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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

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

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

Spy Vibes: Keemat (1973)

By Beth Watkins on February 19, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

With Your Ears, The World Enters You: Rabbit Trap (UK/USA, 2025)

By Carol on February 12, 2026 • ( 4 Comments )

The Hang(ed) Man

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on February 5, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Man’s Inhumanity to Man: Emotional Suppression and the Machinery of Control in “Equilibrium” (USA, 2002)

By Michelle on January 29, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

A Slippery Slope from Cute to Evil in Cult of the Lamb

By Critterlab on January 22, 2026 • ( 5 Comments )

“We need to talk about Mantis’ Abuse in Guardians of the Galaxy 2”

By Guttersnipe on August 22, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

At Women Write About Comics, Clara Mae talks about Mantis–her history as a character and how she was portrayed in James Gunn’s Guardians Of The Galaxy 2. “When it was announced that director James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy 2 would feature Pom Klementieff as Mantis, I was […]

Just go back further in time and fix it again

By Critterlab on August 17, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

We’ll worry about those problems after we’ve caused them. – Danger Mouse Most of my job these days seems to take place in the space after that quote. A lot of what I spend my time doing is solving for problems that are directly related to things other […]

“BGN sits down with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey”

By Guttersnipe on August 16, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Black Girl Nerds’ Kay-B interviews Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.

“Horror Web Series BFFs Explores Female Bonding & More”

By Guttersnipe on August 15, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Graveyard Shift Sisters recommends a new horror web series coming out this fall, “BFFs.” A bloodier response to Stranger Things with two female leads, Sasha Lennox as Wrenn Starr and Sterling James playing Celeste Michaels, BFFs teaser trailer captures a youthful spirit that I don’t see much in current […]

“Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence”

By Guttersnipe on August 13, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Elle O’Brien shares romance novel titles and author names generated by a text-generating neural network. “I gathered over 20,000 Harlequin Romance novel titles and gave them to a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence that learns the structure of text. It’s powerful enough to string together words […]

“The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft & Robert Barlow”

By Guttersnipe on August 12, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

At the New Yorker, Paul La Farge writes about H. P. Lovecraft and poet, anthropologist and Lovecraft’s literary executor, Robert Barlow.

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