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Films: Apocalypse

Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.

Film · 2025

28 Years Later

A boy who has never known anything else must get his ill mother to help, decades after Britain's outbreak began.

Film · 2018

A Quiet Place

A family must live in near total silence to survive creatures that hunt by sound alone.

Film · 2007

I Am Legend

A lone virologist searches for a cure in a New York City where night brings hostile mutants.

Film · 2016

Train to Busan

A train journey from Seoul to Busan becomes a fight for safety when a zombie outbreak begins.

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The After Dark Top 40

Forty horror films counted down like the charts, from silent classics to new favourites, picked by Erin and sent the moment you join.