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40 Years Later, A Maligned Sequel To A Horror Classic Is Better Than You Remember

'Poltergeist II: The Other Side' might remain in the shadow of the Tobe Hooper classic, but it's better than its reputation.

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47 Years Later, One Ambitious Stephen King Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Tobe Hooper's ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's early novel is finally available to watch in glorious 4K.

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7 new horror movies on Prime Video, Shudder, HBO Max, and more in January 2026

Looking to cure those January blues? There's some gripping horror movies waiting for you across the best streaming services.

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10 space zombie movies, books, and games to prepare you for the night of the intergalactic dead

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below.

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‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist

‘Steven Spielberg lit up when I told him I couldn’t do the face-tearing scene. Those are his hands you see in the film. I could never have ripped my face off with the same joie de vivre’

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20 Years Ago, A Cult TV Show Gave A Generation Of Horror Legends Their Due

From Carpenter to Hooper, everyone got to play in this bloody sandbox.

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Chain Reactions review – famous fans of Texas Chain Saw Massacre go deep into the legendary slasher

Stephen King, Takashi Miike and Karyn Kusama are among the contributors to this documentary about Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror masterpiece

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Now you can stay in the Poltergeist house from the 1982 horror classic

Property owner Rachel Powers is offering people the chance to stay at the Poltergeist house from the 1982 horror movie, directed by Tobe Hooper.

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Now you can stay in the Poltergeist house from the 1982 horror classic

Property owner Rachel Powers is offering people the chance to stay at the Poltergeist house from the 1982 horror movie, directed by Tobe Hooper.

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Weapons Director Name-Dropped An Amazing Stephen King Deep Cut Discussing The Author's Influence On The New Horror Movie

Weapons arrives in theaters on August 8.

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Watching These Movies Might Feel Different When You Read These 23 Rare Movie Facts Found Online

Cinema is full of amazingly amusing yet relatively unknown stories that never appear on the big screen. Fortunately, soon enough, they find their way online, and that's exactly what this post is about.

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30 Years Ago, A Forgotten Stephen King Flop Brought Together 4 Horror Legends

The Mangler may be one of the lesser Stephen King adaptations, but it at least brought together several horror icons.

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Cue the pig squeal! How The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s score was stitched back together for its first release

A soundtrack of wildlife, drones and saucepans ensured the 1974 film became truly horrifying. Its co-creator recalls the can-do spirit that made it happen

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45 Years Ago, a Forgotten Stephen King Thriller Revitalized a Classic Monster

Forget ghosts and ghouls. The real terror comes from living before smartphones.

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Halloween is here! Don't miss these 7 hidden gem horror films — and their cosmic counterparts

In time for Halloween, we present seven terrifying cosmic monsters — and to meet your thirst for scares, we've added must-watch horror movies to this witches brew.

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Salem’s Lot: a faithful but shallow adaptation of Stephen King’s classic vampire novel

The vampire story dwells among the undead of literary and cinematic genres, ever available for reanimation. This year alone has seen the publication of more than 30 vampire novels in the US (from Rachel Harrison’s So Thirsty to K. M. Enright’s Mistress of Lies), alongside the release of several vampire…

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50 Years Later, the Most Influential Cannibal Thriller Of All Time Just Got a Huge Upgrade

This genre-defining horror movie left a lasting impression on director Ridley Scott, who cited it as an inspiration for 'Alien.'

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its harrowing, visceral impact has been rarely matched, 50 years on

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a product of a unique time in American filmmaking, when independent exploitation films were nastier than ever, and equally capable of piercing the mainstream consciousness.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror

Tobe Hooper’s terrifying 1974 slasher remains one of the most effective and masterly horror films ever made

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42 Years Later, Steven Spielberg's Most Underrated Thriller Is Getting a New Spinoff

Spielberg co-wrote -- but famously didn't direct -- one of the most iconic ghost stories of all time. Decades later, Amazon is trying to bring its suburban scares to the small screen.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre review – original 1974 shocker is grotesque but brilliant masterpiece

Tobe Hooper’s gonzo massacre movie set the template for so many horror films that were to follow – but retains a uniquely disturbing power all of its own

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Texas is terrifying. Hollywood has noticed.

From “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to “Friday the 13th,” Texas is an ideal landscape to shock and delight audiences and ghost hunters.

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TV tonight: a gritty new war drama from France

Dark Hearts drags us grippingly back to Iraq. Plus, Take That pay a visit to Ally Pally to perform for Jools Holland. Here’s what to watch this evening

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre review – a horrible treat

This is Tobe Hooper’s putrid amoral universe in film perfectly replicated as an interactive terror ridePC, PS4/5, Xbox; Sumo Digital/Gun Interactive

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The Best And Worst Thing About Every Major Horror Franchise

We explore major horror franchises' best and worst aspects, delving into their successes, missteps, and enduring impact on the genre and pop culture.

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