THE HORTICULTURE OF HORROR

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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…
Jan. 11, 2025

Nosferatu: Love Song for a Vampire

I love vampires; I mean, I really love vampires. As a kid, I set this goal in my head that I would see every vampire film ever made, and with the release of Eggers’ long-awaited remake of Nosferatu, I’ve decided that the time has come fo…
Jan. 6, 2025

Look What I Found: An Interview W/ Scott Schirmer

Scott Schirmer is the award-winning filmmaker of such controversial features as FOUND (2012), HEADLESS (2015), and the upcoming GUSH (2025). He recently was gracious enough to take some time to sit down with HORROR TO CULTURE to discuss his career, …
Jan. 1, 2025

Looking Back at Horror in 2024

Adrian’s Top 10 Horror Films of 2024 StopMotion:This film was basically Jan Svankmier and David Lynch had a film baby… the imagery was disturbing and romantic in a way…. the actual animation looked like it was absolutely horrify…
Dec. 22, 2024

The Fallout

This is less a review and more of an essay on the subject matter of the 2014 documentary The Polygon. It’s not the first account of nuclear testing in the Soviet Union which I read or watched, but it hit me harder than any I before encounter…
Dec. 9, 2024

The Violence of the Trans?

Recently I revisited the 1991 film adaptation of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs. I read all Thomas Harris’ books up through Hannibal Rising and can’t recommend them enough. The movie adaptations range from excellent to j…
Dec. 1, 2024

Spinning the Rack - Collecting Comic Books

If you’ll please entertain me for a few minutes, allow us to travel back to 1985, when a little 5 or 6 year old version of me was standing wide-eyed in a Hook’s drugstore in Greenfield, Indiana, witnessing a spinning comic book rack for …
Nov. 27, 2024

Electric Meat - An Interview W/ Daniel Schaffer

Daniel Schaffer is a British based artist, writer, and filmmaker known for his underground classic comic book series DOGWITCH, as well as THE SCRIBBLER (both the book and movie), WIREMONKEYS (for Heavy Metal magazine), the 2018 film PERIPHERAL, and …
Nov. 18, 2024

Dinner For Two - An Interview w/ CJ Scott

ADRIAN: You are an independent Filmmaker in Amarillo, TX. What kind of films do you make? CJ: I mostly make horror, but I’ve been exploring other styles like documentaries and drama recently. I even want to get into romance!   ADRIAN…
Nov. 10, 2024

Five to One—One to Five: Film Edition!

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to the Horror to Culture Five to One Film Roundtable! We’ll be going down our list of favorite horror films, from five to one, and because this is Horror, it’s just like Jim Morrisson said: no one here get…
Oct. 31, 2024

Pater Noster - An Interview w/ Chris Bickel

Christopher Bickel is an independent filmmaker, and record store owner, whose new indie horror film PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT is a wild ride that must be seen to be believed. I recently had the opportunity to ask Chris a few questions ab…
Oct. 27, 2024

From Beyond and the Trope of the Disbelieved Delusion

I’d first like to highlight how much I’ve enjoyed the films of Stuart Gordon over the years. He coats an obvious love of Lovecraft with a lurid and viscous slime of 80s sleaze which is at once a parody, a paradox, and a delight. Especial…
Oct. 23, 2024

Warm Bodies - An Interview W/ Isaac Marion

ADRIAN: You are the author of the Warm Bodies series. In the books, your zombies still have human qualities and habits. I personally found it extremely refreshing and new while reading them. What inspired that? ​ISAAC: The main idea of the book was…
Oct. 21, 2024

I Got Them Posthuman Blues Again...

“I can’t divide or hide from me I don’t know who I’m meant to be I guess it’s just the person that I am Often I’ve dreamt that I don’t wake Enjoy the gift of my mistake But yet again, I’m wrong an…
Oct. 7, 2024

Salem's Lot (2024) and the Brutal Slaying of any Human Meaning

I love Vampires. I love all monsters, really, but vampires are my absolute favorites. When I was 5, I saw the film Monster Squad and it changed my life. I was going to be a monster hunter, and began my life long journey into mythology and a deep lov…
Sept. 29, 2024

Fright Bites - An Interview w/ Miracle Austin

Miracle Austin is a YA/NA horror author out of Waco, Texas. Her works include The Doll Trilogy, which is a coming-of-age supernatural love story with many twists and turns, that was partly influenced by the book Carrie. Her book, Boundless, is writ…
Sept. 29, 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the Problem with Jeffrey Jones

Horror and comedy go together like chocolate and peanut butter, though sometimes this confection melts all over the dashboard of our car because we left it out in the summer sun with the windows up. This ooey-gooey analogy serves us well when examin…
Sept. 19, 2024

Deadwax - An Interview W/ Evan Gamble

Evan Gamble is a phenomenal actor and musician. You can see him on the screen in Fear The Walking Dead, Hap and Leonard, Vampire Diaries, Deadwax, and Roar.    ADRIAN: You have played some absolutely fantastic villains, from Fear the Wal…
Sept. 13, 2024

Deliver Us from The Deliverance

In the annals of demonic possession films, The Deliverance should surely go down as one of the worst, but, it has the redeeming quality of having made me burst out laughing every time I recall some stray scene, which is probably too often for my san…
Sept. 13, 2024

The Crow - A Review

May 13th, 1994. A date I distinctly remember, and will never forget. I had just turned fifteen, sitting with some friends in a packed theater on opening night, to watch The Crow. For any fellow Hoosiers, it might be noted that it was the long defu…
Sept. 2, 2024

Interview W/ Colby Does Horror

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Colby of @colby_does-horror. His reviews are honest, funny, and brilliant. I definitely suggest checking him out on Instagram.   ADRIAN: What do you love about horror? COLBY: I love that it’…
Aug. 31, 2024

Exploring the Territories

By Shel Rogers   “My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.” -Henry James I’m not a big fan of modern culture, but when I first encountered Horror to Culture, I was intrigued. It seemed…
Aug. 19, 2024

Starve Acre - A Review

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Starve Acre is a newly released folk horror film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurley.    This is a quiet, haunting film. It is a bleak and unsettling ride that…
Aug. 10, 2024

The Censorship of Art & Horror

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Fairytales in their truest form are some of the earliest, most terrifying forms of horror as art. They contain evil witches, curses, poisoned foods, the slicing off of toes, and cooking children in an oven. All of it …