Contributors
Contributors
Alejandra Gonzalez
Living in Miami when she’d rather be in Santa Carla, Ale mainly writes and podcasts about all of her favorite things: vampires, queerness, and crappy DTV sequels. When she’s not constantly refreshing her twitter feed, she’s either watching horror movies or LILO & STICH—no in between.
Michael Scott
Michael Scott is an action junkie who is mildly obsessed with the films of Scott Adkins. You can find him on Twitter @hibachijustice and @AdkinsPodcast. You can find his podcast work with the The Dana Buckler Show and his ongoing project Adkins Undisputed: The Most Complete Scott Adkins Podcast in the World.
Mark Saldana
Mark Saldana (a.k.a. “The Movie Doc”) is not actually a doctor, but has actually played one on TV. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Mark became a film nerd thanks to Star Wars, Star Trek, and other various science fiction movies. Moving to Austin, TX further diversified his tastes in movies. As a college student at the University of Texas, Mark learned to love and appreciate a wide variety of films, including indie and foreign language features. It is this love for the medium that lead him to become a film writer/critic. Since 2009, Mark has written copious amounts of movie reviews for True View Reviews. You can find him on Twitter as Movie_Doc.
Jeremy Lowe
Jeremy Lowe (a.k.a. Germ T. Ripper) has been a Chicago punk rock main stay singing for such bands as The Rotten Fruits, Brickwall Vultures, and Modern Day Rippers. He has written for several websites over the years including: Daily Grindhouse, 1428 Elm, Gayly Dreadful, and Riot Fest. Currently Jeremy splits his creative time writing horror fiction that has been published by St. Rooster Books, performing as a stand up comedian, and being a Pro-wrestling manager with POWW Entertainment.
Aundria Parker
Aundria Parker writes about movies, pop culture, and herself, usually at the same time. As a geriatric millennial, she's seen and done things most have only dreamed of, like worked at a video store and made mixes on actual cassette tapes. Follow her on Twitter at @parkerandcooley for hot goss and icy cold takes on everything from Mickey Rourke to last night's dinner.
B.Eveready
B.Eveready is here to push people to think. He imbues his music with positivity, motivation, social awareness, and the Word of God. He creates to be the spark to a cultural revolution. Born and bred in Boston, now residing in Baltimore, B.Eveready draws inspiration from wide-ranging influences, from Hip-Hop greats like Nas to soul legends like Marvin Gaye, and everything in between. The sound he delivers is the rage of every suited Black man in America, translated through rhyme & rhythm. He has recorded or performed with The Last Poets, Cappadonna, Talib Kweli, Jin the MC, Skyzoo, Torae, Mickey Factz, Ski Beatz, K.E. On The Track (multi-platinum & Grammy-nominated producer), Red Cafe, Emilio Rojas, Chaundon, Daru Jones, and more.
Find him on Twitter, IG, his website, Spotify, and any place you can get great music.
Marcelo Pico
When he's not the Editor-in-Chief of Talk Film Society, or podcasting about his favorite filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, or writing about anything from the SAW films to The Lord of the Rings, you can find Marcelo at his local AMC or Alamo Drafthouse Cinema watching a movie.
Heather Wixson
Heather Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, where she lived until she followed her dreams and moved to Southern California in 2009 to pursue her career as an entertainment journalist. A fourteen-year veteran in the industry, Wixson fell in love with the world of genre cinema at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade carving out a career as a professional writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. She's the Managing Editor for Daily Dead and her next book, MONSTERS, MAKEUP & EFFECTS: VOLUME 1 - Conversations with Cinema's Greatest Artists, is set to be released this summer.
G.G. Graham
G.G. Graham is a cult film cryptid, horror hag, and exploitation film explorer of the dusty and disreputable corners of cinema history. In addition to bylines at various genre publications, the street preacher of Z-grade cinema can be found at www.midnightmoviemonster.com or on Twitter, @msmidnightmovie.
Matt Wedge
Matt Wedge is a North Carolina-based failed screenwriter, former dairy farmer, current cat herder, occasional writer of short horror fiction, library lifer, and long-time contributor to Daily Grindhouse. His neglected, poorly-named website Obsessive Movie Nerd is devoted to his love of the films of Larry Cohen. You can find his incoherent ramblings on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/thewedgeserpent.bsky.social.
Ari Drew
Ari Drew is a queer writer, academic, and horror aficionado from Austin, TX. Over the years, he has contributed to such outlets as Bloody Disgusting and Dread Central, and has appeared on such podcasts as Horror Queers, Certified Forgotten, and Heavy Friending. Most recently, Ari has founded High Queerness, a social and excursion group for LGBTQ+ people and their allies who are interested in cryptids, the supernatural, UFOs, and all other aspects of high strangeness. In his free time, you can find Ari singing karaoke, jamming to pop music, drinking beer, and binge-watching slashers with his husband and pups. Ari is on Twitter and Instagram.
