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A Weird Horror Comedy About a Cursed New England Island Just Broke the Emmys Record with 14 Wins
“Widow’s Bay” swept all 6 categories it entered Monday night, bringing its single-season total to 14 Emmys and passing the comedy record of 13 set by “The Studio” last year. The Apple TV series had already collected 8 awards at an earlier ceremony. The first-season show follows a New England island community confronting a centuries-old…
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Linda Cardellini Goes “Full Kill-Crazy Rampage” as a Young Pamela Voorhees in ‘Crystal Lake’
Peacock’s Crystal Lake goes back eight years before Friday the 13th (1980) and treats the camp legend as a family story first. Jason Voorhees has always had a different temperature than Myers, Freddy, Chucky, or Ghostface. He is still an unstoppable murder machine. He is also a drowned kid and a mother who never recovered.…
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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 of the scariest. Nearly three decades after the cameras rolled on the first Scream, Arquette is reflecting on how a fictional romance between two of the film’s characters quietly turned into…
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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 rots from the inside as the job forces him to face the grief he’s spent years running from. Matthew Lillard and Cooper Koch star, with Amber Midthunder rounding out the lead…
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Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ Series Reconstructs the Prom Massacre Through 911 Calls and Courtroom Testimony
Mike Flanagan’s new Carrie series treats the destruction of Chamberlain like a disaster that survivors and investigators are still trying to explain. The 8-episode limited series reconstructs what happened in Chamberlain through the evidence left behind, giving the aftermath as much weight as the night itself. Mike Flanagan is also rebuilding the road to prom…
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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 attack by an unseen threat. At the center of it all is one man forced to protect his family and community from whatever is hunting them. The trailer keeps that menace…
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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 asked for. The tension in the scene comes from how quickly those small intrusions pile up when she’s alone with him. Zach Cregger says he started the sequence believing Bill Skarsgård’s…
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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 source of inspiration for the people making it. The man at the center of the story, Chris Hansen, tried to attend a private screening in August, then declined an NDA he…
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Vincent Price Learned to Cook, Sew, and Mend as a Boy Because His Mother Ran the House Like a “One-Woman Home Economy Class.”
Vincent Price was a horror icon did all the cooking, shopping, and cleanup in his home well into his 70s. He credited his mother for teaching all 4 kids to cook, sew, and mend, and to understand the work behind every meal. “Well I do all the cooking at home,” Vincent Price said at 75.…
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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,” Peterson said in a statement. “Playing Cassandra was the perfect ‘witchy’ role for me.” R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2 is a Tubi Original. The movie follows Sam (Bean Reid) and Becka (Adeline…
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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 Getaway, fled from the government in The Crazies and portrayed a badass U.S. Marshal in Justified. But even great actors have bad jobs. They might be a bad fit for the…
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Jack in the Box Is Dropping a ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Simpsons Meal with Six Glow-In-The-Dark Cups, and It Lands September 10
Jack in the Box is getting into the Halloween spirit with a new menu that pays tribute to The Simpsons’ long-running “Treehouse of Horror” specials. The limited-time Munchie Meal of Horror pulls Springfield’s spookiest imagery into a full lineup of collectible cups and horror-themed food. The centerpiece of the promotion is a set of collectible…
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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 spark was a warning from former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit his job and said that the people building the technology “earnestly believe it could kill us all by 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 Sense” has teamed with romance novelist Nicholas Sparks for a film that folds a love story inside a creeping mystery, hitting theaters February 5, 2027 via Warner Bros. The collaboration traces…
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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 built ourselves. The fear just got a lot less hypothetical. This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after three years working on pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI,…
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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 he helped build could pose an existential threat within a decade. Jacob Coxon announced his departure from Anthropic on Twitter/X, writing that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could…
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The Man Netflix’s ‘Death of a Pastor’s Wife’ Painted as John-Paul Miller’s Right-Hand Man Says He Barely Knew Him
“I never witnessed John Paul abuse Mica,” Mark Kaufman wrote in a statement addressing nearly every role Netflix’s “Death of a Pastor’s Wife” put him in. “Had I witnessed abuse or believed that Mica was in danger, I would not have ignored it.” Kaufman gave the statement to Florida creator Robbie Harvey, who has covered…
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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 himself. When he encounters Sydney, a pregnant young woman trying to get home, Ray reluctantly agrees to escort her across the rural Midwest, sending them both on a journey that will…