It’s BBC Four’s The Art of Gothic: Britain’s Midnight Hour (2014)! “Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain’s medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.” Watch here.
Our friends at the Projection Booth watch Alucarda, la hija de las tiniebla (1977)! “Shocktober 2025 spirals into demonic delirium with Juan López Moctezuma’s Alucarda (1977). This feverish blast of Mexican Gothic horror follows Justine (Susana Kamini), a sheltered orphan who finds herself drawn to the wild, otherworldly […]
At Fantastic Fest this year, I was not only fortunate enough to receive accreditation so I could see movies and report back, but I was also lucky enough to see four very different films that I might not see otherwise. I am back now, my fedora with the […]
The Gutters own Carol Borden finishes up Fantastic Fest 2025 with Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama. In 1859, an orphaned Māori woman, Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne) has traveled from New Zealand to Yorkshire, England to meet a man. She has received a letter from a Mr. Anthony Boyd, who claims […]
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
Marya E. Gates interviews Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg. “Filmmaker Joanna Hogg mesmerized critics and audiences alike with her duo of semi-autobiographical films 2019’s The Souvenir and 2021’s The Souvenir Part II. In filming these raw coming-of-auteur dramas, Hogg reunited with Tilda Swinton, her childhood friend and the […]