Rafael A. Ruiz
Rafael A. Ruiz a writer/filmmaker living in Austin Texas. He is the co-creator of Genre Graveyard (El Rey network) and the wine web series Two Glasses In. You can find on Twitter at @RafAntonioRuiz.
Michele Eggen
The surrogate daughter (at least in her own mind) of her favorite director Martin Scorsese, Michele Eggen is your typical film and horror lover. She co-hosts a podcast called Movies for Life talking about all her favorites from any genre. She is a sporadic writer with pieces previously published at places like F This Movie, Wicked Horror, and Ghastly Grinning. You can usually find her on Twitter @micheleneggen talking about her love for JCVD.
Shak Lambert
Hailing from the mean streets of the Toronto-area suburbs, Shak is a podcaster, film writer, and video game achievement obsessive. You can most likely find him laughing at memes on Twitter, talking about Direct-to-video sequels as 1/3rd of Seequels or trying to not make a fool of himself on Tik Tok.
Trey Hilburn
Trey grew up wedged in-between the aisles of a video store. After a Cronenbergian inspired sequence, He has officially become fused with both film and video games. He writes all things pop culture, and has accidentally kicked two sharks and lived. Give him a follow and Tweet him something not too judgy @TreyHilburn.
Melissa Kay
Melissa Kay is a game designer by day and a super-villainous kung fu master by night. When she's not creating art or writing about it, she crafts miniatures of all your favorite VHS tapes. Find her on Twitter @mechamelissa.
Stephanie Crawford
Based out of Las Vegas, Stephanie is a writer, editor, and podcaster who can usually be found avoiding the sun at all costs in a crude but sturdy fort fashioned out of movies and books. If you don’t mind copious amounts of John Waters adoration and pictures of her cat MCCLOUD!, you can find her on Twitter @scrawfish and her writing and podcast appearances at House of a Reasonable Amount of Horrors
Andy Vanderbilt
Andy Vanderbilt, or Vandy to many, is a Chicago-born artist who has dabbled in music with such bands as The Romeros, writing for websites like Daily Grindhouse, and, most predominantly, drawing. A lover of monsters of all shapes and sizes he can commonly be seen drawing his own original kaiju creation Lunagon, a bizarre giant cat/lizard lady with ridiculous hair. He hopes to one day make a comic book about her if he can stop getting distracted by every other idea that falls out of his head such as drawing famous kaiju doing really silly things. You can find his artwork as well as his ramblings on twitter at @AVartwork.
Peter Melancon
Peter Melancon is a New Orleans native that grew up in the suburbs. He went to Full Sail Film School in Winter Park Florida and left within three months of graduating. He works for the library by day and is a smalltime producer, writer and director the rest of the time. He is currently working on his fourth short film, CANNIBAL WITCHES FROM HELL. When not working on film, you can find him on Twitter at @petermelancon, Instagram at @petermelancon and on his website/blog where he posts on everything else from novels, LEGO, video games, food and toys.
Kiley Fox
When Kiley isn’t laughing at her own terrible puns and dad jokes, she can usually be found studying archaeology, talking about dinosaurs, or watching movies with dinosaurs. Proudly a layman of film, she doesn’t care if you think her opinion sucks. She does however feel it’s important that you agree folded over chips are the best chips.
Adrian Torres
Adrian Torres is the Editor-in-Chief of Boom Howdy, as well as a reviewer for other sites–including The Pitch. IN podcasting, he's the host of Horrorversary and the co-host of the recently relaunched Phantom Zoned. He's also the acting president of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Follow him on Twitter at @yoadriantorres.
Jonathan Barkan
Jonathan Barkan is the Head of Acquisitions, Head of Filmmaker Relations, and Development Director at Mutiny Pictures. He is also the creator and director of Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary. Previously, he was the Managing Editor at Bloody-Disgusting and the Editor-in-Chief at Dread Central. His dream guitar is a PRS Hollowbody II with the Piezo system....preferably in Whale Blue. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanBarkan.
Rafael Motamayor
Rafael Motamayor is a critic and journalist based in Norway and working as the Weekend News Editor at Collider. He specializes in animation and thinks Avatar: The Last Airbender should be considered anime. You can find him on Twitter @RafaelMotamayor.
Mary Kay McBrayer
Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. She co-hosts Everything Trying to Kill You, the comedy podcast that analyzes your favorite horror movies from the perspectives of women of color.
Mary Kay also enjoys building creepy dollhouse miniatures, Middle Eastern dance, and watching detective shows. You can find her on Twitter @mkmcbrayer and Instagram @marykaymcbrayer, or you can check out her author site for more of her writing.
