‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!
Hindsight can be a wonderful thing – as much-loved movies including Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption and Blade Runner have proved
‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage
