Man enough to admit I have had my hair died to try and get this exact look.

MAN FINDS TAPE, an indie passion project made by a bunch of friends here in Austin—and funded by me and Jess—has dropped on Tubi. Looking for a good, creepy horror film to watch this weekend? This is Found Footage at its best and weirdest. So proud to have been a part of this. Find it on Tubi!

The hottest club right now is Bluesky Lapsed Catholics who all woke up to scour @clairewillett.bsky.social's feed for the latest and greatest in all things Schism.

Was digging through some old iTunes music folders last week and stumbled across Owen Pallett, an artist who I haven't listened to in a long time. So I went back to his first album, and holy shit, it's just as good as I remember. Here's a taste.

I texted @donatobomb.bsky.social for his opinion on EVIL DEAD BURN, and all he said in response was, "It's really mean." That, plus Phil's reaction, makes me think that this surprisingly squishy horror fan (me) is in for a rough ride.

The wait is over! Here are the official nominees for the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, celebrating the scream of the crop. Now it's up to YOU to choose the winners. The polls are open through July 15th, so get your votes in asap!

Caught OBSESSION one last time in theaters, and there ain’t nothing I love more than weak men in horror movies.

come join us, #ATX film critics! 🥤🍿

Ended June with 10,618 website users at @certifiedforgotten.com, our highest month since March. For some websites, that's a day's worth of traffic. But given that ever piece we publish is editorial content - no news pieces, no listicles - you'll forgive me if I celebrate a little.

"It hurt my heart knowing if there’s a 13-year-old Black kid in D.C. that sees that, that looked up to me and thinks that, he perceived it in a way that wasn’t intended the way that it came out, and then he’s not looking up to me anymore." Cade Cavalli better at apologizing than the SF Giants.

Anyways, sign up for the @certifiedforgotten.com newsletter because tomorrow we're soft-launching some merch. www.goamplify.com/newsletter

Posted a political thread that was getting a liiiiittle too much engagement for my taste, so I nuked it. Enough of that. I'm just here to have conversations with myself about the things I like.

And so opens our short, beautiful window where studio executives throw money at any social media horror trends they don't understand. Here's hoping all our artists and writers get their bags.

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

Some not great news: I was laid off from Evolve Media today. A sad pill to swallow after being there for almost a decade, but a sign of the times. On that front, if any folks in the writing/gaming/sports/marketing/PR/anything world know of any freelance or job opportunities, my DM's are open :)

sports washing doesn’t really work when there is literal war occurring

almost every story at @mothership.blog this week is free to read. JUST SAYING if you want to sample our stuff, it's a good time to do so

Just a reminder that publishers cannot ever threaten to break into your house and take your tabletop games away.

Fuck it. I welcome next year’s inevitable lockout. Between this and the Giants, maybe baseball needs a timeout.

Holy shit, this is great news. BONE PARISH is one of the reasons I'm such a big @cullenbunn.bsky.social collector.

Solidarity is important, but it means nothing without tangible action. Here are some ways to show up for the trans community: transequality.org/issues/resou...

When my mother was the Director of Religious Education at our local parish, she helped provide refuge to undocumented immigrants at the church during ICE raids. Now she spends her days on Twitter gleefully cheerleading mass deportation. American Catholicism is cooked, baby.

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Republicans care deeply about children, which, according to the last week of headlines, means having kids separated from their parents and also giving strangers the power to demand they undress in front of them. But hey, at least kids have school shootings to look forward to when they're older.

I'm in a position where I can donate money, so I just made a $100 donation to Advocates for Trans Equality.

Well, whichever staffer was fed the "Alito is retiring" misinformation has now been sussed out.

People say America can't accomplish anything, that we've stopped dreaming big. Well, today, after *years* of work, the combined resources of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches (as well as the media) came together to prevent some girls in Idaho from playing high school softball.

When Cal Raleigh refused to fist bump Randy Arozarena at the World Baseball Classic, he cursed our team, and the vibes have been rancid ever since.

