38 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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66 h. ago XL bully ripped off man's ear while he slept in scene from 'a horror movie'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: One man was rushed to the intensive care unit after he was violently attacked by an XL bully, being woken up with his ear being ripped off by the crazed animal

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3 d. ago Hugh Grant still haunted by sordid brush with the law 30 years ago as 'lewd' incident resurfaces among young fans

Hugh Grant is known for some of his iconic roles in classic rom coms like Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral (and his cameo in the horror movie Heretic).

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5 d. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Oregon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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5 d. ago ‘Something set him off’: Mass stabbing at Orgon homeless shelter leaves 11 people injured

Craig Smith, the executive director of the shelter, said the suspected attacker had just arrived at the facility a day earlier

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5 d. ago Stabbing attack at homeless shelter sends 11 people to hospital, man in custody

Police say a stabbing attack at a homeless shelter in Salem, Oregon sent 11 people to a hospital, and a man is in custody

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5 d. ago ‘It’s like a horror movie’: 11 stabbed at unhoused shelter in Oregon

Resident of homeless center arrested after incident at Union Gospel Mission-run facility in SalemEleven people were stabbed at a shelter for the unhoused in Salem, Oregon, on Sunday evening, according to authorities.Salem police said they arrested a man in connection with the mass stabbing carried out at about 7.15pm local time at a facility run by an organization called the Union Gospel Mission. The suspect was not immediately identified. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Amazon Prime finally adds 'best horror movie of 2024' that's 'masterclass in suspense'

The lead performance was praised by critics and fans

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7 d. ago Chef was boiled to death in cauldron over two hours in 'world's worst execution'

In a scene straight out of a horror movie, a man was boiled to death in a giant cauldron in one of the most excruciating and horrifying executions in human history

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9 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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1 week 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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2 w. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We see if 'It Feeds' satisfies horror fans' taste buds

Little originality on show but still works. on its own merits - just.

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2 w. ago Netflix releasing prequel to iconic horror movie trilogy after years of fans' demands

It's going to be a spooky weekend for those who fancy watching a horror flick

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2 w. ago A Simple Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality

Cannes film festival An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of IranJafar Panahi is the veteran Iranian auteur and democracy campaigner who continues to get arrested and imprisoned, to endure film-making bans and defy the law, finding loopholes through which his movies can be made and shown abroad. And the Iranian authorities, tensely and hypocritically aware of world scrutiny and indeed the soft-power prestige still to be accrued from Panahi’s eminence, appear (almost) to tolerate it.Now Panahi has come to Cannes with what might be his most emotionally explicit film yet: a film about state violence and revenge, about the pain of tyranny that co-exists with ostensible everyday normality. There are macabre stabs of satire, black comedy and horror-farce, and the movie almost looks like an Iranian dissident tribute to Weekend at Bernie’s or even Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry. Continue rea...

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2 w. ago Blair Witch Project star's creepy actions in woods near her home sparks outcry among Maine neighbors

Blair Witch Project star Heather Donahue has once again found herself in trouble in the woods.

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3 w. ago Netflix viewers buzzing about upcoming horror movie and question its ties to trilogy

Netflix is releasing a brand new horror film later this month

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3 w. ago 'Masterpiece' horror movie with 'best plot twist ever' is streaming on BBC iPlayer

The film has an impressive 86% on Rotten Tomatoes and has been described as "impeccably cast and smartly written".

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3 w. ago ‘A horror movie’: sharks and octopuses among 200 species killed by toxic algae off South Australia

Karenia mikimotoi algae can suffocate fish, cause haemorrhaging and act as a neurotoxin, one expert saysGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an emailMore than 200 marine species, including deepwater sharks, leafy sea dragons and octopuses, have been killed by a toxic algal bloom that has been affecting South Australia’s coastline since March.Nearly half (47%) of the dead species were ray-finned fish and a quarter (26%) were sharks and rays, according to OzFish analysis of 1,400 citizen scientist reports.Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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4 w. ago BBC horror movie with whopping 95% Rotten Tomatoes score hailed as an 'underrated masterpiece' and 'pure cinematic gold' as it's made free to stream

The thriller premiered back in 2014 and sees a young woman, Kylie (Morgan O'Reilley) who was placed under house arrest in her childhood home.

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4 w. ago Billy Woods: Golliwog review – one of the most engrossing, unnerving records you’ll hear this year

(Backwoodz Studioz)The New York rapper confronts trauma and state-sanctioned terror with his latest release, pulling out innumerable images of inhumanityGolliwog has the ambience of a horror movie: dissonant strings, like nails on a chalkboard, form the basis of the track Star87; agonised screams are sampled throughout; every so often, an ominous drone will fill a song to the point of overwhelm. On that level alone, New York underground icon Billy Woods’ latest album would be a feat of sound design, and one of the year’s most engrossing, unnerving records. Of course, this being a Billy Woods record, that’s just scratching the surface.Golliwog’s horror aesthetics are a counterpoint to its tales of real, everyday nightmares. Through samples, guest verses and his own lyrics, Woods unearths innumerable images of inhumanity: stories of CIA torture methods, “12 billion USD hovering over the Gaza strip”, a class of professional “zombies” willing to turn a blind eye to the working class tha...

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