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Join Certified Forgotten and Shudder’s Sam Zimmerman

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2024

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival

Certified Forgotten is thrilled to be back at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival for a third consecutive year. After hosting previous conversations with Caryn Coleman (The Future of Film Is Female) and writer-director Larry Fessenden (Blackout, The Last Winter), this year Matt Donato and Matt Monagle will be joined by Sam Zimmerman, Shudder's Vice President of Programming.

For his Certified Forgotten debut, Zimmerman has chosen Noroi: The Curse, Kōji Shiraishi's Japanese feature that uses the language of found footage to great effect. Not a lot has been written about Noroi — like most films featured on Certified Forgotten, it only has a handful of reviews on RottenTomatoes — but with this week's release on Shudder, it won't be long before Noroi finds a new audience. In her review, friend of the site Zena Dixon wrote that Noroi is a "found footage feature with a purpose," and that's plenty damn good enough for us.

Our conversation with Sam Zimmerman will take place at Lo-Res Bar, the downstairs haunt at Nitehawk Cinema. Here's the address and the link to reserve your space:

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (RSVP)
Saturday, October 19 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
Lo-Res Bar @ Nitehawk Cinema
136 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Certified Forgotten is a weekly podcast series with two programs. Our flagship show, Certified Forgotten, features an hour-long conversation with horror creators and writers and a discussion on one of their favorite examples of underseen horror. A film is only eligible to be discussed on Certified Forgotten if it has ten or fewer RottenTomatoes reviews, an admittedly arbitrary number that nevertheless lets us focus on the kinds of films other publications and podcasts won't cover.

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