In his teen years, young horror fan Michael Gingold wrote and self-published the photocopied horror-review
fanzine Scareaphanalia From 1985 to 1989, he attended
New York University's film school. During this time he made the 19-minute horror short
Hands Off, inspired by writer
Clive Barker's
short story "The Body Politic." In October 2015 he became
editor-in-chief, Eight months later, he was replaced in that position by former managing editor Ken Hanley. Filmmaker
Guillermo del Toro, a Gingold supporter, took to social media to voice his disappointment with the decision.
Fangoria ceased print publication with its October 2015 issue, releasing four additional issues online only. Gingold went on to become head online writer of the horror magazine
Rue Morgue. In February 2018, the Texas-based entertainment company Cinestate, which had bought
Fangoria, announced the magazine would be revived as a quarterly print publication, and that Gingold would return as a columnist. As of 2021, he continues to write for
Fangoria. Gingold's other writing credits include features and reviews for
The Motion Picture Guide, the
Blockbuster Video Guide,
Movies on TV and Videocassette,
IndieWire, and
Birth. Movies. Death. As a screenwriter, Gingold's credits include
Leeches,
Sins of the Father, and
Fairview Falls. As of 2017, he had completed a script titled
The Doll for Italian filmmaker
Dante Tomaselli, and the two were seeking financing. He has published two books containing vintage horror-movie advertisements:
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s (2018) and
Ad Nauseam II: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s and 2000s (2019). An expanded edition of the first book, with 125 more pages and a slight retitling, was published in 2021 with a foreword by genre filmmaker
Joe Dante. As a filmmaker, he completed the Super8 movie
Mindstalker by 1998, but it does not seem to have been distributed. ==Other==