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C.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent writer with published work in Paste Magazine, Nerdist, No Recess! Magazine, The Spool, and Vague Visages, among others. His second chapbook, Mark The Place, was released in 2020. He also co-hosts The Barn: A Podcast About The Shield. Currently, he lives in Philadelphia with his partner Julia and their cats.

C.M. Crockford

Editorials

Stuart Gordon’s ‘Dagon’ Offers Sublime Damnation

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

Uterus Horror

‘Cat People’ And The Fear Of Sexual Consequences

Perpetual emotion machine in arrested development. Probably thinking about movies and nathan fielder.

Gabriela Almeida

Removing The Male Fantasy From Rape-Revenge In ‘Handgun’

Wesley Lara is a freelance writer based in the Mankato, Minnesota area. He has published reviews, editorials, and interviews in Hidden Remote, Bloody Disgusting, and Polygon. His hobbies include starting games without finishing them and perusing through his never-ending horror watchlist.

Wesley Lara

‘Dead End’ Is a Christmas-Themed Highway To Hell

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.

Matthew Monagle

Podcasts

Episode 44: Dede Crimmins on ‘Bag Boy Lover Boy’

Red Broadwell (they/them) is a history student and freelance writer based in central Florida. Their hobbies include consuming copious amounts of cartoons and reading LGBTQ analysis on cinema.

Red Broadwell

‘Lily C.A.T’ and the Allure of Animated Body Horror

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

Living With Oblivion: Love and Addiction in ‘Absentia’

‘Suspiria’ Brings Transformation Through Movement

John writes predominantly about extreme and shot-on-video horror, but mostly he just loves film. You can catch him espousing the virtues of the zero-budget or arguing about metal.

John Patterson

‘100 Tears’ Is the Ultimate Guide to 2000s Horror

Eric Langberg is a writer from Los Angeles by way of Pittsburgh. He loves thinking too much about old movies, trashy reality TV, and pop music, and he&#8217;s excited to be living in LA now because it won&#8217;t be weird when he orders an iced coffee in January. You can find more of his writing at Everything&#8217;s Interesting.

Eric Langberg

‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ Finds Trauma Without Found Footage

Ciara Moloney (<a href="https://ciaramoloney.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ciaramoloney.net</a>) is a film critic and scholar based in Dublin. She is chief film critic for Current Affairs magazine, and her work has also appeared in Paste, Cineaste, IndieWire, Crooked Marquee, and MUBI Notebook. She thinks Arnie&#8217;s accent work in Red Heat is severely underrated.

Ciara Moloney

‘Circle’ Calls Our Conscience To a Vote

Dad. Husband. Horror lover. Aspiring writer. &#8216;Are You Afraid of the Dark?&#8217; Fanatic. Podcast supporter. Bad golfer. I love Mothman and all other cryptids.

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