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Harmony M. Colangelo is here to do some kickass writing and bartending, and she’s not done a lot of bartending this year. You can see those worlds collide in the recipe book A Year of Queer Cocktails. She has been published in Bloody Disgusting, Certified Forgotten, We Are Horror, and The Bite.

Harmony Colangelo

Wild Zero Guitar Wolf

Editorials

Finding a Love Without Borders in ‘Wild Zero’

Ed Grabianowski is an author and freelance writer. He’s worked as a contributing writer for io9 and HowStuffWorks (you may know him as The Grabster if you’re a Stuff You Should Know fan). His fiction has appeared in Black Static, David Wellington’s Fear Project, and other publications and anthologies, including Fear After Fear, a collection of his flash horror stories.

Ed Grabianowski

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‘Rawhead Rex,’ Folk Horror Classic

Annette LePique is an arts writer and educator based in Chicago. Her research interests include cinema, race, time, hysteria, and the ill body. She has written for Cleo Film Journal, Another Gaze Feminist Film Journal, is a frequent contributor to Chicago Artist Writers, and a Features Writer at Sixty Inches from Center.

Annette LePique

The Baby David Manzy

Female Rage in Ted Post’s ‘The Baby’

Matthew is an Austin-based film critic. You can find his work as sites like Film School Rejects, The Playlist, SlashFilm, and the Austin Chronicle. He is also a member of the Austin Film Critics Association. Matt spends most of his free time doting on his dog and losing games of Slay the Spire.

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Matthew Monagle

Sweatshop

Podcasts

Episode 40: Mike Snoonian on ‘Sweatshop’

Rob Hunter&#8217;s writing can be found in places like Slashfilm, Thrillist, and Crooked Marquee, but it&#8217;s Film School Rejects/One Perfect Shot that he calls his online home. As the site&#8217;s Chief Film Critic he covers films from all sources including theatrical, VOD, home video, and film festivals like Sundance, Fantasia, and Fantastic Fest. The bulk of his top ten favorite films fluctuates on any given day, but his number one has remained the same for over two decades and it&#8217;s Broadcast News.

Rob Hunter

Mister Frost Jeff Goldblum

‘Mister Frost’ Offers No Sympathy for the Devil

Jenn is a writer and podcaster from Nashville, TN. She co-hosts both Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast examining mental health topics through the lens of the horror genre and The Loser’s Club: A Stephen King Podcast taking frequent deep dives into the work and adaptations of her favorite author. She is a senior writer for Consequence of Sound and will gladly talk your ear off about final girls, feminism, and Stephen King.

Jenn Adams

Daniel Isnt Real Babadook

The Monstrous Minds of ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ and ‘The Babadook’

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.

Molly Henery

Blue My Mind

Uterus Horror

‘Blue My Mind’ And The Relatability Of Mermaid Maturity

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.

Markus Amalthea Magnuson

The Laplaces Demon

‘The Laplace’s Demon’ Finds Fear in the Inevitable

Joe George holds a PhD in American Literature and has been teaching English for over ten years. His writing has appeared in places such as Slate, StarTrek,com, Shudder’s The Bite, and Syfy Wire. He regularly contributes words to outlets including Think Christian, Bloody Disgusting, Living Lutheran, and Tor.com.

Joe George

Forest Whitaker Repentance

‘Repentance’ and the Spiritual Fear of Damnation

Bee Delores is a freelance writer based in West Virginia. They are a columnist for Bloody Disgusting and have bylines in /Film, Dread Central, Slay Away with Us, Here Us Scream, and others. In 2023, Bee served on the screening board for Overlook Film Festival. They are also the founder of the indie horror blog B-Sides &amp; Badlands. When they&#8217;re not watching Halloween H20 for the one-millionth time, they are hiking, biking, crocheting, or snuggling their four cats.

Bee Delores

The Seventh Victim

‘The Seventh Victim’ Is a Tragic Tale of Mental Health

Chad Collins has been writing professionally about film, especially horror films, since 2020. He started as a contributor for Dread Central and later branched out with pieces for Gayly Dreadful, Rue Morgue, Certified Forgotten, Anatomy of a Scream, and several others. In 2021, Chad was welcomed on as both a staff writer at Dread Central and a features writer at /Film. Since then, he has been fortunate enough to better enmesh himself into the genre, attending the Sundance Film Festival, where in 2022 he was awarded a Press Inclusion Initiative grant, Fantasia International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, South by Southwest, and several others.

Chad Collins

The House at the End of Time

Time-Travelling Trauma in ‘The House at the End of Time’

Charlie Brigden is a writer who lives in South Wales with his wife, two children, and several pets. For most of his career he has specialized in writing about music in film, and has amassed several bylines for outlets such as Roger Ebert, The Quietus, Polygon, Film School Rejects, and more. He is also the author of several liner notes and essays for soundtracks and Blu-rays from such labels as Mondo DeathWaltz, Milan Records, Arrow Films, and Indicator.

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James Horner and the Sound of Horror

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