17 h. ago 'The Conjuring: Last Rites' creeps its way to another box office win for horror genre

“The Conjuring: Last Rites” creeped its way toward a box office win for horror

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58 h. ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic

Toronto film festival: The rising star makes for a convincing boxer inside the ring in David Michôd’s by-the-numbers drama but flounders when outsideEven before Sydney Sweeney became better known for being in the centre of an increasingly absurd culture war, the unavoidable campaign to make her Hollywood’s Next Big Thing was showing signs of fatigue. The Euphoria grad, who gave a resonant performance in Reality, scored a sleeper hit with glossed up romcom Anyone But You but audiences were more impressed than critics, including myself (I found her performance strangely stilted). There was little interest from either side in her nun horror Immaculate, and earlier this summer her incredulously plotted Apple movie Echo Valley went the way of many Apple movies (no one knows it exists).Post-thinkpieces, two of her festival duds (Eden and Americana) disappeared at the box office and she now arrives at Toronto in need of a win. And what better way to achieve that by going for an old-fashion...

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67 h. ago How to stream every The Conjuring film in the UK as 'terrifying' Last Rites hits cinemas

The series is widely regarded as one of the best modern horror series

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6 d. ago Above the Knee review – man struggles with body integrity dysmorphia in gory amputation horror

A man grapples with an overwhelming desire to remove his leg in a lingering psychological interrogation from Norwegian film-maker Viljar BøeNorwegian director Viljar Bøe has been hacking out an interesting niche for himself in the horror genre, specialising in a variety grounded more in psychology than supernatural jiggery pokery. For example, Good Boy from 2022 revolved around a man and his “dog” (who is obviously a guy in a dog costume) acting like a mutt at all times. Similarly, his new feature features a character called Amir (Freddy Singh) with a psychological fixation that’s so unusual he feels he must keep it a secret from his girlfriend and all acquaintances: he has body integrity dysphoria (BID), which in his case means he has an overwhelming desire to amputate his left leg even though there’s nothing physically wrong with it.Amir lives with his super-nice, cheerful girlfriend Kim (Julie Abrahamsen) in hyper-tolerant, Scandi-socialist quasi-utopia Norway, so when he drunken...

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6 d. ago Suspended police officers win £50,000 payout after taking 'sexist' selfies with popstar Tallia Storm

Two police officers who were suspended after taking a selfie with a pop star were 'victims of sex discrimination', a tribunal has found.

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9 d. ago The Conjuring Last Rites cast plagued by insomnia as star recalls 'holding Rosary close'

The upcoming film follows a spine-chilling haunting

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1 week ago Guillermo del Toro almost lost his movie memorabilia in a wildfire. Now, he's letting some of it go

Guillermo del Toro rose to fame creating horror movies that will likely help shape the genre for generations to come

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1 week ago Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin review – grasping the essence of horror

The Argentinian writer maps a journey through fear, healing and the terrifying permeability of our boundariesHorror, in essence, is about porousness. Our terrors take varied forms but horror probes their single, existential source: the terrifying permeability of our boundaries. If spirits can swim back from the world of the dead, if the living body can degrade to the point where it becomes malleable or parasitically possessed, what hope can there be for our fantasy of security and selfhood?Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin’s most recent collection of stories, her third in English, may not be categorisable as “horror” in the traditional sense, but it shares with the genre its spiritual core. In Schweblin’s vision, the barriers that separate one thing from another – the wanted from the unwanted, the environmental from the bodily, the unthreatening from the violent and chaotic – are so porous as to be nonexistent. True horror, she reminds us, is neither otherworldly o...

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3 w. ago Maresca: We deserved to win...and we will get better | News | Official Site

Maresca: We deserved to win...and we will get better | News | Official Site  Chelsea

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