TIFF 2024: Blood, Bombs, and Bisexual Lighting in Timo Tjahjanto’s ‘The Shadow Strays’
Timo Tjahento’s ‘The Shadow Strays’ continues the director’s flawless record of producing maximalist action-horror that pulls no punches (or kicks)
TIFF 2024: Three Takes on The End of the World
Sachin Hingoo attends the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and brings back three visions of environmental collapse!
…Wait For It: Dread and In a Violent Nature
A slasher movie from the killer’s point of view: it sounds like a joke, a Robot Chicken sketch, a few stray lines of off the cuff Joe Bob Briggs before he’s interrupted by the movie he’s hosting. Did you ever wonder during the slasher movie, what is the […]
Sinister Visages: Paintings in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow and the Horrors of Time
Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Saw The TV Glow” warns of the unstoppable, crushing force of time and the danger of the safe decision.
From the Archives: The Love That Dares Speak Its Name
The Gutter’s own Angela Englert will be back next month. For the last day in February–a leap day–ponder and enjoy her “The Love That Dares Speak Its Name” on Emily Harris’ Carmilla (2019)… ~~~ Emily Harris’ 2019 retelling of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Ur-Lesbian Vampire text Carmilla (1872) […]
The Cultural Gutter 