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Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘The Starving Saints’ starves readers of a satisfying ending

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
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Yesterday
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Hands with nails painted red hold a human heart inside a rib cage

Dirty Hungry Homosexuals: ‘Paradise Rot’ probes the sensuality of sound

Dayanara Yepez Ramirez
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Feb. 18
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Daniel Xu's column, "And So We Thought," reflects on the media ecosystem we live in. (Graphic: MEI KNUTSON/The Stanford Daily)

And So We Thought: In ‘The Long Walk,’ simplicity mutates into suffering

Daniel Xu
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Nov. 21
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A animated haunted hotel sits against a night backdrop, lit from the inside.

Chris McKenna ’92 produces new spooky Netflix show ‘Haunted Hotel’

Sterling Davies
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Oct. 6
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“Drop” is an entertaining watch that strikes a healthy balance between dread and humor, writes Cunningham. (Graphic: DA-HEE KIM/The Stanford Daily)

Universal Pictures starts the year in thrilling fashion with ‘Drop’

Madisyn Cunningham
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April 13
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A toy monkey is smiling eerily in the shadows.

The Monkey Review: Horror, humor and the drumbeat of doom

Zora Hudson
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April 2
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A woman stands at a window with the shadow of a hand on her face and "Nosferatu" written as text.

‘Nosferatu’ (2024) marries the beautiful and the grotesque

Cate Burtner
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Jan. 28, 2025
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Two hands hold open a book with the words "Rage on the Page" sprawled in it in black and red.

Rage on the Page: The howl of ‘Nightbitch’ the film barely echoes the novel

Melisa Ezgi Guleryuz
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Jan. 23, 2025
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A man stands with a paint bucket in a long hallway corridor.

Students paint a chilling narrative of EVGR in horror film

Eric Wang
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Dec. 1, 2024
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"Talk Horror To Me" is written in bloody letters on a wall.

Talk Horror to Me: Meet ‘Abigail,’ the first pirouetting vampire

Emma Kexin Wang
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Nov. 7, 2024
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"Talk Horror To Me" is written in bloody letters on a wall.

Talk Horror to Me: ‘The Substance’ is all form with little substance

Emma Kexin Wang
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Oct. 17, 2024
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Author Carmen Maria Machado stands behind a lectern gesturing as though she's addressing the audience.

The beautiful and the terrible: Carmen Maria Machado reads queer horror and sci-fi

Cate Burtner
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May 8, 2024
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Graphic of TV screen with four people standing with worried faces. Sitting in front of TV is a person with grey hair and an orange cat on their chair.

Delicate Sensibilities: ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ is remarkably Gen-Z fluent 

Julia Donlon
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March 13, 2024
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A graphic of a man riding a horse. The text in the foreground says "Talk Horror to Me" and "Nope."

Talk Horror to Me: Documenting trauma in ‘Nope’ (2022)

Emma Kexin Wang
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Feb. 12, 2024
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A film roll graphic with "Talk horror to me" written in black text.

Talk Horror to Me: Familial issues and disorienting narratives in ‘Beau Is Afraid’

Emma Kexin Wang
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Nov. 13, 2023
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The photo of a hand in the dark, with the text "Talk Horror to me" written in the foreground.

Talk Horror to Me: Misdirected forms of human connections in ‘Talk to Me’

Emma Kexin Wang
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Nov. 8, 2023
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A drawing of a smiling ghost holds a book, "spooky books" is written above the ghost's head

The Daily’s recommended reads for spooky season

Leyla Yilmaz, Emma Kexin Wang, Hana Dao, Amistad Vanegas and Cate Burtner
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Oct. 29, 2023
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Outline of characters from "Knock at the Cabin," with the text of the title overlaying the images.

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest twist? Making bad movies

Kirsten Mettler
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March 1, 2023
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Against a tan background there is a graphic of a TV on the left and the caption, "what to watch WEEK 2" on the right. Inside the TV is a picture of the protagonist in the horror comedy "Spree."

Horror comedies more frightening than the return to campus after break

Amelia Butala
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Jan. 20, 2023
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Over a faint backdrop of open books, the text: "lately in LITERATURE with Leyla Yilmaz." "Literature" is stylized in multiple fonts over red, green, and pink rectangles, as in a collage made from magazines.

Lately in Literature: ‘Can women kill?’ asks Eliza Clark in debut novel, ‘Boy Parts’

Leyla Yilmaz
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Oct. 11, 2022
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