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…

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 …

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 Vi…

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…

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 …

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/di…

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 anniv…

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 de…

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 199…

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 …

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 dis…

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 whi…

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 th…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 a…

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 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 Cent…

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 …

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 Agend…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 i…

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 who…

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…

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 sh…

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…

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…

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 accident…

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 (2…

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, …

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, menst…

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 web…

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 st…

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 bei…

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 Prest…

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…

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 Rejec…

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…

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 …

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 Carlo…

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…

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…

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 bir…

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 Vic…

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 …

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. Y…

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 …