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10 Things I liked in 2025

By Carol on December 18, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

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 )

Gutterthon 2025: Grand Slam!

By Guttersnipe on December 8, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Disavowing the Story: On Kimi wa Koibito (You Are My Lover): Part Two

By Guttersnipe on December 4, 2025 • ( 1 Comment )

Hat on a Hat on a Dinosaur: Jurassic Overkill and Instant Aliens

By Critterlab on November 27, 2025 • ( 5 Comments )

From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock

By Carol on November 20, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Filmi Ladies: Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam!

By Guttersnipe on February 10, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins consider the Bengali and Hindi versions of the same film. “We travel to colonial Bengal and encounter the idle rich, a bejeweled beauty, a perennially bemused bumpkin, and a sparkly, sprightly lady–and of course a crumbling haveli […]

BBC Archive 1986: “Cronenberg, Moore, and Campbell on Horror in the 1980s”

By Guttersnipe on February 9, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

BBC Archive has a clip from Saturday Review. “Charles Shaar Murray interviews the prolific horror writer Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore – the writer of graphic novels Swamp Thing and Watchmen, and director David Cronenberg, whose latest film The Fly deals in grotesque body horror, about the resurgence in […]

Unexpected Lightness in Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on February 6, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Pedro Almodovar’s debut English feature ‘The Room Next Door’ explores death and dying through a colourful and complicated lens.

Filmi Ladies: Superstars: Urmila Matondkhar!

By Guttersnipe on February 5, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins focus on the career of Urmila Matondkhar! “This amazing all-rounder required looking at different kinds of films: of course Rangeela (1995) and Ek Hasina Thi (2004), but also Khoobsurat (1999), Dillagi (1999), and Pyaar Tune Kya […]

“Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift”

By Guttersnipe on February 4, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter Erin Horáková’s piece on “Kirk Drift” is always timely. Why do people remember Captain James T. Kirk differently than he was presented in Star Trek (1966-9)? And what are the implications of that kind of “remembering?” “Whatever gave you the idea that Kirk was […]

Filmi Ladies: “Watching the Rainbow: Brown.”

By Guttersnipe on February 3, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue “Watching the Rainbow” with the color brown. “Brown is so beautiful: natural and warm and sturdy, it reminds us of coffee and tea, trees and stones, antique furniture, fine leathers, furry friends, and, in the […]

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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, Angela Englert, 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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