GUTTER STUDIES

<p>In this audio-only episode, I’m joined again by Cynthia to count down the best horror movies of 2025. The conversation is 100% spoiler free—and I think also free of pretentious jargon! </p><p>WDYT - was 2024 or 2025...

<p>This is part two of my investigation into Japanese nunsploitation. Building on the foundation built in part one—which featured a brief history of pink film and a close reading of School of the Holy Beast, the...

<p>This is part two of a video series analyzing Carol J. Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. You can catch up on part one here, or you can jump right into this one.</p><p>Part one...

<p>I’m proud to give you the first in a two-part video series covering Japanese nunsploitation film. This first video provides a thorough introduction to the wild and perverse world of pinku eiga, providing key context...

<p>This is video takes a close look at the nunsploitation work of Italian trash-cinema legend Bruno Mattei. Filmed at the same time, with the same cast, and the same set, these two movies provide a useful contrast when...

<p>Russ Meyer once claimed that his films dealt in female archetypes that went “beyond women.” This video attempts to understand what he meant by that.</p><p>I’m reposting this one from the Gutter Studies vault in honor...

<p>I’m happy to post the final chapter of my continuing series on Jean Rollin. This segment is about what became of Rollin’s career following the fallout of The Living Dead Girl, and how is final stretch of movies were...

<p>Jean Rollin’s early work featured repeated imagery of renegade female pairings and doppelgängers. In those films, like Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the motif was employed as a surrealist...

<p>To honor the passing of Pope Francis, I’m reposting a nunsploitation video I did back in my Youtube days. Every if you followed my work back then, it’s possible you haven’t seen this one. I have a strong suspicion...

<p>In this third segment of Voluptuous Melancholia: A Critical Examination of the Films of Jean Rollin, we not only encounter some of Rollin’s very best work, but also reach the fullest exploration of his most important...

<p>This is part two of our ongoing series VOLUPTUOUS MELANCHOLIA: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FILMS OF JEAN ROLLIN.</p><p>In this segment, we dive into the first phase of Rollin’s career, which was comprised of four...

<p>Welcome to VOLUPTUOUS MELANCHOLIA: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FILMS OF JEAN ROLLIN! </p><p>Our first installment provides a thorough introduction to Jean Rollin, and is appropriate for both beginners and those...

<p>Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu (2024) inspired a strongly negative reaction in me. But it was a reaction that arose from a tangle of mixed feelings. I’ve continued to circle and reconsider my take on the movie—not only...

<p>This is the first video in a planned series on nunsploitation cinema. One of the most notorious and mischaracterized subgenres of exploitation film, nunsploitation movies offer complex and provocative treatments of...

<p>This video offers a detailed interpretation of Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981), viewed through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. My hope is that it works both as a close reading of Żuławski’s film, which can...