The Gutter’s own Carol has some thoughts on 4 horror movies that screened at this year’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans! “This year I was fortunate enough to attend–remotely–the 2024 Overlook Film Festival. I would have loved to attend a horror film festival in New Orleans. I […]
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
Tanya Krzywinska has made her hard to find classic, A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft, and Voodoo in Film (2001) available for free on her website. You can read it here.
A few weeks ago, the Indian cinema-focused Twitter account Cinema Rare posted a list of “some of the trippiest Indian films,” and with wording like that, I knew I had to investigate the whole thing, regardless of how likely I was to agree.* Skimming the 25 titles, I […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Carlos Coneiçao’s Tommy Guns / Naçao Valente (Portugal, 2023) at Monstrous Industry! “I recently watched Jean-Denis’ A Woman Kills / La femme borreau (1968) and while A Woman Kills was made a half a century ago, during a time […]
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