Teenage Sex & Death and the Trans Feminine Monster
At Mubi, Willow Catelyn Maclay discusses Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma (2026) and the history of Trans women and Trans killers on film in a video essay, “Loving the Monster.” Watch here.
No Longer Prey: On Situational Awareness, A Wounded Fawn (2022), and Kuroneko (1968)
One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear […]
Some Thoughts on a Film that Disappeared: Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer
Sometimes you encounter a movie late at night. A movie you didn’t even know existed before. And you discover that the movie had basically disappeared for 30 years. Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer was supposed to be the first in a series of low budget art house horror movies. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program in 1997. It was picked up by Miramax, released in a limited run of art house theaters and then it just disappeared.
From the Archives: Getting Away With It: Diao Yinan’s Neo-Noir
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden isn’t available this week. Maybe she’s tracking down leads. Maybe she’s lying on a cot in some tattered hotel watching the ceiling fan and thinking about the fallibility of human nature. Maybe she’s looking for answers at the bottom of a tumbler of […]
“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.
“Ripley on the ‘Flix”
Friend of the Gutter and Patricia Highsmith scholar Kate Laity has some thoughts about the new Netflix adaptation of Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, and on Ripley himself. “I had equal parts of anticipation and dread for this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s The Talented Mr Ripley especially […]
