Jessica Scott
School
University At Arkansas At Little Rock
Expertise
Scream Franchise, Film Noir, Universal Monsters
- Jessica is a Tomatometer-approved critic and a member of two critics' associations: GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics; and the Online Association of Female Film Critics.
- With a passion for interviewing horror creators, Jessica began her interviewing career by speaking to American Psycho director Mary Harron.
- Jessica delivered a lecture at the 2020 Vampire Academic Conference titled "Coming Out of the Shadows: De-Othering Queer Characters Through Vampire Humor in 'What We Do in the Shadows.'"
Experience
A lifelong horror fan, Jessica began her writing career when she founded the horror entertainment site We Who Walk Here in 2017. She began freelancing in 2020, writing for sites such as Nightmarish Conjurings, Film Cred, and Certified Forgotten. She has since expanded her bylines to include Daily Grindhouse, Dread Central, Inverse, Fangoria, and more. Jessica was a part of the Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative in 2022, and she has covered several film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and South by Southwest. She joined /Film in 2022 and has been thrilled to write about her film and television passions.
Education
Jessica has Bachelor's degrees in French and English. Her love of language led her to become a writer, and her love of cinema led her to channel that writing into film criticism.
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Stories By Jessica Scott
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Quentin Tarantino drew upon his love of martial arts movies, grindhouse classics, and Spaghetti Westerns to create the Bride's saga. These are his influences.
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From Expressionist classics to New Wave thrillers, these terrifying German horror films will have you on the edge of your seat.
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With Akela Cooper's M3GAN finally in theaters, we take a look at the movie's main characters and rank them from worst to best.
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George A. Romero was a true master of horror, but his filmography was much more than zombie movies. This is our countdown of his films, ranked worst to best.
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Jenna Ortega shines as the iconic Wednesday Addams in the new Netflix series that is full of laughs and plenty of spooky moments.
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They're coming to get you! Lock your doors and bolt your windows against these underseen epics of the undead.
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Ahead of the "What We Do in the Shadows" season 5 premiere, we delve into which characters rank a cut above the rest in FX's biting horror-comedy series.
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The Addams Family tree is creepy, kooky, mysterious, ooky, and just a little bit complicated.
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Life at the 99th precinct is always wacky, but things really go off the rails every October 31. It's Halloween Heist time!
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Smile's creepy threat belies a callous attitude towards people with mental illnesses, reflected in the film's characters. Still, some are better than others.
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Creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky, "The Addams Family" has no time for the mundane and conventional, so we're ranking each member based on their creep factor.
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Die Hard is one of the most beloved action films of all time, but let's see how it holds up to its own franchise.
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The characters in The Boys mourn many different types of deaths: deaths of loved ones, deaths of dreams, and deaths of hope, as these sad moments reveal.
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Adam Sandler has made some really good films, but separating the good from the bad can take quite a bit of digging, as his Netflix originals have shown.
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Pirate movies first emerged during silent era, and they've been Hollywood mainstays ever since. As these films prove, swashbuckling never goes out of style.