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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 )

“In Hades, He Lifted Up His Eyes”

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

Enjoy this free horror story, “In Hades, He Lifted Up His Eyes,” by author and friend of the Gutter James Bennett! You can also listen to it ready by Veronica DeGeneres–just got to the top of the sidebar here!

Bitches on Comics with Stephanie Williams

By Guttersnipe on June 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Our friends at Bitches on Comics talk with comics writer / critic Stephanie Williams about “DC Pride, Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, Trial of the Amazons, and everything else Steph has been up to! We dive deep on the love between Nubia and Io (NubIo, if you will), […]

The First 10 Minutes of Shin Ultraman!

By Guttersnipe on June 24, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Watch the first ten minutes of Shin Ultraman for a limited time here! (Thanks, August!)

Jean Grey: Evolution

By Guttersnipe on June 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

This week’s Guest Star Sara Century is a horror writer, podcast host, and a critic. You can find out more at http://www.saracentury.com ~~~ Jean Grey isn’t always an easy character to nail down, and while she has plenty of A+ appearances over the years, it’s also true that […]

“The Story of Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Quite Possibly, the Strangest American Crime Film of the 1970s”

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

At Crime Reads, friend of the Gutter Andrew Nette writes about Prime Cut (1972). “Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as […]

“On Creating Your Own Aesthetic”

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

“Filmmakers Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman discuss honoring and following your instincts, changing mediums, and overcoming massive obstacles” creating the AfroFuturist musical Neptune Frost (Rwanda/USA, 2021). Read it here.

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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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