With its occult themes, ’70s nostalgia and some AI controversy thrown into the mix, it’s easy to see why the film was a US box-office success.
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For its many strengths, the film may divide audiences with its chaotic, surreal final act.
A wave of horror content is popping up across TikTok, carrying on a legacy that began on YouTube.
When the film premiered, theatergoers fainted and vomited. It went on to inspire a series of copycat films – while fomenting a cultural panic about the demons in our midst.
Christopher Lee’s Dracula remains was one of the game’s biggest early influences.
The answers lie in early human evolution.
There is a liberal splattering of gore, with the obligatory twisting heads and spewing of foul liquids.
The third book to feature the eponymous detective is a whydunnit not a whodunnit.
Our new wave of horror carries the legacy of Australia’s strong horror history – while finally signalling the shedding of some cultural biases.
In reality, most Roman Catholic exorcists recognise the danger of encouraging a person suffering from auditory hallucinations to believe that these are demonic.
Renfield attempts to remodel the vampire movie to 21st century specifications.
In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
Far from recoiling in terror, fans have dubbed animatronic murderous doll M3gan a ‘queer icon’ – a horror expert explains why.
The impressionistic tale of a young Edgar Allan Poe may not be based in fact, but it captures the essence of the young writer.
A despotic chef reveals the theatre, terror and class divides of haute cuisine.
Thomas Hardy found horror in the Dorset of his childhood.
No other living horror writer has enjoyed Stephen King’s literary longevity. His monsters have lingered in the popular imagination, and that of our author.
Black vampires have existed for 200 years in literature.
Today’s creepy clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
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