horror
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The studio might have freed up Mr. West to go as far as he dared and deliver an R-rated horror show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Dozens of residents gathered around the building on Thursday morning as debris floated through the air, and they watched in horror as workers tried to find more survivors or recover remains.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“We have very good horror movies now, but the music is just a background, nobody thinks that the film needs a very special theme that remains in your head,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The recent body horror film “Clayface” has made about $109 million worldwide since its release in late October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
To my horror, I heard someone rushing back up from the bottom of the stairs.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Yet the same colonial project that produced such horrors also gave Spenser the resources to create one of the great literary works of his age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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
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
In their silence, we imagined all sorts of horrors.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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