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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, …

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 horrifying magic… and the e…

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 encountered. …

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 just okay, but the …

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 the very fir…

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 …

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 gets out alive!…

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…

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. Especially those fil…

“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 and I confess.” PORTISHEAD – MAGIC DOORS - THIRD…

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…

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…

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…

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 to me that here were t…

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…

“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 suited to the “Mental Pop” w…

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the newly released HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 3: FIREWATCH (2024 / Amazon Prime). On November 10th, 2014, amateur hiker Kenny Lee Veach was on a mission to re-discover a cave he’d previously st…

The Vampyre thinks herself a god in her own right, and she isn’t wrong. She stalks the earth from the shadows, determining the fates of mortals, virtually undetected, a presence nevertheless felt, as a monotheistic god is often purported to do. She …

“These vampires were corpses, who went out of their graves at night to suck the blood of the living, either at their throats or stomachs, after which they returned to their cemeteries. The persons so sucked waned, grew pale, and fell into consumpti…

I was always naturally attracted to the macabre. The dark side of human nature fascinates me. However, as I have said elsewhere at Horror to Culture, I seek not to live in or promote darkness, but to bring to light that which lurks in the shadows. …

A Review of A Quiet Place: Day One I only recently watched the first two A Quiet Place films. The concept of alien predators that hunt solely by sound but somehow navigate the void of space (where, as we learned in Alien, no one can hear you scream…

“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.” -David Cronenberg Like many people, I have dozes of different ideas at any given period, the bulk of which are never accomplished due to time and/or financial constraints, or the rest…

There’s a subgenre of horror that deals with cursed films. My favorite is John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, one of his contributions to the Masters of Horror anthology. In Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, I found something which didn’t quite hi…

“The danger in bringing the light to a dark place, is that you might find out what lives in the darkness”. -OUT OF DARKNESS (2022) The nature of horror is ancient. It resides in the flickering shadows of our earliest ancestral memories, going b…