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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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