Richard Craig-Senior Author

Richard Craig

Senior Author

August, 2022
BA Film & Screen Studies, MA Music & Sound Art
X-Men, Horror, Music
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About Richard Craig

Richard Craig is a Senior Author at Screen Rant covering film and TV. Richard has also written extensively about horror and film soundtracks, contributing a chapter to the first major academic collection on the folk horror genre, The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Richard is also a performing musician and holds an MA in Music and Sound Art.

Industry Focus

Richard started working at Screen Rant writing movie and TV features in early 2022, before becoming a full-time Superheroes writer in 2023. Richard covers a wider range of topics in both film and television, though often favors horror movies, true crime, and cult TV dramas.

Favorite Media

In the realm of superheroes, X-Men: TAS and Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns are Richard's top picks, with X-Men as his all-time favourite superhero franchise.
Richard is also an ardent horror fan. His favorites include Bride of Frankenstein, November, A Field in England, Midsommar, Hellraiser, Terrifier, and Scream. Aside from horror, Richard is interested in documentaries (such as The Jinx and Blackfish) and movie soundtracks (including Gods and Monsters, Batman Returns, and The Wicker Man). Richard's favorite film is One Hour Photo.

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