The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on Kenichi Ugana’s The Curse (Taiwan / Japan, 2025), now screening at Fantastic Fest 2025! Kenichi Ugana’s The Curse has the punk sensibility—down to its scratchy opening title card that looks like a punk zine cover—the gleeful gore, the dark […]
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 […]
At BiffBamPop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo reports on his second day at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025! “I decided to start off Day Two with another lighthearted comedy; Nadia Latif’s The Man in My Basement. Just kidding, this is a weighty, emotional horror anchored by two […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo starts his coverage at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival! “And we’re live! On the ground here in Toronto for the fiftieth edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), I managed to start things off strongly with FIVE […]
Heather Wixson has a fantastic essay on The Substance (2024). “And look, at this point, there has been so much said already about how and why The Substance is such a powerful movie. There have been plenty of great thinkpieces that have discussed how Fargeat’s second film explores […]
The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is familial and imperial history reaching back to World War II and even further. And if there are not precisely demons in the film, well, there are things that are close enough.
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