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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Fantastic Fest 2026: Kylgor In The Grisly Abyss!

By Carol on September 18, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter goes to Fantastic Fest 2026!

By Guttersnipe on September 17, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Connecting the Dots at TIFF 2026

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on September 17, 2026 • ( 2 Comments )

The Gutter goes to TIFF 2026!

By Guttersnipe on September 10, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Goopy Gore, Killer Kotatsu, and the End of the World: Three Films from Jôji Iida

By Michelle on September 10, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

In Memoriam: Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?

By Keith on September 3, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Connecting the Dots at TIFF 2026

Goopy Gore, Killer Kotatsu, and the End of the World: Three Films from Jôji Iida

In Memoriam: Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?

No Longer Prey: On Situational Awareness, A Wounded Fawn (2022), and Kuroneko (1968)

Day 6 at the Toronto International Film Festival 2026!

By Guttersnipe on September 18, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

At Biff Bam Pop, Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham, Sanjay Rajput and the the Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo watch even more films! Katharina Rabl’s Memories of a Forest! Matthew Rankin’s Ladies and Gentleman, Brian Mulroney! Rémi St-Michel’s Toy Gun Bandit! Gael García Bernal’s Hombre al agua! Werner Herzog’s Bucking […]

Fantastic Fest 2026: Kylgor In The Grisly Abyss!

By Carol on September 18, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

At Fantastic Fest, the Gutter’s own Carol Borden girds her loins and travels into a hostile subterranean world with Mason DeRushie’s Kylgor in the Grisly Abyss (Canada, 2026)! I have missed sword and sorcery movies and fantasy that isn’t J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, and […]

The Gutter goes to Fantastic Fest 2026!

By Guttersnipe on September 17, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Cultural Gutter is attending Fantastic Fest again this year! This time the Gutter’s own Carol Borden will be attending strapped into the chairs of the CG Viewatorium (and Sachin Hingoo might be if he survives TIFF 2026). We’ll be sharing first impressions and reviews here at the […]

Connecting the Dots at TIFF 2026

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on September 17, 2026 • ( 2 Comments )

As always at this time of year – festival season – but especially this year for personal reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way I’ve become used to consuming art and specifically film. A large amount of my movie-watching takes place at film festivals, which means […]

Day 5 at Toronto International Film Festival 2026

By Guttersnipe on September 16, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo sees even more films at TIFF 26 including Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo! He is joined by once again Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham, and Sanjay Rajput. Midnight Madness selections have a strong presence this time. Among the films they watched and discuss are: […]

Day 4 at the Toronto International Film Festival 2026

By Guttersnipe on September 14, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

The Gutter’s own Sachin returns to TIFF with colleagues Karen Shute, Jeromme Graham and Sanjay Rajput. Among the films watched are: Ghasideh Golmakani’s Head to Head; Edoardo Gabbriellini’s City of the Living; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Everest: The Other Side; Louise Bagnall’s Julián; Beth D’Araujo’s Josephine; […]

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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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