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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 )

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.

“Booger (USA, 2023): Coughing up a Hairball of Grief”

By Guttersnipe on September 13, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

At Monstrous Industry, the Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Mary Dauterman’s Booger: “Grief has long been a good subject for horror. And it’s been a prominent vein in horror in the last decade or so. Some of the best films where grief is central are […]

BBC Archive: “Nineteen Eighty-Four: the Controversial 1954 BBC adaptation”

By Guttersnipe on September 13, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

The BBC Archive has video of a 1965 discussion of 1984 (1954). “Late Night Line-Up looks back on the 1954 BBC television adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasance and André Morell. The television play was performed live on the evening of Sunday […]

The Beautiful Apocalypse of Urotsukidōji

By Michelle on September 12, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

This week’s Guest Star is Michelle Kisner. Keep up with her on Instagram at @robotcookie! ~~~ “Mankind, you are an ignorant race. How foolish it is to believe your kind rules the Earth. Know now that you are not alone; there are unseen worlds that exist parallel to […]

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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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