Movies
The movie section aims to catalog, editorialize and analyze every scary movie, fantasy and sci-fi film ever made. Any movie that frightens, thrills the senses from action/violence, contains mysterious creatures, folklore, and anything generally creepy from thrillers to psychological torment. Readers will find this category helpful for research and for figuring out what to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or to buy on Blu-ray.
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Guillermo del Toro Says Horror Works 2 Ways: Something Appears Where It Shouldn’t, or Something Expected Is Gone
In a scenario Guillermo del Toro described to ScreenAnarchy in 2013, you see your dad watching TV in the living room, then learn he…
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“And I’ve Never Had a Trace of This Disorder Since,” Joey King Says of the ITP She Developed While Filming The Conjuring
Joey King was still dealing with a low platelet count after she finished filming The Conjuring and went home. Her first hospital follow-up showed…
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Joko Anwar’s ‘Ghost in the Cell’ Is Now Playing in Limited U.S. Theaters
A malevolent force that feeds on negative energy is loose inside a prison in the gory Indonesian horror film GHOST IN THE CELL, now…
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Appofeniacs Is a Thriller About the Dangers of AI Deepfakes, and It’s in Limited Theaters Now
Deepfakes are weaponized to cause extreme chaos in APPOFENIACS, now in theaters. Appofeniacs is a story told from many different perspectives. At the center…
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‘The Influencer Project’ is Now Playing in Theaters
An influencer making a documentary about herself discovers she has a stalker in the screenlife movie THE INFLUENCER PROJECT, now in theaters. Chiara King…
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Beware Boiúna Pits Kiana Madeira and Jessica Rothe Against a Giant Amazon Snake, and It’s Now In Theaters
BEWARE BOIÚNA, the giant snake movie starring Kiana Madeira and Jessica Rothe, is now playing in theaters. A humanitarian mission trekking into the heart…
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28 Years Later: Part III Has an Alex Garland Script and a Big Role for Cillian Murphy, According to Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle has confirmed that the planned finale to the 28 Years Later trilogy will center on Cillian Murphy, and that Alex Garland has…
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South Park’s Storytelling Rule Helped Curry Barker Make Every Turn in ‘Obsession’ Lead to the Next
Curry Barker builds his scripts around a single rule he borrowed from the people behind South Park: link every beat with “but then” or…
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A Man Is Trapped Head-First in the Toilet of a Club Bathroom in the Horror Comedy Flush, on VOD October 9
Stuck in a drug deal gone wrong, a man is left for dead in a club bathroom. He doesn’t die, but his head is…
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They Based a Horror Movie on Her Life and Never Even Talked to Her
In 1974, a woman named Doris Bither walked up to two UCLA parapsychologists in a bookstore and told them she was being beaten and…
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Stephen Nothum Sees ‘Primetime’ as a Dracula Adaptation with Chris Hansen in the Monster’s Role
TikTok film critic Stephen Nothum says A24’s “Primetime” isn’t the Chris Hansen biopic everyone assumed. He reads it as a “Dracula” adaptation built to…
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Annabelle (2014) Is Based on a Raggedy Ann Cloth Doll, and Filmmakers Only Made It Porcelain Because Test Audiences Weren’t Scared
The doll behind 2014’s Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The movie’s custom porcelain version was created…
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Borrowed From Ed Gein, Who Wore Preserved Human Faces and Built a ‘Woman Suit’ From Skin
Leatherface grew from several separate sources that filmmakers fused into one nightmare. The “true story” framing made their fictional massacre feel like a real…
