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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

“I Would Save and I Would Be Saved”: Folk Horror, Masculinity, and a Sensible Heroine in Eye Of The Devil

By Carol on April 9, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

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 )

Fantastic Fest 2023!

By Guttersnipe on August 15, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Hey, it’s the Fantastic Fest 2023 line-up. Take a gander at all the films here. And Drafthouse has more here.

Bitches On Comics: “The Hellraiser Extravaganza featuring Emily Van Der Harten”

By Guttersnipe on August 14, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Sara Century joins Bitches On Comics to talk about Hellraiser! “Join your beloved host Sara Century and one of her favorite people on the planet, Emily van der Harten, a former longtime volunteer and organizer for Seattle’s zine program and archive ZAPP, as well […]

Projection Booth Goes To Fantasia 2023!

By Guttersnipe on August 13, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Our friends at The Projection Booth Podcast went to the Fantasia Film Festival and have so much to share! “Mike saw a wide variety of films from the 2023 Fantasia Film Festival. Here are some discussions with filmmakers about their work including the fantastic Hundreds of Beavers. “ […]

Mockumentary: Making Fake Feel Real Since the 1930s

By Critterlab on August 10, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Wait, was that real? It’s a question I ask myself more and more often as I whirl around in the blender of art, tech, media, propaganda, and sales pitch that beams into my eye and ear holes from all the electronic devices I own. The lines between news […]

Filmi Ladies: “Barbie! and Zoolander???”

By Guttersnipe on August 9, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan discuss Barbie (USA, 2023) and Zoolander (USA, 2001) on the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “What do Barbie, Zoolander, Pinocchio and The Velveteen Rabbit have in common? They’re all about non-living things (except for Zoolander who’s living but kinda a caricature) that […]

Bitches On Comics: “Queer People are Magic”

By Guttersnipe on August 8, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

At Bitches On Comics podcast: “We talk to Joey Capuana about their witchy queer and trans comic Trance. He discusses balancing queer coding and explicit queerness, representing sex and sexuality on the page, the importance of queer nightclubs, and fighting against transphobia and homophobia. We are stronger together […]

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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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