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 Gutter’s own Carol Borden really enjoyed the campy, lo-fi body horror of The Cramps: A Period Piece at Fantastic Fest. Here are some quick thoughts. (There are more thoughts on it at Monstrous Industry): Brooke H. Cellars’ The Cramps: A Period Piece (USA, 2025) is a period […]
I had a plan. It was a cunning plan, but it didn’t come to pass. Well, two plans. The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo and I were fortunate enough to receive press accreditation to attend the Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans again this year. I can see it […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden is attending this year’s Overlook Film Festival. Here’s her first thoughts on Alexandre O. Philippe’s Chain Reactions (2024): f you are expecting a documentary about the making of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973), Chain Reactions (USA, 2024) is not that film. […]
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
Hey, it’s some initial impressions of the third movie the Gutter’s own Carol Borden saw at this year’s Overlook Film Festival: Paul Duane’s All You Need Is Death (Ireland, 2023): All You Need Is Death is like a ballad full of dread and a desperate foreboding. It has […]
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