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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Monsters & Mullets: Labyrinth

By Guttersnipe on April 30, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Burning Train

By Beth Watkins on April 16, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

“I Would Save and I Would Be Saved”: Folk Horror, Masculinity, and a Sensible Heroine in Eye Of The Devil

By Carol on April 9, 2026 • ( 3 Comments )

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 )

The Last Thakur

By Carol on February 13, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

It’s a good time to like Westerns, especially Asian Westerns, with good-looking movies like, The Last Thakur.

Good Santo, Bad Santo, No Santo at all

By Carol on February 12, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Curious about lucha movies but don’t know where to start? Todd from Die, Danger, Die, Die, Kill! is here to help out with good movies starring Santo (here and here), good movies with no Santo and some Santo movies “likely to make you want to tear out your […]

IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL A DACHSHUND?

By Guttersnipe on February 12, 2009 • ( 2 Comments )

Normally, I think of Ron Howard as the Midas of mediocrity – everything he touches turns to boring. So, what went right with Frost/Nixon?

Where X-Men Have Gone Before

By Carol on February 10, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

Wolverine snikkts at Spock!  Gladiator punches the Enterprise!  Star Trek/X-men is crazy! 

Defending Dollhouse

By Carol on February 9, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

A woman with her personality wiped and a new one programmed in every week? Joss Whedon talks about misogyny, identity and Dollhouse.

Fighting Words

By Carol on February 8, 2009 • ( Leave a comment )

“Struck by the resonances between professional wrestling and comics” at Occasional Superheroine. Mixed Martial Arts vs. “the sweet science of bruising” at Salon.

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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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