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Violet is a freaky feminist with a found footage heart. Her background is in rhetoric and composition, and she moonlights at haunted attractions when she isn&#8217;t lesson planning. She&#8217;s Co-Editor of Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror, a horror outlet and personal essay anthology series.

Violet Burns

Be My Cat: A Film for Anne

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‘Be My Cat: A Film for Anne’ Is Peak Found Footage

Shae is a writer based in New York City with a focus in film and television. She has published reviews and other written work for Screen Slate, Screen Rant, and other renowned film journals. She has particular expertise in independent and experimental cinema, having worked under organizations like Le Cinema Club, a streaming platform, and the Film-maker&#8217;s Cooperative, a 16mm archive.

Shae Sennett

Visitor Q

The Grotesque Perversion of ‘Visitor Q’

Melanie Moyer is a Philadelphia-based writer of Millennial dread and queers in genre fiction. When not working on projects, or at her day job as an advertising copywriter, Melanie enjoys cooking, exploring Philly&#8217;s food scene, and talking about horror on her podcast, Splatter Chatter.

Melanie Moyer

The Houses October Built

Thrill-Seeking and Self-Destruction in ‘The Houses October Built’

Chloe Waryan (she/they) is a librarian from the American Midwest. Chloe writes about horror movies and books on the blog, Chloe&#8217;s Not Scared. She also loves to listen to podcasts, thrift, and bike.

Chloe Waryan

The Watcher in the Woods

‘The Watcher in the Woods’ Is Smart Gateway Horror

Sezin Devi (Koehler) is the author of upcoming &#8216;Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory&#8217; (Chicago Review Press, 2024), the first ever in-depth sociocultural study of Keanu Reeves&#8217; entire creative catalog. She also has bylines with Entertainment Weekly, The Daily Beast, Scalawag Magazine, Black Girl Nerds, and many more. Sezin currently writes from a hidden Bay Area mountain town where she can almost see the ocean from her back porch.

Sezín Devi (Koehler)

The Blair Witch Project

Reinterpreting ‘The Blair Witch’ Franchise as Fae Horror

Travis Earl is a Young Adult writer who loves pulp and arthouse films and always admires films that try to do something interesting.

Travis Earl

Hellraiser: Revelations

‘Hellraiser: Revelations’ and the Power of Pinhead

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

Interview: Karen Walton’s ‘Ginger Snaps’ Offers a Horror Renewal

Carrie Movie

‘Carrie’ Was at the Forefront of the Genre

Luke is a writer, film addict and Dublin native who loves how much there is for film fans in his home county. A former writer for FilmFixx and the Freakin&#8217; Awesome Network, he founded Film In Dublin to pursue his dual dreams of writing about film and never sleeping ever again.

Luke Dunne

The Hole in the Ground Seana Kerslake

In Irish Folk Horror, Parenting Is the Monster

Erin McGurk is a Florida-based film writer and is currently a student studying Film and Media Studies. She is passionate about horror films, her cats, and mediocre comedies from the mid-2000s.

Erin McGurk

Matthew McConaughey Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation

Growing Up In the 2000s With ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation’

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

Let Us Prey

Sympathy for the Devil: ‘Let Us Prey’ and the Unholy Anti-Hero

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

Trancers

A Man Out of Time: The Enduring Legacy of Charles Band’s ‘Trancers’

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