Erin Gaskill
Erin Gaskill is a designer and maker living in Portland, Oregon. She loves ice skating and all fluffy animals. Find her tweeting at Vin Diesel, demanding a FAST holiday movie, as @glamazoninc. She is not a writer and only here because of nepotism. Find her designs at Rine Studio’s IG.
Andrew Belonsky
A comics, horror, and history buff, Andrew Belonsky lives in Hartford, CT. In addition to contributing to various outlets, including T: The NY Times Style Magazine, Rolling Stone, Out and The Daily Beast, Belonsky's written one non-fiction book, The Log Cabin: An Illustrated History (Countryman Press, 2017). He also sporadically maintains his own blog, In Case You're Interested, and is working on his first novel, Murderversary. When not writing, which isn't as often as it sounds, Belonsky is probably hanging out with his two cats and/or boyfriend.
Eythen Anthony
Eythen Anthony is a creative writing and psychology double major at Emory University. He has articles published in his college newspaper, The Emory Wheel. He enjoys horror movies, lighthouses, and 20th-century literature. You can find him on Twitter @AnthonyEythen and on Instagram @eythen_anthony.
Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer
Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer is a writer and reporter based in Puerto Rico. Having previously written for local news outlets in South Florida and West Texas, she also enjoys watching and dissecting movies in her free time. You can subscribe to her film and music blog, Reading From Top To Bottom, and follow her on Twitter @UrsulaMunozS13.
Rich Love
Rich is the singer of the best rock and roll band in the world, I LOVE RICH. He also enjoys action movies, good whiskey, a nice lager and, as a legal disclaimer, he may or may not be the leader of a Rock and Roll Sex Cult
Keith Doughty
Keith is a music, film, and television enthusiast who lives in Philadelphia. He co-wrote a musical based on THE GOONIES with Rob Dean. He recently re-watched the “$240 worth of pudding skit” by The State and is pleased to report it holds up.
Samantha Schorsch
Samantha Schorsch is a writer and editor based in Chicago. Having completed her MFA at DePaul University, she has previously written for publications such as Daily Grindhouse, Escapist, and Bloody Disgusting. She also enjoys going down Wiki holes in her free time, and once hand fed a raccoon a peanut. She can be followed on Twitter @misszombiequeen.
Greg Mucci
Greg Mucci is a baker and freelance writer who lives in Providence, Rhode Island and began his love affair with the horror genre after being exposed to THE SHINING at the age of 7. An avid slasher and giallo fan (he thinks TENEBRAE is a masterpiece), Greg can be found rewatching the hot tub scene from MADMAN while writing about film for Talk Film Society, Daily Grindhouse, and Nightmarish Conjuring—with bylines at Bloody Disgusting and Rue Morgue.
Kevin Sparrow
Kevin Sparrow (they/them) is a Chicago-based writer and performer. They host The Calls Are Coming from Inside The Podcast (@callsinsidepod), and more of their work can be found on munchicago.org.
Natanael Martin
A father of two, when not doing boring work in the day, Natanael spends his time with his kids, watching horror movies, or enjoying pro-wrestling. He’s very fortunate to have might met some of his favorite artists in horror—like Stuart Gordon, Mick Garris, and George A Romero. He’s also a host of the Rotten Reviews podcast where they see if films with “Rotten” scores are that bad. You can also find him on Twitter @Natofthedead, liking horror posts and tweeting about pro-wrestling.
Raul Benitez
Raul is a film programmer in Chicago for over 13 years. Raul programs for Comfort Station Logan Square, Full Spectrum Features, The Nightingale Cinema and is the Senior programmer at the Midwest Film Festival and programed the After dark series at the Chicago International Film Festival. Raul is on staff for the Chicago Underground Film Festival and on the screening committee for True/False, Onion City, Camden International, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Raul has been named a film screen gem by New City Chicago for 2015, 2017 and 2019. In 2019 Raul, in partnership with Full Spectrum, received a MacArthur Foundation Connections grant for the Chicago Cinema Exchange program - an exchange between Mexico City and Chicago Filmmakers.
Tiffany Aleman
Tiffany is a horror journalist, writer, comedian, and baker. She studied at Florida State University and graduated with a degree in Biochemistry and Biology. She has written for Fandom, Daily Grindhouse, Killer Shorts, Flexx, Ghouls Magazine, Dark Universe, and Nightmarish Conjurings. Her dark comedy short, BURBANK GAME NIGHT, that she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sacramento Film Festival and the California Women's Film Festival, and she was one of the jurors for the Salem Horror Festival’s Wicked Shorts Collection in 2021. She’s performed at San Francisco Sketch Fest (2020), Hollywood Fringe, Nerdmelt, Comedy Central Stage, Magic Theater (SF), Impact Theater, Marin Shakespeare Company, Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Ashby Stage, IO West, Pack Theater, UCB, and pretty much any theater that would have her. Tiffany is proudly half-Mexican, and not so proudly from the state of Florida. She loves cats and horror films.
