About Ryan Izay
Ryan Izay is a Movie/TV Features Writer for Screen Rant, and has worked as a film critic and journalist for over 20 years. Starting as the Los Angeles representative for Real Movie News, Ryan was also a staff writer for the horror genre magazine, "Girls and Corpses." Along with Screen Rant, he is a regular contributor to Total Nerd at Ranker and is currently working on an academic book on the horror genre. As a third-generation actor, Ryan achieved some early success in independent film before he was cast as a series regular on Logo's "DTLA." Leaving performing behind for the field of education, Ryan is a film studies adjunct at a number of Southern California universities.
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