THE HORTICULTURE OF HORROR

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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…