Luna Gray is a Senior Staff Writer at iHorror, author, interviewer, and horror critic covering the people, craft, politics, and strange little decisions that make genre cinema stick.
On-site coverage from Austin spanning reviews, filmmaker interviews, talent conversations, analog horror, international cinema, creature features, and studio premieres.
Luna covered Fantastic Fest 2026 for iHorror, including Resident Evil, Victorian Psycho, The Cycle, Sick, I Have Proof, Playhouse, What Happened to Doris?, Platypus, Red Snow, Beware Boiúna, and Joko Anwar's Ghost in the Cell.
Explore the Fantastic Fest portfolio →A conversation about prison horror, solidarity, anger, and why survival has very little to do with deserving it.
Read at iHorror →James Cullen Bressack, Larsen Deane, and Lilly Van der Meer on VHS-C, physical evidence, analog mistakes, and making horror in an AI-saturated culture.
Read at iHorror →Six selected pieces showing original reporting, queer criticism, filmmaker interviews, and published work beyond iHorror.
Four working filmmakers talk frankly about shrinking crews, unpaid labor, festival economics, equipment costs, and what it actually takes to keep independent horror alive.
Read the feature →Botanical and fungal horror that finds class, curiosity, and bodily autonomy underneath the monsters.
Read the work →Monsters do not need benefits. Their assistants do. A review of Gothic labor, loyalty, and found family.
Read the work →David Kittredge on John Boorman, creative failure, preservation, and the value of dangerous films.
Read the work →A look at internet-native filmmaking, authorship, and a new path into the film industry.
Read the work →A personal reading of the film’s queer legacy, later discussed in Aigner Loren Wilson’s Darker Times essay.
Read the work →Because monsters rarely tell us anything we do not already know. They simply say it louder.
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Three damaged lives collide in a town where the water is rising and something old has begun to notice.
Luna's criticism has been cited by other writers, quoted by international press, and used in cinema screening promotion.
Aigner Loren Wilson cites and discusses Luna's essay on Sleepaway Camp's queer legacy and the film's complicated place in audience history.
Read the citation →The newspaper quotes Luna's Sacrificios review and credits both Luna and iHorror in its coverage of the film's festival selection.
Read the coverage →Carbon Arc's Fleapit Cinema used an attributed excerpt from Luna's review of Avalon Fast's CAMP to promote its July 2026 screening.
See the screening page →Recorded appearances for podcast hosts, documentary producers, event organizers, and anyone who wants to know how I sound outside a byline.
With Looks Creepy Cool. A conversation about criticism, queer horror, folklore, writing, and the stories that make us who we are.
Listen to the episode →On the Aunty Sochelle Hour-ish Show, talking horror, writing, and the weird things worth loving about the genre.
Listen to the episode →Queer horror, cult cinema, history and folklore, independent production, and the strange cultural lives of monsters.
Request an interview →For PR teams, podcast hosts, festivals, libraries, conventions, publishers, and filmmakers.
Professional summary, coverage lanes, signature series, pitch angles, and key links.
Open media kit →Horror trends, history, found footage, folk horror, criticism, interviews, and writing No House Is Empty.
Send an invitation →Available for virtual and in-person discussions, moderated conversations, author events, and genre programming.
Invite Luna to speak →Available for documentary interviews and research conversations on queer horror, cult-film afterlives, folk traditions, practical effects, analog texture, independent production, and the ways audiences reclaim difficult movies.
Book Luna for a documentary →Send screeners, interview requests, podcast invitations, event inquiries, corrections, and professional opportunities through the dedicated contact page.