Gutter Auteur Blu-ray is a definitive three-disc exploration of one of American cinema’s most confrontational and misunderstood filmmakers. A ferocious underground original who rose from 1960s experimental theater to the grindhouse gutters of 42nd Street, Andy Milligan forged a body of work so raw, personal, and abrasive that Artforum famously dubbed him “the Fassbinder of 42nd Street.”
 
This landmark collection from Severin Films brings together newly restored films, rare archival material, and the acclaimed documentary The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan. Included are two features long thought lost: The Degenerates (1967), a post-nuclear nightmare rediscovered in a Brussels vault, and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me! (1968), a volatile psychodrama recovered from an Amsterdam archive. Both films have been painstakingly restored from their only surviving elements, resurrecting Milligan’s handmade cinema for the first time in decades.
 
Anchoring the set is the 2025 documentary The Degenerate, directed by Josh Johnson and Grayson Tyler Johnson, an unflinching portrait of Milligan’s chaotic life, corrosive relationships, and uncompromising artistic vision. The collection expands further with two rarely seen projects — the early short Compass Rose and the gothic oddity House of Seven Belles — alongside more than five hours of supplemental material featuring collaborators, scholars, and critics who contextualize Milligan’s legacy.
 
Brutal, intimate, and defiantly unpolished, Gutter Auteur stands as an essential archival recovery for fans of underground cinema, American exploitation, and outsider auteurs whose work exists far outside the margins of respectability.
 
directed by: Andy Milligan; Josh Johnson; Grayson Tyler Johnson
starring: Bryarly Lee, Marcia Haufrecht, Anne Linden, Laura Cunningham, Hope Stansbury, Natalie Rogers
1967–1979 / 408 min (combined) / English