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Films: Haunted house

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

Film · 2019

Annabelle Comes Home

The doll comes back into the Warrens' world for a long and difficult night.

Film · 2017

Annabelle: Creation

The doll's whole sorry history starts here, well before anyone thought to give her to a child.

Film · 2016

The Conjuring 2

The Warrens go to England to help a family living with a poltergeist in their council house.

Film · 2018

The Nun

A priest and a novitiate nun investigate an unholy secret at a remote Romanian abbey in 1952.

Film · 1980

The Shining

A recovering drinker takes the winter caretaker job at an empty mountain hotel, and the isolation starts to unravel him.

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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.