Certified Forgotten
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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.
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Podcast: Ryan Prows on 'Los Bastardos'
Writer-director Ryan Prows ('Night Patrol') joins the podcast to talk about vampire cops and Amat Escalante's 'Los Bastardos.'
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This week on the podcast, @ryanprows.bsky.social talks with @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social about NIGHT PATROL, his latest mashup of vampires and cops. He also shares his enduring appreciation for Amat Escalante's LOS BASTARDOS.
This week on the podcast, @ryanprows.bsky.social talks with @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social about NIGHT PATROL, his latest mashup of vampires and cops. He also shares his enduring appreciation for Amat Escalante's LOS BASTARDOS.
Podcast: Ryan Prows on 'Los Bastardos'
Writer-director Ryan Prows ('Night Patrol') joins the podcast to talk about vampire cops and Amat Escalante's 'Los Bastardos.'
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January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This week on the podcast, @ryanprows.bsky.social talks with @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social about NIGHT PATROL, his latest mashup of vampires and cops. He also shares his enduring appreciation for Amat Escalante's LOS BASTARDOS.
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X-CROSS is very “It Was Made For Me! This Is My Hole!” **
** hits like an adaptation of a non-existent PS2 survival horror game and is super wlw coded
** hits like an adaptation of a non-existent PS2 survival horror game and is super wlw coded
"X-CROSS is completely bonkers. It’s girly-pop, over-the-top folk horror that ends with an Aly & AJ needle drop." Reports of her writerly demise were greatly exaggerated: we've got @theworstnun.bsky.social on the site today talking about her favorite retro survival horror wannabe.
'X-Cross': The J-Horror Gem That Feels Like A PS2 Horror Game
Meg Shields explains why Kenta Fukasaku's 'X-Cross' is the closest we'll ever get to a faithful adaptation of PS2 J-horror.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
X-CROSS is very “It Was Made For Me! This Is My Hole!” **
** hits like an adaptation of a non-existent PS2 survival horror game and is super wlw coded
** hits like an adaptation of a non-existent PS2 survival horror game and is super wlw coded
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I love X-CROSS so so so much. Please watch X-CROSS. You certainly won't have a bad time watching X-CROSS.
"X-CROSS is completely bonkers. It’s girly-pop, over-the-top folk horror that ends with an Aly & AJ needle drop." Reports of her writerly demise were greatly exaggerated: we've got @theworstnun.bsky.social on the site today talking about her favorite retro survival horror wannabe.
'X-Cross': The J-Horror Gem That Feels Like A PS2 Horror Game
Meg Shields explains why Kenta Fukasaku's 'X-Cross' is the closest we'll ever get to a faithful adaptation of PS2 J-horror.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I love X-CROSS so so so much. Please watch X-CROSS. You certainly won't have a bad time watching X-CROSS.
"X-CROSS is completely bonkers. It’s girly-pop, over-the-top folk horror that ends with an Aly & AJ needle drop." Reports of her writerly demise were greatly exaggerated: we've got @theworstnun.bsky.social on the site today talking about her favorite retro survival horror wannabe.
'X-Cross': The J-Horror Gem That Feels Like A PS2 Horror Game
Meg Shields explains why Kenta Fukasaku's 'X-Cross' is the closest we'll ever get to a faithful adaptation of PS2 J-horror.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"X-CROSS is completely bonkers. It’s girly-pop, over-the-top folk horror that ends with an Aly & AJ needle drop." Reports of her writerly demise were greatly exaggerated: we've got @theworstnun.bsky.social on the site today talking about her favorite retro survival horror wannabe.
"In HELLO DRACULA as in other jiangshi films, the 'dead' hop along behind the sorcerer, each of them with a paper talisman attached to their head to keep them under the holy man’s control." We're kicking off a new series in 2026 from the one and only @fakerobhunter.bsky.social. It's gonna get weird.
Grief, Horror, and Netherworld Breakdancing in 'Hello Dracula'
Rob Hunter explores the whacky and wonderful world of 'Hello Dracula,' a kids' movie with '80s style and a lot of heart.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"In HELLO DRACULA as in other jiangshi films, the 'dead' hop along behind the sorcerer, each of them with a paper talisman attached to their head to keep them under the holy man’s control." We're kicking off a new series in 2026 from the one and only @fakerobhunter.bsky.social. It's gonna get weird.
"DaCosta may not break new stylistic ground the way Boyle has in the past, but her skillful balance between the extremes of misery and euphoria makes for a rapturous studio oddity." We've got @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social on this site this week with his review of 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.
‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Beauty & Misery Collide
Siddhant Adlakha explains how '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' follows up 2025's sequel in ways both gloomy and surprisingly intimate.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
"DaCosta may not break new stylistic ground the way Boyle has in the past, but her skillful balance between the extremes of misery and euphoria makes for a rapturous studio oddity." We've got @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social on this site this week with his review of 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.
Did you really think we weren't going to record a podcast episode about a killer monkey movie? C'mon. Here's @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social in conversation on PRIMATE.
Podcast: 'Primate' Gets Uncertified
Matt Donato and Matthew Monagle sit down to discuss 'Primate,' Johannes Roberts's killer 'killer monkey' movie.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Did you really think we weren't going to record a podcast episode about a killer monkey movie? C'mon. Here's @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social in conversation on PRIMATE.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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"PRIMATE is a small miracle of costume design and performance, turning a silly concept into a genuinely tense game of cat and mouse (or, well, monkey and human)." Here's @monagle.bsky.social on this weekend's much ballyhooed simian slasher cinema.
'Primate' Review: Creature Feature Meets Monkey Slasher
'Primate,' the latest film from Johannes Roberts, is a gnarly (complimentary) mashup of slasher and creature feature tropes.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
"PRIMATE is a small miracle of costume design and performance, turning a silly concept into a genuinely tense game of cat and mouse (or, well, monkey and human)." Here's @monagle.bsky.social on this weekend's much ballyhooed simian slasher cinema.
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Right? It was a pandemic discovery from me off of a recommendation from @slimyswampghost.bsky.social.
Absolutely love it, wrote a little thing on it for Certified Forgotten:
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Absolutely love it, wrote a little thing on it for Certified Forgotten:
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'Savageland' Offers Real-World Horrors | Certified Forgotten
Sarah Miles explains how 'Savageland' uses the faux documentary subgenre to craft a perfect political horror story for modern America.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Right? It was a pandemic discovery from me off of a recommendation from @slimyswampghost.bsky.social.
Absolutely love it, wrote a little thing on it for Certified Forgotten:
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Absolutely love it, wrote a little thing on it for Certified Forgotten:
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"Hilditch’s latest fails to meet the moment in a genre increasingly dominated by post-pandemic allegories for survivor’s guilt." @monagle.bsky.social finds the good (and the not-so-good) in WE BURY THE DEAD, now playing in theaters.
'We Bury the Dead' Review: Apocalyptic Scale Minus the Stakes
'We Bury the Dead,' the latest film from 'These Final Hours' director Zak Hilditch, offers apocalyptic scale but little human connection.
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January 4, 2026 at 2:46 AM
"Hilditch’s latest fails to meet the moment in a genre increasingly dominated by post-pandemic allegories for survivor’s guilt." @monagle.bsky.social finds the good (and the not-so-good) in WE BURY THE DEAD, now playing in theaters.
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Absolutely lit on fire about this movie after seeing it at Telluride Horror Show. Can’t wait for a rewatch.
I think IT ENDS is going to be a movie people talk about for a long, long time. So why not listen to me and Donato talk about it right now?
"We get up and we find out something terrible has happened almost every single day, and we just have to go do our job." In this week's episode of the podcast, @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social discuss the numbing, existential horror of Alexander Ullom's IT ENDS.
January 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Absolutely lit on fire about this movie after seeing it at Telluride Horror Show. Can’t wait for a rewatch.
"We get up and we find out something terrible has happened almost every single day, and we just have to go do our job." In this week's episode of the podcast, @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social discuss the numbing, existential horror of Alexander Ullom's IT ENDS.
Podcast: 'It Ends' Gets Uncertified
Matt Donato and Matthew Monagle talk Letterboxd and high-concept horror in their discussion of Alexander Ullom's 'It Ends.'
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January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
"We get up and we find out something terrible has happened almost every single day, and we just have to go do our job." In this week's episode of the podcast, @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social discuss the numbing, existential horror of Alexander Ullom's IT ENDS.
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It’s a Christmas edition of #UterusHorror! Be sure to go to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social to read all about THE SACRIFICE GAME and how it finally gives us the UH movie ending we want.
“THE SACRIFICE GAME shows two very different girls at different stages of self-discovery.” It wouldn’t be the holidays without a Christmas-themed column from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.
'The Sacrifice Game' Brings Horror Home for the Holidays
Molly Henery shares horror for the holidays with her essay on Jenn Wexler's Christmas film 'The Sacrifice Game.'
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December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s a Christmas edition of #UterusHorror! Be sure to go to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social to read all about THE SACRIFICE GAME and how it finally gives us the UH movie ending we want.
“THE SACRIFICE GAME shows two very different girls at different stages of self-discovery.” It wouldn’t be the holidays without a Christmas-themed column from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.
'The Sacrifice Game' Brings Horror Home for the Holidays
Molly Henery shares horror for the holidays with her essay on Jenn Wexler's Christmas film 'The Sacrifice Game.'
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December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“THE SACRIFICE GAME shows two very different girls at different stages of self-discovery.” It wouldn’t be the holidays without a Christmas-themed column from @mollyhenery.bsky.social.
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Went to @moviemadness.org to visit my shelf! Loved seeing a couple of the films rented out and people perusing the shelf while I was there. Thanks so much to the MM team for inviting me to curate this selection of #UterusHorror films I love. Be sure to visit MM and rent from my shelf while you can!
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Went to @moviemadness.org to visit my shelf! Loved seeing a couple of the films rented out and people perusing the shelf while I was there. Thanks so much to the MM team for inviting me to curate this selection of #UterusHorror films I love. Be sure to visit MM and rent from my shelf while you can!
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We actually did a whole podcast with @certifiedforgot.bsky.social about NOROI if you're curious. share.google/Lcwc8WlqA3sE...
