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Karen Allen Will Horneff Ghost in the Machine

Editorials

‘Ghost in the Machine’ Paved the Way for ‘Final Destination’

<p>Matthew is a Philadelphia-based film critic and the co-founder of Certified Forgotten. You can find his writing at publications like Inverse, Polygon, IGN, and more. When not writing about horror movies, he can often be found obsessing over horror comics or roleplaying games.</p>


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Matthew Monagle

Population 436

Podcasts

Episode 35: Christine Makepeace on ‘Population 436’

<p>Markus Amalthea Magnuson is a film writer and technologist from Stockholm, Sweden. He holds a BA and MA in Cinema Studies and wrote his master&#8217;s thesis on cyborgs and gender in film and television. He is the Head of Short Film Programming at the genre festival Monsters of Film and curates notable science fiction movies at scifiagenda.com.</p>


Markus Amalthea Magnuson

The Unknown

How ‘The Unknown’ Revived Swedish Horror

<p>Molly Henery is a film critic, entertainment writer, and author of both nonfiction and fiction with a Master&#8217;s degree in professional creative writing. Molly began writing horror film reviews for her own website, The Blogging Banshee, before eventually branching out and writing for other outlets including Fangoria, Dread Central, Nightmarish Conjurings, and more. She is most well-known for her “Uterus Horror” column on Certified Forgotten which examines a different film each month in a subgenre of horror Molly named and defined. Molly has made a name for herself as a horror genre expert which has allowed her to be a guest on numerous podcasts, is a cast member of Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary, and co-authored the upcoming book, Queer Horror: A Film Guide. Keep up on what Molly Henery is watching and writing about on her social media.</p>


Molly Henery

Nadia Hilker Lou Taylor Pucci Spring

Uterus Horror

Monsters, Menstruation, and Cosmic Love in ‘Spring’

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Haleigh Foutch and Perri Nemiroff Talk ‘Breaking Surface’

<p>Mary Beth McAndrews is a film writer, with a love for horror, based in Washington, DC. She has written for outlets such as RogerEbert.com, Paste Magazine, and Film School Rejects. She is also the co-host of the Scarred For Life podcast and Watched Once, Never Again.</p>


Mary Beth McAndrews

Hell House LLC

How ‘Hell House LLC’ Gives Life to the Abaddon Hotel

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Robert Sean Leonard My Best Friend Is a Vampire

‘My Best Friend Is a Vampire’ and ’80s Queer Horror

<p>Dr Kate Bowen is an author, poet, and academic from South Australia with a life-long love of horror. Kate&#8217;s writing is informed by her PhD in American cinema and gender studies and 8 years of research experience as a feminist film scholar at The University of Adelaide. In 2018, Kate spoke at the Revelation International Film Festival in Perth, Western Australia as one of the academic pioneers of research into found footage horror films and their relationship with Laura Mulvey&#8217;s theory of the male gaze. Her work appears extensively in horror magazine We Are Horror as one of the contributors to the magazine&#8217;s inception in 2020 and later in 2021 as a monthly columnist. Horror magazines Grim and Ghouls have also hosted Kate&#8217;s writing and her articles can also be found at Certified Forgotten, The Artifice, and Film Cred. Kate is currently writing a book chapter expanding her research into Southern Gothic horror and cannibalism as a gendered phenomenon in the Wrong Turn series.</p>


Kate Bowen

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Reading the Female Body in ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’

<p>Mark Pariselli is an award-winning writer and director based in Toronto. He graduated magna cum laude from York University with a BFA in Film Production. He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and his work has been presented at numerous film festivals, including Frameline: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Retrospective programs of his short films have been presented in Toronto, Sicily, New York City and Montreal. He has served on the juries of the Sicilia Queer Film Festival, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film &amp; Video Festival and Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. His writing on film has been featured on Talkhouse, Bloody Disgusting, Rue Morgue and Certified Forgotten.</p>


Mark Pariselli

The Doom Generation

How Gregg Araki’s ‘The Doom Generation’ Steered My Queer Identity and Filmmaking

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<div dir="auto">Amber Isaac is <i>Infrarrealista Review</i>’s Book Reviews Editor and poetry instructor. She is the author of <i>Peppermint</i> from Plancha Press and <i>Remember the Internet: r/WatchPeopleDie</i> from Instar Books.</div>
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