My term for this is accidental astroturfing: we repost a bad take from a nobody to dunk on it, and everyone else reposts that bad take from a nobody to dunk on it, and suddenly one random person represents one-half of a "debate," and we've given oxygen to the very flames we tried to stamp down.

Increasingly becoming a one-issue voter: any Democrat who wants my vote for the White House needs to run on a platform of stripping the Executive Branch of its gross accumulation of powers. The Executive Branch needs to be neutered, and to do this, the Supreme Court needs to be circumvented.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT is heading towards apocalypse, where the end times are ushered in by a class of bored, rich monsters who are never satisfied, and whose mommy and daddy issues are now everyone's problem. Just a shame there's no real-world relevance.

It's great to be back at @certifiedforgotten.com to put a spotlight on underrated 2008 DTV sci-fi horror movie 'Alien Raiders.'

It bums me out a bit that Russell Crowe is stuck in B-movie mode, but he does seem to be building strong relationships with a few filmmakers. Derrick Borte, who directed THE GET OUT, is also the guy who directed UNHINGED. I hope this one is solid.

I never took to WIDOW'S BAY the way a lot of you did, but it didn't really matter because Kate O'Flynn dominates Season 1 pretty much from the jump. Patricia is a perfect character.

From the start of the THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, it's been a common sentiment that Sam Reid is performing so well that it's like he's being possessed by the vampire. It's well meaning, but undervalues Reid's skill. Lestat isn't possessing Reid, Reid is possessing Lestat. www.backstage.com/magazine/art...

When you get rid of all the fake people on unemployment, the fake people on the public healthcare option, and the fake people who voted, all that's left is - why, it's just a handful of wealthy white people! Turns out, those are the only REAL Americans left! God bless America!

Per SEMRush - which, you know, a million caveats there - Certified Forgotten just passed another well-known horror site in terms of both traffic and site rankings, despite having 1/4 of the keywords. SLOW AND STEADY MOTHERFUCKERS.

Just signed up for a Magic: The Gathering draft night at Doom here in Philadelphia, which will officially be the first time I've ever played MTG with anyone in-person. I'd been tracking a bunch of similar nights at game shops, but frankly, I feel like I'll vibe more with the metal bar crowd.

they just want George R.R. Martin to finish Game of Thrones

We've had a nice bounce back month at @certifiedforgotten.com in terms of traffic, and a lot of that is my reviews for OBSESSION and BACKROOMS. Not because they're particular standouts, just because, well, reviews get traffic.

The conceit that there's some great evil brewing inside you and that if you give into your baser instincts you'll become a monster, forcing you into a life of self-loathing and repression, is a very Catholic concept.

Wait this is so fucking cool.

LEGENDS wants to be prestige television but only manages this in fits and starts, often idling along at the speed of an airport paperback. That said, Gerald Kyd is WILDLY fucking charismatic as a Greek hustler who helps connect the undercover agents to the dealers. Casting directors, pay attention.

Former homeschooler here! My parents pulled me out of public school in the fourth and fifth grade so they could sign me up for Seton Home Study School's Catholic program. It, uh, didn't take.

Saw a film I didn't like out of Chattanooga, decided not to review it. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for an indie film is to say nothing at all.

Hrm. Kinda feels like what I enjoyed about the movie came from Nogueira and what I didn’t came from Gillespie.

I’m not the world’s biggest SCREAM fan, but when you find a pretzel-shaped Ghostface at the Manayunk Arts Festival…

KEEPER is so good.

SUPERGIRL (2026): Tom King’s original series embraces the expansiveness and illogic of comic books as a form, but Gillespie and Nogueira are unable to see their way to that story outside the limitations of the comic book movie. It’s a mess, but Milly Alcock almost (almost) saves it herself.

You can pry the LEAVE NO TRACE card on my Regal Unlimited account from my cold, dead hands.