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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 )

Criminal: “For the Sake of American Youth”

By Guttersnipe on February 12, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

On Criminal podcast, Phoebe Judge examines youth crime in the 1950s, comics, and Frederic Wertham. There are interviews with scholar Carol Tilley, writer Saladin Ahmed, and archivists at the National Archive in Washington, D.C. “’Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store […]

Trailers from Hell: The Savage Eye!

By Guttersnipe on February 11, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

At Trailers from Hell, Kier-La Janisse talks about The Savage Eye (1959)! Watch here.

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 […]

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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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