At Biff Bam Pop, Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham, Sanjay Rajput and the the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo watch even more films! Katharina Rabl’s Memories of a Forest! Matthew Rankin’s Ladies and Gentleman, Brian Mulroney! Rémi St-Michel’s Toy Gun Bandit! Gael García Bernal’s Hombre al agua! Werner Herzog’s Bucking […]
Cyclops (1987) Japan made a good number of direct-to-video horror shorts in the ’80s, and Cyclops is one of the better ones, even though the story is almost incomprehensible. Takamori (Kazuhiro Sano) is obsessed with birth defects, specifically “cyclopia,” where the two eyes fuse together in the womb […]
Director Damian Lahey’s contemplative film Simple Like Silver (2021) couldn’t come at a better time. At its core, it is about how people’s lives intersect, directly or indirectly. Even if someone never meets face-to-face, they are connected by universal truths and emotions like fear, sadness, hope, and exhilaration. […]
There’s something about the heat of summer that makes me want to watch something slow and surreal, like a series of mirages forming and transforming as I float in my summer heat bubble with a cold beverage. None of the films I’m thinking of are classic summertime fare, […]
August Underground (2001) is one of those films defined by word of mouth and rumors. When it came out, the internet wasn’t as all-encompassing as it is now; things were still spread manually, passed around in niche underground networks. The internet was still in its “wild west” phase, […]
Making something adorable terrifying generally has the potential to be either shocking or hilarious. Sometimes it’s intentionally hilarious, and sometimes it’s just funny in its failure to be shocking. And what is more synonymous with adorable than fuzzy bunnies? So, naturally, there are a whole raft of horror […]