Horror

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The hit Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things returns for another season

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The Amazon Prime series Them examines the dark, racist undergrowth in 50s American suburbia. Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Allison Pill star

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Cinema 

The new film from Brandon Cronenberg, David Cronenberg's son, follows an assassin with the ability to change bodies to facilitate untraceable murder. Sean Bean and Christopher Abbott star

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From Stephen King to Stranger Things, here's a list of the best horror movies and TV shows to stream this Halloween on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video

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In this family horror debut from Natalie Erika James, Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) try to find their missing matriarch Edna (Robyn Nevin)

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Mike Flanagan's anticipated follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House, this new and emotionally intense ghost story adapts Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw. Victoria Pedretti stars

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In Rose Glass' debut feature film, Morfydd Clarke (David Copperfield) stars as a private care worker who's converted to a dark interpretation of Christianity

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In Charlie Kaufman's new Netflix movie, Jake (Jesse Plemons) and his girlfriend (Jessie Buckley) visit his parents (David Thewlis and Toni Collette). But his girlfriend is having doubts...

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In BBC's new three-part adaptation of Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss reanimate culture's best-known vampire (Claes Bang) for a shocking, horrific, hilarious series

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Stanley Kubrick terrified audiences with The Shining, but not its author Stephen King. Can The Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan reconcile the two in Doctor Sleep?

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TV 

In BBC's Dublin Murders, Killian Scott and Sarah Greene star as detectives looking into a series of forest murders in 2006 Ireland.

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Ghost Stories returns for a limited run on the West End, just in time for a terrifying Halloween treat

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Jessica Chastain stars in the final IT movie, based on Stephen King's horror epic. 27 years later, the Losers' Club is all grown up and ready to defeat Pennywise

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Cinema 

Based on the controversial books by Alvin Schwarz, the teen horror fanatic Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti) finds a book that writes its own horror stories... and they become true

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Cinema 

'Sometimes dead is better': cursed burial grounds bring untold horrors in a new film adaption of Stephen King's novel

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Everybody has been binging Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, based on Shirley Jackson's famous novel. Here are some reasons why you should too

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Cinema 

David Gordon Green ignores every other Halloween sequel and continues from the original – bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, a woman with a taste for vengeance

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Cinema 

In The Nun, director Corin Hardy takes on the sinister demon Valak from the Conjuring franchise. Unfortunately, there's not much to be scared of

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Cinema 

Touted as the best horror movie of the year, Hereditary is also stunning drama about the ravages of grief and the menace of family featuring an outstanding Toni Collette

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Adapted from the successful stage play, Ghost Stories centres on a skeptical parapsychologist trying to resolve three 'unexplainable' cases, featuring Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman

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Cinema 

The Killing of a Sacred Deer prides itself on being cinematic Marmite, but we were just a little disappointed

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Norwegian director Joachim Trier's Thelma is a visually stunning, if uneven, supernatural thriller

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Yorgos Lanthimos' latest thriller caused a sensation on the festival circuit. Our Gold Whisper members can see what all the fuss is about at BFI Southbank this November

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Killing Ground is a slightly twisty horror from Australia that is unfortunately not Wolf Creek – and seems to be a bit a little upset that it’s not

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The first movie adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has plenty of terrifying tricks up its sleeve — but it’s the kids’ clowning around that steals the show

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In Darren Aronofsky's mother!, Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem are caught in a whirlwind of chaos and confusion of Biblical proportions that somehow makes complete and utter sense

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Bill Nighy trawls through Victorian London's depths for a notorious killer, but that’s only half the story – The Limehouse Golem has a surprising feminist edge

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The best films out in September include Bill Nighy's brilliant muder-mystery and Jennifer Lawrence's surreal horror

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Michael Fassbender heads a crack team of detectives in this nordic noir crime thriller film The Snowman (2017). Don't be fooled – it's a Christmas mood-killer

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Cinema 

Carrie, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Shining are among the classic King films being screened throughout September

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A Ghost Story, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck with a sheet over his head, comes from a long line of paranormal romances... some more successful than others

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Cinema 

Hound of Love is a deeply unpleasant film justified by its clever depiction of a dysfunctional relationship