THE HORTICULTURE OF HORROR

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Jan. 15, 2024

Found/Headless

By Michael A. Dyer   ======   When one considers low budget horror movies, a few things come to mind. Of course, we have such offerings as THE TOXIC AVENGER ($500,000) from Troma Entertainment, and many of the straight to video feature…
Jan. 10, 2024

Night Swim and Heckle-Worthy Horror

By C. Rommial Butler   ======   I went into Night Swim not expecting much and I was pleasantly unsurprised. I still don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. This brings to mind an interesting point about the Horror gen…
Jan. 3, 2024

Night Sweats - Part: 2

By Andy Emantsal   ======   Welcome again to another addition to Horror To Culture. In this gripping continuation, you will see how my tormented night terrors got worse for me to endure. The doctors said my creativity exacerbated my pa…
Dec. 27, 2023

The Host and the Parasite (Which is Art?)

By C. Rommial Butler   ======   Rod Serling on The Twilight Zone. The Cryptkeeper on Tales from the Crypt. Indy’s own Sammy Terry from Nightmare Theater. These are just a few examples of the horror host. The horror host is a conv…
Dec. 20, 2023

DEAD CROSS – The Cult of Mike Patton

“I can dress up the dead man But I can’t bring him back to life Bring it out, bring it out.” FAITH NO MORE – MOUTH TO MOUTH   ======   If I had to pinpoint certain moments of adolescence that really served as…
Dec. 9, 2023

The Thing and the Highwayman

Energy Never Ends   By C. Rommial Butler   ======   My oldest daughter and I checked out the fortieth anniversary theater showing of John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic, The Thing.   The Thing holds up af…
Dec. 5, 2023

Night Sweats

By Andy Emantsal   Thank you for joining us here at Horror To Culture!!! In this installment, I will be telling the tale of a horrifying nightmare that haunted me for 3 years of my childhood. At the height of my affliction I was having this s…
Dec. 3, 2023

What Lurks in the Shadow Mountains?

“Throw the phone out the window If you want the neighbors woke You’ll have to shout out loud And set the bed alight and slow If you want the neighbors woke You’ll have to shout even louder.”   -St. Vincent –…
Nov. 22, 2023

Neon Lit Video Store - Circa 1985

There’s been a renaissance as of late, a romance if you will, not only with the collection of VHS tapes of fan favorite movies and hard to find titles, but also keeping the legacy alive in regards to the rise and fall of VHS as a popular forma…
Nov. 16, 2023

Large Marge Sent Me

By Andy Emantsal   Thanks for stopping. Eheh. Some night huh? On this very night, ten years ago, on this same stretch of road, in a dense fog just like this, I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck, dr…