At The Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White joins Heather Drain and Payton McCarty-Simas to discuss Pandemonium as part of a month-long look at Australian oddities! “The Projection Booth continues its dive into Australian cinema with Pandemonium, the delirious 1987 feature from writer-director Haydn Keenan. A […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watched Enter The Clones Of Bruce and has some thoughts! “The heart of the documentary is in its interviews with some of the men who portrayed or imitated Bruce Lee: Ho Chung-Tao / Bruce Li; Moon Kyoung-seok / Dragon Lee; Huang Kin-Lung / […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches the Swissploitation classic, Mad Heidi (Switzerland, 2022). “In a world where lactose-intolerance is a crime, one woman stands against the dictator of Switzerland, Our Most Swiss Leader Meili (Casper van Dien) and his authoritarian cheese-based regime. Set in a dystopian, alternate reality […]
I attended the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival remotely, but with a press card in my cap and a matcha latte in my hand. I was disappointed I did not get a chance to see the movie I was most looking forward to, Wai Ka-Fai’s new film starring […]
This week Guest Star Michelle Kisner writes about the challenging and transgressive German horror movie, Melancholie der Engel (2009). Keep up with her and all her film writing via Instagram at @robotcookie! ~~~ The 2009 German exploitation film Melancholie der Engel (The Angels’ Melancholia in English) has quite […]
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