A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 review – Mark Gatiss’s camp, creepy tale is absolutely bang on
The West End turns upside down … Stranger Things: The First Shadow – in pictures
November 2023
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Reservation Dogs to Faraway Downs: the six best shows to stream this week
The inspired comedy returns for its final season, while Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are back in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. Plus: the return of Slow Horses!
October 2023
‘She exposed the fragility of so-called civilised life’: why Shirley Jackson’s horror speaks to our times
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The Fall of the House of Usher review – a gleefully terrifying take on Edgar Allan Poe
September 2023
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American Horror Story: Delicate review – Kim Kardashian is scarily not bad
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The Other Black Girl review – workplace thriller mixes satire with silliness
August 2023
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‘My life is a bit like a horror story’: the TV visionary making creepy tales inspired by his Down syndrome
Otto Baxter’s gruesome Victorian romp – complete with sweary musical numbers – is loosely based on his life. It’s a unique, monster-filled scare-fest, with its own incredibly moving documentary
July 2023
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Wimbledon; Evacuation; The Horror of Delores Roach; The Idol – review
A sodden Wimbledon opens without Sue Barker; the brutal inside story of the British campaign to evacuate Kabul lingers in the mind; and The Idol staggers to a close
April 2023
Lock up your bunnies: Fatal Attraction is back, and still stuck in the 80s
The Outwaters review – extreme found-footage horror runs amok in the desert
March 2023
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Yellowjackets season two review – this wonderfully imaginative sequel is even better than last time
Bad buzz: gory stan satire Swarm is a shallow look at extreme fandom
February 2023
‘Damaged a generation of viewers, including me’: Joe Cornish on the most terrifying horror for kids
From blood-soaked children’s parties to spine-tingling spectral nuns, the Attack the Block director picks the traumatic 70s and 80s horror moments he can’t forget – no matter how he tries
January 2023
Welcome to the age of ‘dark copers’ – where morbid curiosity is a means of survival
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‘Pure terror in musical form’: Dead Space’s composer shares its unsettling secret
October 2022
‘Just too frightening’ – the most terrifying art, from horror films to haunted ruins and sinister songs
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Chapelwaite review – a wife blasting off her husband’s head is the only thrill in this Stephen King bore
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Let the Right One In review – vampire remake series loses its bite
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The Midnight Club review – this teen horror is like a morbid Breakfast Club
Autumn arts preview 2023‘My life is a bit like a horror story’: the TV visionary making creepy tales inspired by his Down syndromeOtto Baxter’s gruesome Victorian romp – complete with sweary musical numbers – is loosely based on his life. It’s a unique, monster-filled scare-fest, with its own incredibly moving documentary
