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Topic: horror films

Linda Blair on the set of "The Exorcist" (Warner Bros. Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

26 fascinating facts about "The Exorcist

Jennifer M Wood - Mental Floss

Couple watching scary movie on the couch (Getty Images)

Why horror is good for your health

Universal Studios lot in Universal City, Calif. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

"The Hunt" canceled before Trump tweets

Ashlie D. Stevens

Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise in "It Chapter Two" (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

Why "It" should abandon jump scares

Zach Sharf - Indiewire

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Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in "Halloween" (Universal Pictures)

Horror isn't just about the Final Girl

Kate Erbland - Indiewire

Daniel Kaluuya in "Get Out" (Universal Pictures)

"Get Out" is a comedy?

"The Exorcist" (Warner Bros.)

Horror films and my Holiness childhood

Anya Taylor-Joy in "The Witch" (A24)

Victims no more

Beth Younger - The Conversation

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Darren Lynn Bousman (Momentum Pictures)

Horror with a difference

Teresa Palmer in "Lights Out" (New LIne CInema)

A new heyday of horror

Anya Taylor-Joy in "The Witch" (A24)

America: Nuts from the start!

(Universal Pictures)

"Evil Dead" meets "Jane Eyre"

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The Donald Trump horror movie

Mahak Morsawala

(AP/Dan Steinberg/New Line Home Entertainment/Salon)

Remembering Wes Craven

A still from "The Nightmare" (Gravitas Ventures)

The horror of sleep paralysis

Joanna Rothkopf

Jake Weary (left) and Maika Monroe in "It Follows."

A brilliant new take on horror

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Jemaine Clement in "What We Do in the Shadows"

A hilarious vampire mock-doc

Horror movies were my therapy

Scene still from "The Shining"

Jaclyn Munson - PolicyMic

Scene still from "Ginger Snaps"

Alice Bolin - LA Review of Books

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Damien Lewis in "Dreamcatcher"

TOM GUALTIERI - The Weeklings

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