Mel Valentin
Mel Valentin hails from the great state of California by way of New Jersey and New York. His passion for all things cinema began at the age of three when he caught KING KONG (1933) in the original Spanish. His work has appeared in numerous, mostly defunct online publications. You can find him on Twitter @RealMelValentin.
Alexis M. Collazo
Alexis M. Collazo is a Brooklyn-born and raised Trini-Rican, currently living in Pennsylvania. An avid reader, writer, and multimedia creator she enjoys creative work that crosses genres and bends artistic boundaries. She enjoys leading workshops, collecting books, gardening, and bookish crafting projects. Find out more at www.alexismcollazo.com and on Twitter at @LexC666.
Khayla McGowan
You can find Khayla (she/her) on Twitter at @khaylamcgowan where she dabbles in horror, sci-fi, and comic book conversations or on Letterboxd at @KayyJayy4evz! While she’s not a full-time writer, she’s been involved in horror communities on Twitter and Discord for years and loves anything she can learn about the behind-the-scenes production of films.
Adonis Gonzalez
Adonis is a film fan with a love/hate relationship with horror: loves the genre, just hates how easy it is to scare him. You can find him on Twitter at @AdoGon21 talking about the horrors of both reality and cinema.
Shafi Malik
Shafi Malik lives in Jersey, Channel Islands, the same area where Henry Cavill grew up but is not anywhere near as handsome as he is.
His passions are movies, Bass music and boxing. He is the host of the wonderful Who Dropped The Popcorn? podcast and you can find him on Twitter at @ShafOne.
Olivichii
A simple hobbyist whose time is spent learning everything about their interests no matter how niche. You can find them forcing their opinion onto the masses on Twitter at @boonknhenny.
Nicole Agosto
Nicole Agosto is a writer and filmmaker trying to get by in New York City. When she's not watching movies she's bragging to her friends about her favorite writers. You can find her on Twitter at @Selina_Was_Here or on Instagram at @la.taina_arts .
Nichole Goble
Nichole Goble (she/her) is a D.C.-based horror fan and podcaster that can be usually be found waxing poetic on disability representation and themes in the genre.
Katrina Blake
Katrina is a native New Yorker with a love for many things, especially horror and wrestling. Katrina is a writer, show host, podcaster, interviewer and former commentator. Katrina runs a YouTube channel called In Kat We Trust. She also writes fiction under a pen name. You can find her on Twitter at @InKatW3Trust.
Andres Guzman
Born and raised in Toronto, and movie theatres, Andre Guzman has been fascinated with film for as long as he can remember. He believes one of the best activities is the post-movie discussion, so he and his friend Jeffrey started a podcast to have those conversations, while also asking questions to one another, and the audience. He is the co-founder, managing editor, and writer of The UnderSCENE. You can find him on Twitter at @pocketwriter and more of his links are here.
Amber R.W. Knapp
Amber R.W. Knapp (they/them) is the creator behind the horror website Another One For The Fire. Their work has also been featured in We Are Horror online zine and the anthology book Hear Us Scream. They start their mornings with coffee and end their days with gummy bears. They can be found on Twitter at @Another4TheFire.
PT Burner
His name is PT Burner (he/him). It’s not but that’s the name he goes by on social media. He’s a horror fan in his Late 30s from the UK who has recently decided to ditch his main twitter to post more about the things he loves and less about work and sensible stuff. You can find him on Twitter at @goldroom82.
Keevin Miller
Keevin Miller really hasn’t done this kind of thing before but is always willing to try something new. When he isn’t behind a keyboard, he can often be found throwing hands for fun and just generally Keevin it real.
Campbell Farish
Campbell Farish founded CaptiveFate Software which specializes in development for iOS. He lives in DC and, little-known fact, he was Kayne's presidential running mate. Wait, did Kayne have a running mate? Was it Kim?
When not DC insider-ing Campbell can be seen outsider-ing with his giant boyfriend, who is at least 20 hands tall and twice as manly. You can also find them at DC's concert arena (probably named Disney+ Platinum Club Stadium by the time you're reading this). They randomly have a hook-up—so look out for reviews of some of America's biggest acts fetching their bag! I'm talking Cher.
Also, this site's creator was Campbell's college roommate; this is full-on nepotism.
Ashley Rappa
Ashley Rappa is a Rhode Island-based writer of people, places, and things. She fangirls over the Oxford comma, mother effing nature, old books, and space.
