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The Cultural Gutter

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 )

Bratt’s Bin on Broken Arrow (1996)!

By Guttersnipe on November 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Robert A. Mitchell joins Bratt’s Bin Podcast to discuss John Woo’s Broken Arrow (1996). “This episode, host & filmmaker Jared Bratt (Streamer | 2019) is joined again by filmmaker, critic & interviewer, Carl Diamond, from the ‘Hey! You Made Your Movie Show’. They’re also […]

“Stocking Stuffers” have BEGUN!

By Guttersnipe on November 27, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Feminine Critique has been posting their annual “Stocking Stuffers”–episodes dedicated to winter holiday romance movies! Listen here or anywhere you podcast!

On Mischief, Don’t Bother To Knock, and Marilyn Monroe

By Carol on November 24, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

I’ve been thinking about what “disreputable art” means in a time when nerds, fans, and geeks have won a kind of cultural hegemony. It was different when the Cultural Gutter was founded in 2003, before Iron Man (2008) launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Force awakened, and the […]

Filmi Ladies: “Avoid, Yaar!”

By Guttersnipe on November 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan share some things on the latest episode of Filmi Ladies! “This is going to be all opinions all the time: films and people from Hindi cinema that everyone loves…but we don’t. We really, really don’t. We do not always agree […]

“Outcasters episode #32”

By Guttersnipe on November 21, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Sara Century joins the Huntress Podcast to discuss Batman and The Outsiders. “AJ, Sara and Tim discuss Batman and the Outsiders #29 from 1985, ‘The People of the Abyss,’ underground fashion, powerful women, and coffee preferences.” Listen here.

Let Auteur Albert Pyun Know What You Think of His Films!

By Guttersnipe on November 17, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The legendary filmmaker Albert Pyun is ailing and his wife is sharing comments with him from fans on what his work has meant to them. You can share your message here. (Via JoBlo.com)

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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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