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Lindsay Traves is a Toronto-based writer. After submitting her Bachelor’s thesis, “The Metaphysics of Schwarzenegger Movies,” she decided to focus on writing about her passions; sci-fi, horror, sports, and comic books. You can find her writing on CGMagazine, Pajiba, What to Watch, Grim Magazine, StarTrek.com, and Bloody Disgusting and can follow her work on Twitter and Instagram. You can also check out her podcast, The Pod and The Pendulum, at your usual podcast spots and find The Smash List on YouTube for tech reviews.

Lindsay Traves

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Editorials

The Future of Horror Hinges on the ‘Friday the 13th’ Lawsuit

Jenny Nulf

Garance Marillier Raw

Video Essay: The Art Of The Female Cannibal Movie

Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles based writer who can currently be spotted covering television, horror movies, movie news, and more at sites including Slashfilm, Film School Rejects, and The Playlist. Valerie is a voting member of the LGBTQ+ critics circle GALECA, as well as the documentary and television branches of the Critics Choice Association. When she’s not making spreadsheets about TV shows in her spare time, Valerie publishes a weekly Substack newsletter titled “Hey, What Are You Watching?” You can also find her on social media @aandeandval.

Valerie Ettenhofer

Gong Yoo Silenced

Finding Strength in Illness With ‘Silenced’

Brett Gallman

Dark Ride

How ‘Dark Ride’ Helped the Slasher Survive

Conor Small

Three Nights of Death: Folk Horror in Mosfilm’s ‘Viy’

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

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Uterus Horror

The Enduring Power of Beverly Marsh in ‘It’

Christine Makepeace (<a href="http://www.christinemakepeace.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.christinemakepeace.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1745962351495000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aDbZJlXY5HlfUgsvhf9aL">www.christinemakepeace.com</a>) is a screenwriter and film essayist living in the Southern California desert. Christine’s work has been featured at Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, Movie Jawn, Film School Rejects, and Crooked Marque among others. She is the former EIC and founder of the film magazine Paracinema.

Christine Makepeace

The Final Girls

‘The Final Girls’ Finds Acceptance in Slashers

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

Megan Ward Shawn Weatherly Amityville: It's About Time

Megan Ward Shawn Weatherly Amityville It’s About Time

In Defense of the ‘Amityville Horror’ Sequels

Nguyen Le is a lover of films, games, and food hailing from a land across the Atlantic. You bet he can make butt-kicking ca phe sua da. Clueless at talking dirty, adequate at talking movies. Nguyen could always use more friends on Twitter and Facebook.

Nguyen Le

Vengeful Heart

‘Vengeful Heart’ and the Rise of Vietnamese Horror

Sonia Suhl When Animals Dream

Teen Wolves Are People Too in ‘When Animals Dream’

Paul Lê

White: Melody of Death

‘White: Melody of Death’ Sings the Horrors of K-Pop

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

‘Bit’ Marks a New Era for Vampire and Trans Cinema

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