2 h. ago One of the best horror movies of all time is airing on TV tonight 

The horror genre has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade

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22 h. ago Bagpiper who played for King Charles dies in scuba diving accident before grim treehouse discovery

Henry Frantz, 74, who played bagpipes for King Charles and US presidents, was killed in a scuba diving accident off the coast of Maui - before his family found a horror movie scene in his back garden

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35 h. ago Emmerdale viewers brand 'horror movie' plot in 'creepy' Anthony Fox twist

The villain returned briefly in an unexpected scene that left fans on edge

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3 d. ago Grounded: The questions Heathrow must answer over fire shutdown

Given the immense harm caused, Heathrow still has some key things to answer, writes travel correspondent Simon Calder

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3 d. ago Samuel L Jackson on shark thriller Deep Blue Sea: ‘I’ve had many deaths – but everyone remembers this one’

‘I had no idea I’d get so wet. I was in water for a month. It was kind of wild. For the storm scenes, they were dumping it down on us from towers. There were big-ass waves flying everywhere’I’d always wanted to be killed in a movie by something big that was chasing me. I missed out on my death scene in Jurassic Park because a hurricane destroyed the set in Hawaii, so I never got to go down and get eaten by a velociraptor. When Renny Harlin told me he was making a horror movie with killer sharks, and that I was going to be the first person to die, I said: “Great!” It was a good idea – once he’d killed me, it meant any character’s life was up for grabs. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Cinema Will Forever Be Haunted by the Iconic Horror Movie No One Alive Has Seen

Cinema Will Forever Be Haunted by the Iconic Horror Movie No One Alive Has Seen  Collider

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4 d. ago £60m Celtic transfer claim causes Hotline mayhem as Rangers rubbernecker warned he's crossed a line

Michael Gannon manned the phones as OId Firm fans locked horns over everything from trophies to transfer fees

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4 d. ago Horror movie compared to ultimate classic has viewers terrified

Horror film The Relic, directed by Peter Hyams and starring Penelope Ann Miller and Tom Sizemore, has now been added to Netflix and is scaring viewers with its gore

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6 d. ago Heathrow airport fire: Simon Calder answers your questions – from delayed flights to compensation and more

The Independent’s travel correspondent, Simon Calder, is here to answer your questions as a mysterious fire at the UK’s busiest airport disrupts thousands of flights

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9 d. ago Iconic horror franchise finally ends as 11th movie is 'cancelled'

The Saw franchise has come to an abrupt end after 21 years as the 11th movie was 'canceled' this week.

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1 week ago ‘Something must have gone wrong with us’: David Cronenberg and Howard Shore on four decades of body horror

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspirationWhat would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg. Shore, 78, may have won three Oscars for the magisterial sweep of his Lord of the Rings score, but it is his work on the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s notorious body-horror movies, from The Fly to Dead Ringers and Crash, that is most indelible. Those last two films will be screening this month as part of a wider tribute to Shore’s work at the London Soundtrack fe...

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1 week ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Was Michael Mann's horror movie The Keep filmed in a coal mine?

Not a coal mine but a slate mine. Based on a popular horror novel by F. Paul Wilson, The Keep is about a group of Nazi soldiers who occupy an ancient fortress in Romania.

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1 week ago MOVIE REVIEW: Our senses get shaken by Shudder horror flick 'They Live in the Grey'

Not-so-friendly ghosts cause havoc in spirited supernatural scares.

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2 w. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Was 'the Kurgan', the bad guy in the film Highlander, based on a real person?

The Kurgan (pictured) from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

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2 w. ago ‘Something out of a horror movie:’ Stepmother arrested after emaciated man, 32, is rescued from home in Connecticut

He endured ‘heartbreaking and unimaginable’ suffering, police say

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2 w. ago The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trialsSome years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space.In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate system.Raymond T Pierrehumbert FRS is professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford. He is an author of the 2015 US National Academy of Sciences report on climate interventionMichael E Mann F...

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2 w. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Was the word Nosferatu invented for the film?

Stoker was clearly influenced by Gerard's writings, and her description of Nosferatu is familiar to those who have read Dracula.

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2 w. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Are there areas where two, or maybe more, lighthouses are visible to the naked eye?

In the Harwich area of Essex we have four visible for guidance to vessels wanting to visit Harwich Harbour. They were all built in the 19th century, with one pair on dry land, the other in the sea.

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2 w. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We discover if love is in the air during horror 'Companion'

Go in as blind as possible and enjoy the surprising twists and turns.

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2 w. ago The huge show about horror movies, wrestling and rock music coming to Manchester this month

The show dives into the best of all things horror, rock and wrestling

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