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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

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Episode 24: Jerry Smith Will ‘Cast a Deadly Spell’

Harper Smith is a film composer and journalist from California. When not writing about films and the music found within them, they release instrumental music as RainyDaysForGhosts.

Harper Smith

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Editorials

‘Cast a Deadly Spell’ Is the Best of a Bygone Era of HBO Originals

Stephen Whitty is a columnist and critic for national and international outlets.

Stephen Whitty

Marriage Is Motherhood’s Original Trauma in ‘First Born’

Kyle Tam

How Chito S. Rono’s ‘Feng Shui’ Is Diminished By Its Cultural Stereotypes

Podcasts

Episode 23: Zena Dixon Summons ‘Dead Mary’

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

Unfolding The Character-Driven Surrealism of Eric Valette’s ‘Maléfique’

BJ Colangelo is an award winning filmmaker and film analyst specializing in dismissed cinema and television. She writes about horror, wrestling, musicals, adult animation, sex and gender, kicking pancreatic cancer’s ass, and being a fat queer in places like Fangoria, Vulture, The Daily Dot, Autostraddle, Playboy.com, and a handful of books college students get assigned to read. She’s also the co-host of the teen girl movie podcast, This Ends at Prom, with her wife, Harmony.

BJ Colangelo

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Punishing the Male Gaze in John Carchietta’s ‘Teenage Cocktail’

Episode 22: BJ Colangelo Stirs Up a ‘Teenage Cocktail’

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: ‘Raw’ Is a Coming-of-Age Story With Bite

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

How National Trauma Shaped Alejandro Amenabar’s ‘Tesis’

Matt is a Los Angeles-based film critic currently published on IGN, AV Club, Fangoria, Bloody Disgusting, and many other places. He is a proud member of the Critics Choice Association. Definitely don’t feed him after midnight.

Matt Donato

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As a journalist, Sarah Durn has written for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, Gizmodo, the AV Club, among many others. She currently works as an Associate Editor at Atlas Obscura, where she edits, reports, and writes original, wonder-inspiring stories.

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