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Stephanie Malone

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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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GenreBlast Celebrates Ten Years of Fearless, Fiercely Independent Genre Cinema

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We celebrate ten years of GenreBlast, a beloved festival championing bold filmmakers and wonderfully unconventional genre cinema. For ten years, GenreBlast Film Fest has been doing something increasingly rare and deeply important: creating a welcoming home for truly independent genre cinema in all its strange, scrappy, boundary-breaking glory. Morbidly Beautiful has been proud to cover GenreBlast for many of those years, and it has become a festival we genuinely look forward to supporting.
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Fresh Screams: Five Horror Films to Stream (July 20-July 27)

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This week’s Fresh Screams explores dangerous conviction through revenge, obsession, religious paranoia, body horror, and blood-soaked satire. Conviction can be a powerful thing. It can inspire courage, sustain faith, and give purpose to people who have been ignored, abused, or made to feel powerless. It can also become dangerous when it turns to obsession. The characters in this week’s Fresh Screams are certain they understand what must happen next.
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Spookshow: The Being (1981)

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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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