Anna Bogutskaya

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Freelance Writer, Broadcaster, and Film Programmer, Freelance
Podcast Co Host, The Bigger Picture Podcast (Podcast)
Co-Founder, The Final Girls: A Horror Film Podcast

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Covers: Film, TV, Horror, Feminism, Classic cinema, Film programming, Arthouse

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Anna Bogutskaya is a freelancer writer, film programmer and broadcaster.

Previously she was the Film and Events Programmer at the BFI, where she curated many seasons and created the Woman With A Movie Camera Summit. Alongside her writing, she is the Festival Director of Underwire Festival, host of The Final Girls and The Next Supremes podcasts, contributor to many others, and co-founder of horror film collective The Final Girls.

As a broadcaster, she's a regular contributor to Wittertainment…

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Deep Water fails to revive the erotic thriller

Any erotic thriller has two jobs: it needs to arouse and it needs to make you feel uncomfortable about your o…

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Succession and TV's super-rich: Have we stopped ogling them?

Earlier this month, the latest series of Succession, the hit HBO drama about warring media family the Roys, c…

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Movie stars can make a movie, but who makes the stars?

What does a casting director actually do, and why is it so important? Here, we explore one of the most crucia…

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Dread is the modern condition - no wonder the Halloween franchise still resonates | Anna Bogutska...

uring the past 18 months we've collectively experienced more anxiety than we could ever have imagined, which …

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The Divisive Power of American Horror Story, Ten Years on - Den of Geek

Features Ten years after the first episode was broadcast, American Horror Story is still going strong. But wh…

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The Blair Witch Project - Tortoise

Listen to Anna Bogutskaya read her Slow Review of The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project is the Bloo…

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The 50 greatest Italian movies of all time

Jan 27, 2026 |

By Trevor Johnston, Ian Freer, Matthew Singer, Anna Bogutskaya

| Time Out

As a European filmmaking capital, Italy is second only to France in historical importance. In terms of the kind of movies it’s given the world, though, there may not be a country more diverse. The masterpieces of Italian cinema range from hot-blooded romances to surrealistic dreamscapes, gut-busting commedia d'italia to gritty neorealist docudramas, spaghetti westerns to giallo horror.

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The 69 Scariest Movie Monsters of All Time (Updated 2025)

Oct 28, 2025 |

By Helen O’Hara, Simon Crook, Matthew Singer, Anna Bogutskaya

| Time Out

Updates for 2025: New monsters are made every year, so we’ve added a few modern beasties we’re sure we’ll be haunting our nightmares for decades to come, including the latest interpretation of Nosferatu, the most grotesque of many abominations in The Substance and the horrifying, multi-mouthed demon from 2022’s Smile. The movie industry has always been crawling with monsters, and we don’t just mean predatory agents and old-school studio heads.

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The 68 greatest movie monsters of all time

Sep 29, 2025 |

By Helen O’Hara, Simon Crook, Matthew Singer, Anna Bogutskaya

| Time Out

Movie monsters are a many-splendoured thing, with a strong emphasis on ‘thing’. Some may take the form of giant irradiated lizards or skyscraper-sized apes, others amphibious swamp creatures or slow-creeping mounds of gelatin. Some represent the biggest fears of society at large, others are manifestations of their creator’s personal hang-ups. Others, meanwhile, are more instinctual, killing either for food or just for the sheer fun of it.