Friend of the Gutter Kate Laity has created a meditative, divinatory short film Nephomancy: Scrying with Clouds. “Nephomancy: predicting the future by reading portents in the clouds The Old English text comes from the Exeter Book riddles 1 & 3. Filmed in the Howff Cemetery, Dundee, Scotland in […]
Bellenac’s vineyards are failing and the solution will not be a new strain or a scientific intervention. The farmers seek an older solution: a willing sacrifice.
My friends in film, Fantastic Fest 2024 is over. The awards have been handed out. The writers at more reputable outlets are sharing their thoughts. And here at the Gutter, even though I attened remotely, my brain is tired from watching movies, thinking about movies and writing about […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the new British folk horror film, The Severed Sun (2024): Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun‘s opening credits have the perfect blood red font on a black background. The story itself begins with an almost Vermeer tableau shot in […]
December 6th was the 50th anniversary of the folk horror (and Beltane holiday) classic, The Wicker Man’s release. It seems positively disreputable to let the event pass completely unmarked. So this month we are presenting an essay Carol Borden originally wrote on The Wicker Man‘s origins for CG Editor […]
It’s the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man (1973) and that means there are so many tributes and special programs and screenings and shenaniganry. We have shared BBC Radio 4 Extra’s special programming, including a radio play starring Brian Blessed as Lord Summerisle. Now it’s time for this […]
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