28 h. ago Netflix horror film based on Stephen King novel hailed as 'gut wrenching' by fans

The psychological horror thriller was released eight years ago and had many people questioning what's real and what's not.

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28 h. ago Netflix horror film with 91% Rotten Tomatoes score hailed as 'awe

In 2017, a novel by American writer Stephen King was turned into a film as Gerald's Game kept people on edge.

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29 h. ago Netflix fans need to watch ‘most disturbing’ horror film with 91% Rotten Tomatoes score

Gerald’s Game was first released back in 2017 which is based on the novel by American writer Stephen King

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44 h. ago Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storytellerThat Christmas – it was almost 20 years ago – I came back from America with news. My friend Daniel Medin had recommended two books to me, both by the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, one called War and War and the other The Melancholy of Resistance. We had also watched some Béla Tarr films, whose screenplays had been written by Krasznahorkai. The sense of slow, seething menace in the film Werckmeister Harmonies, based on The Melancholy of Resistance, and the lack of easy psychology and obvious motive in the film, the camera moving like a cat, made it exciting, but not as exciting as the two novels.Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and ...

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3 d. ago Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip

The beats of the 1998 rom-com, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycatWatching, or rather enduring, Amazon-MGM’s charmless new romantic comedy Maintenance Required, I was so convinced it was an officially sanctioned re-imagining of You’ve Got Mail that I scoured the credits for confirmation. Surely, even in this cursed AI era of copyright erosion, no one would so shamelessly regurgitate the beats of that much-adored film without giving the requisite credit?But try as I might, I could not find a “based on” or even a “thanks to”, the film a copy of a film which was itself a (legally sound) remake of a film which had been inspired by a play (the script even, cheekily, refers to “a sweet little shop around the corner”). In a film that will hopefully be used as evidence in an upcoming lawsuit, a woman tries to keep her struggling local business alive as a big brand competitor opens over the street while she se...

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3 d. ago ‘Terrifying’: Stephen King delivers his verdict on HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry and fans will love it

Stephen King has delivered his verdict on IT: Welcome to Derry 🎈📺

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4 d. ago 'Chilling' Netflix series based on real life events from 'master of horror'

Netflix's new series has been described as "terrifying" by fans who are now "sleeping with the light on"

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4 d. ago 'Chilling' Netflix documentary from 'master of horror' on real

The series is brought to life by the man who created The Conjuring Universe

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5 d. ago Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of graceSharone Lifschitz is a London-based film-maker and academic whose parents were taken hostage on 7 OctoberSo much about the past two years has been horrific, but let me tell you how it began for me. On the morning of 7 October 2023, I was sitting on a train with my son and husband on our much anticipated way to pick up a new puppy. Life seemed predictable enough.I open my phone and see that something is happening on the Gaza-Israel border. I call my mum as usual, waiting to hear her cheery, relaxed voice telling me that she is in the safe room with Dad, telling me there is nothing to worry about. She doesn’t answer. Neither does my dad. I look again at the news feed. I call my brother and he answers. His voice is so different, altered, that I know already, before he tells me, that the worst has happened. “Terrorists broke into the kibbutz,” he says. “Dad said in his ...

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6 d. ago The Twits Netflix release date and cast for film based on Roald Dahl best

The animated musical comedy boasts a star-studded voice cast.

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8 d. ago Netflix fans just realising Big Bang Theory icon stars in Monster The Ed Gein Story

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third season in Ryan Murphy’s real-life Netflix horror series.

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8 d. ago Netflix's 'grotesque' eight part series is a 'must watch for horror and true crime fans'

Netflix has released the third season of the Ryan Murphy-created anthology series Monster

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9 d. ago Kevin McKay now: Meet the real bus driver who inspired Apple TV+'s The Lost Bus

Thrilling new film The Lost Bus is based on the inspiring story of bus driver Kevin McKay, but what has he been doing since his heroic rescue in 2018?

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9 d. ago Three iconic horror films inspired by Netflix Ed Gein story and where to stream them

The killer's crimes have served as inspiration for memorable on screen villains

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9 d. ago Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to report

During the 2024-2025 school year, there were more then 6,800 instances of books being pulled, led by the horror authorA new report on book bans in US schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans.PEN America’s Banned in the USA, released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year. The new number is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24, but still far above the levels of a few years ago, when PEN didn’t even see the need to compile a report. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Keira Knightley's 'best performance' to date is in a cosy romance film based on a classic novel

A Reddit user asked for film recommendations for "cosy autumn" evenings and was inundated with one suggestion – a Keira Knightley film that's perfect for this time of year.

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1 week ago Gogglebox stars devastated as heartbroken family mourn death of beloved member

A Gogglebox family has shared a gut-wrenching message to fans after experiencing the sudden loss of a beloved member as the news sparks a flood of messages from fans

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1 week ago 'Most disturbing' horror that left fans with 'nightmarish feelings' now streaming

The mystery thriller was directed by Scott Derrickson, who horror fans will know for helming The Black Phone films

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1 week ago Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored

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1 week ago 'Underrated' drama based on 'classic' film quietly added to Netflix that fans say is the 'best show' on TV

The original filmed starred movie icons Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt

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