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Films like Gutterballs.

Gutterballs (2008) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Manhunt (2008) poster
1. Manhunt2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Seed (2006) poster
2. Seed2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Macabre (2009) poster
3. Macabre2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

100 Tears (2007) poster
4. 100 Tears2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Run! Bitch Run! (2009) poster
5. Run! Bitch Run!2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Grotesque (2009) poster
6. Grotesque2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Black Christmas (2006) poster
7. Black Christmas2006

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Terrifier (2011) poster
8. Terrifier2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011) poster
9. ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 22011

Keeps the chilly detachment and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stag Night (2008) poster
10. Stag Night2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mum & Dad (2008) poster
11. Mum & Dad2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) poster
12. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Gutterballs’s neighbours — where are yours?

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