8 h. ago Could you survive a horror film? Find out with our ultimate slasher movie quiz

New research has revealed that a third of Brits are confident they could survive a horror film and triumph over the villain

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10 h. ago Could you escape the most terrifying horror movie villain? Find out in our quiz!

Think you could survive a horror slasher film? Try this new quiz to see if you'd make it out alive

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56 h. ago Strange Harvest review – lurid horror expertly disguised as true crime

Stuart Ortiz’s convincingly faked crime documentary details the hunt for a Los Angeles serial killer dubbed Mr ShinyFor its first few minutes, this comes on like a standard true crime documentary: establishing shots of the Greater Los Angeles area, talking heads introduce themselves as police officers and friends of the victims, and we zoom in on a handwritten list of names until one particular name fills the screen. All the tricks of the trade are here, and director Stuart Ortiz plays things more or less straight. In fact it’s a mockumentary: not a parody but instead a horror movie that happens to be told using the format of a true crime documentary.The story, about a masked killer called Mr Shiny (if you think this name strains credibility, don’t forget there are real serial killers nicknamed the Happy Face Killer, the Dating Game Killer and the Doodler), is functional enough. There are lurid details of the killings, and police officers talking about how the crimes were beyond bel...

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4 d. ago 21 haunting Halloween releases coming to cinemas in 2025: from family favourites to future cult classics

What better way to avoid the door knockers this Halloween than a trip to your local cinema to catch one of these frighteningly good releases this season?

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6 d. ago Unlikely movies inspired by classic horror tale Frankenstein – including one Disney favourite

You might not know it, but Frankenstein is everywhere. Mary Shelley’s creepy creation has given us everything from Avengers: Age of Ultron to Lilo and Stitch

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9 d. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We tackle throwback horror 'Night of the Reaper'

Feeling of dread permeates and slow pace rewarded with final act twists.

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1 week ago Dog asks to be considered for an Oscar after breakout horror movie role

‘How many great performances must go overlooked before the Academy throws us a bone?’ asked the dog

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1 week ago 'My toddler's toes disappeared like a horror movie and her screams haunt me daily'

Little Olive Loach was at risk of her fingers and toes all 'self-amputing' after she suddenly began projectile vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea - her family was told to prepare for the worst

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1 week ago Horrifying moment 12 thugs storm a property after battering down door with motorbike

The gang were captured on CCTVstorming the house armed with baseball bats and axes allegedly over a drug debt, as the terrified occupants make a hasty escape to safety

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1 week ago Dog wants to be considered for an Oscar after breakout horror movie role

‘How many great performances must go overlooked before the Academy throws us a bone?’ asked the dog

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1 week ago Horror movie is so 'disturbing' viewers have been 'gagging' in fear watching it

Film fans have been urged to check out a phycological horror movie with supernatural aspects if they're in the mood for something creepy to watch in the run up to Halloween

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2 w. ago Night of the Zoopocalypse review – Clive Barker story becomes zombified animal caper for horror

Perhaps the first animated animal adventure based on a story by Hellraiser writer Barker, with commendably scary baddies and a lemur who is a horror-movie buffA children’s animated adventure based on an idea by Clive “Hellraiser” Barker? It’s a new one on us and yet, why not. All the best children’s stories have gory origins, from anonymous folklore to the Brothers Grimm. Here, the premise is fairly simple: zoo animals are becoming zombified and our heroes, a young wolf (Gabbi Kosmidis) and world-weary mountain lion (David Harbour) plus a growing posse of the non-zombified, must try to a) escape and b) put a stop to the zombification.It’s not the most complex premise – the Barker original, called Zoombies, is an unpublished short story – and this occasionally shows, in that there’s not an awful lot of narrative to go around. The film-makers address this by running a parallel commentary on the story beats and structure from one of the characters, a funny/annoying lemur, who is a horr...

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2 w. ago TV presenter dies after three storey drop while trying to escape armed robbers

A beloved TV host has tragically died after she jumped from a three storey apartment building to escape a terrifiyng armed robbery in her home. Tributes are flooding in for the star.

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2 w. ago TV presenter dies in horror 3 storey plunge while trying to escape armed robbers

A beloved TV host has tragically died after she jumped from a three storey apartment building to escape a terrifiyng armed robbery in her home. Tributes are flooding in for the star

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2 w. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We get to know horror sequel 'The Strangers: Chapter 2'

Middle entry of trilogy stalls amid dawdling script, while mystery surrounding its killers unravels.

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2 w. ago Moment 'getaway gran' leads police on a 100mph 'horror movie chase' at 3am in Yorkshire

This is the moment a 'getaway grandmother' leads police on a 100mph pursuit through the streets of Yorkshire's Beverly after they spotted her driving with false number plates at 3am.

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2 w. ago Nicolas Cage's controversial movie about Jesus is blasted by outraged Christians: 'Scripture into horror'

Nicolas Cage's upcoming controversial biblical horror film about Jesus' childhood has been blasted by Christians and labeled as 'blasphemous.'

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2 w. ago Good Boy review – crafty supernatural horror leads with a heroic dog

A lovable pet is unlikely protagonist of 73-minute haunted house riff that has ingenious moments but gets repetitiveIn the horror genre, you’d be a fool to ignore the concerns of a dog. While cats are mainly lurking in dark spaces waiting to collaborate with the orchestra on a cheap jumpscare, dogs are quick to alert their owners of nefarious goings on, acutely sensitive to threats whether they be human or not.In the often ingenious new horror film Good Boy, a pet dog isn’t just an easily dismissed harbinger of evil, he’s the main character. Like last year’s Presence, which saw Steven Soderbergh tell a ghost story through the lens of the ghost, and In a Violent Nature, which gave us a gory slasher as seen by the killer, we’re given a fresh perspective on a story that’s anything but, this time a haunted house horror as seen by Indy, a loyal retriever. He’s worried about his owner Todd (Shane Jensen, whose face we barely see), who’s retreating to his grandfather’s remote cabin after a...

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2 w. ago Trailer for Nicolas Cage horror movie about Jesus called ‘brilliant’ and ‘thought provoking’

The Carpenter’s Son will take an unconventional approach to Biblical epic

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3 w. ago Netflix adds 'very rare' black comedy film hailed 'one of the better movies of the 1990s'

The film was initially drafted as a horror movie.

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