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fromSlate Magazine
4 days ago

How Stephen King Made The Shining Even Scarier

Stephen King's revisions in The Shining enhance the story's horror through specific imagery and the removal of explicit references to violence.
Film
fromWIRED
5 days ago

A New Horror Movie Depicts Realistic Snuff. That's Not the Most Disturbing Thing About It

The reboot of Faces of Death reflects modern society's exposure to real violence through social media and its impact on viewers.
Independent films
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago

Javier Bardem Is Absolutely Terrifying in the 'Cape Fear' Trailer

Javier Bardem stars as a darker Max Cady in the upcoming Apple TV series remake of Cape Fear, premiering June 5.
Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

Homoerotic or homophobic? This 50-year-old film explored repression & desire between two camp counselors - Queerty

The Best Way To Walk explores psychosexual tension between two adult summer camp counselors—a sensitive drama tutor and a repressed alpha male PE teacher—after the latter discovers the former cross-dressing.
MMA
fromSherdog
1 month ago

'The Killer' plans to execute infamous 'Hannibal Lecter' at Oktagon 85

Khurshed Kakhorov faces Igor Severino for the vacant Oktagon bantamweight title, promising a violent performance to end Severino's controversial Hannibal persona.
fromInverse
2 months ago

35 Years Later, One Of The Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time Remains Chillingly Relevant

A source told the Times that the idea had come from deputy director Dan Bongino, a cop-turned-right-wing-podcast-yapper, whose justification for the decision was as follows: "Bongino said, You can have the best female agent take down the biggest case in our history, but if on the Ring door-camera video she's out of shape or overweight, that's going to be the story. He was worried about whether or not they'd look good on a doorbell camera. He said it's the way these times are."
US politics
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Value of True Crime

Evolutionary psychology explains true crime fascination as a survival mechanism for identifying threats, yet successful predators still evade detection through deception and social bonding.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Six great reads: Fafo' parenting, what tech does to us, and Patrick Bateman's legacy

Modern technology, shifting parenting norms, artistic contrasts, and nostalgic reflections reveal cultural tensions between connection, emotional warmth, and changing creative and social practices.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Christian Bale on Planned American Psycho Remake: 'I Love Brave People'

Christian Bale expressed support for Luca Guadagnino's upcoming American Psycho adaptation while reflecting fondly on his experience with Mary Harron's 2000 version.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I'll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert review are they fantasists or psychopaths?

Glimpse them chatting in a restaurant or posing on Instagram, and you might think they have it all. The pair live in London but often travel, drawing the eyes of other guests, their skin glowing, their limbs artfully at ease. She writes affirmations on hotel stationery; he claims to taste notes of bark and tobacco in his chianti. As Sean Gilbert's dark, observant debut opens in Istanbul, this apparently perfect couple bicker and sweat, for secrets lurk behind their facade and one of them might be murder.
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US news
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Guthrie Case Is a Made-For-TV Horror

Media-driven true-crime fascination alters public expectations and attention, intensifying national focus on Nancy Guthrie's apparent abduction and complicating real-world justice.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

From incel culture to the White House: American Psycho's dark hold on modern masculinity

Patrick Bateman persists as a cultural figure embodying capitalist excess, inspiring films, musicals, memes, and theatrical revivals decades after American Psycho's debut.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Psycho Killer review delayed satanic serial slasher is devilishly dull

Psycho Killer endured nearly two decades of failed attempts before a 2023 production, yet remains an inessential B-movie undeserving of wide theatrical release.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Hitchcock's The Lodger has been turned into a vertical microdrama. What's next Psycho on Snapchat?

Tattle TV reframes Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger as a vertically cropped, phone-first microdrama, altering original 4:3 compositions and raising preservation and aesthetics concerns.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?

Contemporary hostage films use captivity to interrogate power imbalances, allowing marginalized figures to confront untouchable elites and reflect wider social anxieties.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

He's One of Our Greatest Actors. He Thought His Career Was Over-Until He Got One Delicious Role.

The Welsh-born actor had spent much of the decade living in the United States, where he split his time between the stage and the screen, building an utterly respectable career. He had played a compassionate doctor in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, a murderous ventriloquist in the cult thriller Magic, and the real-life convicted child murderer Bruno Hauptmann in the TV movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, for which he had won his first Emmy.
Film
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fromInverse
2 months ago

25 Years Later, An Infamously Divisive Horror Sequel Could Have Been Even Weirder

The Hannibal sequel novel escalates into grotesque, bizarre extremes with revenge, mutilation, sexual manipulation, and shocking, implausible plot contrivances.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

'Psycho Killer' star shares how new horror movie is a "different" "cat-and-mouse chase" thriller

On The Red Carpet caught up with "Psycho Killer" star Georgina Campbell, who plays officer Jane Archer. She opened up about her character's quest in the film, "It's a cat-and-mouse chase between Psycho Killer, the Slasher, and Officer Jane Archer. He kills her husband. And, then he goes on this kind of havoc across America, killing people as he goes, and she starts following him to stop him."
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