Chrissy Stockton
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The Netflix ‘False Prophet’ Just Found Out How Much Time He’ll Serve for Keeping 3 Girls Locked in an Unventilated Cargo Trailer
Samuel Bateman, 50, will serve 24 more years in state prison. The number came on top of a sentence he’s already serving that runs half a century. The self-proclaimed prophet led a polygamous offshoot of the FLDS and was convicted on three counts of child abuse in Coconino County, one for each girl found locked…
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Tim Curry Wasn’t a Conventional Leading Man — and That Was the Point
Most actors who break through with a striking screen presence spend the rest of their careers chasing the romantic lead — the polished, handsome parts Hollywood keeps steering talent toward. Tim Curry went the other way. He chased roles that were eccentric, flamboyant, and villainous. He also had a working habit of taking “a sharp…
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Tim Curry Played the Devil in ‘Legend’ and Pennywise in ‘IT,’ but the Darkest Role He Ever Took Was a Two-Episode Serial Killer Arc on ‘Criminal Minds’
Curry played the Devil in Legend and Pennywise in the 1990 IT, but the role that rattled him most was a two-episode guest spot on “Criminal Minds,” and he bullied his way onto the show to get it. “I am a demented fan,” Tim Curry said of Criminal Minds. “I’ve seen every episode at least…
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Pennywise Is Gone: Tim Curry, Horror Icon of ‘IT’ and ‘Rocky Horror,’ Dies at 80
Tim Curry, who terrified a generation as the child-eating clown Pennywise and made a cult legend of himself as Frank-N-Furter, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles at 80. He’d been recovering from a serious stroke since 2012. Curry died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, his longtime agent and manager Marcia Hurwitz…
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A Man in a Chucky Mask Terrorized Pedestrians in Philadelphia, but He Picked the Wrong Woman to Ask “Are You Ready To Die?”
The man in the Chucky mask approached as many as 16 people near Philadelphia’s City Hall around 5 a.m. on August 12, possibly recording the interactions on his phone. He got in front of one 40-year-old jogger and asked “Are you ready to die?” twice. She screamed, ran, fell, and needed medical treatment. Jameka Wilson,…
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor Play a Couple Lured to a Creepy New Age Healing Retreat in ‘Pendulum’
The writer of Black Swan says his directorial debut was inspired by a real, and really scary, experience. It’s about a couple who go looking for healing and find something that wants to consume them. Pendulum comes from Mark Heyman, the BAFTA-nominated writer of Black Swan, in his first film as director. He calls it…
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The 8 Best Horror Movies of 2026 (According to Critics)
2026 has been a banner year for horror, and as the reviews pile up, a clear picture of the year’s best is starting to form. At the very top, two films are locked in a tie for the best-reviewed horror movie of the year: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which slipped from 99%…
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A Man Took an Ancestry Test to Find His Biological Father. It Turned Out to Be Charles Manson
For most of his life, Daniel Arguelles had wondered who his biological father was. The answer, when it finally came, was one he wasn’t sure his own daughter was ready to hear. Sophia Maddox is a 22-year-old filmmaker in Los Angeles. Her father called with an unsettling update. An Ancestry test had returned a result…
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Vince Gilligan Teases That Pluribus Season 2 Will Dig into Whether the World Is Actually Better After the Alien Virus Took Over
Vince Gilligan and his team have finalized the story for all of Pluribus season 2, with every episode plotted and outlined. Speaking with Collider at Televerse, Gilligan said “the hard part” is done and the scripts are what’s left to write. Season 2 will follow Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) and Manousos Oviedo (Carlos-Manuel Vesga) as…
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Ridley Scott Says He’s Not Actually a Filmmaker, He’s an Influencer
Ridley Scott has spent nearly 50 years shaping how movies look and feel, from the acid-blooded terror of deep space to the neon rain of a dystopian future. So when The Times of London recently asked the director to name the through line across his career, his answer wasn’t “filmmaker.” It was something a little…
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The ‘Fatal Attraction’ Director Says There’s One Frame of Michael Douglas’ Balls in the Movie: “It’s So Quick You Didn’t See It.”
Michael Douglas wasn’t wearing anything under his pants during the famous kitchen scene in “Fatal Attraction,” and the fumbling that followed left “one frame, one frame only, of his balls” in the finished movie. Director Adrian Lyne told the story at an Aug. 13 screening, explaining he shot the scene over a sink instead of…
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Josh Brolin Says He Called His Agent After One Day on Ridley Scott’s New Film and Begged to Quit: “Something’s Really Wrong And I’ve Got To Get The F— Out Of Here.”
Ridley Scott’s filmmaking process rattled Josh Brolin so badly that he panicked one day into filming “The Dog Stars.” He calmed down eventually, but he still calls the director’s method “stratospherically creative and stratospherically dangerous.” Brolin told Empire Magazine he “got really scared” during his first day on the post-apocalyptic sci-fi, enough to call his…
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Kevin Bacon Calls His New Horror Movie with Wife Kyra Sedgwick and Their Kids “Our Love Letter To Horror, To Independent Film And Most Of All Family.”
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have made a horror-comedy with their two grown kids, and they cast the whole family as a filmmaking clan whose fake slasher turns real. It’s the couple’s first time directing a feature together. “Family Movie” follows the Smiths, a family shooting a low-budget horror flick called “Blood Moon,” until a…
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Folk Horror Film ‘Blood Shine’ Is So Intense One Premiere Attendee Lost Consciousness and Had to Be Hospitalized
There are horror movies that make you jump, and then there are horror movies that reportedly send someone to the emergency room. The new folk horror film “Blood Shine” appears to be the latter. A woman watching the movie at its Los Angeles premiere became unresponsive during one of its most intense scenes and had…
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Two New Horror Movies Hit Theaters Today, August 21
Two very different frights arrive in theaters today: one is the sixth chapter of a franchise that turned “The Further” into a household nightmare, the other a debut director’s road trip into a more subtle kind of terror. First up is It Ends, a liminal road-trip horror from Neon. The feature debut of director Alexander…
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Chris Hansen Says He Had Nothing to Do with the Robert Pattinson Movie, and A24 Hasn’t Even Let Him See It Yet
Chris Hansen didn’t find out that a movie about his work was being made until the cameras had already stopped rolling. According to the “To Catch a Predator” host, A24 has offered him a private screening of the film — but as of now, he still hasn’t been shown a single frame. The A24 drama…
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Marlon Wayans Says the ‘Dismantling of the Weinstein Regime’ Is Why He Came Back to ‘Scary Movie’ After 25 Years
After 25 years, the Wayans family is back in the Scary Movie franchise. Scary Movie 6 opened to $54 million and closed out its theatrical run with more than $230 million globally before landing its streaming date. It will hit Paramount+ on Sept. 3. It’s the first entry since “Scary Movie 2” to involve the…
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Shudder Is Loading Up Its ‘Season of Screams’ with More Than 20 New and Classic Horror Titles, from All Four ‘Psycho’ Movies to a Fresh ‘V/H/S’ Installment
Shudder’s Season of Screams stacks the fall calendar with a horror premiere nearly every Friday from September through Halloween. Between the classics is a run of brand-new originals, including the ninth V/H/S movie and a Halloween special going out live. Shudder is dropping a new original film almost every Friday this fall, starting with Parasomnia…