She watches scary scenes through her fingers and suspects the answer to the world’s problems is probably: ‘cheese.’
Even though the last time she posted was in early 2017, you can find her lurking on Twitter as @erynashley, and also on reddit anonymously encouraging you from the comments section.
If you need help with words, hit her up at Human Writes Consulting, where she uses nouns, verbs, and adjectives professionally.
Matthew Essary
Matthew Essary is a freelance film critic currently residing in Nashville, TN. His work can be seen in a variety of online publications but currently, he frequently contributes to Film Combat Syndicate. He also co-hosts the retro film podcast Video CULTure which can be found on all major podcast platforms. The archives of the show are located at its website found here.
Matthew can be found on Twitter at @Wheelscritic.
Robb Antequera
Robb Antequera, aka The Cinema Drunkie, is a simple man from Brooklyn, New York who was raised on Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, Comic Books, and Saturday morning cartoons. He's the host of the podcast The Cinema Drunkies, and a permanent panel member on the Horror podcast The House that Screams, as well as a writing contributor to Ultimate Action Movie Club, Film Combat Syndicate, as well as his own personal blog The Cinema Drunkie.
Lor Gislason
Lor Gislason (they/them) is a body horror enthusiast from Vancouver Island, Canada. Their writing can be found on Horror Obsessive, Castle of Chills and Hear Us Scream as well as Worth Writing About monthly zines and their blog.
They live with their partner and two cats, Pastel and Pierogi.
You can find them on Twitter @lorelli_
Eric Langberg
Eric Langberg is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in Bright Wall / Dark Room, The Queer Review, GaylyDreadful, and more. One October he watched and reviewed 31 horror movies in 31 days, but the 25 made-for-TV Christmas movies he watched and reviewed that December were, in many ways, more disturbing.
You can find more of his writing at http://EverythingsInteresting.press. Follow him on Twitter at @MrEAnders.
Jon Abrams
Jon Abrams is Editor-In-Chief at Daily Grindhouse and a New York-based writer, cartoonist, and committed cinemaniac whose complete work and credits are occasionally updated at Demon’s Resume. Contact/follow him on Twitter at @JonZilla___.
Rachael Hauschild
Rachael originally hails from the suburbs of Philadelphia and yes—it is “wooder”. She writes from time to time for websites, and guests on podcasts talking about movies of any genre. When not talking movies, she can be seen on Twitter babbling about Michael Shannon, food, and obsessing over her two dogs. Find and follow her there at @maxfischers.
Jerry Smith
Jerry Smith is a journalist and film composer, hailing from California’s Central Valley. He spends way too much time watching HALLOWEEN 4 but can also be seen and heard composing music for other people’s films as well as writing books. His self published novella, Reunion, comes out May of 2022 and his book Faith, Doubt and Existential Horror: An Analytical Look at William Peter Blatty’s Faith Trilogy is forthcoming via Bear Manor. He also smokes a lot of pot.
Follow him on Twitter @JerryIsJustOK and check out his music at Rainydaysforghosts.Bandcamp.com
Rathan Krueger
Rathan Krueger's father took him to see ALIEN³ when he was six. He hasn't been right since.
He's also on Twitter @DarknessOpera.
Brad Milne
Brad Milne is a born-and-bred Winnipeg dweller who has heard all the winter jokes about his hometown. A voracious reader, occasional writer, and wannabe cinephile, this Green Bay Packers devotee is also an enormous fan of Christina Hendricks—but respectfully.
Find and follow him on Twitter at @Darbmilne.
Eduardo Hernandez
Eduardo Hernandez resides in Orange County, California and is a graduate from the UC Irvine, Film and Media Studies program. He is a POC cinephile and also loves rescue dogs and drive-in movie theaters.
Follow him on Twitter at @EddieVeracious.
Taffeta V.
Taffeta V is a semi-retired costume designer, stripper, bookseller, and carny, and current podcastress and writer. You can read her fashion advice in her regular Style column for All the Deetz, and Bookstore Confidential—her memoir about being The Events Lady at a bookstore in the ‘90s/’00s—will be released in autumn 2022.
Each month she reads and makes copious notes on vintage Playboy magazines for her work as co-host of the podcast Centerfold, and though it’s currently on hiatus, she’s still always thinking about her podcast Late, a love letter to late night FM DJs.
She's starting to win her fight with imposter syndrome as a writer, and still losing her fight with insomnia. More details, projects, and pictures are available on her website or follow her on Twitter to make with the witty repartee.
Kevin Uhrich
Kevin Uhrich was born and raised in Pennsylvania…or so he was told. His love of horror developed through frequent rentals of THE MONSTER SQUAD and his father showing him THE THING and AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON at far too young of an age. Follow him on Twitter at @Kevin_U_87.
