​FILM GUTTER: THE END OF THE ROAD

Back in January 2015, I wrote a first review for the Film Gutter series with Debris Documentar, a movie from notorious director Marian Dora. Back then I didn't really had a long-term plan, I was just driven by a curiosity to explore some of the strangest, darkest and most confrontational parts of cinema. Film Gutter has run for five years almost to the day since then, but sadly the time has come to draw things to a close.
 
There's a couple of reasons for this – partly it's just time to watch and think about it and write the reviews. 2020 is looking like being busier than ever with work commitments, and just squeezing in a Film Gutter per week is becoming more difficult all the time. Partly it's continuing to find the right sort of thing – over five years I've reviewed more than 200 extreme horror movies, and it's getting ever harder to find things to watch that I can get really excited about and interested in than ever before. Having covered so many of the big releases in the field, there's a sense of having much less ground to cover these days.

It's not a decision that I take lightly, but I've yet to put up a review in January and if I'm going to do this series it’s important to me to be doing it properly and doing it justice. The aim was always to be weekly, and only rarely have I slipped in that over the last five years – 2020 hasn't been pretty in that regard and that's sadly not liable to improve.

I have to say a huge thanks to all our supporters over the years, all the people who've sent in movies to watch and recommendations of films to check out for the series and all the fantastic directors and actors I've had the chance to chat with – I still pinch myself at some of the talented people I've had a chance to chat with online and even meet face to face, the likes of Jorg Buttgereit, Tom Six, Pollyanna McIntosh, Stephen Biro, Uwe Boll, Kasper Juhl, Phil Stevens and so many more that I couldn't possibly list them all here.

 – hopefully it's given you some interesting and different movies to view, and if you've not quite had the heart to check them out then maybe it's made for interesting reading anyway!

And last but by no means least, I want to extend a massive thanks to Mr Ginger Nuts himself, Jim McLeod. It’s been a pleasure to be part of such a fantastic site, and I’m so grateful to Jim for giving me the opportunity to explore the sorts of films that so many other horror sites might shy away from and for all the support for the series over its run.
 
I'll be continuing to watch plenty of weird, wonderful, out-there and brutal horror in my spare time I'm sure, so the spirit of Film Gutter will live on in some way...

Thanks again to all for all the support, and never be afraid to try something a little extreme!

Alex