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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

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 )

Pow! Kids with Guns and the SOV Surrealism of Hawk Jones (1986)

By Michelle on March 26, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Relax and Enjoy the Mystery: Deadloch and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

By Critterlab on March 19, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)

By Carol on March 12, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Blood Pact: Exploring SOV Director Glenn Andreiev’s Infatuation with the Vampire Mythos

By Michelle on February 26, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

The Feminine Critique watches The Lure (2015) and When Animals Dream (2014)

By Guttersnipe on January 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Carol joins Emily and Christine to talk about The Lure and When Animals Dream. on The Feminine Critique podcast! Doofuses will be judged. Music will be appreciated. People will dance. Small fishery towns will be escaped. Fish teeth will be discussed. Throats will be torn […]

Japan’s Feminine Answer to RoboCop: Lady Battle Cop (1990)

By Michelle on January 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This week Guest Star Michelle Kisner writes about Kaoru, tennis champion and Lady Battle Cop. Keep up with Michelle’s work on Instagram at @robotcookie. ~~~ RoboCop (1987) took the world by storm when it came out, spawning many knock-offs with varying degrees of technical expertise. While some of […]

Cinema Shame’s Film Noir Shamedown!

By Guttersnipe on January 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Nora Fiore, aka, Nitrate Diva, joins James Patrick to discuss film noir on Cinema Shame! “James and Nora Fiore (@NitrateDiva) talk the tenets of Film Noir and share their favorite first-time watches from Noirvember 2020.”

“How We Made Run Lola Run“

By Guttersnipe on January 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Franka Potenta talks about the making of Run Lola Run (1998). “The film required me to sprint across Berlin in a pair of Dr Martens. I have to get 100,000 Deutschmarks to my boyfriend Manni in 20 minutes, or he will be killed. We were shooting in August […]

Todd Stadtman at Teleport City

By Guttersnipe on January 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Remembering friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman with all his posts at Teleport City.

In Memoriam: The Words Got Stuck In My Throat

By Guttersnipe on January 14, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

Author, musician, film critic and friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman has died. In his honor, this week we’re sharing a piece he wrote for the Gutter in 2013. ~~~ “If I had a hidden microphone inside of my heart/I would turn the power on/It would amplify my […]

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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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