John Daniel Tangalin
John Daniel Tangalin is the managing editor for The Cinema Spot. He has an interest in horror, science-fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, and video games.
He currently studies English Literature at the University of Guam's graduate school, where he learns about risk analysis, Gothicism, digital critical theory, transhumanism, and posthumanism.
You can find him posting nonstop on Twitter or sharing his achievements on LinkedIn.
Jessica Scott
Jessica Scott is a writer, editor, podcaster, and cosplayer based in Arkansas. She has a passion for horror and runs her own horror review website, We Who Walk Here.
She also has bylines at publications like Dread Central, Daily Grindhouse, Inverse, Ghouls Magazine, and Nightmarish Conjurings.
She is a content editor and staff writer at Film Cred, and you can usually find her talking about horror movies on Twitter.
Patrick Bartlett
Patrick Bartlett (also known as @alleywaykrew on Twitter) was born and raised in a redneck mountain town. As one whose primary interests have always been movies, comic books, and punk rock…this was not an ideal situation for him to grow up in. He survived it by spending as much time as possible escaping into music, films, and comic books. This probably turned him into a bit of a weirdo. A weirdo with an encyclopedic knowledge of worlds probably unlike most folks might pay any mind to, which may be highly impractical for life in general but ideal for discussion of anything within those worlds.
Marcos Codas
Marcos Codas is a self-professed found footage fanatic. He also works as a business, marketing and advertising consultant for companies in entertainment. Once assistant editor at Dread Central, he has been writing about music, films, and video games since 2007. You can find him on Twitter @MarcosCodas. He is also the creator of Kurusu Serapio, the first-ever transmedia franchise in Paraguayan history. In his spare time, he likes riding motorcycles and fixing up old cars. 1 wife, 2 poodles.
Valenti Govantes
Valenti Govantes is his name, entertainment journalism is his game. Growing up with a need to expand and express his knowledge, Valenti started writing about his passions for film and comics. Contributing to Florida International University's newspaper and blog, he now muses about life’s vital topics—which Friday The 13th movie is the best—via his posts on Medium.
Horror is his preferred genre, but he loves to watch anything weird, over-the-top, and/or pure cult classic material. He is always up to talk about slashers or the complexities of DC Comics’ many reboots on his Twitter and Instagram.
Tina Kakadelis
Tina Kakadelis is a movie critic, pop culture writer, and one-time middle school poetry award winner.
She currently resides in Pittsburgh with her tiny dog, Frankie. You can find her on all social media @captainameripug or at tinakakadelis.com
Scott Wiley
Scott is an avid film fan who loves to write and talk about movies and sometimes video games. Host of the Action Addicts Podcast and a former Twitch streamer, he loves geeking out about things!
Come find him on Twitter @PsychogoldGamin.
Eric Spudic
Eric Spudic is a Los Angeles-based actor/writer/filmmaker. He's been a lifelong film fanatic, who has owned over 10,000 movies over the last 30 years. His 40+ acting credits include DEAD CLOWNS and DINO WOLF. He also wrote the cult DVD hits, AQUANOIDS and CREEPIES. Eric runs Spudic's Movie Empire, which specializes in obscure VHS tapes and DVDs. Ever the workaholic, he also created the comic book, Vietzom War, penned the e-book, Teenage Vigilante, and even directed the feature, KILLERS BY NATURE. Browse his site, www.spudicsmovieempire.com, or find him on Twitter at @ericspudic.
Petra Skelton
Petra Skelton is a nonbinary transfemme (she/they) that enjoys designing tabletop roleplaying games, building and painting miniatures, and writing pieces of weird fiction. She enjoys exploring body horror, mecha, and a whole host of other weird themes. You can find her on twitter, itch.io, and instagram.
The Mike
The Mike is the former author of too many blogs, including From Midnight, With Love and The Mike’s Double Feature Picture Show. These days you can find them rambling about movies and whatnot on Twitter at @TheMike31.
Derek Smith
Originally from Oregon, this Goonie, Derek Smith, is currently residing in Texas looking for the next Chainsaw Massacre. When he's not working tech support at work or being a dad to his kids, Derek can be heard guesting on podcasts on The Super Network and can be read over at The Screamcast.com. You can also find him on Twitter and Letterboxd under Darathus.
Ryan Brown
Ryan Brown, if that is his real name and not a pseudonym that is so uninteresting that you dismiss the very idea of it and ponder who would possibly choose it as an alias only to start doubting your own intelligence and eventually convince yourself of its genius and realize no one can ever know that you ever thought otherwise, is a person that wrote a mixtape for this website.
