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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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 1999 film the Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. The Mummy is directed by Stephen Sommers and written by Stephen Sommers and Lloyd Fonvielle & Kevin Jarre. While initially rumors, it looks like Fraser and Weisz will reunite for a 4th Mummy film. For more on the bisexual power this film h…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda! This week we cover the new 2025 short film FruitHead from Gushers/General Mills. The film is a horror take on the iconic 90s commercials. The short is directed by Mike Diva and co-written by Mike Diva, Ian Reichenthal & Matt Sorrell. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube p…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2018 feature film VelociPastor written and directed by Brendan Steere. We had such a blast revisiting this film. This episode was recorded shortly after the release of the trailer for VelociPastor 2. You can watch the trailer here. This week Victor recommends Chad Powers (2025- ) a new show about…
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2023 short film Trial 22 written by John Ferrer and Harry Metcalfe and directed by John Ferrer. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. This week Victor recommends Valentine (2001) directed by Jamie Blanks is about a killer on the loose …
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Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2023 feature film Hell of a Summer co-written and co-directed by Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard. We get into the laughs and the kills of this summer camp slasher film. We reference this article from People by Nigel Smith with the co-directors. We also reference this article from Entertainment …
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Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2019 short film Bakemono written and directed by Sumire Takamatsu and Jorge Lucas. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We reference this piece from Fable House several times in the episode which features a conversation with Sumire an…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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…
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The Creep Tapes episode 2 'Elliott'
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1:30:58Welcome 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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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There Will Be Monsters (Habrá Monstruos) (2020)
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1:12:31Welcome 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…
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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…
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