Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity has fascinating thoughts on Bryn Chainey’s new folk horror film, Rabbit Trap (UK / USA, 2025) including an excellent introduction to the fairy and cultural aspects. “It hits a lot of my favourite things: fairy lore, folk horror, sound exploration and design—theremin! […]
Rabbit Trap is a film as folk tale.
There is nothing charming about the red fairy door we encounter in Aislinn Clark’s Irish language horror film, Fréwaka (Ireland, 2024).* Its fairy tree is old and hung with scissors and bones. And there is nothing safe about the Good Folk attracted to the house with the fairy door in it.
I had a plan. It was a cunning plan, but it didn’t come to pass. Well, two plans. The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and I were fortunate enough to receive press accreditation to attend the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans again this year. I can see it […]
At Snow Pavilion, Xueting Ni writes about how Chinese Xian became fairies in European thought. “The modern idea of the fairy, buzzing round the bottom of your garden on butterfly wings, dressed in couture petals, you know, that Victorian and Edwardian creation, aligned historically with this increased interest […]
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 […]
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