What's New at Certified Forgotten?
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival headlines our updates for the week of Friday, October 6.
Spooky friends,
Welcome to the first edition of the Certified Forgotten newsletter! In case you missed our initial announcement, this will be a space for us to share the updates you might’ve missed in our fractured media landscape. Each week, we’ll offer a quick rundown of the articles we published or new episodes of the podcast that dropped. If there are other cool things happening in our community — such as exclusive Patreon content designed to give you FOMO — well, we’ll share that too.
Oh, and just a friendly reminder that Certified Forgotten will be hosting a live podcast recording at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. We still haven’t announced our guest for this recording — the SAG-AFTRA strike is still ongoing, and we want to make sure our prospective guest(s) are in the clear — but we hope to make that announcement soon.
For now, check out the full Brooklyn Horror Film Festival calendar and consider snagging a ticket to our part of the program. You’ll be glad you did.
Published This Week
The Missing Greatness of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 by CK Kimball
What is it about The Blair Witch Project and its sequels that inspire such great writing? Last year, we published a piece by Sezín Koehler that explored the fae horror roots of the original film. Now CK Kimball explores the tension between found footage horror and journalism that framed the Blair Witch sequel and scared Arisan Entertainment into reshooting the film on the fly.
The Monster Is A24’s Overlooked Creature Feature by Ryan Scott
While most people gravitate towards films like The Witch or Hereditary, the A24 releases I’ve always enjoyed the most are the ones that went direct-to-video. In his original pitch, Ryan Scott did a great job articulating why films like The Monster, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, and The Hole in the Ground deserve just as much love as their theatrical siblings. Guess I know what’s on my watchlist this weekend.
Lights Out Brings Mental Health Out of the Darkness by E.L. King
Do you ever hear that a movie is disappointing and just sort of accept that as fact? Our initial reaction when we received this pitch from the wonderful E.L. King — who previously wrote about The Twin for the site — was that the movie was too new for our readers. I’m so glad we changed our mind, though. King does a wonderful job of explaining why Lights Out is more than the one-trick pony people like me had written it off to be.
New on Patreon
Every month, our Patreon subscribers receive an exclusive video rundown of the new(ish) releases that we’ve enjoyed. And since September kicked our asses a little, we decided to open the conversation up a bit more. Subscribe for $3 a month and enjoy a wide-ranging conversation on website management, film reviews, and the dialogue (or lack thereof) in Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You.