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…