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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

RC Jara

Editorials

The Abysmal Magnetism of ‘Just Before Dawn’

Chris McMullen

Amanda Righetti Return To House on Haunted Hill

The Interactive Horrors of ‘Return to House on Haunted Hill’

Sab is an Entertainment and Culture Journalist. He loves horror and all things strange, his favourite director is Yorgos Lanthimos. You can find him online looking for freaky new features and revealing documentaries to highlight.

Sab Astley

‘Kolobos’: The Reality TV Horror Ahead of Its Time

Christine Makepeace (<a href="http://www.christinemakepeace.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.christinemakepeace.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1745962351495000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aDbZJlXY5HlfUgsvhf9aL">www.christinemakepeace.com</a>) is a screenwriter and film essayist living in the Southern California desert. Christine’s work has been featured at Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, Movie Jawn, Film School Rejects, and Crooked Marque among others. She is the former EIC and founder of the film magazine Paracinema.

Christine Makepeace

In Defense of 2018’s ‘Countdown’

Kevin (they/them) is a writer, performer, and curiosity who utilizes text to create performances, performance to create text, and both to create responses that provoke inquiry and participation. They also are a current co-coordinator of the monthly artists’ salon series, HI typ/O, and served as Production Manager for the IN&gt;TIME Performance Festival in Winter 2016 and Assistant Director of the Out of Site Performance Series in Summer 2015.

Kevin Sparrow

Revisiting ‘The Girl in the Photographs’ Five Years On

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

‘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