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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

Editorials

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.

Julieann Stipidis

Terrifier

Halloweiner

The ‘Terrifier’ Films Mark a Return to Unsafe Horror

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

Hagazussa

‘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.

Gem Seddon

Sigourney Weaver Alien 3

More Than Human: The Monstrous Women of ‘Alien’ and ‘Annihilation’

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

Kristen Connolly Cabin in the Woods

Monstrous Mammaries: The Relationship Between Breasts and Horror

Trace Thurman

Hollow Man

The Public’s Perception of the Penis in Horror

Katie Walsh

Sissy Spacek Carrie

Brian De Palma’s ‘Carrie’ Celebrates Our Teenage Monsters

Joe Lipsett

Knife + Heart

Queer Horror in ‘Knife + Heart’ and ‘Stranger by the Lake’

Anya Stanley

I Spit on Your Grave Camille Keaton

Restorative Violence in Meir Zarchi’s ‘I Spit on Your Grave’

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

Teeth Jess Weixler

Uterus Horror

Mitchell Lichtenstein’s ‘Teeth’ Is a Movie for the Dentata-Positive Among Us