At Cinema Junkie, friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando interviews Dolph Lundgren! “Most people probably know Dolph Lundgren from his ’80s action films or his recent Expendables appearance, but did you also know he speaks multiple languages, holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering, was awarded a Fulbright […]
Friend of the Gutter Ed Glaser discusses the Ramsay Brothers’ Mahakaal (1994) on Deja View! “More like ‘A Nightmare on Om Street,’ amirite? Discover the London connection that brought Freddy Krueger to Bollywood—and why it took the Ramsay Brothers’ five years to bring it to the screen. This […]
Dead & Buried (1981) gained notoriety after being placed on Britain’s infamous Video Nasties list and with its copious amount of gore, one might think that it’s just another lurid exploitation piece. However, this film is a meditation on the fear of death, as well as a subversive […]
At Mubi, Willow Catelyn Maclay discusses Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma (2026) and the history of Trans women and Trans killers on film in a video essay, “Loving the Monster.” Watch here.
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 […]
It’s a 1984 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965). “When crime novelist Sydney Bartleby begins rehearsing the ‘perfect murder’ for creative inspiration, his macabre habits draw dangerous attention from neighbours, police, and even his own wife. But when […]
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