About Hope Madden
Hope Madden is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, film critic, podcaster and journalist busy drinking diet Pepsi and watching horror movies with her husband and co-conspirator George Wolf in Columbus, OH.
She made her first short film, the award-winning Godspeed, in 2020, followed in quick succession by two additional shorts (Obstacle Corpse and A Seat at the Table) before undertaking her first feature, Obstacle Corpse, streaming now on Prime and Tubi.
Her 2023 short film, Basement Buddy, was created for a women-directed horror program called Femme Fatalities, which ran throughout Spring of 2024 at Gateway Film Center, on Ohio State University campus. She wrote and produced the short al fresco, directed by George Wolf, which is currently touring festivals. Her short Fansplaining was recently released. She has two short films co-directed with George Wolf in post-production—the silent horror comedy Drunkula, and the horror short Killer Pictures. An anthology of microshorts called Villain Diaries is in production.
Hope's reviews are carried by online, radio and TV outlets in the US and Europe. Her first novel, Roost, published from Off Limits Press in March of 2022. Her second novel, Killer Pictures, came out in July of 2025 from World Castle Publishing. You can also find her short stories in anthologies by Speculation Publication and Wicked Shadow Press, among others.
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Hope Madden is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and film critic. Her first novella, Roost, published in March of 2022 with Off Limits Press. Her short story “Aggrieved” is featured in the 2022 feminist horror anthology Incubate, from Speculation Publications.
She’s had three shorts published in 2024 and 2025 by Wicked Shadow Press: “Meat” in the anthology Flash of the Dead: Requiem; “Clown Wanted” in their seasonal anthology, Flash of the Dead: Halloween; and “Customer Service” in their 2025 anthology, Petting Boo. Also in 2025, her short story “Junk Food” will appear in the Arbutus Studios anthology Consumed, and “Birds and Beasts” is featured in the Speculation Publications anthology Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts.
Her second novella, Killer Pictures, published in 2025 from World Castle Publishing.
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Hope's first feature, Obstacle Corpse, is streaming now on Prime, Tubi, Vudu, Plex, and Fawsome.
Find Hope's short films Godspeed, the proof of concept short Obstacle Corpse, Basement Buddy, the comedy Fansplaining, and the first two microshorts of the Villain Diaries anthology on her YouTube channel at Madd Wolf Columbus.
The short film al fresco, directed by George Wolf, which Hope wrote and produced, is currently in the film festival circuit. Hope has two short films co-directed with Wolf—Drunkula and Killer Pictures—in post-production. The anthology Villain Diaries is still in production.
Film Critic
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Film Critic
A veteran film critic and member of the Critics Choice Association, Columbus Film Critics Association, and Online Association of Female Film Critics, Hope's reviews run on maddwolf.com, Columbus Underground and other online platforms. She and her husband George Wolf review films every Friday morning on the Columbus, Ohio TV news magazine show Good Day Columbus.
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Hope and George Wolf—MaddWolf of maddwolf.com—co-host two podcasts. The Screening Room drops every Friday and runs through all the movie releases of the week. Twice monthly they host the Fright Club podcast, which takes a deep dive into horror. Fright Club Live is also recorded once a month with a live audience at Gateway Film Center on the Ohio State University Campus.
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Hope covers film and local cinematic happenings for Columbus Underground, an online news outlet that provides daily updates on all things related to Columbus, OH. You can also find her work on maddwolf.com, Ginger Nuts of Horror, and UK Film Review.