Understanding what a society fears goes a long way toward understanding what it values, and horror movies have long…
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Almost 30 years after its release, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs still shocks me. No matter how much I’m…
“It’s never as good as the first time,” Sade Adu sang of love. I have rarely, if ever, found this to be true (third…
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When I was a child, my cousin Sam sat me down in front of the TV with his sisters and we all watched Scream together.…
Leigh Whannell’s reimagining of the classic Universal Studios horror film The Invisible Man starts where many movies…
Good news! We are soon to be blessed with a prequel to 2009's wildly entertaining and underrated domestic thriller Or…
“Not knowing anything would be the best,” is Austrian director Veronika Franz’s message to prospective viewers of The…
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Retail therapy has never been such a horrifying proposition than it is in British filmmaker Peter Strickland’s…
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America doesn’t really make monsters anymore. Rare is the blockbuster horror movie where a werewolf or vampire poses…
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Throughout the crawling duration of It Chapter Two—all two hours and 50 minutes of it—I felt like I was being taken…
Can you believe that the latest Annabelle movie, Annabelle Comes Home, is the third movie about that damn…
When evil pervades the quintessential American family in horror, the result is more likely a family terrorized…
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While promoting her new film at Sundance, the thus-far-well-received revenge flick The Nightingale, director…
If you liked A Quiet Place but were hoping for another version where treacherous forces destroy people when they…
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I don’t like watching horror movies. I scare easy and feel anxious enough in my daily life that the idea of feeling…
We shouldn’t ask art to be emblematic of the #MeToo movement, but sometimes its makers tell us that it is,…
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“Sometimes dead is better” goes a line from Pet Sematary, but Pet Sematary no longer practices what it preaches.…
When Sony Pictures announced that a movie based on Slender Man—a piece of Internet folklore circulated online around…
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