Start your Spooktober right with this BBC Radio production of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows starring Bill Pullman and Julian Sands! “In this haunting 2022 radio adaptation, two old acquaintances set out on a canoe journey along the Danube, only to find themselves stalked by an unseen, malevolent presence […]
There’s still some screenings today, but Fantastic Fest 2026 is over for me at least. I had a good festival this year. I didn’t get to watch all the films I hoped to, but it’s hard to be disappointed when I know I’ll see most of them eventually. […]
Kev Dooley’sTerms & Conditions (USA, 2026) was the only short–and the last film–I watched at Fantastic Fest this year and it was a delight. I enjoy translation and summoning based-humor. Fun, genderqueer demons are my favorite demons. And I enjoy seeing ironic, comedic justice done to people who […]
The Gutter’s own Sachin returns to TIFF with colleagues Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham and Sanjay Rajput. Among the films watched are: Ghasideh Golmakani’s Head to Head; Edoardo Gabbriellini’s City of the Living; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Everest: The Other Side; Louise Bagnall’s Julián; Beth D’Araujo’s Josephine; […]
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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