The Horror Agenda

Happy Birthday from the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the wild 1981 birthday themed horror film Bloody Birthday written by Ed Hunt and Barry Pearson and directed by Ed Hunt. We talk eclipses, astrology, murder and the ways certain parts of this film were too much. Want to know more? Give us a listen and rate us 5 stars for Victor's upcoming birthday. This week Carlos recommends American F...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda where we steal scooters and believe women. This week we're covering the 2022 short Scooter written and directed by Chelsea Lupkin, whose work you can find here . Chelsea is also a reviewer at Short of the Week and we have discussed one of her reviews prior. You can find her Short of the Week work here . This week Victor recommends the Croe's Bros, you ca...

Welcome Back Listeners, it's time to come out and face us. That's right, this week, we cover the psychological horror Itsy Bitsy Spider. This 2020 short film was written and directed by Brodi-Jo Scalise with story editing by Rudy Thauberger. You can learn more about Brodi-Jo and his work here . We reference this article from BizBooks.net about Itsy Bitsy Spider and the Crazy 8s Program....

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and this week we play Werewolves....who are you able to trust? Is it director of Werewolves Within Josh Ruben or the the screenwriter Mishna Wolff? Is it one of your co-hosts Victor, or is it Carlos? Who can you trust? You can trust that Werewolves Within, at the time of recording, is available to stream on Hulu. You can find more of Josh Ruben at his website and...

Adherence to the curriculum is...I mean the agenda is key. Yes, this week on the Horror Agenda we're the covering the 2017 short film The Sub directed by Dan Samiljan and co-written by Dan Samiljan and Dave Cain.  We talk teaching in the US, Stepford Wives, children's television and alien assimilation. This week Carlos recommends the 2024 Dev Patel film Monkey Man. Victor recommends the...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week on the podcast, we cover a short film about a podcast. A short film called Meet Jimmy, written by Tim Koomen and directed by David-Jan Bronsgeest. You can watch the film on Vimeo . You can also watch it on Short of the Week . During our episode we reference this piece by Joey Paur on Geeky Tyrant . We also reference this Hollywood Reporter piece by Etan...

Happy (early/belated) Juneteeth everybody. Let's celebrate at a cabin in the woods! No...yeah that's probably for the best. Welcome back listeners! This week we're covering previously recommended film the Blackening (2022) directed by Tim Story and written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins (who also stars). This hilarious horror comedy was a ROMP. It is based on this short: https:...

Now that you've officially reached episode 9 of season two, it's time to let you into the podcast secret. Meet your sentinal! Yes, we're covering the 2018 short film Special Day written by Nikolai Von Keller and directed by Teal Greyhavens. (In the beginning of the episode we do get the date wrong but correct it in the end and official here in the show notes.) You can learn more abo...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda and this week we are covering Happy Death Day. Welcome back to the Horror... Agenda and... this week we are covering Happy Death Day. Welcome back...yes we are covering the 2017 time  loop slasher Happy Death Day directed by Christopher Landon and written by Scott Lobdell. Some of the trivia in today's episode comes from IMDb.com . We reference this Wrap piec...

CW: discussion of sexual assault and abuse. Listeners beware, something is very very wrong in London. Join us as we discuss the 2016 horror short film written and directed by Rob Savage, with story by Jed Sheperd. The short got on our radar through a blog post from Screencraft by David Young. You can watch the short on Vimeo here , with instructions to best listen from the director. We reference a...

Hey Molly's, this week we're totally excited to cover the 2023 film Totally Killer. We had fun talking time travel, the 80s, the soundtrack and the usually horror agenda items. This film is directed by Nahnatchka Khan. It is written by David Matalon & Sasha Perl-Raver and Jen D’Angelo. We reference this Hollywood Reporter article from Brian Davids, which features discussion of the ma...

*plays tape* You are listening to the Horror Agenda. A horror podcast hosted by Carlos and Victor. You are humanity's last hope. You must discuss 2023 horror short written and directed by Caleb J. Phillips. *tape ends* You can find Play Me on YouTube here . You can find more about writer and director Caleb J. Phillips here . Carlos and Victor get silly and talk Driver's License by Olivia...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2019 short film Finley directed by J. Zachary Thurman. It was co-written by Maddison Stroud and J. Zachary Thurman. You watch the short here . You can find more about J. Zachary Thurman here . We discuss a 2023 interview by Feliz Vasquez for Cinema Crazed here . We also reference a 2019 Gruesome Magazine piece by Joseph Perry here . We also...

