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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 )

“11 Classic Horror Films that You Might have Missed”

By Guttersnipe on March 18, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Jay Patrick shares a list of essential classic horror movies. “Here’s a list of 11 essential classics of horror cinema that you might have overlooked, all of which are available to view on physical media through Netflix DVD. I’ve drawn the line in the […]

Matte Painting!

By Guttersnipe on March 16, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s a featurette on matte painting at Industrial Light and Magic! There’s a Star War or two…

“Where have All the Black Cowboys gone?”

By Guttersnipe on March 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

At The Guardian, Anne Billson writes about the history of cowboys, Westerns, the erasure of Black cowboys and the re-writing of Black cowboys and lawmen as white. “After the American civil war, a life in the saddle offered unprecedented freedom to former slaves, while the teamwork required for […]

From the Archives: Return of the Tripods

By Keith on March 12, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

I was, in my day, particularly fond of John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy, which combined “boy’s own adventure” with post-apocalyptic science fiction.

Shelfdust Presents: David Brothers on The Question #1

By Guttersnipe on March 7, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

On Shelfdust Presents, David Brothers talks about The Question by Dennis O’Neil, Denys Cowan, Rick Magyar, Tatjana Wood and Gaspar Saladino. “If you like noir you’ll be in your element here, with a distinctly of-its-time first issue which sets up the story of vigilante Vic Sage (aka The […]

So Much VHS!

By Guttersnipe on March 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The Internet Archive has uploaded and more than 20,000 VHS recordings and you can watch them all, if you have the time, at the VHS Vault. (via Lifehacker).

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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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