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Sept. 2, 2024

Interview W/ Colby Does Horror

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Colby of @colby_does-horror. His reviews are honest, funny, and brilliant. I definitely suggest checking him out on Instagram.   ADRIAN: What do you love about horror? COLBY: I love that it’…
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. 19, 2024

Starve Acre - A Review

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Starve Acre is a newly released folk horror film starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, based on the book by Andrew Michael Hurley.    This is a quiet, haunting film. It is a bleak and unsettling ride that…
Aug. 10, 2024

The Censorship of Art & Horror

By Adrian Amiro-Wilson   Fairytales in their truest form are some of the earliest, most terrifying forms of horror as art. They contain evil witches, curses, poisoned foods, the slicing off of toes, and cooking children in an oven. All of it …
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…
July 27, 2024

Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch - Review

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…
July 20, 2024

The Vampyre and the God

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…
July 20, 2024

Trust the Séance

“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…
July 16, 2024

Which One Is It?

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. …