1 hour ago My unexpected Pride icon: as a bullied teenager, I found safety in slasher films

Watching mild-mannered schoolgirls overcome serial killers such as Freddy Krueger and emerge as survivors spoke to my younger self in a way no other films couldI have always been morbidly obsessed with the horror film genre. As a small child, I’d gaze up at the posters of Freddy Krueger or Pinhead in our local video rental shop with a curious mix of fear and desire. I wanted to be scared, and I also did not. I was 11 when Channel 4 screened A Nightmare on Elm Street. My poor mum, assuming it couldn’t be that bad if it was on TV, let me record it. I watched through my fingers, drunk on anxiety, the anticipation of the kills almost unbearable. There is, I would argue, something quite queer about this complicated urge. Horror is titillating.The golden age of the slasher movie was the 1970s and 80s. I’m sure film-makers were inspired by the cultural austerity of the Reagan era, the Moral Majority and the unfolding Aids crisis. But, as a child, I was blissfully unaware of those things or...

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7 h. ago Netflix horror so terrifying it 'redefines goosebumps' and 'just like Stephen King'

Horror fans looking for a film to stream on Netflix need to look no further as Brian Cox stars in this chilling

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32 h. ago A classic UK horror film not available to stream online is airing on TV tonight

The film has become one of the hardest to watch legally in recent years

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45 h. ago Netflix fans gripped by Downton Abbey star's horror movie hailed as 'an all

The horror film (pictured), released in 2018, sees Dan Stevens - best known as Matthew Crawley in the iconic ITV period drama - looking rather different.

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3 d. ago What if A Christmas Carol was a horror film? That’s exactly what’s happening from Warner Bros

Robert Eggers, master of terrifying historical horror, is set to haunt your holidays

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5 d. ago 'Underrated' horror added to Netflix that fans have 'on repeat'

The film was first released back in 1985

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6 d. ago Amanda Seyfried reveals the drug she did with pal Adam Brody when they were in their 20s

The two met 16 years ago on the set of the 2009 horror film Jennifer's Body. And now they are both working on his series: Hers is Long Bright River and his is Nobody Wants This.

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7 d. ago Danny Boyle reveals how his daughter stopped traffic to create that infamous deserted scene in 28 Days Later

The infamous scene from the 2002 post-apocalyptic horror film sees Cillian Murphy walking through a deserted London as he discovers a virus has caused the breakdown of society.

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9 d. ago Horror moment 'Twilight killer' teens decided to slaughter family before cosy film night

'Twilight killers' Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham plotted together to butcher Edwards' own mother and sister, in a twisted plan borne out of an intense and warped relationship

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9 d. 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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1 week ago 'Terrifying' viral horror film 'not for the faint of heart' you can watch free

A24 is developing a movie based on the viral short

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1 week ago Disney fans creeped out to learn where they've heard Lilo's voice before

A Lilo & Stitch voice star went on to appear in an iconic horror film, with the two films releasing in the same year and surprising fans of the much-loved family-friendly animated film

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1 week ago 'Sinners' puts 'truth on screen' for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene

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1 week ago Dashcam: ‘Unhinged’ found footage film being called ‘most polarising horror in years’ gets trailer

A viewer is said to have ‘nearly got sick’ at the film’s premiere

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1 week ago Video stars: the booming VJ scene localising Hollywood films for Ugandans

Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at homeOn a recent Saturday afternoon in an informal settlement in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, dozens of young men sat on benches in a dark shack to watch a bootlegged version of the Hollywood comedy-horror film The Monkey.As the English-language action unfolded on the screen, a voiceover translation in the Bantu language Luganda by VJ Junior – one of Uganda’s top video jockeys – boomed into the room. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Horror fans praise return of ‘terrifying’ film as director promises it is ‘more graphic, bloodier, and violent’

Fans called the original film ‘a life-changing experience’

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2 w. ago 'It's YOU I want': The sick joke the 'Man in Black' serial killer made as he tied up a young couple while posing as a police officer

Horror film-obsessed Peter Moore, who was convicted in 1996 of the savage, sexually-motivated murders of four men, is currently an inmate at HMP Wakefield.

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2 w. ago Sinners director Ryan Coogler reveals if horror film is getting a sequel soon

Filmmaker says he ‘wanted movie to feel like a full meal’

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2 w. ago Boy, 4, attacked by dog and sustained injuries 'like something out of a horror film'

Amanda Holmes' son, Antonio Quinn, was attacked by a Pocket Bully while outside a friend's house

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2 w. ago Netflix horror with near perfect rating 'so terrifying it taps into everyone's deepest fears'

This 2014 psychological horror film with a 98 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes has become a cult classic

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