Personal, comedic, and serious psychological and philosophical discussions about life, as well as art, music, sport, and entertainment. Carlos Camacho, psychologist.
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Carlos Camacho Podcasts
The Horror Agenda is a podcast from Carlos M. Camacho and Victor M. Garcia Jr. where we discuss OUR horror agenda. We dive into horror movies, horror short films and other horror properties from our perspectives as a recovering PhD and two aspiring filmmakers who have loved horror our whole lives. Tune in and BEWARE spoilers ahead.
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Today we chat about being programmed since our childhood to believe certain things—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho, Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2023 Night Shift written by Karlee Boon and Shade Standard and directed by Karlee Boon. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. This week Victor recommends Takeout (2025) directed by Jem Garrard is a film about 3 colleagues who think the…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we are discussing the 2005 short film Still Life, written by Charles Johnston and directed by Jon Knautz. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. This week Victor recommends Gachiakuta (2022 - ) written and illustrated by Kei Urana; a dark fantasy ce…
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Today we chat about friendship with pets—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho, Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2021 short film Atrophy co-written & co-directed by Nick Hartanto and Sam Roden. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. The film was selected by Short of the Week and is reviewed here by Chelsea Lupkin. In this piece, which we reference…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2016 short film Tonight It's You, directed by Dominic Haxton, story by Dominic Haxton and Jacob Robbins, and written by David Davin. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We reference this article by Waylon Jordan from iHorror.com spea…
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Today we chat about friendship—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho, Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda and this week Jason returns. Today we cover the 2025 short film Sweet Revenge, part of the Jason 45th anniversary campaign. The film is written and directed by Mike P. Nelson. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. For more on Jason and his antics, you can che…
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Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2022 short film Soul Casket, written and directed by Ethan Hunt. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. This week Victor recommends Stuck on You (2003) a comedy about conjoined twins who move to Los Angeles because one wants to be …
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Today we chat about being happy with ourselves—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho, Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda! This week we cover the 2025 film Heart Eyes, written by Phillip Murphy and Christoper Landon & Michael Kennedy and directed by Josh Ruben. We have a blast talking Valentine's Day and the twists and turns of this great recent film, and how we want more films playing with genre. In this episode we reference an episode of…
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Today we chat about Hobbies and Passions—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2020 short film Carnivore. The short is written and directed by Ashton Herrild. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. This week Victor recommends the internet sketches with Chit (Jay Renshaw) from Kiel Kennedy and Jay Renshaw. Carlos r…
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The Things We Do When We're Alone (2021)
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1:45:53Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we're covering the 2021 short film written and directed by Matthew Lynn. CW: discussion of conversion therapy. For those unaware, conversion therapy is not a real therapy. You can learn more about where this cruel practice still operates from the Trevor Project. You can watch the short here. You can watch all…
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Today we chat about Forgiveness Part 3—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Basketful of Heads Pt 2 (2019-2020)
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1:08:50Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we finish the limited series comic Basketful of Heads. This episode we cover issues 2-7 (with spoilers for issue 1). Basketful of Heads is written by creator Joe Hill, Illustrated by Leomacs, Colored by Dave Stewart, Lettered by Devon Bennett and Edited by Mark Doyle & Amedeo Turturro. This week Victor recomm…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2022 short film Baby Fever directed by Hannah May Cumming and cowritten by Hannah May Cumming and Alex Hartwig. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. You can learn more about Hannah May Cumming and Monstrous Femme Films here. We refere…
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Today we chat about Forgiveness Part 2—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover our very first comic, the limited series Basketful of Heads. Basketful of Heads is written by creator Joe Hill, Illustrated by Leomacs, Colored by Dave Stewart, Lettered by Devon Bennett and Edited by Mark Doyle & Amedeo Turturro. We briefly discuss the news that Basketful of Heads is being made into…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda and this week we cover the short film Ayuda (2018) written by Robert Cori, Patrick Mason, and Raul Serpas and directed by Patrick Mason. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. In the episode we reference, a Director's Notes piece about Ayuda. Shout out Laci Mo…
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Today we chat about Forgiveness—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we step away from horror in certain senses and cover the 2018 animated short film Best Friend. The film comes from GOBELINS school in Paris, France, directed by David Feliu, Juliana Lucca (as Juliana de Lucca), Varun Nair, Nicholas Olivieri, Yi Shen. We get into the world building, VR and what the future hold…
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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 hi…
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Show 158 - Body Language Part 4 Dressing for Intimacy
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6:48Today we chat about Dressing for Success in our Body Language Series Part 4—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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 Spoile…
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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 Br…
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Show 157 - Body Language Part 3 Dressing for Success
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9:38Today we chat about Dressing for Success in our Body Language Series Part 3—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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…
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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 peo…
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Today we chat about Body Language Part 2—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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Today we chat about Body Language—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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…
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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 …
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Today we chat about Planning—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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…
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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…
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Today we chat about the Soul part 4—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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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…
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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…
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Today we chat about the Soul Part 3—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry (2022)
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1:40:51Welcome 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 …
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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…
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The Creep Tapes episode 6 'Mom (and Albert)'
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1:45:16This 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…
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Today we chat about the Soul Part 2—this and more on Private Universe Podcast with Carlos Camacho Psychologist.By Carlos Camacho Psychologist and Author
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Heavy Lies the Crone: Tale of La Lechuza (From the podcast: Nocturno: Tales from the Shadow)
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1:17:18Welcome 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…
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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…
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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 …
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