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Alien (1979)

Alien is Ridley Scott's haunted house in orbit: seven working stiffs, one stowaway, and nowhere to run. Cold does it first. The…

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Psycho (1960)

Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's cheap, black-and-white shocker: a thief on the run, a vacant motel, a boy and his mother. Rain has…

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Scream (1996)

Scream is Wes Craven's meta-slasher: a masked killer who quizzes Woodsboro's teenagers on horror trivia — and a dead genre stands back…

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The Thing (1982)

The Thing is John Carpenter's Antarctic nightmare of paranoia and practical effects: twelve men, one perfect imitation, and no one left to…

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    Clear your Tuesday night, fiends. The King does not do quiet entrances, so he is taking his bow…

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    You are sitting in the dark, and a voice rolls out of it. Measured. Warm. Impossible to mistake…

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    Molepeople has a new director — Ben Wheatley — after Rob Savage and star LaKeith Stanfield both exited…

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    Smile 3 is officially moving forward at Paramount, with David Bruckner directing and Parker Finn producing. You're standing…

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    Some houses you only have to survive until dawn. Garth Manor was one of them — and the…

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