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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 )

“Why was the Miami Vice pilot so good?”

By Guttersnipe on September 20, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz writes about the 1984 premiere of Miami Vice. “Created by writer Anthony Yerkovich, helmed by filmmaker Thomas Carter, and guided by executive producer Michael Mann, Vice was ostensibly a police procedural: Crockett is a deep-cover operative based in Miami who partners with Ricardo […]

TIFF 2024: Three Takes on The End of the World

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on September 19, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Sachin Hingoo attends the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and brings back three visions of environmental collapse!

Movies the Gutter’s own Carol Borden is Excited about at Fantastic Fest 2024!

By Carol on September 17, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s festival season and I was fortunate enough to receive credentials for this year’s Fantastic Fest! Who knows why but I’m going to do my best to engage with the art and write some thoughtful reflections on what I see. Even though I am attending remotely, I’m going […]

TIFF 2024: “In Praise of the Maximalist in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance!”

By Guttersnipe on September 17, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo reviews Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (France, 2024) at Biff Bam Pop! “I once joked to a friend that no one in Hollywood has the guts or gumption to do a 360 degree whip-pan around the room when a character answers a telephone like […]

TIFF 2024: The Gesuidouz (Japan, 2024)

By Guttersnipe on September 15, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter and Soldier of Cinema Robert Mitchell interviews Kenichi Ugana, director of The Gesuidouz about “about the movie, punk rock, the creative process as well as their mutual love of horror movies.” The Gesuidouz had its world premiere at this year’s Midnight Madness program at […]

TIFF ’24: The Substance (France, 2024)

By Guttersnipe on September 14, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

Friend of the Gutter and Soldier of Cinema Robert Mitchell has some reflections on Coralie Fargeat’s body horror movie, The Substance, that premiered at this year’s Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival. Red his thoughts here.

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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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