The Horror Agenda
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.
Episodes
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 Weekly by Lauren Huff.
This week Victor recommends the Flip Off (2025) a show renovat...
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 and Jorge.
This week Victor recommends Fanboys (2009), directed by Kyle Newman a fi...
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 they have a serial killer on their hands.
Carlos recommends The Comic Shop (2025 - ) ...
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 centered on Rudo, who as part of his false conviction is thrown into the trash to surv...
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 several times, Nick is quoted about how his mom's stroke inspired the film ...
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 speaking with the director about this film.
Mentioned in the episode is 16th Minu...
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 check out the official Jason universe website.
This is the Fangoria piece (2025) by...
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 an actor.
Carlos recommends Clown in a Cornfield (2025) a fun horror about a teena...
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 Mostly Horror featuring director Josh Ruben talking about the film. We also...
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 recommends Heart Eyes (2025) a rom-com horror slasher directed by Josh Ruben.
Welcome 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 the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here.
Welcome 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 recommends the internet sketches with Chit from Kiel Kennedy.
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 reference this interview with Hannah May Cumming by Connor Reed from the Portland Monthly.
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 a movie with Natasha Lyonne as shared here.
This week Victor recommends Digimon se...
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 Mosley and the despo-meter, she covers on several episodes of her podcast Scam ...
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 holds. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTu...
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 his History of Horror series, as it relates to the Child's Play franchis...
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 Spoilers. You can follow The Horror Agenda on Instagram @TheHorrorAgenda. Our personal link...
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 Brigade (1996), a film about a boy who moves to a small town, and does not like it unti...
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 out who does lots of freelance work.
Carlos recommends another Dropout show, Very Imp...
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