All of that and more point toward the ways this film is very much comfortable being considered a horror film as well as a sci-fi film.

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The movie is a horror film masquerading as a historical pageant.

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The Volcker plan is nothing more than a horror-film sequel that will splatter on hapless taxpayers.

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He plays Ethan, an independent filmmaker in crisis, whose girlfriend, Claire (Kate Lyn Sheil), is cast in a low-budget horror film by a more successful director (Ti West).

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The bad memories of the hero (Denzel Washington), who suspects that the war hero is a fake, are accompanied by the conventional horror-film frights of painted faces, spooky doctors, and smoky, distorted cinematography.

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The current crisis is a sort of super-sized, IMAX version of a depressingly familiar horror film.

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Texas Chainsaw 3D is the seventh film in the horror franchise, featuring an antagonist called Leatherface, who wears a mask made of human skin.

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Tarantino is said to be intrigued by the prospect of building a new film around one of the horror genre's most recognised figures.

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