horror
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In a hallway lined with movie posters in UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, Tomas Carrasco was in the middle of preparing to shoot his senior capstone film: a surreal horror comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
“It’s like something out of a horror movie for them,” said Livieri.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
"As I have said before, that shameful chapter of history is one that fills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow," said the king.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Other attendees at Klum's party this year included actors Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who surprised attendees by dressing as the twins from the horror film The Shining.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
The clerk suppresses a look of horror before reaching for the tray on the very bottom rack.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
But it also folds in modern-day horrors, both literally and figuratively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Hospital staff informed law enforcement, and when police arrived at their home they discovered three different rooms called "learning centres" under the supervision of multiple nannies, which Hochman described as a "house of horrors".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
In their silence, we imagined all sorts of horrors.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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