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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 )

SpyCast!

By Guttersnipe on November 12, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Get the skinny on spying with the International Spy Museum’s SpyCast.  The Background Briefings about East Germany’s “Romeo agents” and “Spies of the Kaiser” are pretty neat, too.

Cerise and Girl-Wonder Join Forces

By Guttersnipe on November 10, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Girls play games and boy are they pissed:  Cerise Magazine and Girl Wonder.org join forces for a women, comics and games special issue. 

Beggar So, Zhao Wen-Zhou and Chiu Man-Chuk

By Guttersnipe on November 9, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Chiu Man-Chuk aka Zhao Wen-Zhou is playing drunken Taoist folk hero Beggar So in  Yuen Woo-Ping’s True Legend.  Colin at Kung Fu Fridays has more, including some reminiscences about Chiu Man-Chuk and a very cool anti-poaching ad at the bottom.

Go To DMC!

By Guttersnipe on November 7, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Go to Detroit Metal City! Or at least go to the creditless opening for the anime series… and maybe the trailer for the same series.

Lordi’s Deadache

By Guttersnipe on November 7, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Latex Metal menace and 2006 Eurovision song contest winner Lordi talk KISS and costumes with Artisan News Service.  (Mr. Lordi was held up in traffic). Here’s Lordi at Eurovision.

Let The Right One In

By Guttersnipe on November 5, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

In 1970s Sweden a bullied boy falls for a girl who’s been 12 for a long time. Enjoy elegant effects and nice winter shots in Let The Right One In.

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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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