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Crystal Lake Gives Friday the 13th Its Most Unsettling Twist Yet: Jason’s Mother Is the Story

Crystal Lake’s official trailer moves the Friday the 13th legend backward, putting Pam Voorhees’ grief—and the town’s fear—at the center of the nightmare.

Two original futuristic android figures face each other across a glowing energy reactor in a red and blue laboratory.

VisionQuest Brings Vision and Ultron Back Together—and That Is a Much Stranger Reunion Than It Sounds

Marvel’s VisionQuest will reunite Paul Bettany’s Vision and James Spader’s Ultron in the final chapter of the WandaVision-era trilogy. The surprising hook is not a cameo: it is a reckoning between two versions of synthetic life.

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Clayface Is Turning DC’s Horror Experiment Into a Movie About Losing Your Face

DC’s Clayface movie is using a classic Batman villain to ask a very human horror question: what happens when the face everyone recognizes stops belonging to you?

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The Horror Movie Theater Is Back in the Spotlight—and Its Empty Seats Are the Scariest Part

Horror works differently in a theater because the room becomes part of the scare. The next wave of genre movies is testing whether audiences still want to be frightened together.

Lanterns lead through an ancient moonlit forest toward a moss-covered stone burial mound.

The Oldest Fantasy Detours Still Know How to Surprise Us

The fantasy scenes readers remember most are not always the battles. Sometimes they are the eerie detours where a road, forest or burial mound seems to have its own agenda.

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Star Wars and Marvel Are Finally Crossing Over—and Kevin Smith Is Writing the Collision

Luke, Leia and Han are about to meet Avengers and Spider-Man in the first official Star Wars/Marvel crossover. Kevin Smith is writing the five-issue comic, turning a once-impossible fan question into an actual story.

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Superman Is Going Back to 1938—and DC Is Making His Newest Origin Story Adults-Only

Wes Craig’s new Superman comic returns to 1938 Metropolis, draws from the Golden Age and carries an Ages 17+ label. The surprise is how directly DC is putting innocence and menace in the same frame.

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Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson May Be Half Brothers—and Now Hollywood Is Turning That Mystery Into TV

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson may be half brothers, and a new Apple TV comedy is using that uncanny real-life possibility as its starting point. The stranger story happened before the script.

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Diablo IV Reaches Switch 2 With Two Expansions—and a Different Starting Line

Diablo IV: Age of Hatred Collection arrives on Switch 2 with the base game and both expansions. That changes the starting point, but leaves important port questions to test.

A yellow taxi bursts from an arcade cabinet onto a curling strip of film above a sunny, hilly city.

Netflix’s Crazy Taxi Movie Has One Big Challenge: Making the Next Fare Matter

Netflix and SEGA are developing a Crazy Taxi comedy. Its most interesting challenge is turning a brilliantly simple arcade loop into a story worth riding through.

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