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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 …
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…
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. 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. 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…
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. 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…
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. 10, 2024
Head Spinning - An Interview W/ C. Rommial Butler
MAD: Rommi, thanks for taking some time today to catch up! Please allow me to set the stage. We first met about 10 years ago, through a mutual friend, and aside from music I think we connected due to our love of horror. In particular, we are both in…
July 30, 2024
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”
-Terry Pratchett
We’re going to diverge a bit on today’s essay, and explore some topics and ideas that are not horror related. This piece would probably be more…