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Films: Survival

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

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 · 1975

Jaws

A seaside town faces a great white shark, and its police chief joins the hunt before more beachgoers are hurt.

Film · 1968

Night of the Living Dead

A group sheltering in a farmhouse faces an attack by the living dead in this tense, contained horror film.

Film · 1987

Predator

A rescue mission in a rainforest turns into a fight against an extraterrestrial hunter.

Film · 2003

Saw

Two strangers wake up chained in a filthy bathroom, playing a killer's twisted game with no idea why.

Film · 1982

The Thing

An Antarctic research team faces an alien that can imitate living things, leaving everyone unsure whom to trust.

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.