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Brian is a freelance writer and podcaster who has somehow managed to convince his wife to name all their pets after Star Wars characters.

Brian Keiper

Samantha Loxley Hosts

Editorials

‘Hosts’ and the Subversion of the Family Christmas

Alex is a queer femme writer &amp; dog walker living in Toronto, Ontario. She is the creator of @lezzie_borden, an Instagram account dedicated to queer womxn in horror. Her work has appeared in Room, Feels Zine, Dyke Queen &amp; Underblong Journal. She has work forthcoming in a ‘zine dedicated to Guadagnino’s Suspiria, the anthology ‘zine Neon Horror &amp; Grim Magazine.

Alex Hall

Sheitan Vincent Cassel

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear: Homoeroticism and Festive Sacrilege in ‘Sheitan’

RC Jara

Just Before Dawn

The Abysmal Magnetism of ‘Just Before Dawn’

Chris McMullen

Return to House on Haunted Hill Amanda Righetti

The Interactive Horrors of ‘Return to House on Haunted Hill’

Sab is an Entertainment and Culture Journalist. He loves horror and all things strange, his favourite director is Yorgos Lanthimos. You can find him online looking for freaky new features and revealing documentaries to highlight.

Sab Astley

Kolobos

‘Kolobos’: The Reality TV Horror Ahead of Its Time

Christine Makepeace is a screenwriter and film essayist living in the Pacific Northwest. 
Christine&#8217;s work has been featured at Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, Film Jawn, Film School Rejects, and Crooked Marque among others. 
She is the former EIC and founder of the film magazine Paracinema.

Christine Makepeace

Countdown Peter Facinelli

In Defense of 2018’s ‘Countdown’

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

Species Natasha Henstridge

Uterus Horror

In ‘Species,’ Biological Clocks Run Amok

Kevin (they/them) is a writer, performer, and curiosity who utilizes text to create performances, performance to create text, and both to create responses that provoke inquiry and participation. They also are a current co-coordinator of the monthly artists’ salon series, HI typ/O, and served as Production Manager for the IN&gt;TIME Performance Festival in Winter 2016 and Assistant Director of the Out of Site Performance Series in Summer 2015.

Kevin Sparrow

Claudia Lee The Girl in the Photographs

Revisiting ‘The Girl in the Photographs’ Five Years On

Roxana Hadadi is a film, television, and pop culture critic. She holds an MA in literature and lives outside Baltimore, Maryland. Her writing has also been published by The A.V. Club, Crooked Marquee, Vulture, The Playlist, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. She is a member of the DC Area Film Critics Association, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and the Online Film Critics Society, and a Tomatometer-approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes.

Roxana Hadadi

Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Angel Heart

‘Angel Heart’ and the Twisted Allure of X-Rated Horror

Meg has been writing professionally about all things film-related since 2016. She is a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects as well as a Curator for One Perfect Shot. She has attended international film festivals such as TIFF, Hot Docs, and the Nitrate Picture Show as a member of the press. In her day job as an archivist and records manager, she regularly works with physical media and is committed to ensuring ongoing physical media accessibility in the digital age. 
You can find more of Meg&#8217;s work at Cinema Scope, Dead Central, and Nonfics. She has also appeared on a number of film-related podcasts, including All the President&#8217;s Minutes, Zodiac: Chronicle, Cannes I Kick It?, and Junk Filter. Her work has been shared on NPR&#8217;s Pop Culture Happy Hour, Business Insider, and CherryPicks. Meg has a B.A. from the University of King&#8217;s College and a Master of Information degree from the University of Toronto.

Meg Shields

Hagazussa

Halloweiner

‘Hagazussa’ and the Horror of Being Branded a Witch

Gem Seddon is a freelance writer with an information science background. Over the last ten years, her bylines have appeared at Total Film, GamesRadar+, TechRadar, Inverse, Mental Floss, Certified Forgotten, Dread Central, WhatCulture, Filmjacker, and more.

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