What this year's topical Halloween costumes tell us about the darkest fears of modern life
Trump, Brexit and handmaids: we now wear our anxieties to Halloween parties. The good news is that these costumes are an act of rebellion – and you can’t laugh and be frightened at once
When did you last see a man begging for his life in a horror movie?
Directors seem more comfortable torturing and abusing their female characters – take Jamie Lee Curtis’s role in the new Halloween. It’s time they explored male vulnerability, too
Week in geek
Where will Hollywood's search for authenticity end?
Long-running franchises, in their attempts to bottle the essence of the original movie, are going back to source material and bringing back the old protagonists
Making a killing: what's behind Halloween's box-office success?
The new Michael Myers slasher is another franchise reboot in a market awash with them. Yet it is an unprecedented hit. Why?
