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Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

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

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

Sachin’s Best of 2025 (and maybe 2026!)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on January 8, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

From The Archives: In György Pálfi’s ‘Hen’, the Real Lady Bird is (in) the Eggs We Laid Along The Way

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on January 1, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

An Unusual Merry Christmas from Bombay

By Beth Watkins on December 25, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

10 Things I liked in 2025

By Carol on December 18, 2025 • ( 2 Comments )

Reflections of a Reflection in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on December 11, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s Own Carol Borden watches Huesera: The Bone Woman (Mexico-Peru, 2022)

By Guttersnipe on March 1, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Carol watches Michelle Garza Cervera’s Huesera and liked it! “Huesera: The Bone Woman (Mexico-Peru, 2022) was not what I expected. It’s Queerer and more Punk. From the trailers and stills I had expected it to be about pregnancy and the traps of domesticity. I had […]

“Ben Sisko’s Non-Linear, Non-Binary Arc in Deep Space Nine’s ‘Emissary’ Saved All My Lives”

By Guttersnipe on February 28, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

“But as we move not forward but outward, Sisko’s non-linear, non-binary arc in ‘Emissary’ can help. It can remind us that we leave ourselves here, and we carry ourselves onward. We exist before all of this, too, not in a Funko Pop! of a nostalgic character, but in […]

The Projection Booth watches Top Secret (1984)

By Guttersnipe on February 27, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Our friends at The Projection Booth watch Top Secret (1984): “Released in 1984, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker’s Top Secret is a send up of both Elvis movies and WWII espionage films. It’s a very odd duck which stars Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a teen idol who has […]

From The Archives: Only the Bathroom is Haunted

By Critterlab on February 23, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

You can always run away screaming. There are higher and lower price tags on that depending on the situation, and mostly I never do, but I find it comforting to know that I could. I often find myself yelling at the characters in horror movies to do exactly […]

“Reassembled Bones: Michelle Garza Cervera on the punk heart beating behind Huesera: The Bone Woman“

By Guttersnipe on February 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

At Letterboxd, Annie Lyons intereviews director Michelle Garza Cervera about film folk horror film with Queer punk underpinnings, Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022). “Two maternal horror staples also simmered on the backburner of her mind during Huesera. ‘I love The Babadook. I think it’s a radical film in […]

Abigail Nussbaum on Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and the Void at the Heart of the MCU.

By Guttersnipe on February 21, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

Abigail Nussbaum writes about the ennui of the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Phase 4. “There’s a void at the heart of the franchise, and while new characters may eventually come to fill it, right now feels not at all unlike where we were during phase one, still trying to […]

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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, and Beth Watkins 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 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, Mastodon, and Bluesky as @culturalgutter. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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