Houses of horror

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By ISABELLA MCRAE BIG ISSUE SENIOR REPORTER

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The Big Issue Magazine

27 October, 2025

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Time Magazine Europe

Variations on a theme

THE MARK OF A GREAT, TOUGH BOOK MAY NOT be how many literature classes it’s taught in but how many film or TV adaptations you can drape on its branches without breaking them. Dramatizations are tricky

Country Life

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Closer UK

Out this week!

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SFX

She is a live!

IT’S TAKEN OVER 90 YEARS, BUT FINALLY HERE COMES , AS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL GIVES NEW LIFE – AND A VOICE – TO ONE OF UNIVERSAL HORROR’S MOST ICONIC CREATIONS FOR A FEMINIST, PUNK ROCK TALE OF AMOUR FOU

Esquire - UK

Rent is a killer

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Radio Times Magazine

Be very afraid

The genre has been knocking on the mainstream door for decades. Now, with a horror earning the most Oscar nominations of any film, we’ve let it in – and it’s here to stay...