horror
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The mayhem is more sci-fi action than horror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
First came Resident Evil, director Zach Cregger's movie version of the long-running horror game series.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
North American ticket sales for “Other Mommy,” the new horror movie from Universal Pictures, leading the domestic box office despite poor reviews by both theatergoers and critics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The Social Reckoning was beaten in the US box office chart by horror movie Other Mommy, psychological thriller Verity, video game adaptation Resident Evil and Brad Pitt's wilderness thriller Heart of the Beast.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Then he remembered, and his eyes flew open again, filled with horror.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Amanpour reflected on her "very first big exciting assignment covering the First Gulf War, to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran and all the points in between".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
The horrors came from all corners of the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Janey Hart discussed how 100 years earlier, men served as hospital attendants and women were thought of as too weak to withstand the horrors of military hospitals.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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