4 h. ago Return to Silent Hill review – video game horror series births another middling movie

Director Christopher Gans returns to the haunted town franchise but can’t seem to figure out what to do with itThere’s an admirable loyalty, maybe even poetry, in a film-maker returning to an unpromising, barely-there movie series 20 years after his first crack became a minor hit. The horror film Silent Hill, based on a video game of the same name, has garnered a cult following in the decades since its 2006 release, but it’s not exactly a genre classic nor beloved franchise, with a single little-seen 2012 sequel to its name – until now. Return to Silent Hill brings back the first film’s director Christopher Gans for a new story set in the same ash-strewn ghost town, this one based on the Silent Hill 2 video game. Characters in these movies tend to wander into a place that is obviously haunted or cursed, refusing to leave even after it becomes clear that they should, and only decide to escape after it’s too late. Maybe Gans can relate.Or maybe he’s the only man for the job because no...

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4 h. ago The Beauty on Disney+ review: explosive body horror has blood, sex and guts galore

Ryan Murphy’s latest show about a sexy killer STD isn’t afraid to give its celebrity cameos sticky ends

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4 h. ago The Beauty review – Bella Hadid snaps necks in Ryan Murphy’s excessive, dumbed

The co-creator of ‘Glee’ and ‘American Horror Story’ is getting worse over time, as this lurid, superficially glam comic-book adaptation shows

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6 h. ago Spanish train crashes pictured amid scenes of horror and hurt

Heartbreaking images revealed the aftermath of two deadly train crashes, just two days apart, in Spain - emergency services working through wreckage and passengers trapped inside carriages were caught

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7 h. ago JFK Airport fire horror as black smoke seen for miles pours from New York terminal

There is a fire at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport

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7 h. ago JFK Airport fire LIVE: Horror as black smoke pours from major New York terminal

There is a fire at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport with footage on social media showing thick black smoke rising from behind a security fence near to Terminal 8

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7 h. ago Frida Kahlo fever leaves Tate curators struggling to secure her paintings for blockbuster exhibition

Madonna is among the owners of high-value works by the Mexican artist

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8 h. ago Why I won't be joining the 2016 nostalgia: SARAH VINE on why the year was 'a horror show'

Everybody is doing throwbacks to 2016. All the celebrities are doing it. But I have to say that 2016 was not my favourite year. It rearranged my life in a way which I hadn't quite anticipated.

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8 h. ago How a 'grief makeover' erased 20 years of family tragedy from my face. Here are the five tweakments that 'reupholstered' my forehead, cheeks and lips

I stared at a photo from a recent girls' night out in horror. Grief had etched itself on to my features. Looking at that photo, and at my reflection, felt like staring straight at the story of my life.

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8 h. ago Jake Paul’s mum reveals terrifying moment FBI agents stormed YouTuber’s $8million California mansion

JAKE PAUL's mum has opened up on the horror she endured when the FBI raided her son's house. An armed SWAT team raided the YouTuber's plush California mansion in August 2020 as part of an investigation. The raid came in the aftermath of Paul's arrest at the Scottsdale Fashion Square with pal Arman Izadi, with...

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9 h. ago Desperate search to find Boro – the dog who survived Spanish train horror

Ana García’s dog Boro fled from the wreckage of the high-speed train crash in Spain

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9 h. ago ‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie

The Canadian poet, whose winning collection explores environmental and personal loss, discusses making art in existential timesEarly on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister human impact: the world’s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, is “advertised as non-persistent; but tell that to Dewayne Johnson // and his non-Hodgkin lymphoma”. In 2018, a jury ruled that Monsanto’s glyphosate weedkiller, Roundup, caused the former groundskeeper’s cancer.Solie’s admission – that real horror can’t be prettified – recalls Noor Hindi’s viral 2020 poem, Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying. We can’t “treat poetry like it’s some kind of separate thing” to what’s going on around us, says Solie, speaking to me in Soho, London, the morning after finding out she has won the TS Eliot prize for her collection Wellwater. “We all have to keep our...

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9 h. ago Mum's urgent warning over Primark product after claiming daughter's skin peeled off in 'horror movie nightmare'

"All the skin, the whole epidermal layer, is peeling off her face."

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9 h. ago The pub that changed me: ‘I was snowed in there for four days’

We had a mass snowball fight and a disco, and I slept in a room full of drunk men with wet socks. It was fun, but in future snowstorms I won’t be rushing to the pubIn all my years of reporting, nothing seems to fascinate people more than the four days I spent snowed in at Britain’s highest pub last year. It was early January and the Met Office had issued severe warnings for snow. It dawned on me that people were about to live out a British fantasy of being snowed in at their local pub. I knew where I needed to be: The Tan Hill Inn, high up in the wilderness on the very northern edge of the Yorkshire Dales national park. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Dyson vacuum sparked OAP house fire, leaving her homeless just weeks before Christmas

A DYSON hoover is suspected to have caused a horror blaze, which left a gran homeless -  just weeks before Christmas.  Janet Thomson, 73, lost all her possessions after t he ferocious fire ripped through her home, in Rattray, Perthshire. Fire crews scrambled to the property to battle the fire on November 30. Janet - who was luckily visiting...

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10 h. ago Holidaymaker reveals flight horror as fellow plane passenger 'drank 10 Bacardis and threw up' over him

Holidaymaker Bruce Mckenzie has shared his British Airways flight from hell after a fellow traveller allegedly drank 10 Bacardis and was sick over him.

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11 h. ago Football ace's dad killed in horror train crash as he mourns 'brightest star'

A LaLiga ace has paid an emotional tribute to his dad, who was killed in a horror crash in Spain when two high-speed trains collided, claiming the lives of 43 people

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12 h. ago Surfer bitten in half by shark 'as big as a car' as his friends watched in horror

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Brad Smith, who had been visiting the beach with a group of friends, was reportedly dragged off his board and into the water by at least one massive great white shark

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12 h. ago Surfer's horror final moments as he's brutally killed by two huge sharks

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Australian surfer Brad Smith, 29, was killed by a Great White shark while surfing near Gracetown, Western Australia, as his friends looked on helplessly and tried to rescue him

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12 h. ago Scottish woman had leech stuck up nose for a month after backpacking horror

Daniela Liverani, who is originally from Glasgow, was left horrified when doctors pulled out a leech from her nose after returning from her Vietnam trip in 2014

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