Abraham Castillo Flores

Abraham Castillo Flores

Abraham Castillo Flores has been Head Programmer at Mexico’s Morbido Fest since 2010, where he curates and presents exotic and outrageous films to audiences hungry for intense emotions. A Mexican offspring of the 1970s obsessed with the power and paradoxical beauty of genre stories imprinted onto celluloid and pixels. Graduated with honors from the School of Visual Arts, NYC with more than 20 years experience in the film industry and academia. Abraham currently lives in Mexico City where he dedicates his every breath to the promotion, restructuring, study and presentation of genre films.



Adam Nayman

Adam Nayman

Adam Nayman is a film critic, lecturer and author based in Toronto. He writes on film for The Ringer, Sight and Sound and Reverse Shot and is a contributing editor for Cinema Scope. He teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and lectures for a variety of institutions online and in Toronto, including Ryerson and the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. He is the author of four books, including It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls and The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together. His new book, Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks is currently available from Abrams.



Adam Twycross

Adam Twycross

Adam Twycross is a British comics scholar whose research focusses on the development and evolution of adult comics in Britain, Europe and the United States. He is a senior lecturer for Arts University Bournemouth, where he also acts as Course Leader for VFX for Film and Television. He is a co-founder of BFX, the UK’s largest festival of animation, visual effects and games, and of cgApprentice, a company dedicated to democratizing access to animation, games and VFX education for schools and colleges. He has previously worked as a 3D artist, with credits including the Disneyland Adventures and the Games Workshop graphic novel Macragge’s Honour.



Alanna Thain

Alanna Thain

Alanna Thain teaches cultural studies and world cinemas, and also directs the Moving Image Research Laboratory (mirl.lab.mcgill.ca) at McGill University, where at least part of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (1981) was filmed (most of the film was filmed at Concordia University). She would like to confirm that she is still recovering from watching that film while unsupervised at a very young age, and is still waiting to be able to watch it again. Her horror specialty is the work of David Lynch. She also runs a bike powered mobile cinema project, Cinema out of the Box, and collaborated with the Volatile Den for a cemetery screening last summer (https://www.facebook.com/mobilecinemamontreal).



Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic, author, academic and festival programmer who has written eight books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with a particular focus on gender politics. Her books include Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018 (BearManor, 2020), the Bram Stoker Award nominated Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press, 2019), and monographs on Dario Argento’s Suspiria for Auteur’s Devil’s Advocates series, Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 for Columbia University Press, and Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books. Alexandra has co-edited books on Elaine May, Peter Strickland, Alice in Wonderland in film, and Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. She holds a PhD in Screen Studies and is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University and a Research Fellow at RMIT University, as well as a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Alexandra is also a proud member of the advisory board for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies.



Alexandra West

Alexandra West

Alex’s work has appeared in The Toronto Star, Rue Morgue, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Art of the Title. Her writing has also been published in The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays, Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film and Offscreen Film Journal. Her books Films of New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity (2016), and The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and New Hollywood Formula (2018) are available via McFarland. Alex has co-hosted the Faculty of Horror podcast with Andrea Subissati since its inception in 2012.



Amanda Reyes

Amanda Reyes

Archivist by day, film lover by night, Amanda Reyes is also a freelance author who has been published online and in print. She recently edited Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 (Headpress, 2017) which celebrates the made for television film, and expands upon her TV movie-centric blog, Made for TV Mayhem and its companion podcast.



Amy Bride

Amy Bride

Amy Bride is a lecturer in American Studies at University of Manchester. Her first book, Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction (University of Wales Press, 2023) examines the intersection of race and finance in American Gothic monster fiction and film across the Long Twentieth Century, and she has also published on financialization within the slave trade, the monster octopus in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and the work of Bret Easton Ellis as Late-Capitalist Hyper-Gothic. Amy’s teaching specializes in Gothic American literature and culture from 1799 to 2011, and her other research interests include technogothic, body horror, the history of the slave trade, and cinema of the 1980s-90s.



Amy Voorhees Searles

Amy Voorhees Searles

Amy Voorhees Searles is an award-winning Senior Producer in the Content division of Trailer Park, Inc. A proud, second-generation horror fan, Amy’s lifelong passion for horror and exploitation cinema saw her working for genre luminaries Joe Bob Briggs and Roger Corman at the start of her professional career. Though she found herself drawn into the field of mainstream home entertainment, she never turned her back on her first love, and she remains an active member of the Los Angeles horror community. Her essay on the depiction of female monsters in Mexican horror cinema of the 1950s and 1960s will be featured in the upcoming book Creepy Bitches, a collection of compositions by female horror creators and fans.



Andi Harriman

Andi Harriman

Andi Harriman is a writer and DJ living in New York City with an emphasis on all things dark and Eighties-centric. She is the author of the book Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s and her writing has appeared in Red Bull Music Academy, Dazed, Noisey, Bandcamp Daily, Electronic Beats and LA Weekly, to name a few, while acting as contributing editor to Post-Punk.com. Harriman was published in Leipzig in Schwarz: 25 Jahre Wave-Gotik-Treffen and wrote the foreword for the book Gothic Romandie 1985-1995: La Décennie Noire. She lectures regularly about the goth subculture and has appeared at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York University and Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. Her endeavors have been featured in Time Out New York, the Village Voice, Refinery 29, and Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Additionally, she runs the dark electronic party and label Synthicide.



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