Gina Eff. is an independent scholar and an horror enthusiast with an M.A. degree in Film Studies. As a cinephile and a fan especially of Canadian cinema, she has served in coordinator roles with Cellar Door Film Festival, Eve Film Festival, TIFF, the NFB, and The Black Museum. Her non-fiction horror musings have been published via the American Review of Canadian Studies, Anatomy of a Scream, and Grim Magazine. She is co-editor and co-author of The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (U of T Press: 2015), and a contributor to Cinema of Pain: On Quebec’s Nostalgic Screen (WLU Press: 2020).