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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Spy Vibes: Keemat (1973)

By Beth Watkins on February 19, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

With Your Ears, The World Enters You: Rabbit Trap (UK/USA, 2025)

By Carol on February 12, 2026 • ( 4 Comments )

The Hang(ed) Man

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on February 5, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Man’s Inhumanity to Man: Emotional Suppression and the Machinery of Control in “Equilibrium” (USA, 2002)

By Michelle on January 29, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

A Slippery Slope from Cute to Evil in Cult of the Lamb

By Critterlab on January 22, 2026 • ( 5 Comments )

You Are Sleeping, You Do Not Want to Believe: ‘Dreamscape’ (1984)

By Guttersnipe on January 15, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Filmi Ladies: “Men Characters We Love”

By Guttersnipe on May 29, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

At the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about male characters they love! “…and here’s a companion piece to last week’s episode: men characters we hold with great affection. Some of them elicit heart-eyes emojis, but others are just people who stand […]

Giving Birth To A Butterfly (USA, 2023)

By Guttersnipe on May 27, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches the subtly surreal road trip / search for self movie, Giving Birth To A Butterfly (USA, 2023). “Road trips often elicit the sharing of secrets and unspoken truths. In Giving Birth To A Butterfly, two women go on a roadtrip to a […]

The Gutter is Dead, Long Live the Gutter!

By Angela Englert on May 25, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

This month, we celebrate twenty years at the Gutter–fierce, gleeful, proud years during when we have dwelt richly on works that fall under the admittedly subjective rubric of disreputable media. I was a fan a long time before I was a contributor. But why was I a fan […]

“Inside Doom’s Most Terrifying Mod”

By Guttersnipe on May 24, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Watch this feature length documentary on MyHouse.Wad, a map created for Doom II that is much more than it seems. Even if you don’t like Doom, you should probably watch it. Watch here.

Filmi Ladies: “Women Characters We Love”

By Guttersnipe on May 23, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about female characters they love in Indian film! “This week’s episode is exactly what it says on the label: women characters we hold with great affection. They’re not necessarily the best written or the most […]

Is it possible to have too much fun?

By Jim Munroe on May 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first essay ever published on the Cultural Gutter. Read Jim Munroe’s first piece at the Cultural Gutter, all the way from May 22, 2003! ~~~ Is it possible to have a pleasure circuit overload? “Girls are to be kept away from […]

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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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