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All The Culturas Of The Dark

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The Cultural Gutter is dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. And shenanigans. she / her. they / them. whatevs / whatevems. No Fucking Kings. https://culturalgutter.com/

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · Feb 12

Happy Year of the Dragon! I am inflicting this thing I made on all of you!

It is the classic man walking with his girlfriend and looking back at an oblivious woman--who looks like his girlfriend--in a red dress. I have labeled each person, "Ghidorah," representing each of King Ghidorah's three heads.

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@SoxOnTheBrain ⚕️⚖️🌊⚾ @soxonthebrain.bsky.social · 10h

CineMonsters: We're 15 min from the (10 ET) start of #CineMon, where tonight, @sonofkaras.bsky.social and I take you on a horrifying trip back to a time when AI was mere science fiction. Join us for The Outer Limits: The Tipping Point, to see just how far we've come. (Or gone. ;)

Son of Karas (AKA Quandaryman) @sonofkaras.bsky.social · 1d

#Cinemon Monday night at 10E, are we prepared for the rise of the machines? Progress and profit have not changed the answer. We aren't ready for that world, but--

--announcement protocol intercepted. Security deactivated... Phase One of Earthcleanse initiating. sifxeddsyk 0010010100010101101.

Supernatural #Cinemon - YouTube

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 2d

" Some movies are about Halloween. Trick ‘r Treat is Halloween, humming with a weird tonal balance that is at once magical and horrific, sexy and comedic, candy and corn." culturalgutter.com/2025/10/09/f...

From the Archives: All Hail the Pumpkin King

Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat (2007) is less a movie and more being shoved into a Party City in late September. It is a haunted hayride where you’re not entirely sure all the people on the tra…

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 13h

Sharing my new favorite Norval Morrisseau panting, "Punk Rockers, Nancy and Andy."

It's a Norval Morrisseau painting of two punks in black leather motorcycle jackets with mohawks. Nancy hads cool dangling earrings. The painting is mostly red with dark gray jackets, black mohawks, and black, blue and green outlining. Their eyes are yellow lined with blue. It is vibrant as fuck.

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Psychotronic Fanzine @fanzine.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen what that right most frog can do

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13h

From the 1944 Batman newspaper comic strip. Bruce Wayne is wearing his robe and ascot and thinking, “But that’s water under the bridge! There will be no more Joker trophies! Our private war is finished because his cunning brain… Is finished!“
And if this thought wasn’t stupid enough, in the middle right hand side over Bruce’s shoulder is the signature of Bob Kane.

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 13h

The Detroit Institute of Art's new exhibition on contemporary Anishinaabe art looks amazing! dia.org/events/exhib...

Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is located in Detroit’s cultural corridor. Our address is 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #FrightClub and @frightya.bsky.social 👋🏼 I know Octoberween is an embarrassment of riches & I'm piling on:

#MondayActionMovie is showing a #PeterCushing #ChristopherLee outing set in 1973 London, tonight at 8pm ET on Mastodon. Same movie - alternate titles 🤷🏻‍♀️

ALL WELCOME🩸

🔗📌to my 🐘profile & in 📅

poster for movie:
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

poster:

COUNT DRACULA AND HIS VAMPIRE BRIDE (1973)

CHRISTOPHER LEE
PETER CUSHING
R 1h 27m CC
1973

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends celebrating!

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 16h

BLOOD MERIDIAN or YOU KNOW I REALLY LOVE THAT HERMAN MELVILLE FELLA

All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 16h

Friend of the Gutter @tenebraewyatt.bsky.social has some thoughts on Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (USA, 2000)! culturalgutter.com/2025/10/13/b...

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Friend of the Gutter Jeffrey X Martin writes about Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (USA, 2000) for Biff Bam Pop’s 31 Days of Horror! “It’s late. I’m tired. I’ve worked all day, dealt wit…

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witchycloaked @whiskeysoaked.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Watch this right now!

Official Trailer | RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World | Independent Lens | PBS

YouTube video by PBS

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Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 18h

as a bonus, it would also be Akira Kurosawa day because Marty is gonna talk to you about some Akira Kurosawa

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 18h

"Columbus Day:" No one wants it. No one wants to celebrate it. Perfectly decent Monday in October saddled with the name of a rapist.

"Titus Pullo Day:" 100% participation. Wine flows freely. Someone says "THIRTEEN!" and everyone responds. Boring old October Monday turned great fun.

A picture of Ray Stevenson as Titus Pullo from ROME

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Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 18h

I finished my read of every Doom Patrol series. Loved revisiting the 60s series even more than expected. Still really enjoyed the Morrison/Case run and glad I revisited Pollack/Mckeever. The following series often had great art, some stories worked for me, many didn’t. Don’t regret reading it all.

Cover for My Greatest Adventure issue 80 featuring The Doom Patrol.

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Ceci n'est pas calamitycrush @calamitycrush.bsky.social · 17h

Marty

Martin Scorcese in a suit, presumably on a red carpet. His hands are raised, palms flat.

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All The Culturas Of The Dark @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Indigenous People's Day and Fuck Christopher Columbus!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, but on the other hand...

...let's do it anyway.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19h

Gail, No!!! There’s trolling and then there’s suicide. Rule fucking number one of the Internet: the Swifties are NOT to be fucked with!

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 21h

I bet Taylor Swift would be more popular if she wrote her own songs.

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Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 20h

Now playing

THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH (1964) Italian movie poster

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Projection Booth Podcast @projectionbooth.bsky.social · 20h

Let's get down to the bottom of things... #ColumboDay

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 21h

Modern People: “You can’t judge the past by modern standards!”

Old Timey People: “Columbus was a monster!”

Modern People: “… 😶👉👈… UNLIKE YOU PC-RUN-AMOK WOKE TYPES, I CAN LOOK AT CONTEXT”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I talked to Mary Bronstein about her directorial film theories, William Inge, postpartum psychosis and a whole lot more

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 3d

"People who are my audience are those that say, “Well, that made me uncomfortable. Why?” It’s really about thinking about yourself. What did I see in that work, or that I saw of myself in it that made me uncomfortable?"

I spoke to Mary Bronstein for @letterboxd.social

Discomfort Watch: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer-director Mary Bronstein on existential breakdowns and hamster horror shows • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As her psychological dramedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You hits theaters, writer-director Mary Bronstein chats with Marya E. Gates about embracing chaos, rejecting comfort and the resilience of rodents (...

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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · 1d

In this crazy old world, get up to mischief

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