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Aliens Review: A War Movie That Remembers the Horror
James Cameron turns Alien's isolated nightmare into a squad mission, but Ripley's trauma and the Marines' collapsing confidence keep the sequel tense.
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Predator Review: When the Action Squad Becomes the Prey
The 1987 film's shift from commando swagger to jungle horror is its best idea, even if the characters rarely grow beyond their roles in the hunt.
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The Ritual Review: Netflix's Forest Horror Is Better Before It Explains the Nightmare
The Ritual is at its best when guilt, fractured friendship and an unknowable forest do the work. Once the film explains its threat, it trades dread for spectacle — and it's a worse movie for it, even if it's still a good one.
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Insidious: Out of the Further Review: The Franchise Finds a Genuinely New Idea
Insidious: Out of the Further gives the franchise its best villain in years and a genuinely fresh supernatural hook in Gemma's Courier ability, even when the plot around it gets crowded.
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The Nun Review: Gothic Horror Does the Heavy Lifting
The Nun (2018) is thin on story and character, but its Romanian abbey setting, gothic atmosphere and Bonnie Aarons' Valak still make it one of the best-looking entries in The Conjuring Universe.
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Supernatural Review: 15 Seasons Later, It's Still One of the Best Genre Shows Ever Made
327 episodes. Two brothers. One Impala. A retrospective review of Supernatural — what it got right, what it got badly wrong, and why it still works.