Podcast: Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall on 'Noroi: The Curse'
Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall, the duo behind 'Man Finds Tape,' discuss their debut feature and Kōji Shiraishi's 'Noroi: The Curse.'
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December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We actually did a whole podcast with @certifiedforgot.bsky.social about NOROI if you're curious. share.google/Lcwc8WlqA3sE...
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This is getting a novelization from @echohorror.com and I’m actually hyped because it sounds unnerving!
"Steeped in violence and exploiting some of our most childhood moments, DEADLY GAMES is a fitting entry in the Christmas-horror genre that birthed it." Looking for a new holiday favorite? Well, look no further than the French home invasion horror-thriller DEADLY GAMES.
Why 'Deadly Games' Is the Horror Fan's 'Home Alone' | Certified Forgotten
Katie Liggera carves out space in the holiday horror canon for Rene Manzor's 'Deadly Games,' aka 'Dial Code Santa Claus.'
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December 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is getting a novelization from @echohorror.com and I’m actually hyped because it sounds unnerving!
"Steeped in violence and exploiting some of our most childhood moments, DEADLY GAMES is a fitting entry in the Christmas-horror genre that birthed it." Looking for a new holiday favorite? Well, look no further than the French home invasion horror-thriller DEADLY GAMES.
Why 'Deadly Games' Is the Horror Fan's 'Home Alone' | Certified Forgotten
Katie Liggera carves out space in the holiday horror canon for Rene Manzor's 'Deadly Games,' aka 'Dial Code Santa Claus.'
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December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Steeped in violence and exploiting some of our most childhood moments, DEADLY GAMES is a fitting entry in the Christmas-horror genre that birthed it." Looking for a new holiday favorite? Well, look no further than the French home invasion horror-thriller DEADLY GAMES.
If anyone was going to defend FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, it was going to be @donatobomb.bsky.social and @bjcolangelo.bsky.social. Hah, that's not happening. In this special Uncertified guest episode, two of the loudest champions of Freddy Fazbear's film debut discuss where the sequel goes so wrong.
Podcast: 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' Gets Uncertified (with BJ Colangelo)
Film critic BJ Colangelo joins Matt Donato to discuss 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2,' the latest adaptation of the popular video game series.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If anyone was going to defend FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2, it was going to be @donatobomb.bsky.social and @bjcolangelo.bsky.social. Hah, that's not happening. In this special Uncertified guest episode, two of the loudest champions of Freddy Fazbear's film debut discuss where the sequel goes so wrong.
Every month, we change the Spotlight section of our home page with new bunch of article recommendations. This month, we're sharing just a few of the Christmas-themed horror films that have been written about at Certified Forgotten. certifiedforgotten.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Every month, we change the Spotlight section of our home page with new bunch of article recommendations. This month, we're sharing just a few of the Christmas-themed horror films that have been written about at Certified Forgotten. certifiedforgotten.com
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December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Our friends at @defector.com are trying something really cool: if you subscribe to Defector this holiday season, you can get a complimentary subscription to @certifiedforgot.bsky.social or a handful of other great sites at no additional cost.
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I believe the Certified Forgotten fellas were the FIRST EVER to invite me on a podcast back in 2020!
Can you believe it's been five years since we had @mereborders.bsky.social on the podcast? We sit down with Meredith for an in-depth conversation about Kickstarters, bookazines, and THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (one of the strangest pieces of gateway horror you'll ever hope to find).
Podcast: Meredith Borders on 'The Peanut Butter Solution'
Fangoria senior editor Meredith Borders returns to the podcast to talk about gateway horror cult classic 'The Peanut Butter Solution.'
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November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I believe the Certified Forgotten fellas were the FIRST EVER to invite me on a podcast back in 2020!
"Letterboxd will need to do more than just focus on alerting the users who have watchlisted a specific horror film." What hurdles will Letterboxd's Video Store need to overcome to be successful? Distribution guru James Emanuel Shapiro weighs in on the platform's biggest swing yet.
Will Letterboxd's Video Store Be Good for Indie Horror?
Film distribution guru James Emanuel Shapiro explains why Letterboxd's Video Store strategy has good intentions but tough sledding ahead.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Letterboxd will need to do more than just focus on alerting the users who have watchlisted a specific horror film." What hurdles will Letterboxd's Video Store need to overcome to be successful? Distribution guru James Emanuel Shapiro weighs in on the platform's biggest swing yet.
Can you believe it's been five years since we had @mereborders.bsky.social on the podcast? We sit down with Meredith for an in-depth conversation about Kickstarters, bookazines, and THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (one of the strangest pieces of gateway horror you'll ever hope to find).
Podcast: Meredith Borders on 'The Peanut Butter Solution'
Fangoria senior editor Meredith Borders returns to the podcast to talk about gateway horror cult classic 'The Peanut Butter Solution.'
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November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can you believe it's been five years since we had @mereborders.bsky.social on the podcast? We sit down with Meredith for an in-depth conversation about Kickstarters, bookazines, and THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION (one of the strangest pieces of gateway horror you'll ever hope to find).