FILM GUTTER: guzoo (1986)
24/11/2016
BY ALEX DAVIS Come on in, the water's squamous...  Guzoo (Or The Thing Abandoned by God) (1986) Dir. Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu, Japan, 40 mins Japan is a country that has always had a proud tradition of extreme cinema, and has always been extremely prolific in producing movies that would give plenty of people cause to pause. We've had some great experiences – well, let's say unforgettable – with Japanese film, but we've hardly touched the tip of the iceberg in terms of what was produced in the 80s. In a bid to remedy that, I've just sat and watched Guzoo – also marvellously known as The Thing Abandoned By God, and will be settling in for a bit more 80's madness from Japan in the coming weeks.
FILM GUTTER: a garden without birds (1992)
17/11/2016
BY ALEX DAVISCome on in, the water’s baffling… A Garden Without Birds (Kotori Tachi No Inai Hanazono) (1992) Dir. Akira Nobi, Japan, 22 minutes Of late, I find myself on something of a short film kick. I’ve always been a big fan of short stories in my reading, so there’s a certainly logic that I probably would like shorter, snappier movies, right? What’s interesting is that – because short films don’t always get the same fanfare and coverage as their longer counterparts – very often you go into a movie with no idea what it’s all about. That was very much the case with A Garden Without Birds. FILM GUTTER: Nekro (1998)
9/11/2016
By Alex Davis COME ON IN, THE WATER'S APPALLING...  Dir. Vince Roth/Mick Nards, USA, 16 mins Well how could you go wrong with a title like that? After all, we've had great fun with the likes of Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2 around these parts. There's also a Japanese movie by the very same name, which I will be coming to some time, but this is the cult 1998 short film from the US. And of course the clue is rather in the title... FILM GUTTER: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (2011)
3/11/2016
BY ALEX DAVIS Come on in, the water's roving...  So, today marks the return of Film Gutter from what was – in all honestly – a totally impromptu break. It wasn't a plan to take some time off, but it has been a fraught couple of months that has seen me chair a British Fantasy Convention, run another event here in my native Derby, start and quit one job and start and distinctly like the look of another. So to call September and October eventful kind of sums it up, and there's been precious little time to indulge the extreme horror hobby. I think this is the first time I've missed more than a week in the better part of two years, so it's not been bad going.
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