The Horror Agenda

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. CW: If the title did not warn you, we discuss sex and sexuality and drop the F word a lot. Listener discretion advised. This week we cover the 2020 short film written and directed by Jason Cook. You can find more of his work here . You can watch the short film here . You can also watch it here or on our Horror Agenda YouTube playlist . We allude to an interview w...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we're covering the 2016 short film Gridlock, directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy and written by Darach McGarrigle with story by Ian Hunt-Duffy and Darach McGarrigle. You can watch the short on Short of the Week's YouTube channel here . You can read the Short of the Week review here . There is an IG page for the film as well. This week Victor recommends the...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2016 short film Death Metal written and directed by Chris McInroy. You can watch the film on the Alter YouTube channel here . This week, Victor recommends Truth or Dare (2018) a fun film about friends at college getting conned into a deadly game while on vacation. As this was recorded during the week of the US Presidential election Carlos s...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and today we revisit the work of Carlota Pereda. That's right, this week we're covering the 2020 short, written and directed by Carlota Pereda with cinematography by Rita Noriega, who listeners will know worked with Carlota on Cerdita and Piggy (short and feature). This episode has a content warning. While the film does not explicitly show sexual assault...

Happy Halloween Listeners and Welcome to the Halloween episode of the Horror Agenda. On today's episode we cover the original Halloween from 1978, a Debra Hill production, cowritten by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and directed by John Carpenter. In this episode Carlos references the 2018 Bechdel Cast episode and listeners are encouraged to check it out for a more focused discussion on gender...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2018 short film Marta written and directed by Lucía Forner Segarra. A would-be serial killer finds her first victim...or does she? You can watch the short on the Alter YouTube page here . Victor recommends the TV show, Prodigal Son (2019-2021) this week, a show about a former FBI profiler whose the son of a serial killer and thinks dad have...

This week on the Horror Agenda we get spooky with cookies from our Kookie cookie jar. That's right we're covering the short film Kookie (2016). This short is written and directed by Justin Harding and about a little girl who does not listen and her mom brings a cookie jar with a story attached to it. You can watch the film here on the YouTube Alter channel. This week Victor recommends th...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda as we get closer and closer to Halloween! A favorite time of year for many a horror-head. This week we spend some time clowning around as we cover the 2012 film Stitches . The film is directed by Conor McMahon and cowritten by Conor McMahon and David O'Brien. This week Victor recommends White Collar (2009-2014) a show about a con-artist who ends up helping th...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda as we cover a ghost story, a Koreatown ghost story. That's right, we are covering Koreatown Ghost Story written and directed by Minsun Park and Teddy Tenenbaum . Minsun also play a small part in the film. This short features and is executive produced by THE Margaret Cho. The film stars Lyrica Okano as Hannah Lee who visits a family friend and then things get...

Bienvenido! Hoy en el show de Timothy hablamos sobre HORROR. Welcome to the show. Today we discuss the Spanish language (hence our intro) short Timothy (2013). Timothy is written and directed by Marc Martínez Jordán. We had a wonderful time talking about the art, cinematography and the Spanish language of it all. You can watch the film on YouTube's Alter channel here . This week Victor recomm...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda as we cover another mirror themed horror. This week we cover the 2018 film, written and directed by Assaf Bernstein. We meander into some interesting conversations. This week Carlos recommends A Bucket of Blood (1959) directed by Roger Corman, about a nerdy artist who wants to win a woman over by making art and accidentally killing his cat sends him on a wild ride. Vic...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and join us as we hole up in a room and stare into a mirror so we can prove it is indeed evil. This week we are covering a short film from the horror king of the modern era THE Mike Flanagan. He directed Oculus Chapter 3 and co-wrote it with Jeff Seidman. We reference this piece by Nick Venable from Cinema Blend (2023) here . We did not address this Empire piece d...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda as we dive face the music and our reflections as we cover the 2021 short film The Ballerina. The film is directed by Aaron Fradkin. The credits do not list a writer but Aaron and his partner/producer Victoria Fratz came up with it together and are listed as the writers on IMDb. We have fun talking mirror theories, dance, music and more. You can watch the film here...