Sources have been unable to confirm his position on the geopolitical and cultural issues of our day but confirm “he’s mostly ok.” Nothing else is known or ever has been known about him or we just forgot and please don’t go looking. The legends do say though that if you listen outside your home at the apex of a Philadelphia sports playoff game you can just barely make out his almost imperceptible stifled screams.
Justin Howard Query
Justin Howard Query fully contends that he’s one of the only good things to come out of the state of Iowa though he hasn't discovered any evidence that would suggest that he's right. Today, he is a high school English and journalism teacher in Oswego, Illinois, by day and a pop culture essayist by night. You can follow along with his adventures—which include getting to Chicago as often as he can, looking for the best kind of food anywhere in the Windy City, and watching hundreds of movies a year—on Twitter @justinseesfilms.
Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen is a freelance entertainment writer who enjoys talking about his passions for film and music. You can find him at Spectrum Culture, Beats Per Minute, The Line of Best Fit, and more.
Find him on Twitter at @alexj_n.
Jason Robinson
In a previous life, Jason hosted the well-loved The Mixtape on 88.1FM KDHX, wrote about music for Eleven and Riverfront Times magazines and was the lead singer in bands The Orbz and Shark Dad. Jason's current incarnation is co-host of the unreleased podcast 48-Minutes of Dogs Barking, amateur BBQ grillmaster, voracious gamer, anime enthusiast, Green Lantern superfan, founder of the Dr. Yinz Llubjana Innocence Project, and a real good dancer. He lives in St. Louis with his beloved wife, adorable pre-teen twins and three cats.
You can also follow him on Twitter (@videocrime) where he tweets about gaming, music, horror movies, leftist politics and anything else that enters his brain.
Veronica Phillips
Veronica is a film, television, and culture writer located in California. Her work can be found on Film Daze, Film Cred, Polygon, and Catapult, among others, as well as on her personal biweekly newsletter "but how can i make this about me?".
You can follow her on Twitter as well.
Sarah Bea Milner
Sarah Bea Milner is a writer, editor, and folk musician. She often watches movies — sometimes she reviews them too. She's been writing freelance for many years; her work has appeared in the print publications Exclaim! Magazine, Electric City Magazine, and Bluegrass Canada, as well as the sites /Film, Screen Rant, and The Gamer.
Follow Sarah on Twitter.
Gabriela Ramos Tavárez
Gabriela Ramos Tavárez (ella/she/her) is a bilingual Afro-Puerto Rican, queer, disabled writer and comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia. She writes about race, Latinidad, gender, disability, sex, and sexuality in pop culture. She is the only Trekkie in a family of Star Wars fans. Gabriela enjoys iced coffee, animal memes, and watching both dumb and smart movies in her spare time.
Alisha Mughal
Alisha Mughal is a writer and journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. Her writing, which tends to work to persuade you to love more intensely, has appeared in Film Daze, Exclaim! Magazine, and Wired, among other places.
David James Henry
David James Henry is a filmmaker in Los Angeles, California. David was born in a small Mennonite community in Fresno, California, and had absolutely no plans to move to Hollywood or become a writer, but happenstance and a lot of luck allowed this country boy to replace the Central Valley for the San Fernando Valley. After leaving his religious background behind, David found a new calling, well cemented into his background. Creating art that might make the world a better place. Today, he’s a story consultant and professional judge for multiple screenwriting competitions. You can find him on his website or his twitter account.
Lili Labens
Lili Labens is a film, TV, and music critic with a voracious love for all things pop culture. She is currently a staff writer at Film Cred and a contributor at Inverse, where she muses about horror films, cartoons, and Tyler the Creator. You can read more of her ramblings on Twitter, and her weekly film blog Double Feature Thursday, where she is always looking for suggestions.
Theodore Shea
T.S. (he/they) has always had an affinity for the strange. He is a freelance film & media critic, an artist, an archivist, a streamer, and a speculative fiction novelist. T.S. can be found writing about the wild, weird, wretched, and wondrous or waxing poetic about the monstrous.
Jamie Arena
Jamie Arena (She/Her) is a film writer and talk about-er. She loves art and advocacy and is often looking for ways to combine the two. Storytelling is her passion and representation is her motivation, Jamie's ultimate goal is to amplify and bring to life diverse stories that make people feel connected and inspired. You can find her on Twitter at @jamiekarena.
Jackie Jardine
Jackie Jardine (she/her) is a freelance writer and content creator who has a fondness for obsolete media, horror movies, and thrifting. You can find her latest creative endeavors and daily ramblings on her Twitter account @LetsGoThrifting.
Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith is a writer out of Texas. You can read his work at Daily Grindhouse, Grumpire, Nerdly and Daily Dead. He appeared in a movie one time and has never shut up about it since. Follow him on Twitter at @nathan_smith85.
