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Aug. 10, 2024
The Censorship of Art & Horror
By Adrian Amiro-Wilson
Fairytales in their truest form are some of the earliest, most terrifying forms of horror as art. They contain evil witches, curses, poisoned foods, the slicing off of toes, and cooking children in an oven. All of it …
Aug. 10, 2024
Head Spinning - An Interview W/ C. Rommial Butler
MAD: Rommi, thanks for taking some time today to catch up! Please allow me to set the stage. We first met about 10 years ago, through a mutual friend, and aside from music I think we connected due to our love of horror. In particular, we are both in…
July 30, 2024
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”
-Terry Pratchett
We’re going to diverge a bit on today’s essay, and explore some topics and ideas that are not horror related. This piece would probably be more…
July 27, 2024
Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch - Review
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the newly released HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 3: FIREWATCH (2024 / Amazon Prime).
On November 10th, 2014, amateur hiker Kenny Lee Veach was on a mission to re-discover a cave he’d pr…
July 20, 2024
The Vampyre and the God
The Vampyre thinks herself a god in her own right, and she isn’t wrong. She stalks the earth from the shadows, determining the fates of mortals, virtually undetected, a presence nevertheless felt, as a monotheistic god is often purported to do…
July 20, 2024
Trust the Séance
“These vampires were corpses, who went out of their graves at night to suck the blood of the living, either at their throats or stomachs, after which they returned to their cemeteries. The persons so sucked waned, grew pale, and fell into con…
July 16, 2024
Which One Is It?
I was always naturally attracted to the macabre. The dark side of human nature fascinates me. However, as I have said elsewhere at Horror to Culture, I seek not to live in or promote darkness, but to bring to light that which lurks in the shadows.
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July 7, 2024
A Quiet Kitty in New York City
A Review of A Quiet Place: Day One
I only recently watched the first two A Quiet Place films. The concept of alien predators that hunt solely by sound but somehow navigate the void of space (where, as we learned in Alien, no one can hear you scream…
July 5, 2024
Pursuing Art in the Age of Hawk Tuah
“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.”
-David Cronenberg
Like many people, I have dozes of different ideas at any given period, the bulk of which are never accomplished due to time and/or financial constra…
June 29, 2024
Curses, Foiled Again!
There’s a subgenre of horror that deals with cursed films. My favorite is John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, one of his contributions to the Masters of Horror anthology. In Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, I found something which did…