horror
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While Johnson’s elasticity as a performer is a bit more contentious, I’ve always found her choices fascinating — oscillating between rom-coms, superhero films and arthouse horror with the bat of a mascara’d eye.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
But what is at the heart of that affinity for the genre and why aren’t there more Latino horror creators in the industry?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Fjord” exemplifies a particularly vital strain of cinema, the kind that peers into reality and finds horror just beneath the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Totah says projects such as this year's indie horror hit Obsession also deserve to be championed.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The worst part was just the moment before, when I went from the exhilaration of soaring through the air to the horror of plummeting toward the hard earth.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
I had grim conversations with many people about the horrors they’d seen after their loved ones fell into the world of medbeds.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mr. Warrack describes removing an approximately 3-foot-deep layer of pigeon excrement from Rome’s Church of SS Vincenzo e Anastasio, “which revealed a multitude of squirming horrors that even Hieronymus Bosch never dreamed of.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
To secretly persuade his young students to put on a musical about the horrors of 9/11 and its aftermath that’s certain to cause controversy and get the principal in trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even greater horrors adorned the walls surrounding us and were fastened by ropes to the ceiling above.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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