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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Fish Out of (Pasta) Water in Gabriele Mainetti’s ‘The Forbidden City’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on April 2, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Pow! Kids with Guns and the SOV Surrealism of Hawk Jones (1986)

By Michelle on March 26, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Relax and Enjoy the Mystery: Deadloch and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

By Critterlab on March 19, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)

By Carol on March 12, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Blood Pact: Exploring SOV Director Glenn Andreiev’s Infatuation with the Vampire Mythos

By Michelle on February 26, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Pow! Kids with Guns and the SOV Surrealism of Hawk Jones (1986)

Relax and Enjoy the Mystery: Deadloch and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again

Filmi Ladies: “Govinda + David Dhawan”

By Guttersnipe on April 6, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins decide “sometimes you just need to get stuck in the 90s. We watched Raja Babu (1994) and Haseena Maan Jayegi (1999) and wonder whether this epic partnership is worthy of so much (possibly […]

Interview with Nancy cartoonist Caroline Cash

By Guttersnipe on April 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Charleston City Paper has an interview and profile of artist and zinester Caroline Cash, the newest cartoonist drawing Nancy! “’Olivia and I are both Bushmiller students,’ she said. ‘My favorite Bushmiller strips are the offbeat and absurdist ones. I think I have a slightly different take on it […]

Fish Out of (Pasta) Water in Gabriele Mainetti’s ‘The Forbidden City’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on April 2, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

This is probably not sufficient to convince you that Gabriele Mainetti’s The Forbidden City is one of my favourite movies of the year, but I’m just going to start with a non-exhaustive list of items used as weapons in the film’s spectacular, and spectacularly brutal, action sequences: If […]

“Why Did Changelings Terrorize the Victorian Age?”

By Guttersnipe on April 1, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

At PBS’ Monstrum, Dr. Emily Zarka discusses changelings! “Let’s talk about the unsettling legend of changelings, creatures said to replace humans with eerie, imperfect copies. What are the historical, cultural, and psychological roots of this folklore? From medieval theology to real-world court cases and modern stories, we wonder […]

“The Disturbing Case of America’s Most Infamous Haunting”

By Guttersnipe on March 31, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

PBS’ Storied looks at a haunting in early 19th Century Tennessee. “Between 1817 and 1821, the Bell family of rural Tennessee became the center of one of the most chilling and best-documented hauntings in American history.” Watch here.

The Feminine Critique: The Adventures of Wong Foo, Queen of the Desert!

By Guttersnipe on March 30, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

At the Feminine Critique Podcast, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace are on a glam adventure! “Don your finest flip flop minidress and hop into our ill-prepared vehicle! We’re driving cross-country with two glamorous road trips located on different sides of the world because let’s […]

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The Cultural Gutter is a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. The site is updated every Thursday afternoon. Carol Borden, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Michelle Kisner probe science fiction, draw out the best in comics, stare deeply into the screen, sink their fangs into horror, dally with romance, speedrun their brains on videogames, grapple with wrestling, and explore so much more. Our Guest Stars shine here. Thanks to Gutter aesthetic director Brian Kirby for all his swank art. Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the Cultural Gutter book. The Cultural Gutter's signature nail polishes, "Disreputable," and, "Disreputable 2: Hellcat," were created by Andrea Evans of MPZ Cosmetics. MPZ Cosmetics also teamed up with Dill McKinley to recreate the classic fragrance, Cornichon by Dill McKinley for Gutterthon 2021. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook, and Mastodon. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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