Horror Movies

‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ (2015) turns focus to Lin Shaye’s Elise

The “Insidious” series can be seen as a classier, slicker version of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series. A person falls asleep and gains access

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‘The Amityville Curse’ (1990) seeks its haunts from another house

As old trash movies become easily accessible in the streaming era, it’s become fashionable to look for hidden gems, to nominate underrated horror films for

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‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (2013) pads out possession story

After director James Wan helped usher an old-school/new-school horror mix into the mainstream with 2011’s “Insidious” – set in modern times but with sound and

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A panic on our hands on the Fourth of July: The 10 best shark horror movies

“You yell ‘barracuda,’ everybody says ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘shark,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” That line from

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Hall adds more psych-horror to resume with ‘Resurrection’ (2022)

At this point, you could do a film festival of Rebecca Hall psychological thrillers. After the likes of “The Gift” and “The Night House,” we

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In ‘Amityville 4’ (1989), ‘The Evil Escapes’ into a daytime soap

The line between TV and film has blurred as we approach the point where the two media will be indistinguishable in production values. In 1989,

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‘Haunting in Connecticut’ (2009) makes tidy use of cancer parallel

“The Haunting in Connecticut” (2009) is – like the more famous “The Amityville Horror” (1979) — another of those proto-“Conjuring” films that come from an

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‘Amityville 3-D’ (1983) could’ve used more dimension in its storytelling

“Amityville 3-D” (1983) hit theaters at the intersection of a couple of trends: one, sequels as ways to cash in on a horror franchise, and

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‘Endless Night’ gets made into sneaky great 1972 film

As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed

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‘The Boogeyman’ an all-too-familiar take on a familiar childhood fear

“The Boogeyman,” adapted from a 1973 short story by Stephen King (collected in 1978’s “Night Shift”), is the third-oldest of his stories to be adapted

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