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Stephanie Malone

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Austin
As seen in: Morbidly Beautiful, Wiley Online Library, MDPI, The Conversation, New Zealand Herald, ScienceAlert, Arkansas Times, We Are Explorers
Covers:  Film, television, horror entertainment, horror fiction
Designer, editor, film critic. Owner/EIC, morbidlybeautiful.com. Tomatometer-approved critic. GALECA, Women in Film Critics Circle, NTX Film Critics.

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Founder | EIC Morbidly Beautiful. Rotten Tomatoes-Approved Critic. Voting Member Women Film Critics Circle, GALECA, and the North Texas Film Critics Association. Podcast host No Notes | Guilty Pleasures | Untold Horrors.

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Spookshow: The Being (1981)

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By Stephanie Malone Verified
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Dive into the toxic oddity that is “The Being” (1981), Jackie Kong’s gloriously gonzo, slime-soaked, creature feature debut. In the radioactive wasteland of early ’80s horror, few films ooze quite like The Being. Written and directed by Jackie Kong (yes, that Jackie Kong of Blood Diner infamy), The Being is a strange little mutant in the horror genre’s long, overcrowded family tree.
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Cage Match: Left Behind (2014)

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By Stephanie Malone Verified, Kelly Mintzer
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The righteous vanish in the perplexing rapture thriller “Left Behind”—along with all objective measures of cinematic achievement. TL;DR: Left Behind is what happens when a Christian disaster movie tries to convert the unfaithful with bad CGI, a confused script, and a very tired Nicolas Cage. It’s The Room of Rapture flicks: sincerely made, spiritually aggressive, and gloriously inept. These are strange times. I know, I know, understatement of the year.
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Found Friday: “Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project”

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By Stephanie Malone Verified
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“Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project” is a hilarious horror-comedy mockumentary: indie filmmaking chaos meets genuine scares. Max Tzannes’ Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project (co-written with David San Miguel and produced by Radio Silence, the maestros behind modern classics like Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, and Abigail) is more than just a clever found footage film. It’s a love letter, a parody, and a damn effective horror film rolled into one meta masterpiece.
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