10 h. ago Trump’s new travel ban is a gratuitously cruel sequel | Moustafa Bayoumi

The policy is alienating, counterproductive and racist – and it isn’t the flex that Trump thinks it isTrump’s new travel ban: the countries chosen and how it differs from the last oneI’m not much for horror movies, but I have just read that the film Black Phone 2 “will creep into cinemas” in October and that, compared to the original, it’s supposed to be a “more violent, scarier, more graphic” film. I’ll pass on the movie, but that description seems pretty apt to what living under this Trump administration feels like: a gratuitously more violent sequel to a ghoulish original.Consider the Muslim ban. Back in late 2015, candidate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. He signed the first version of the Muslim ban on 27 January 2017, and protests erupted at airports across the nation at the revival of a national policy, similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act, that b...

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14 h. ago 'Terrifying' viral horror film 'not for the faint of heart' you can watch free

A24 is developing a movie based on the viral short

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20 h. ago Disney fans creeped out to learn where they've heard Lilo's voice before

A Lilo & Stitch voice star went on to appear in an iconic horror film, with the two films releasing in the same year and surprising fans of the much-loved family-friendly animated film

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21 h. ago 'Sinners' puts 'truth on screen' for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene

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62 h. ago Dashcam: ‘Unhinged’ found footage film being called ‘most polarising horror in years’ gets trailer

A viewer is said to have ‘nearly got sick’ at the film’s premiere

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3 d. ago Stacey Solomon shares heartbreaking update over dog's devastating diagnosis

Stacey Solomon has shared an update with fans on her dog Teddy following the news earlier this year that he needed an operation after it was discovered he had a health condition

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3 d. ago Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans

Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at homeOn a recent Saturday afternoon in an informal settlement in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, dozens of young men sat on benches in a dark shack to watch a bootlegged version of the Hollywood comedy-horror film The Monkey.As the English-language action unfolded on the screen, a voiceover translation in the Bantu language Luganda by VJ Junior – one of Uganda’s top video jockeys – boomed into the room. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Horror fans praise return of ‘terrifying’ film as director promises it is ‘more graphic, bloodier, and violent’

Fans called the original film ‘a life-changing experience’

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4 d. ago 'It's YOU I want': The sick joke the 'Man in Black' serial killer made as he tied up a young couple while posing as a police officer

Horror film-obsessed Peter Moore, who was convicted in 1996 of the savage, sexually-motivated murders of four men, is currently an inmate at HMP Wakefield.

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4 d. ago Sinners director Ryan Coogler reveals if horror film is getting a sequel soon

Filmmaker says he ‘wanted movie to feel like a full meal’

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6 d. ago Boy, 4, attacked by dog and sustained injuries 'like something out of a horror film'

Amanda Holmes' son, Antonio Quinn, was attacked by a Pocket Bully while outside a friend's house

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6 d. ago Netflix horror with near perfect rating 'so terrifying it taps into everyone's deepest fears'

This 2014 psychological horror film with a 98 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes has become a cult classic

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6 d. ago Abandoned water park tourists still pay to enter is ‘perfect setting for a horror film’

Hue Abandoned Water Park, also known as Thuy Tien Lake, sits on the outskirts of the Vietnamese city of Hue and has been attracting urban explorers since it closed 14 years ago

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8 d. ago Film legend who produced Australia's first kangaroo horror movie starring The Terminator actor dies in shock accident at 42

Legendary Australian film identity Liz Tomkins died on Monday in a road accident, just days after stepping down from her role as chair at Women in Film and Television.

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8 d. ago Netflix horror film about kinky sex game 'most disturbing fans have watched'

The psychological horror thriller has been adapted from a 1992 Stephen King novel which was long considered to be unadaptable and unfilmable for the big screen.

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9 d. ago Chucky star dead at 61 two years after being investigated for sexting minors

Ed Gale, best known for portraying horror icon Chucky in the 1988 horror film Child's Play, has died at age 61.

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9 d. ago Ed Gale dead at 61: Actor who played Horror icon Chucky dies as niece shares sad statement

Hollywood actor Ed Gale was best known for his portayal as creepy doll Chucky in 1988 horror film Child's Play

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9 d. ago Bring Her Back review – Talk to Me directors return with a film you’ll watch from between your fingers

Sally Hawkins is intensely disturbing as the foster parent from hell, with Jonah Wren Phillips playing a creepy kid for the ages in the Philippou brothers’ new horrorAustralian horror film-makers have spectacularly overdelivered in the last few years, conjuring various nerve-shredding bangers including Late Night with the Devil, You Won’t Be Alone, You’ll Never Find Me, Sissy, Leigh Whannell’s underrated Wolf Man reboot and Talk to Me. The latter – which revolves around thrill-seeking teenagers who converse with spirits instead of taking recreational drugs (kids these days!) – marked the fiendishly good debut of Adelaide-born directors Danny and Michael Philippou.They’re back – or baaa-ack! – with another serving of macabre bravado pulled from the black cauldron. Bring Her Back is lighter on thrills and spills for the midnight movie and heavy with thick, abject horror and despair, featuring an intensely disturbing performance from Sally Hawkins as a foster mother from hell. She play...

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9 d. ago North London forever, dog lifts and thousands of fans: How Arsenal celebrated historic Champions League win

North London forever, dog lifts and thousands of fans: How Arsenal celebrated historic Champions League win  FourFourTwo

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1 week ago Meet Australia's next Margot Robbie: Teen horror star impresses Hollywood after working on fright film with zany Aussie directors who made over $100m at the box office

Mischa Heywood may only be 15, but the Aussie actress' CV is more stacked than most trying to make it in Tinseltown - and she hasn't even finished school yet.

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