horror
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While “The Pineapple” flirts with horror, torture and conspiracy nuts, it also provides space for Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
One of the hottest horror directors on the planet adapting the world's most popular scary video game series?
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Resuscitating the zombie franchise “Resident Evil,” writer-director Zach Cregger has made perhaps the greatest tentacle-based horror show of all time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The director of ‘Barbarian’ and ‘Weapons’ returns with a reboot of the long-running series that proves a funny, frightening, altogether refreshing horror movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Panic and horror and misery had taken hold of her, but her numb lips formed words, tried to keep him talking.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
“NYC 93” is about the celebratory chaos of band life in the early ’90s, “The Long Goodbye” addresses the horrors of dementia, and the title track is about closure, whether positive or problematic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
For all the horrors of peace, a new and largely postcolonial Asia emerged soon after the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Recognizing that 9/11’s horrors compounded over the years does not degrade the memory of its initial victims.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
He drew parallels with the horrors of the Holocaust, noting that images of Nazi concentration camps only became public after the atrocities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
I went through the list of horrors so fast that I had to catch my breath.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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