At The Harvest Maid’s Revenge, Rowan Lee shares some excellent thoughts on “folk horror” and the limits of generic definitions. “The more I know about folk horror, the less I understand about how it works. Maybe those of us who spend our time thinking about it are just […]
Yoshihiro Nishimura started out as a special effects guru, providing gruesome make-up and props for films such as Suicide Club (2001), Meatball Machine (2005), and The Machine Girl (2008). His breakout film was Tokyo Gore Police (2008), which became a cult hit in both Japan and the West. […]
The Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner joins the Piecing It Together podcast to discuss Obsession (USA, 2026). “On the 518th episode of Piecing It Together, Michelle Kisner joins me to talk about Obsession. This indie horror film has already gone on to be one of the most successful indies […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on The Last Anniversary! “On the night before the world is about to end, Aubrey (Jesse McQueen) and Tom (Kenneth Northfield) gather the members of their wedding party in the abandoned hotel where the original ceremony […]
August Underground (2001) is one of those films defined by word of mouth and rumors. When it came out, the internet wasn’t as all-encompassing as it is now; things were still spread manually, passed around in niche underground networks. The internet was still in its “wild west” phase, […]
At Every Frame A Painting, Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos “analyze how–with a small crew banded together under the production company Image Ten–George Romero used a tight $100,000 budget to create the radical cinematic style of Night of the Living Dead (1968), one of the most haunting and […]
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