy to ignite your cranium, director Huang Wen-Chang’s Demigod: The Legend […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of The Roundup (South Korea, 2022): Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup reminds me of 1980s and 1990s Hollywood buddy cop action movies. The kind of movies where Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce […]
The Gutter’s own Carol is reporting back from the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival with a review of The Girl From The Other Side (Japan, 2022): I almost don’t know what to say about Yutaro Kubo and Satomi Maiya’s The Girl From The Other Side (Japan, 2022). The […]
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