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‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/27/tim-curry-five-best-screen-roles-rocky-horror-picture-show #Film #TimCurry #Culture #TheMuppets #HorrorFilms #Musicals #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #ComedyFilms #Comedy #StephenKing #Books

‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles
By Laurence Phelan

The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/27/tim-curry-five-best-screen-roles-rocky-horror-picture-show

#Film #TimCurry #Culture #TheMuppets #Horrorfilms #Musicals #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Comedyfilms #Comedy #StephenKing #Books #TheGuardian #LaurencePhelan

Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
By Laurence Phelan

This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/27/colony-review-zombies-yeon-sang-ho

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#Watching BUFFET INFINITY

Best movie with a burger on its onesheet since Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.

https://letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflor/film/buffet-infinity/

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Kirsty Mann: Corpse review – a comedy so creepy you’ll fear the next revelation
By Chris Wiegand

Summerhall, Edinburgh The comedian brings a calm authority to her tale of a haunted house and digs out maximum horror from a minimal staging

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/26/kirsty-mann-corpse-review-summerhall-edinburgh-fringe

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Penny Lane Is Dead review – Aussie slasher comedy zips from Neighbours to nasty
By Leslie Felperin

Mia’Kate Russell’s 80s-set Ozsploitation horror is a tad slapdash, but the grungy gore and seething catfights save it from dud status

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/25/penny-lane-is-dead-review-aussie-slasher-comedy-zips-from-neighbours-to-nasty

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‘A bit like meditation’: why Saw is my feelgood movie
By Emma Madden

The latest in our series of writers picking their go-to comfort films is a grimy and gory trip back to the start of a surprisingly uplifting torture porn franchise

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/24/my-feelgood-movie-saw

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Illicit deeds have just gotten a new Halloween video game banned in Australia – and it’s not because of the violence https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/24/michael-myers-halloween-video-game-banned-in-australia-drugs #Games #Culture #AustraliaNews #Halloween2018 #HorrorFilms

Illicit deeds have just gotten a new Halloween video game banned in Australia – and it’s not because of the violence
By Jackson Ryan

Academics – and a former director of Australia’s Classification Board – say Halloween: The Game’s ban due to ‘incentivised drug use’ highlights an incoherent set of standards

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/24/michael-myers-halloween-video-game-banned-in-australia-drugs

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#Watching PASSENGER

Features a titular villain (Iggy Pop?) that's a lot less frightening than your average Catholic priest.

https://letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflor/film/passenger-2026/

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Crybabies: The Scaring review – chills and laughs abound in twisty tale of demonic possession
By Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis fantastic comic play from the Radio 4 trio unleashes a torrent of great gags and illusions

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/20/crybabies-the-scaring-review-pleasance-courtyard-edinburgh

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review – Gillian Anderson superb in queer slasher spectacular
By Peter Bradshaw

Young indie film-maker Kris tracks down Anderson’s Final Girl for a remake of a beloved horror, to find fantasy and reality collapsed

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/14/teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-review-seductive-gillian-anderson-fulfils-a-rapturous-slasher-fan-obsession

#Film #Culture #Festivals #GillianAnderson #Horrorfilms #Cannesfilmfestival #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

It Ends review – gripping micro-budget horror ranks among the year’s best https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/it-ends-horror-movie-review #HorrorFilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers

It Ends review – gripping micro-budget horror ranks among the year’s best
By Owen Myers

Led by a stellar cast of gen-Z newcomers, Alex Ullom’s directorial debut is an expertly crafted nightmare about a road trip gone wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/20/it-ends-horror-movie-review

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Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/insidious-out-of-the-further-review #HorrorFilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers

Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom
By Scott Tobias

Uninteresting mythology and junky effects push a once-promising horror franchise further from what it once was

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/insidious-out-of-the-further-review

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‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/18/rick-baker-interview-visual-effects-makeup-gremlins-thriller #Film #FilmIndustry #Culture #TheExorcist #HorrorFilms #AwardsAndPrizes #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #Business #KingKong

‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career
By Rory O'Connor

Rick Baker helped define Hollywood’s creature features with his wild makeup effects skills. From Locarno, he talks Gremlins, his love of simians– and why AI will never replace expert design

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/18/rick-baker-interview-visual-effects-makeup-gremlins-thriller

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Chris Carter is mistaken if he thinks more gore will bring The X-Files: I Want to Believe back to life https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/17/chris-carter-x-files-i-want-to-believe-directors-cut-critique-spoilers #Film #Culture #ScienceFictionAndFantasyFilms #HorrorFilms #DavidDuchovny #GillianAnderson

The Hounds Gate Haunting review – a ghostly critic lurks in the stalls in this suspenseful spooker
By Phil Hoad

This mockumentary from low-budget horror veteran Richard Mansfield isn’t the most subtle take on the artist-critic relationship but it has a certain sprightliness

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/17/the-hounds-gate-haunting-review-richard-mansfield

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Chris Carter is mistaken if he thinks more gore will bring The X-Files: I Want to Believe back to life
By Ben Child

The director’s cut includes a host more body parts but no more insight into the villains’ personalities. What could be a gothic masterstroke is turned into a dreary procedural in the snow

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/17/chris-carter-x-files-i-want-to-believe-directors-cut-critique-spoilers

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Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s
By Peter Bradshaw

Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/15/snapshot-review-fun-found-footage-scarer-follows-amateur-ripper-hunters-in-the-1880s

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The End of Tom Six review – Human Centipede director delivers one last freaky flick
By Peter Bradshaw

Now living with multiple sclerosis, Six rants about the masturbation film distributors won’t touch and the money mystery behind his horror hit

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/13/the-end-of-tom-six-review-human-centipede-director

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The pilot episode of my podcast Blooming Buzzing Confusion is here at my new Patreon - I talk about things I love and curiosity #podcast #curiosity #art #horrorfilms #lgbtq

https://www.patreon.com/RobinInce/posts/blooming-buzzing-166604098

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Let me know some of your favorite books, films, and the broad theme I should look into this year!

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Lesbians, latex and $2,000 condoms: why are this summer’s movies so obsessed with sex? https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/10/sex-film-one-night-only-the-invite-camp-miasma #Film #Culture #Sex #LifeAndStyle #OliviaWilde #GreggAraki #SethRogen #RoeVWade #RomanceFilms #HorrorFilms #ComedyFilms #GillianAnderson #PenlopeCruz #EdwardNorton

Lesbians, latex and $2,000 condoms: why are this summer’s movies so obsessed with sex?
By Rafaela Bassili

From One Night Only to The Invite, a wave of new movies are a raunchy antidote to gen Z celibacy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/10/sex-film-one-night-only-the-invite-camp-miasma

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RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
By Phil Hoad

Based on a short story by the Goosebumps author, this derivative but tautly plotted tale over-relies on Scooby-Doo-style sleuthery, and its truly unsettling turn comes too late

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/10/rl-stines-pumpkinhead-review-goosebumps-author

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#Watching ICE CREAM MAN

I guess we should be glad it's, um, *thinks of something positive to write* has a shorter runtime than Borderlands.

https://letterboxd.com/noeljpenaflor/film/ice-cream-man-2026/

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‘Camp Miasma’ Raises an Important Question: How Are Our Favorite Slasher Franchises Doing?
#IndieWire #Features #General #Film #HorrorFilms #Slasher #Trailers

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/slasher-movie-franchises-current-past-1235209317/