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 […]
At the Feminine Critique Podcast, “in their quest to amp up some coverage of lady director movies, Emily and Christine find some common threads between 2009’s Julie and Julia (directed by Nora Ephron) and 2021’s Titane (directed by Julia Ducournau). Somehow it all makes sense.” Listen here.
Sometimes you encounter a movie late at night. A movie you didn’t even know existed before. And you discover that the movie had basically disappeared for 30 years. Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer was supposed to be the first in a series of low budget art house horror movies. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program in 1997. It was picked up by Miramax, released in a limited run of art house theaters and then it just disappeared.
Chelsea Rialto Studios’ Ray Faiola has released the short curtain call epilogue from the original pre-code release of Tod Browning’s Dracula starring Béla Lugosi. “This is the actual footage of the Edward Van Sloan curtain speech from the end of Dracula. The picture came from a 16mm SILENT […]
At the Projection Booth, friend of the Gutter Mike White talks to actor/director/writer Grace Glowicki about her work and Dead Lover (Canada, 2025). “Mike talks with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about her new film, Dead Lover (2025). It’s a stinky look at a gravedigger (Glowicki) who searches for a […]
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