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Certified Forgotten is a writer-owned horror publication focused on the little movies that leave a big impression. We publish essays on the underseen and underappreciated horror films of the 21st Century.

Certified Forgotten

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

Editorials

‘Angel Heart’ and the Twisted Allure of X-Rated Horror

Meg has been writing professionally about all things film-related since 2016. She was most recently 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.

Meg Shields

‘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

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

Monstrous Mammaries: The Relationship Between Breasts and Horror

C.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent writer with published work in Paste Magazine, Nerdist, No Recess! Magazine, The Spool, and Vague Visages, among others. His second chapbook, Mark The Place, was released in 2020. He also co-hosts The Barn: A Podcast About The Shield. Currently, he lives in Philadelphia with his partner Julia and their cats.

C.M. Crockford

Stuart Gordon’s ‘Dagon’ Offers Sublime Damnation

Perpetual emotion machine in arrested development. Probably thinking about movies and nathan fielder.

Gabriela Almeida

Removing The Male Fantasy From Rape-Revenge In ‘Handgun’

Wesley Lara is a freelance writer based in the Mankato, Minnesota area. He has published reviews, editorials, and interviews in Hidden Remote, Bloody Disgusting, and Polygon. His hobbies include starting games without finishing them and perusing through his never-ending horror watchlist.

Wesley Lara

‘Dead End’ Is a Christmas-Themed Highway To Hell

Red Broadwell (they/them) is a history student and freelance writer based in central Florida. Their hobbies include consuming copious amounts of cartoons and reading LGBTQ analysis on cinema.

Red Broadwell

‘Lily C.A.T’ and the Allure of Animated Body Horror

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

Living With Oblivion: Love and Addiction in ‘Absentia’

John writes predominantly about extreme and shot-on-video horror, but mostly he just loves film. You can catch him espousing the virtues of the zero-budget or arguing about metal.

John Patterson

‘100 Tears’ Is the Ultimate Guide to 2000s Horror

Eric Langberg is a writer from Los Angeles by way of Pittsburgh. He loves thinking too much about old movies, trashy reality TV, and pop music, and he&#8217;s excited to be living in LA now because it won&#8217;t be weird when he orders an iced coffee in January. You can find more of his writing at Everything&#8217;s Interesting.

Eric Langberg

‘The Last Exorcism Part II’ Finds Trauma Without Found Footage

Ciara Moloney (<a href="https://ciaramoloney.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ciaramoloney.net</a>) is a film critic and scholar based in Dublin. She is chief film critic for Current Affairs magazine, and her work has also appeared in Paste, Cineaste, IndieWire, Crooked Marquee, and MUBI Notebook. She thinks Arnie&#8217;s accent work in Red Heat is severely underrated.

Ciara Moloney

‘Circle’ Calls Our Conscience To a Vote