Submitted for the Approval of the Horror Agenda listeners, this week we cover Are You Afraid of the Dark? : The Tale of the Dead Man's Float (1995). This episode is directed by DJ MacHale (show co-creator) and written by Will Dixon. We open the episode with a Screen Rant article by Stephen Lagioia . We also reference a Collider article and the Twilight Zone connection by Rhianna Malas . This...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. Time to pucker up as we cover the 2020 short film Kissed written and directed by  Elwood Quincy Walker. You can find more from the Writer/Director Elwood Quincy Walker on his website or his Vimeo here . You can watch Kissed on his website or on the Alter YouTube channel. This week Victor recommends: The Gate (1987) a horror fantasy directed by Tibor Takács. Carlo...

Welcome back to Season 2 of the Horror Agenda. Listener beware, you’re in for a scare. We time-travel back to 1996 to a popular episode of the 90s TV series Goosebumps covering Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes episode.  We reference the Goosebumps fandom wiki here . We discuss this 2015 piece from Vice by Kaleigh Rogers here . We also reference this Bustle piece from 2016 by Sabienna Bowman here . We al...

Welcome to the LAST episode of the Horror Agenda for 2023 as we cover Zombie Musical (2011) written and directed by the late Ryan McHenry. Listeners of a certain age may know him as the creator behind the Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His Cereal Vines. We cover this short and discuss it, briefly, in relation to the feature it became: Anna and the Apocalypse.  Several points of our discussion were dr...

Welcome to the penultimate episode of 2023 here at the Horror Agenda. We wanted to get into the spirit of season and cover the 2022 short directed by Christopher Ryan Laughter and written by Michael Wielock. You can watch the short on Alter here: https://youtu.be/-0zw12ijz8g You can find more on Laughter here: http://www.chrislaughter.com/snow-globe   While not a central part of the episode we wan...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda as we go to prison. Yes, this week's episode features prominently in a prison. We cover the story of a killer, who is NOT the titular character in Horacio (2020) in this animated short written and directed by Caroline Cherrier. He forgot why he did what he did...or did he? We found the short via Short of the Week: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/07/17/horacio/...

We're starting off the month of December with Dylan Clark's Portrait of God (2022) here at the Horror Agenda. You can watch the short on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/BI9fKfX5V68 Writer and Director Dylan Clark recommends watching on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/744201078 Dylan Clark made a short film about the making of Portrait of God available here: https://youtu.be/GLDitKQDjUg You...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda! This week we cover the 2022 short film Girl at Party written and directed by Jess O'Kane.  You can watch the film here: https://youtu.be/9ycgQGeL710 You can follow Jess O'Kane here: https://www.jessokane.com/ We learned about this short from Short of the Week as well: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/10/27/girl-at-party/ NOTE: There were some sound i...

Have you ever had a original idea? Have you ever had one so beautiful and so powerful it caused heads to explode?? If yes, you may need to reach out to Barry before the CIA finds you.  This week on the Horror Agenda we have an episode on the 2018 short written and directed by N'Cee Van Heerden and we get deep. You can watch the short on Alter on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qhufXt3AapU N&ap...

Welcome Back to another episode of the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2015 AJ Briones film 'The Smiling Man.' While there is no dialogue this film has a lot to say.  You can see more of AJ Briones' work on his website here: http://www.ajbriones.com/filmography You can watch the film on the Alter Youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/zk-eY5S1Nck The interview we discuss from...

In this episode we stand in a circle and summon...someone. This week we cover the 2016 short film Born Again and laugh about religion themed horror. You can watch it on the Alter YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/Nc-6j3mHp5o You can learn more about the production here: https://www.facebook.com/BornAgainShort Beware Spoilers. You can follow The Horror Agenda on Instagram @TheHorrorAgenda. Our...

As we recover from Halloween, have this episode we recorded a few weeks ago, where we cover the 2023 short film Disguise, written and directed by Tyler Czajkowski. You can find more about Tyler here: https://www.tylercz.com/ You can watch the short on Tyler's website or here on his YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/zlpfcKffgDA You can read the short story from R/NoSleep "The Ultimate Dis...