horror
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At the end of “The Return,” when Fiennes stands entrail-smeared before his beloved Penelope, she recoils from the horror of the battlefield brought right into their home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
British filmmaker Justin Hardy, who directed the sequel to his late father Robin's 1973 cult horror classic The Wicker Man, has died aged 61.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Jordan: Now if there’s a good horror or suspense movie out, I might convince Salish to go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Sadly, Julia’s needy, embittered—and estranged—mother, has proved herself to be as much of a horror show as Julia’s father.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In horror, Torak watched the bear rise above:: the edge of the trail.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Tossing her blond locks like a hair-metal vixen, she’s a needy, greedy, selfie-taking try-hard who — horrors — frets over her own mass appeal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Rahela Begum survived the horrors of war in Myanmar and life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh -- only to end up drifting at sea, clinging to a wooden plank.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
They transformed the unimaginable horrors that began with their theft from their homeland into constitutional principles expansive enough to protect people they would never know and generations they would never live to see.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Callamard, the Amnesty secretary general, said the "world was warned of the horrors that civilians in el-Fasher confronted as the RSF laid siege to the city".
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I may, in time. Child, you do not want to run off into the woods at this late hour. Who can say what horrors await out there?”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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