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October 22, 2021

TM Recommends: Browse Beautiful Handmade Pottery at Gruene’s Texas Clay Festival

It’s a chance to buy your holiday presents early, the way you always swear you will.

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October 15, 2021

‘Halloween Kills’ Time and Patience

The sequel to David Gordon Green’s franchise reboot is all filler, same old killer.

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July 2, 2021

It’s Too Soon for ‘The Forever Purge’

The horror franchise attempts to skewer Trumpism, but the result makes for uncomfortable viewing.

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June 9, 2021

Jeff Nichols Is the Perfect Director for the Next ‘A Quiet Place’

The Texas filmmaker has built his career on escalating tension and dread.

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October 30, 2020

Houston Director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. on His Psychological Horror Debut, ‘Black Box’

The filmmaker discusses the winding path, from Texas to Singapore to Japan and back, that led to Amazon commissioning his first feature.

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October 30, 2020

How to Scare Yourself Like a Texan

A selection of Texas-bred horror films, books, and TV episodes to indulge in during the spooky times.

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Roby Attal and Lauren Hatfield in a scene from Robert Rodriguez’s Red 11.

March 15, 2019

A Former Lab Rat’s Review of Robert Rodriguez’s Drug-Study Horror Movie ‘Red 11’

One of the oldest ideas in the filmmaker’s notebook is based on his real life. And mine.

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Lupita Nyong'o attends the 'Us' premiere at the Paramount Theater on March 8, 2019.

March 11, 2019

Is Lupita Nyong’o SXSW’s New Queen of Horror?

Few actors start their careers as Lupita Nyong’o did. Her very first feature film role, in Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave, earned her an Academy Award. From there, as one of the most sought-after young stars in Hollywood, she managed her decisions very carefully. She focused on voice acting—a recurring role

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March 1, 1997

’Saw Loser

Why a great horror movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger could get buried.

February 28, 1974

Devil Without a Cause

Lots of spooky movies this month as a new reviewer takes the wheel.

By Katharine Lowry