With Your Ears, The World Enters You: Rabbit Trap (UK/USA, 2025)
Rabbit Trap is a film as folk tale.
“Mother of Flies: Your Curse is My Gift”
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the Adams Family’s new film, Mother of Flies (USA, 2025): “Mother of Flies is itself a ritual—one that transmutes these experiences, these fears, the pain, the cost of survival, the wonder and joy of survival, and the intimate closeness […]
From The Archives: In György Pálfi’s ‘Hen’, the Real Lady Bird is (in) the Eggs We Laid Along The Way
Anyone that knows me will tell you that I’m a sucker for an unconventional animal-themed film and while it doesn’t have the in-your-face animated aesthetic of last year’s Flow, György Pálfi’s new film ‘Hen’ chicken-scratches that itch in a major way.
Hat on a Hat on a Dinosaur: Jurassic Overkill and Instant Aliens
Some part of my brain still responds to the idea of a new Jurassic franchise movie with excitement, even though experience tells me it’s going to fail to fill the dino-sized shoes of Jurassic Park. It’s the same with Alien. Maybe there’s some element of the inevitable in […]
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, thrills and stories Hitchcock built his films on. Hitchcock himself gave credit where it was due. He put writers’ names on screen for everyone to see. But if film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history.
Hey, the Gutter is going to Fantastic Fest 2025!
It’s Fantastic Fest time again and the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and I were lucky enough to receive press accreditation again. We are cub reporters no more.We hang out in the virtual lounge and tip our fedoras at passing fancy people. We write at late hours and at […]
The Cultural Gutter 