The Horror Agenda

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week on our 100th episode, we cover the 1988 film Child's Play and some of the broader beats of the franchise.  We get into how Vodou is maligned broadly in Hollywood and this film specifically, we talk fear of dolls, Chucky over the years, and more.  Victor alludes to a CZ's World discussion of Damballa, part of his History of Horror series , as it rel...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we head to high school with the Giddens Ko written and directed film Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017).  We briefly reference an 2017 interview from Eastern Kicks by Andrew Daley.  This week Carlos recommends the book The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine (2023) by Arlo Parks .  Beware Spoilers. You can follow The Horror Agenda on Instag...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the short film 7 Minutes in Hell. A 2022 short written and directed by Justin Reager and Shane Spiegel .  You can watch the short on YouTube here . You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .   We also reference this interview on Facebook. This week Victor recommends the Paper Brigade (1996), a film about a boy who moves t...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2019 short film Smiling Woman, written and directed by Alex Magaña . You can watch the short and others from Alex Magaña on YouTube here . You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .  This week Victor recommends Golden Boy (1995-1996) an anime show about a college drop out who does lots of freelance work.  Carlos...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we dive into couple's therapy with the 2019 short film Couple's Therapy. The film is directed by Tim Hendrix and written by Mae Catt.  You can watch it here . You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .    Carlos and Victor recommend Mayhem (2017), a film about a virus that makes people lose their inhibitions.  Victo...

This week on The Horror Agenda, we cover a throwback that helped shape the genre including last week's episode on In a Violent Nature. We cover Friday the 13th (1980) written by Victor Miller and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. This week Victor recommends My Baby's Daddy (2004) a comedy film about men forced to grow up when they become dads. Carlos recommends Sinners (2025) because he&ap...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2024 feature film, In a Violent Nature . The film, written and directed by Chris Nash has a unique way of telling a somewhat familiar slasher story. It's beautiful, with a great sound design and we have a blast discussing it.  We reference this Polygon piece by Austen Goslin written about how innovative it is.  This week Carlos recomme...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda! Today we cover the 2022 short film Prom Car '91 written and directed by Brian F. Otting . We have a blast talking this prom night ride that features the death of a prom queen.   You can watch the film on the Alter Youtube channel here . You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .   This week Victor recommends Digimon Adventures sea...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2020 short film Wet Willy. The film is written by D.M. Harring and directed by Nic Stanich .  You can watch the film on the Alter Youtube channel here . You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .  This week Victor recommends the Lego store. He recommends, in particular, the May the 4th weekend of events.  Carlos...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda and on today's episode we cover the 2018 short film Oscar's Bell co-written by Chris and Sam Cronin and directed by Chris Cronin.  It is reviewed on Short of the Week by Ivan Kander here . On Chris Cronin's Vimeo page you can see some behind the scenes b-roll. Carlos references the Swiss Cheese method regarding COVID and you can learn more from UNMC here...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda and this week we cover the 2016 short film PYOTR495 written and directed by Blake Mawson. CW: anti-queer violence; discussions of anti-queer violence, homo- and transphobia and related conversations.  You can watch the film on the Alter YouTube channel here . We reference this 2017 interview from HuffPo with the writer/director by Charlie David here .  We also talk int...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. We dedicate this episode to the memory of Tony Todd, horror legend who passed in 2024. You can read an obit here from NPR. This week we get into the 2000 film Final Destination with screenplay by James Wong (Director), Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick; based on a story by Reddick. The film is celebrating it's 25th anniversary and Matt Goldberg writes about the fra...

Welcome to the Abaddon Hotel for this year's haunt Hell House. Yes, this week we are covering the 2015 mockumentary found footage film (and speaking to the Director's Cut (2020) as well.) The film written and directed by Stephen Cognetti .  A group of young folks go to upstate NY to set up and haunted house and things go wrong. Many missing and/or dead including staff. Years later, a doc...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we're covering the 1998 Robert Rodriguez directed The Faculty. The story is by David Wechter & Bruce Kimmel with the screenplay by Kevin Williamson. We talk conformity, high school hell, Robert Rodriguez and more. In this episode we reference videos from the Robert Rodriguez Archive here . We reference two 1998 reviews of the Faculty, one from Vanit...

Welcome to another episode of the Horror Agenda.  This week we cover the 2022 short film "The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry" a horror comedy directed by Patrick Sheedy . The film is cowritten by Sheedy & Brett Brooks who both play parts in the film as well. The film is DPd by Matthew Patrick Noonan who rounds out the main cast who play a band that performs...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and today we get into discussions of grief, depression and more. We cover the 2023 short film "Are You Awake?" written and directed by Gabriel Caste .  You can watch the film on YouTube here or on Gabriel's website here .  There's a content warning on this episode as we discuss mental health issues and have a brief discussion of suicidality.  W...

This week on the Horror Agenda we return to the Creep Tapes, brain child of Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass . Co-written by Mark and Patrick and directed by Patrick Brice.  We reference the Mostly Horror podcast a lot in this episode, especially the 2024 episode with Patrick Brice discussing the Creep Tapes...before the second season was announced which was discussed on Fangoria here .  We also ref...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda and today we push ourselves into a new horror realm. Today we cover our first horror podcast. We tune into an episode of Nocturno: Tales from the Shadow. We come face to face with a legend of Mexican folklore in Heavy Lies the Crone: Tale of La Lechuza. Are you scared of facing La Lechuza? Join us and see as we cover this podcast hosted by Danny Trejo.  You can listen...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. Today we cover the 2023 short film Ten of Swords from writer director Faye Jackson , a short about a different kind of zombie. For more from Faye Jackson and her production company Touch Piece Productions, you can go here .  You can watch the short here .   You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here .  We reference this Instagram post from Fa...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda and we cannot remember what happens once we leave this room. We are starting to see a pattern so maybe we'll figure it out. *door slams* *yelling* *banging* We're doing a podcast. We're covering the 2021 short film What Happened Downstairs? written and directed by Andrew Nisinson. You can watch the short on his website here . It was featured on Short of...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda and Happy New Year. Yes we are doing the New Year episode as January comes to an end but we are having fun and covering a wonderful short written and directed by Eros V . Yes that's right we're covering the 2024 short film Meat Puppet. You can watch Meat Puppet on YouTube here .  We heard about this short from friend of the pod Sam Shelton but it was als...

Happy Solstice and Happy Holidays to those who celebrate, remember to NOT answer the phone! Today we are covering the CLASSIC (1974) Black Christmas! Directed by Bob Clark and written by Roy Moore. Before the year ends, if you haven't already, please fill out our listener survey here: https://forms.gle/Vk7YtU1xeAq46aGBA In this episode we discuss abortion and until recently, it's legalit...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda! Today we cover episode two 'Elliott' of the Creep Tapes. The series from Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice builds on the world-building of the Creep movies. The Creep Tapes is a Shudder exclusive and all 6 episodes are now streaming. If you missed it, we covered episode one of the show last week. Before we get into our usual info, we're doing an end o...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda! Today we cover episode one 'Mike' of the Creep Tapes. The series from Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice builds on the world-building of the Creep movies. The Creep Tapes is a Shudder exclusive and 5 of the 6 episodes are streaming at time of release. Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, the co-creators spoke to Dread Central's Mary Beth McAndrews about the...

Happy December from the Horror Agenda. As a new month begins we bring you a short film that is magical and mysterious and murderous. Today we are covering the 2022 short film Cookies by the Fire written and directed by Scott Vasey. You can watch the film on Screamfest's Youtube channel here . This week Carlos recommends the Creep Tapes (2024 - ), a new found footage show on Shudder from the u...