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Xanthe Pajarillo is a director-writer and Air Force veteran from Germany and Virginia. She directed the 2021 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast with her 14-year-old niece and has written for Bloody Disgusting, Fangoria and Ghouls Magazine. She holds an MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts and a BFA from CalArts.

Xanthe Pajarillo

Pathogen

Editorials

‘Pathogen,’ Zombies, and the Preteen Gaze

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)

Don’t Go In the Woods

In ‘Don’t Go in the Woods,’ Slasher Meets Musical

Anna McKibbin is a freelance film and culture journalist. She is especially passionate about classic film stars and how they wielded their offscreen personas to shape their onscreen performances.

Anna McKibbin

Annes Elwy The Feast

Battlefields and Broken Covenants in ‘The Feast’

Guillermo is a freelance entertainment writer based in Madrid, Spain. His writing and festival coverage has been published across various outlets, including Little White Lies, MovieMaker Magazine, Taste of Cinema, Film Cred, JoySauce and Certified Forgotten. When he’s not watching or writing about films, he’s probably talking about them on Letterboxd or Twitter.

Guillermo De Querol

Cocco Kotoko

Finding Empathy in the Madness of ‘Kotoko’

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

Isabelle Fuhrman The Novice

Legs, Body, Arms: The Body Horror of ‘The Novice’

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

Mad God

An Official Ranking of the ‘Mad God’ Kissers

Claire C. Holland is a poet and writer from Philadelphia, currently living in Los Angeles. Claire’s writing explores stigmatized issues at the junction of feminism, sexuality, and horror, and has been featured in numerous outlets. She is also the author of an Elgin Award-nominated book of poetry, &#8216;I Am Not Your Final Girl.&#8217;

Claire C. Holland

Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman

Good for Her: Unleashing the Sexually Transgressive Woman

Journalism/Communications Studies grad. A24 horror superfan &#8211; the weirder, the better. Hates when animals die in horror films.

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Terrifier

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The ‘Terrifier’ Films Mark a Return to Unsafe Horror

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

Cailee Spaeny The Craft Legacy

Uterus Horror

Teenage Friendship in ‘The Craft’ and ‘The Craft: Legacy’

Kayleigh Donaldson is a features writer for Pajiba.com, where she specialize in chatting about celebrities, the entertainment industry, and whatever takes her fancy. She also writes film and TV features for Screen Rant and is the co-host of The Hollywood Read podcast.

Kayleigh Donaldson

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge

The Phantom Goes ’80s in ‘Phantom of the Mall’

Sakhi Thirani (she/her) is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Delhi, India. She has previously written for platforms like Common Sense Media, JSTOR Daily, Offscreen. Art, cinema, and literature have always been of interest to her.

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