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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Charlie Sheen Called the FBI Because This Horror Movie Was Too Disturbing
In the late 1980s, actor Charlie Sheen sat down to watch a horror movie and became so convinced that what he was seeing was…
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Wes Craven Told David Arquette to Look at Courteney Cox “Like You’ve Been Looking For This Person Your Whole Life.” They Got Married Three Years Later
Some of the most enduring love stories start on a movie set — and for David Arquette and Courteney Cox, it started on one…
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Mike Flanagan Is Making a Body Horror Movie Starring Matthew Lillard and It’s ‘Repulsion by Way of Cronenberg’
Mike Flanagan is stepping into producer mode for a new body horror film called Rot, a psychological thriller about a trauma cleaner who slowly…
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Josh Hartnett Is a Grizzled Fisherman Fighting a Sea Monster in Netflix’s New Horror Series ‘Below,’ Out October 8
Netflix is heading to the cold, isolated waters of Newfoundland for its new horror series Below, where a remote coastal town finds itself under…
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Zach Cregger Wrote Barbarian’s Opening Scene Based on a Book About the Tiny Warning Signs Women Brush Off So They Don’t Seem “Like A B*tch”
In Barbarian, Keith keeps crossing Tess’s boundaries in ways that can look harmless: an unwanted touch, a sexualized compliment and a favor she never…
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Robert Pattinson Finally Weighs in on Chris Hansen’s Criticism on Primetime
Robert Pattinson says he never planned to build a movie around the former TV host. The script felt “electrifying,” and the character became a…
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Cassandra Peterson Will Play a Witch in R.L. Stine’s ‘Pumpkinhead 2’
“R.L. Stine and I have been in the business of scaring kids for a long time, so joining Pumpkinhead 2 was such a treat,”…
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Timothy Olyphant Has a Funny Story About Getting Fired from ‘Practical Magic’
Timothy Olyphant is a terrific actor who has donned the Ghostface mask in Scream 2, faced off against a serial killer in A Perfect…
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Ted Cruz Went on ‘The View’ and Said Elon Musk Told Him AI Has a 20% Chance of Killing Us All
On Wednesday’s The View, Sen. Ted Cruz was asked what Congress would do about AI that researchers say could kill people this decade. The…
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The Notebook Guy and the Sixth Sense Guy Joined Forces on a Jake Gyllenhaal Romantic Psychological Thriller Called “Remain”
M. Night Shyamalan is back with a supernatural thriller, and he’s brought an unlikely partner along for the ride. The director of “The Sixth…
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8 Deeply Unsettling Movies About AI
Every generation of horror finds its monster in whatever we’re most afraid of losing control over — and right now, that’s the machines we…
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A Researcher Who Spent 3 Years Training AI at Both OpenAI and Anthropic Just Quit, Warning the Tech “Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade.”
A researcher who spent three years training AI systems at two of the industry’s leading labs has resigned with a stark warning: the technology…
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‘Holler’ Is an Indie Film Set in a Zombie Apocalypse, but This Story Belongs to the Living
Holler is a Midwestern Gothic story that follows Ray, a self-destructive loner who has survived in the years since the dead rose by isolating…
