Actually, It’s Mister Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is a terrible father, a tech bro, and not a doctor.
“Titillating Tyranny in James Ashcroft’s The Rule Of Jenny Pen”
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Sachin has some thoughts on The Rule Of Jenny Pen (New Zealand, 2024). “Ultimately, Ashcroft’s film is about how bullying, left unchecked, can morph into tyranny and while such a story is usually portrayed between younger people on a schoolyard, it […]
“The Substance is a Documentary”
At Film International, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas writes about The Substance (2024): “I live a very different life from Elisabeth Sparkle and–for that matter–from Demi Moore. But despite the fantastic excesses of Coralie Fargeat’s slick cinema du look body horror, in many ways I don’t think I have ever felt […]
Asian Cinema Digest #54!
A piece on Ghost Story of Yotsuya / Yotsuya Kaidan by the Gutter’s own Carol Borden gets a nice little shout at Asian Film Digest, the magazine of the Asian Film Archive in Singapore! Read more here.
Space 1999: Aliens Are Jerks
Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The second is that, with few exceptions, aliens are jerks. At least in the first season, Space: 1999 (UK, 1975-77) captures malaise, chronic low-grade depression and inertia […]
BBC Archive 1986: “Cronenberg, Moore, and Campbell on Horror in the 1980s”
BBC Archive has a clip from Saturday Review. “Charles Shaar Murray interviews the prolific horror writer Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore – the writer of graphic novels Swamp Thing and Watchmen, and director David Cronenberg, whose latest film The Fly deals in grotesque body horror, about the resurgence in […]
The Cultural Gutter 