4 h. ago Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use AI in his films

Filmmaker says ‘natural stupidity’ is what ‘drives most of the world’s worst features’

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22 h. ago Jacob Elordi is 'spitting image' of iconic Tom Cruise role in Netflix horror

Netflix has released a new photo of Euphoria star Jacob Elordi and he's completely unrecognisable.

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22 h. ago Netflix fans floored as Jacob Elordi totally unrecognisable in chilling new role

Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has wowed fans with a completely different look in an upcoming Netflix horror film.

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48 h. ago The Guardian view on a bumper crop of horror: scary times call for even scarier films | Editorial

A new wave of socially engaged movies is storming the box office and changing how we think about the genreIt should surprise no one to learn that 2025 is being hailed as a golden year for horror films. All horror movies are a reflection of their time, and ours are pretty scary.Tech dystopianism means that Frankenstein’s monster has become a byword for AI, while Bram Stoker’s Dracula has always drawn on a dark strain of English xenophobia. So it is no coincidence that these 19th-century gothic villains, stars of the earliest horror films in the 1920s and 30s, are back in cinemas with new adaptations from directors Guillermo del Toro and Luc Besson. Maggie Gyllenhaal is bringing out another Frankenstein, The Bride!, next year.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money

With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the processFright club: eight film-makers who are redefining modern horrorEvery week at my local multiplex, there is a new horror film. If it’s not a reboot (I Know What You Did Last Summer) or sequel (Final Destination Bloodlines), it’s a prequel (The First Omen; A Quiet Place: Day One), the return of a beloved gothic icon (Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale; Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein), or a slasher movie (Dangerous Animals) in which the psycho killer’s weapon of choice is not blades, but sharks. Or it’s a thrilling, deliriously inventive dispatch from one of a new wave of horror auteurs shaking up the cinematic zeitgeist: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, say, or Zach Cregger’s Weapons.By playing with metaphor, imagery and narrative, horror has always addressed hard truths about death, decay and the human condition that mainstream produ...

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1 week ago Here's when Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas and where in Scotland you can watch it

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas from Friday, October 24, with just 12 in Scotland showing the film.

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1 week ago Everything we know about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation

From when it’s on Netflix to where it was filmed, here’s everything we know about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

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1 week ago Frankenstein review: Guillermo del Toro's gory and goofy Edinburgh

Frankenstein is by turns gory and goofy, writes Alistair Harkness

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1 week ago A team of artisans brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life

In “Frankenstein,” metaphors are hard to resist

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1 week ago Charli XCX says her tracks for Wuthering Heights sound very different to Brat

The Brat singer is providing music for the soundtrack of Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel.

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1 week ago Jacob Elordi Doubles Down on Bottega Veneta’s Intrecciato Lace

Jacob Elordi Doubles Down on Bottega Veneta’s Intrecciato Lace-ups in London  WWD

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1 week ago Mia Goth flashes racy glimpse of her underwear in sheer backless gown as she joins her dapper co

Mia Goth ensured all eyes were on her on Monday evening as she joined her co-star Jacob Elordi at the premiere of Frankenstein during the 69th BFI London Film Festival.

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3 w. ago The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute convictionGuillermo del Toro is just about to release his epic new Frankenstein adaptation, swathed in self-conscious artistry and mythic self-importance. But this rereleased 1957 Hammer shocker from the screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and the veteran director Terence Fisher, shows the way it should be done – with unpretentious energy and sly macabre gusto. In vivid Eastmancolor, it’s a film electrified with its own melodramatic crassness, unencumbered with good taste and certainly uninterested in making either Frankenstein or his creature in any way tragically sympathetic.Peter Cushing plays the brilliant and fatally hubristic scientist Victor Frankenstein; the young Melvyn Hayes has a notable juve-lead role in flashback as the supercilious young Victor. Working with his sorrowingly reluctant colleague and former tutor Paul (Robert Urquhart), Frankenstein secretly constructs a new hum...

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3 w. ago New trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein reveals more about Jacob Elordi's Creature

“He will tell his tale,” wrote del Toro on social media following the trailer’s release.

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3 w. ago Jezebels, race kink and Cardi B: in One Battle After Another, Black women are still stereotypes

With its hyper-sexualised Black female revolutionary and fetishised depiction of interracial relationships, Paul Thomas Anderson’s much-lauded latest raises questions about how white male directors depict Black womenIt’s hard to watch One Battle After Another in the days following the death of fugitive Black liberation activist, Assata Shakur, and not have some questions about how white male film-makers depict revolutionary Black women on screen. Many words have already been written about the good in Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film – some say “masterpiece” – including a five-star review in the Guardian. The electrifying pace of the action; that instant-classic car chase sequence and Benicio del Toro’s heroically chill Sensei Sergio, have all been justly praised. So let’s take this as read.But if a film is worth seeing, then it’s worth taking seriously and in this case that involves asking: dear, revered PTA, what is up with you and Black women? We know Anderson is careful and del...

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4 w. ago Guillermo del Toro auctions off part of his Bleak House horror collection

A live auction for Guillermo del Toro's horror memorabilia auction wrapped up Friday

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