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April 28, 2025

GUSH - Exclusive Review

I recently had the fortunate opportunity to view an early screening of the upcoming “psychosexual horror-thriller” film, entitled Gush. The feature, which is both stark and surreal in its cinematography, comes from the creative team behi…
April 20, 2025

Sinners - A Review

“You better pick poor robin clean Pick poor robin clean I picked his head, I picked his feet (Would have) I picked his body, but it wasn’t fit to eat You’d better pick poor robin clean Pick poor robin clean But I’ll be …
April 15, 2025

The Last Temptation of Donnie Darko

“Every living creature on this earth dies alone.” -Roberta Sparrow, The Philosophy of Time Travel   Donnie Darko is a modernized retelling of The Last Temptation of Christ. I am not the first to think of it, but the giveaway in …
March 30, 2025

A Review: The Rule of Jenny Pen

New to Shudder this weekend comes 2024’s The Rule of Jenny Pen, out of New Zealand, starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow (who also executive produced). It’s safe to say that from a psychological horror standpoint, Jenny Pen stands out…
March 15, 2025

Double Feature W/ Scott Schirmer #1

THE RING (2002) Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr) stars as a journalist investigating the bizarre, synchronized deaths of four teenagers who died exactly seven days after watching a disturbing videotape. After watching the tape herself, the clock starts …
Feb. 15, 2025

I Am, The Sunken City

I want to recommend to you, dear reader, a hidden gem among 21st century films. It’s less than an hour long, and it’s a quick, easy affair. 2005’s The Call of Cthulhu is as faithful an adaptation of the iconic Lovecraft story as …
Feb. 13, 2025

To Heart Eyes with Love

I am not usually a slasher girl, those movies just don’t interest me very much. Unless there are monsters and weirdness, the whole thing just feels kind of empty. With the exceptions of Freddy Kruger and Leslie Vernon, I have the tendency to s…
Jan. 25, 2025

The Totally Killer Mandela Effect (High Art)

Some films aspire to high art. Some films just aspire to make people laugh when they’re high. Totally Killer fell squarely into the latter category. This is one of those movies that would be absolutely awful if it tried at any point to ta…
Jan. 20, 2025

Monster Fangs - Interview w/ Adrian Amiro-Wilson

Adrian Amiro-Wilson is a macabre artist and jewelry maker out of Texas, who is also a regular contributor at our very own Horror To Culture website. She’s also become a friend over the past year, and today we sit down to discuss her creative i…
Jan. 12, 2025

George A. Romero's Resident Evil - Review

As you might have guessed, growing up a little kid in the 80’s, I was a huge fan of horror. In particular, I had an affinity for the shambling undead who feasted upon the flesh of the living! During this decade, kids such as myself really only…