Always a joy to join the Matts, especially something like Death Ship which has a lot more going on than practical effects, haunted boats, and Nazi ghosts. There is deep intentionally to why there is so much suffering in DEATH SHIP that goes beyond many haunted or even horror movies in general.

I'm really glad that my wife's latest hyperfixation (boats/ships) joined forces with her evergreen love of hating Nazis to bring this movie to The Matts™.

Do we need exploitation cinema to remind us of half-forgotten, real-life horrors? That’s the big question in this week’s episode with @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social, who joins the podcast to talk about ghost Nazis and DEATH SHIP.

"Fischbach gambled on himself and won - and audiences won too, as there is now one more piece of truly original sci-fi horror worth adding to the rotation." @monagle.bsky.social just haaaaaaad to see what all the fuss was about with IRON LUNG.

Dropped a podcast somewhere between coming home from #Sundance and immediately moving across LA! I haven’t even shared all my reviews yet (finally catching up), but if you wanna hear my take on the entire Midnight slate…

In this week's edition of the podcast, @donatobomb.bsky.social gives us a full rundown of the horror films at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

"As Jay falls over, his blood starts pooling in the deep, dermal-ridged track left by Bigfoot. It’s a simple kill, but one that acts as a beautifully bloody overture for what’s to come." New at the site: here's @brendanjesus.bsky.social on NIGHT OF THE DEMON, your new Bigfoot slasher obsession.

"It’s less storytelling and more a Silent Hill theme park ride, one that highlights standout moments from the game for curious audiences." Here's @monagle.bsky.social on why RETURN TO SILENT HILL isn't QUITE as bad as it's been made out to be.

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

Support writer-owned publications. Always.

"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.

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: certifiedforgotten.com/the-horrors-...

"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.

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.

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.

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!

We actually did a whole podcast with @certifiedforgot.bsky.social about NOROI if you're curious. share.google/Lcwc8WlqA3sE...

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

Spiral is a great movie. Hard to watch but so good.

Hey! I wrote this! 2019's SPIRAL is so fantastic and worth revisiting especially if it's been a minute.

“With its social consciousness on its sleeve, SPIRAL works hard to be a film with something to say; and it is, literally begging viewers to heed its warnings.” Here’s @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social on the brutal, brutal Shudder release you might have missed.

"Can the cofounders of Certified Forgotten maintain their tenuous mutual respect of Perkins with KEEPER, or will Certified Forgotten once more be a house divided?" It's the moment you've all been waiting for: @monagle.bsky.social and @donatobomb.bsky.social disagreeing about Osgood.

"Wildling women are wild and capable – they don’t need men to protect them, provide for them, or control them." Guess who's back, back again, @mollyhenery.bsky.social's back, tell a friend.

Do you like your cosmic horror to come with a side of folklore? Then you'll want to check out this week's episode with tabletop designer @byodinsbeardrpg.com about BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE.

"Add in the copious gagging-up-mud scenes and breathless looking around, and you’ve got some truly disturbing imagery of a young woman haunted." Here's @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social on why SOLSTICE is more than just a product of its time. Probably.

"That is the heart of this film and BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE before it: the suggestion of the cosmic, both tantalizingly close and somewhat unfulfilled." This week at the site, our cofounder @monagle.bsky.social writes about his newfound fascination with Canadian horror filmmaker Nick Szostakiwskyj.

"Both ARCHONS and BLACK MOUNTAIN SIDE show a respect for Indigenous customs and a disrespect for the human form – which, if written in Latin, would make for a fine horror filmmaker coat of arms." I'm fascinated by the films of Nick Szostakiwskyj, so I wrote about it for @certifiedforgot.bsky.social.

Since 1987, the PREDATOR movies have straddled the lines between sci-fi, action, and horror. With PREDATOR: BADLANDS in theaters, @donatobomb.bsky.social and @monagle.bsky.social discuss the latest (and most PG-13) take on the franchise.

"EVE'S BAYOU is a wonderful film in how it shows Eve and Cisely and their equally compelling, yet quite divergent, roads to adulthood." EVE'S BAYOU celebrates its 25th anniversary today. Here's @mollyhenery.bsky.social on the film's haunting coming-of-age story.

If only there was an entire essay written by @williambibbiani.bsky.social about the importance of proto-slasher HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! But what oft-overlooked horror publication could have possibly published th-

Certified Forgotten: Your Home for Niche 21st Century Horror Criticism and Also Sports Betting

I know we don’t update much on here but this is something we wanna plug, because it was awesome!

Our latest episode of @certifiedforgot.bsky.social is up! We spoke with Jarrod Hornbeck of the Puppet Masters / Castle Freaks podcast, and he shared a very personal story about OUT OF THE DARK that involves a chance connection with the screenwriter. This is a fun episode, folks.

Ep 110: OUT OF THE DARK (1988) Special Guest: Jarrod Hornbeck (@castlefreaks888.bsky.social) RT Reviews: 🍅 3 / ☠️ 2 Our Halloween episode tackles a sleazy, horny 1980s slasher that is worth your time. Apple Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... Spotify Link: open.spotify.com/episode/08aJ...

Our sale didn't exactly go as hoped, but I totally understand that people don't have a lot of money to support projects like this right now. That said, fuck it, gonna redo my personal budget in November to start paying for more pieces out of pocket again. We're here for a good time, not a long time.