Pull out your cups and take a big sip as we wrap our vampire miniseries with the 2022 short film First Blood. This short, written and directed by Olivia Loccisano, is sparse on dialogue but not on blood, beauty or story. You can find more of Olivia Loccisano's work here . Since this film prominently features a first period, we discuss periods, menstruation and some of the problems medicine an...

Welcome back to part 3 of our vampire miniseries here on the Horror Agenda. This week we are covering the 2017 short film V written by Ellie Gocher and directed by Jimmy Dean. You can watch it here . We want to issue a content warning because we get into a conversation of sexual assault, grooming and abuse.  The National Domestic Violence Hotline website is listed for those in abusive situations l...

We want to...wine you, dine you, and taste you. This week we are covering the 2020 short Aftertaste, written and directed by Chloë Wicks. This beautiful short is available here . Chloë Wicks' Vimeo page is here . You can read a review from short of the week here . Correction: Carlos said that Bound had an intimacy coordinator when the more accurate statement is they had a choreographer (liste...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda as we cover the ballerina vampire that is Abigail (2024). Yes we are covering the 2024 film co-directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. It's written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick. In this episode we talk vampire lore, Carlos' love and libraries, the politics of representation and Melissa Barrera being a badass. Join us. We briefly discuss...

In this episode we cover a short and the feature it became later. That's right we cover Cerdita the 2018 short film and Piggy the 2022 feature film. Both are written and directed by Carlota Pereda. CW: fatphobia. There are discussion of fatphobic abuse as part of the plot and in our discussion. We reference a CloseUpCulture interview by James Prestidge with Carlota Pereda. We also reference a...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda! This week we finally have part two of our very first TWO-PARTER! This week we cover Fear Streets Part Two and Three as a follow up to our episode on Fear Street Part One.  Based on the books by RL Stine, and Story by Kyle Killen and Phil Graziadei & Leigh Janiak, with screenplay by Phil Graziadei & Leigh Janiak and directed by Leigh Janiak. Some of the li...

This week we enter a desolate mortuary and talk with our friend Monty and hear stories of the dead. That's right, we're covering the 2019 the Mortuary Collection written and directed by Ryan Spindell. We meander through a few conversations. We reference this piece by Joey Keogh from Vague Visages. We also reference this piece from Film School Rejects by Rob Hunter. There is an interview...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and this week we have part one of our first two-parter. We cover Fear Street Part One this week and next week we will cover Part 2 and 3. Based on the books by RL Stine, and Story by Kyle Killen and Phil Graziadei & Leigh Janiak, with screenplay by Phil Graziadei & Leigh Janiak and directed by Leigh Janiak. This is a long one but worth it for all the journ...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and this week we cover an anthology film with SEVEN segments, we laugh, we manage Carlos' Audacity crashing, we talk fireworks, it's a ride. This week we're covering the 2019 film Scare Package.  The idea for the film came from Aaron B. Koontz & Cameron Burns who co-wrote the wrap-around segment ("Rad Chad's Horror Emporium") and...

Happy Pride from the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2022 short film Night Kiss written and directed by Nicolai Kornum. We get into the colors, the sounds, and what is unclear (take a shot). You can find more from the writer/director here . You can follow his photography IG here . You can follow his runway photography page here . This week Carlos recommends Dead Hot (2024-), a Tubi Original...

Happy Father's Day from the Horror Agenda. This week we cover a (zombie) father's (special) day with his zombie daughter and it seemed apropos to cover it for (US) Father's Day. We are covering the 2016 short A Father's Day, written and directed by Mat Johns. You can find more of Mat Johns' work here . We reference a short of the week review by Ivan Kander . You can help f...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2022 short horror comedy We Forgot About the Zombies written and directed by Chris McInroy. We had lots of laughs and loved this fun take on zombie media. (Pardon Carlos' voice and audio, his allergies were intense). You can watch the short on Alter here . You can find more of Chris McInroy's work on his Vimeo here . This week Vic...