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A reimagined version of the 1992 film, directed by Michelle Garza Cervera, manages to be more chilly than chilling.

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Raúl Castillo and Martin Starr round out the cast of Michelle Garza Cervera’s modern spin for Hulu on the hit 1992 Curtis Hanson thriller about a vengeful nanny.

For decades, various kinds of disability have been used as ‘scary’ metaphors in horror. But a new wave of filmmakers is ...

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This Guardians of the Galaxy-turned DCU star first made his mark in one of the most darkly horrifying movies that, unlike ...

Dakota Fanning is continuing her scream queen era with the 2025 movie Vicious, a new Paramount+ original horror movie that ...