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Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Fatal Kisses, Leather Daddies, and Evil Tofu: Queer Coding in Video Games

By Critterlab on May 14, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Some Thoughts on a Film that Disappeared: Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer

By Carol on May 7, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Monsters & Mullets: Labyrinth

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

The Burning Train

By Beth Watkins on April 16, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

“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 • ( 4 Comments )

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 )

Interview with Rachel Pollack

By Guttersnipe on March 17, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The Nib has an interview in comics form with Doom Patrol writer and Tarot expert, Rachel Pollack. Annie Mok discusses being a superhero on your own terms and Pollack’s creation of Coagula, one of the first trans superheroes. Read it here.

Ticks, Witchcraft, and Resistance: Nocebo (Ireland / Philippines, 2022)

By Carol on March 16, 2023 • ( 4 Comments )

Nocebo (Philippines / Ireland, 2022) is a blend of Gothic manor house horror, Southeast Asian witchcraft movies, and horror set in the world of fashion. Instead of focusing on connivances and cruelties within the world of haute couture fashion houses, like, say, Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace […]

“Nintendo and the Japanese Software Boom”

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

BBC Archives shares a 1991 report on “Nintendo and the Japanese Software Boom”: “Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American […]

Podcast on Fire: Il Mare (2000) and its American remake, The Lake House (2006)!

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

Once you finish listening to Podcast on Fire‘s “What’s Korean Cinema” episode on Lee Hyun-seung’s Il Mare (2000), you can listen to the special website exclusive episode on the American remake of Il Mare, Alejandro Agresti’s The Lake House (2006). Featuring Kenny B and Paul Quinn. Il Mare […]

“1981: Debbie Harry collaborates with H.R. Giger”

By Guttersnipe on March 10, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

BBC Archives shares a 1981 Newsnight report on Debbie Harry’s collaboration with H. R. Giger. “Newsnight reporter Robin Denselow reports from Zurich on the unlikely collaboration between singer Debbie Harry and visual artist H.R. Giger. Debbie Harry–best known as the frontwoman of New York punk band Blondie–is about […]

Help! I’ve Been Skinamarinked!

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 9, 2023 • ( 4 Comments )

As is the case for any self-respecting horror fan, the subject of Kyle Edward Ball’s divisive but impossible-to-ignore minimalist sensation, Skinamarink, has been lighting up my group chats.  “Did you like it?” “Will I like it?” “What is it?” Friends, I’ll tell you what I tell everyone when […]

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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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