Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we will be covering the 2021 short film Sleep Talker. Written by Sarah Emery and Carl Firth and directed by Carl Firth. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We also want to wish Victor well as he steps away from the show for a few months. This week Carlos recommends Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, sequel to Ready or Not, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, that foll...

Welcome back to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2025 short film Demon Twink, written and directed by Steven George. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We reference this intro to the Kickstarter fundraiser for the film. We also recommend this interview with the writer/director. This week Victor recommends Forgiveness Girl (2025) about a girl with cerebral palsy who despite being bullied forgives those who hu...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda and this week we cover the 1992 horror film Mikey directed by Dennis Dimster. Victor recommends the Locked Door (2021) by Freida McFadden is a psychological thriller about a surgeon who finds out a patient is killed in the same way her father, a serial killer, killed people. Carlos recommends Desert Hearts (1985) directed by Donna Deitch about an uptight professor getting a Reno divorce finds herself attracted to the free-spirited Cay. He also recommen...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we have some meta fun with Night of the Slasher (2015) written and directed by Shant Hamassian. You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We also reference this interview from SXSW 2016 here. This week Carlos recommends Strange Way of Life (2023) about two friends who reunite after 25 years and reflect on their past and present. He also recommends Castle in the Sky (1986) about two ki...

I know what you did last summer. Which coincidentally is also the title of the film we're covering. That's right, this week on the Horror Agenda we are covering 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer directed by Jim Gillespie and written by Kevin Williamson based on the novel by Lois Duncan. We reference this piece where Jennifer Love Hewitt explains that scene. This week Carlos recommends the Bechdel Cast an intersectional film podcasts he has recommended before (and been on twic...

What's Your Favorite Scary Movie? This week on the Horror Agenda we cover Scream (1996) which of course features Ghost Face impressions and some of his one liners. We get into the historicity, the meta nature and allude to where the franchise is. Scream (1996) is directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. We reference the DVD writer and director commentary often in this episode. This week Victor recommends Pleastantville (1998) directed by Gary Ross, a film where two ...

Welcome Back to the Horror Agenda! Today we are covering the 2006 film Stay Alive, directed by William Brent Bell and cowritten by him and Matthew Peterman. Victor watched the Unrated version and Carlos watched the Theatrical Cut. For the differences (beyond what we discuss in the episode) check out this site. For more on how Elizabeth Bathory has been continually maligned what we know about her being incorrect, check out You're Wrong About...Elizabeth Bathory with Princess Weekes...

1999 called and we answered. Welcome to the Horror Agenda as we cover the 1999 film Idle Hands directed by Rodman Flender and cowritten by Terri Hughes Burton and Ron Milbauer. We reference the possibility of a remake from the directors of Hell of a Summer. We also reference this LA Times piece about the weekend of Idle Hands' release. The film celebrated it's 20th anniversary and the cast came together in this brief clip. While we do not get into it in this episode we reference Sarah Marshal...

Blessed Be! How do you join the Horror Agenda today? Hopefully in perfect love and perfect trust. Today we call the corners as we watch the Craft (1996). The Craft was directed by Andrew Fleming and cowritten by him and Peter Filardi. You can read a version of the script here from the Internet Archive. You can read Rachel True's book here that is about tarot but has essays about the Craft and Rachel's experience of it. Imani the Filmophile has a video called Rochelle is the ...

Welcome to the Horror Agenda. This week we cover the 2014 short film Human Form written and directed by Doyeon Noh You can watch the short here. You can watch all the shorts we covered on our YouTube playlist here. We reference this AMA with the writer/director from ViddSee from 2016. Victor recommends Entrapment (1999) directed by Jon Amiel, where an insurance investigator poses as a criminal to catch a thief. Lots of twists and turns in this one. He also recommends The Perfect S...