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 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...
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 people lose their inhibitions.
Victor recommends Castle (2009-2016) a TV sho...
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 recommends Sinners (2025) because he's still thinking about it a lot. H...
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 innovative it is.
This week Carlos recommends the film Sinners (2025) by Ryan Co...
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 Victor recommends Digimon Adventures season 3 which takes a turn from the first ...
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, the May the 4th weekend of events.
Carlos recommends DropoutTV this week. Especiall...
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 you can learn more from UNMC here. For more COVID safety information che...
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/director by Charlie David here.
We also talk international law:
- AP 2024 piece by Litvi...
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 anniversary and Matt Goldberg writes about the franchise's kills to celebrate (on ...
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 dead including staff. Years later, a documentary comes out about the events t...
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 1998 reviews of the Faculty, one from Vanity Fair by Dennis Harvey, and one from...
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 cast who play a band that performs in the house of a late punk icon to ...
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 discussion of suicidality.
We reference two pieces several times thr...
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 which was discussed on Fangoria here.
We also reference this interview with Mark Duplass...
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