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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

Stoker Matthew Goode Mia Wasikowska

Uterus Horror

Park Chan-wook’s ‘Stoker’ Turns Prey Into Predator

J. Simpson is a freelance writer and musician, living and working in Portland, OR. Specializing in music journalism, Simpson is constantly expanding the parameters of what that means, using it as a microscope to examine the minutiae of culture. He is the owner and creator of the Forestpunk online journal, which is investigating the intersection of music with ancient hidden philosophies, seeking to define the indescribable, looking for the soul in the machine. He also freelances for a number of websites, including Freq Magazine, Redefine Magazine, and The Active Listener.

J. Simpson

Demonicus

Editorials

‘Demonicus’ Is Z-Grade Heavy Metal Horror

Samantha Jacobs, MFA, is a freelance writer from South Florida. She is published in several literary magazines and works as a content creator and ghostwriter.

Samantha Jacobs

John Carpenter Fear of the Dark

‘Fear In The Dark’: Horror’s Impact From Those Who Know Best

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

Laura Dern Inland Empire

‘Inland Empire’ Is David Lynch’s Worst Nightmare

Tracy is a full-time librarian and part-time writer based in Chicago. Her writing can be found online at Gayly Dreadful and on her blog at A Huffle of Horror. She is also featured in Hear Us Scream: The Voices of Horror Volume II and the forthcoming academic anthology The Horror that Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror.

Tracy Gossage

Last Shift Juliana Harkavy

Work is Hell in ‘Last Shift’

Musa Chaudhry

Hell’s Ground

When ‘Hell’s Ground’ Brought Splatter Horror to Pakistan

Jessica Scott is a Tomatometer-approved film critic and culture writer who focuses primarily on feminist issues, mental health representation, and queer issues in the horror genre. She has bylines online and in print at publications including /Film, Daily Grindhouse, Dread Central, Inverse, Certified Forgotten, Ghouls Magazine, Grim, and Nightmarish Conjurings. She is a content editor and staff writer at Film Cred.

Jessica Scott

It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To

‘It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To’ Still Rips

Ginger Snaps 2

How ‘Ginger Snaps 2’ Finds Comfort In Independence

Beanie Aurora White is a prose and short fiction writer from Wiltshire. She has recently graduated from Royal Holloway University with an MA in Creative Writing. She has work in The Ghastling and is currently working on a YA horror/fantasy series and an anthology of short fiction looking at women and trauma under the guise of surrealist based horror.

Beanie Aurora White

Possum Sean Harris

‘Possum’ and the Destruction of Trauma

Mónica Teresa Ortiz is a poet born and raised in Texas. Ortiz was a 2021–2022 journalist in residence with Freedomways and a 2021–2022 artist in residence with UT Austin&#8217;s Planet Texas 2050. They have work forthcoming in Hayden Ferry&#8217;s Review and Scalawag.

Mónica Teresa Ortiz

Season of the Witch George Romero

‘Season of the Witch’ Is an Early Entry in Second-Wave Feminism

Paul Doro&#8217;s writing has appeared in the books Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story and American Revenge Narratives: A Collection of Critical Essays. He has also written for Shock Till You Drop, Wicked Horror, Creative Screenwriting, and Frames Cinema Journal.

Paul Doro

Get In Netflix

‘Get In’ Twists the Home Invasion Genre Into Knots

Wang Sum Luk is an undergraduate at Oxford University who recently served as the Deputy Editor of Cherwell, Oxford&#8217;s oldest student newspaper. He writes about all things to do with film and culture.

Wang Sum Luk

The Exorcist III Brad Dourif

‘The Exorcist III’ Knows We Don’t Need It

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