Dom O’Brien
Dom O'Brien is a Neurodivergent writer and gamer with a strong penchant for DTV film and creature features. He has been writing (on and off) for over 11 years, having most recently contributed work to boutique film label 88 Films Ltd, and soon-to-be Unearthed Films.
His first book Budget Biomorphs: The Making Of The Guyver Films is due to be published in 2023 via BearManor Media
Originally from London, but now residing in Bath, UK. You can read more of their work at thatdomobrien.wordpress.com. And follow them on Twitter at @ThatDomOBrien.
Sunday Revello
Sunday Revello lives in Pittsburgh with big plans to be buried in the cemetery from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. When she's not writing, she's either doing the mom thing or watching low budget movies and discussing them on her podcast (@podlonia). You can find them on Twitter @deputywinston.
Ariel Schudson
Ariel Schudson (she/her) is an independent scholar, film archivist and film studies professional with two Master’s Degrees from UCLA. A contributor to the Library of Congress website for their section on the National Film Preservation Board, she has written for several online film and media journals, including Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema publication. Moving to Seoul in 2019, Ariel’s current work and research focus is on classic Korean cinema and women’s representation, with a strong emphasis on disability theory, gender performativity, and sexual expression. Her recent chapter entitled “To Speak and To Be Spoken For: Deafness, Stuttering and the Women in the Films of Kim Ki-young” is due to be published in a collection in April 2023. She is currently living, working, and watching movies in Seoul. If you need her, she’s probably singing it out at a noraebang. Or you can tweet her at @archivistariel.
Stephanie Weber
Stephanie Weber is a writer and comedian from Chicago who is currently living in Savannah to get her MFA from SCAD. She has written for Reductress, The AV Club, Slate, Mental Floss, and Remezcla among others. You can follow her on Twitter at @steph_eloise.
Brooke Pollock
Brooke Pollock is a UK-based entertainment journalist who talks incessantly about her thoughts on pop culture. She can often be found with her headphones on listening to an array of music, at the cinema with a large popcorn, or laying in bed as she binges the latest TV releases.
Sarah O’Neal
Sarah O'Neal is a poet, organizer, and writer from the Bay Area. Her work is informed by interests in mourning rituals, queer poetics, and Black liberation. You can find her on Twitter @atayqueen or at www.sarahadbiboneal.com
Vito Nusret
If Vito isn't in his basement watching movies or pro wrestling with his two rowdy dogs he's probably in a lot of trouble and needs help so be ready to alert the authorities.
Seth Stoger
Seth Stoger has been working odd jobs for as long as he can remember and has been looking for odd things to write about for just as long. So if you're looking for a recipe for a delicious, spicy falafel or need your TV mounted on the wall or want to read a treatise on the anticipation of social media addiction in Kathryn Bigelow's STRANGE DAYS, you've come to the right end of town.
Zackery Hill
Zack would describe themselves as a part-time writer and full-time Mike Flannigan enthusiast. You can find them on Twitter @thenackle most likely gushing about JOHN WICK, horror movies, their cats, books, or whatever anime is currently taking over their life.
John Patterson
John Patterson writes about film theory, horror films, and the intersection between the two. He writes the New Queer Extremity column for Dread Central, with other bylines scattered amongst the winds. He can be found on Twitter @AstroSlop, and on Instagram @prometheanblaze.
Willmetta Owens
Willmetta Owens is an avid reader of all genres and self-published author of four books, who still has time to watch the ‘classics’ with her hubs and teenagers on the weekends—when she’s not amateur stargazing. The days of a VCR are gone, though they still own one that works with tapes, to keep it as a reminder of the ‘good ole days.’ She’s all about anything with dinosaurs, space, shoot em ups, zombies (the 1975-1995 kind), and Tom & Jerry (the years before they started trying to make them talk because that was just wrong to do).
Ed Leer
Ed Leer is a regular culture writer for CounterPunch and Taste of Cinema. In addition, he works as a commercial treatment writer and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. He loves all things horror but has a particular love for Japanese and Italian and Lucio Fulci in particular. He studied English and Cinema at University of Iowa and Screenwriting and History at Chapman University.
Joseph Gibson
Joseph Gibson is a freelance writer, frequent filmgoer, and one of many Florida expatriates/escapees living in Austin, TX. He hates doing writer bios but you can find him on Letterboxd and, in archive form, The Gutter Review. He can be heard roaming the streets and muttering about how the book was different from the movie.
Jay Alary
Jay Alary is a misanthropic writer who resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his longtime partner and two precocious cats, Pierre and Tilda. They live in an inner-city apartment surrounded by far too many books, Blu-rays, and DVDs.