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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

Timothee Chalamet Taylor Russell Bones and All

Uterus Horror

‘Bones and All’ Offers a Raw Look at Adolescence

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

Alix Koromzay Mimic 2

Editorials

The Queer Cockroach of ‘Mimic 2’

Annette LePique is an arts writer and educator based in Chicago. Her research interests include cinema, race, time, hysteria, and the ill body. She has written for Cleo Film Journal, Another Gaze Feminist Film Journal, is a frequent contributor to Chicago Artist Writers, and a Features Writer at Sixty Inches from Center.

Annette LePique

Robin McLeavy The Loved Ones

‘The Loved Ones’ Offers a Twisted Take on Girlhood

Jay Norton has written for publications such as Into the Spine and Halftone Magazine about video games, movies, and anything else out there. You can find them on Twitter talking about those same things with far less dignity.

Jay Norton

Mark Duplass Creep 2

‘Creep 2’ Has a Lot To Say About Horror Sequels

Christine Makepeace is a screenwriter and film essayist living in the Pacific Northwest. 
Christine&#8217;s work has been featured at Dread Central, Certified Forgotten, Film Jawn, Film School Rejects, and Crooked Marque among others. 
She is the former EIC and founder of the film magazine Paracinema.

Christine Makepeace

Paranormal Activity 3

In ‘Paranormal Activity 3,’ Family Comes First

Samuel L. Jackson Eve’s Bayou

‘Eve’s Bayou’ Finds the Tragedy in Adolescence

Ciara Moloney is a film and TV critic. She is the co-founder of pop culture blog The Sundae, and her work has also appeared in Fangoria, Current Affairs, and Bright Wall/Dark Room. She shares a birthday with Bob Mortimer.

Ciara Moloney

Caroline Munro The Last Horror Film

In ‘The Last Horror Film,’ Sleaze Meets  the Meta-Slasher

Adrian Manuel is a freelance culture writer. He’s written for Dread Central, Inverse, Film Cred, and many other film publications. He lives in Maui.

Adrian Manuel

Richard Gere The Mothman Prophecies

‘The Mothman Prophecies’ Offers Cosmic, Cryptid Horrors

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

‘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’