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Just in time for Halloween: Some thoughts on some horror movie first-watches from across the genre's spectrum.
A 2008 Australian film wraps a story of grief and loss into the form of a scary mockumentary.
A season of spookiness at The Reveal kicks off with a look at a nasty '70s shocker.
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The influential Spanish film ‘[REC]’ helped fuel a found-footage revival in the late ’00s. Its sequel and American offshoots anticipated how quickly the subgenre could burn itself out.
One sort of horror gives way to another in this claustrophobic family story from Austria.
Like the spaceship at the center of its plot, Paul W.S. Anderson's space horror disappeared in 1997, only to return as an object of puzzlement and curiosity.
