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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 JamesI’m not a big fan of modern culture, but when I first encountered Horror to Culture, I was intrigued. It seemed…

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…

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 pr…

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…

“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 con…

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 OneI 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 constra…

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 did…

“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 …

Kyle, a young man of little means with a serious addiction, walked up to the food truck hiding a gun in his jacket pocket. He knew this dude made a lot of money because people lined up around the block to get a burger around lunch and in the evening…

By C. Rommial Butler ====== Stephen King helped catapult Clive Barker into worldwide fame with this line:“I have seen the future of horror… and his name is Clive Barker.”He was right.Where King helped make …

By C. Rommial Butler ====== When mirror regards mirror which is the reflection?This question popped into my mind when I stumbled onto the doctor’s experiment.But I cannot go into that without some background.I’ve …

“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches, the other seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger.”-Ca…

“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”-Captain George Taylor ***** MAD: Hunter, it’s great to speak with you again today and thanks for agreeing to this short discussion! There’…

By C. Rommial Butler ====== Here’s a tough thing for us to admit:We are not responsible for every bad thing that happens to us. Here’s another tough thing for us to admit:We are responsible for the way we deal wit…

If you’re a massive horror aficionado such as myself, you likely have a huge stockpile of films waiting in your watch list, across multiple streaming platforms. With so many movies to view, and so little time, it’s often difficult to gau…

When I first saw the news that a “spiritual sequel” to George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD was about to be released, it immediately jumped to the front of my “to do list”. Romero’s original DEAD tr…

It’s always a pleasant surprise when you stumble upon a hidden gem which manages to break through all the buzzing static of mainstream horror and presents an original story. Even better if that film delivers unique supernatural themes, merged …

MAD: Jaime, it’s good to talk to you again! We had some correspondence a couple of years ago in regards to a zine I was working on, and I’ve always dug your style and subject matter (primarily comic books and horror art). It has been ver…