A wave of horror content is popping up across TikTok, carrying on a legacy that began on YouTube.
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Horror films incorporate varied musical influences, but there are some things many scary soundtracks have in common.
What seems at first blush to be an innovative approach to franchise movie-making is nothing more than a futile exercise in cinematic nostalgia.
There is a liberal splattering of gore, with the obligatory twisting heads and spewing of foul liquids.
The Nun II brings a refreshingly feminist gloss to well-worn tropes within exorcism fiction, shattering assumptions about who should be the victim and who should be the rescuer.
The Blackening excels at subverting the very stereotypes it plays upon for its humour.
In reality, most Roman Catholic exorcists recognise the danger of encouraging a person suffering from auditory hallucinations to believe that these are demonic.
A despotic chef reveals the theatre, terror and class divides of haute cuisine.
If a friend seems to be immune to your spooky, ghost story this Halloween, ask them if they can see the story unfold in their mind’s eye.
From the indie to the blockbuster, Halloween viewing recommendations whatever your taste.
Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
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