BBC Archive 1973: England’s Deadliest Chair!
Are you ready to face the horror of England’s deadliest chair? “In the last six years, five people have sat in the murderer’s chair… and every single one has met sudden death.” Click here, if you dare!
“Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s ‘The Devil’s Bath’ is a Real Bad Time”
For Biff Bam Pop’s 31 Days of Horror, the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo writes about Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath! “Based on court documents and historical accounts of the true story of a rural Austrian woman named Agnes in 1750, The Devil’s Bath brings a […]
Movies the Gutter’s own Carol Borden is Excited about at Fantastic Fest 2024!
It’s festival season and I was fortunate enough to receive credentials for this year’s Fantastic Fest! Who knows why but I’m going to do my best to engage with the art and write some thoughtful reflections on what I see. Even though I am attending remotely, I’m going […]
“Fantasia Festival 2024: Pratul Gaikwad’s Dead Dead Full Dead is a Murder Mystery Where They All Dunnit”
The Gutter’s Sachin Hingoo has some thoughts on Dead Dead Full Dead! “Watching the debut feature from Pratul Gaikwad, Dead Dead Full Dead, it feels like a Knives Out story that’s completely unmoored from reality. A murder mystery fully unconcerned with remaining tethered to social, physical, or narrative […]
Murder, Surrealism, Women’s Rage, and Les Abysses
This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
“The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers”
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
The Cultural Gutter 