As a teen, he identified with men in horror films who turned into hideous monsters.
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He said he thought horror films with clowns could be the source of the fear.
But horror films are generally cheap and their business is generally brisk and brief.
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Mama, from executive producer Guillermo del Toro, showed once again how profitable horror films can be.
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Kids slip into the movies they want to see, especially the horror films.
The star of those tacky old Japanese horror films now gets a tacky new Hollywood horror film all to himself.
George was obsessed with witchcraft and horror films, the court was told.
People like to watch spectacular action films, comedies and horror films in groups and will abandon their televisions and mobile phones to do so.
The first of these found-footage horror films hit screens in 2009.
The weekend just proves again how lucrative horror films can be.
God forbid we acknowledge that women often see loud, violent action adventure films and intense, gruesome horror films for the same reason that guys stereo-typically see them.
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"All this is a bit like the fifth instalment in a series of horror films, with each succeeding production gorier than the preceding one, " adds our editor.
Maybe -- if we're being picky -- this is all too self-consciously clever to be truly scary on the visceral, soul-gnawing level of the most unforgettable horror films.
Its application can scarcely be described as wide, but it could one day be used to great effect in horror films and has already been imitated once in such a context.
It was given an X-rating and was included in a group of "video nasties" - a term used to describe extremely violent and disturbing, low-budget horror films from the US and Italy.
These are the kinds of movies that the studios are largely abandoning in favor of giant franchise blockbusters, like the upcoming movie The Avengers, and microbudget horror films like The Devil Inside.
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On Roku, you can go well beyond Netflix to services like Pandora Radio, Spotify, some games and much more obscure channels focused on such things as UFOs, horoscopes, European horror films, language learning, autism and diabetes.
But independent horror films sometimes travel well.
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While horror films are "still full of shrieking, busty babes taking showers and going for nude midnight swims, " McDonagh says there's a "toughness" to the victims that women identify with, and she notices that now women make up half the audiences of movies she attends.
The best horror films are often those that use atmosphere and suggestion to achieve the horror, and a film of this sort that consists mostly of three people in the woods with a camera mostly improvising yet still manages so much tension and creepiness, is rare and awesome.
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Another of the most profitable films from last year: the horror film Insidious.
Before horror zealots complain, remember I said zombie films, not scary films, and zombie comedies or satires are still zombie films.
There were 27 3-D films released in 1953, mostly horror or sci-fi.
This weekend the only new films are Killing Them Softly and the horror film The Collector.
This weekend two genre films hit theaters: The Rite, a horror film starring Anthony Hopkins as an exorcism priest, and The Mechanic, the latest in a long line of action films starring Jason Statham.
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So for now, outside of horror, Hollywood studios feel more comfortable pushing bigger budget films that they hope will attract an audience like one of the other new films hitting theaters this weekend, a new version of The Three Musketeers (in 3-D no less).
Horror movies rarely get respect in year-end lists, but of the three films scripted or co-scripted by Joss Whedon this year ("The Avengers" and "Much Ado About Nothing" were the others), "The Cabin in the Woods" was the most fiendishly ingenious -- a horror movie that was truly out of the box.
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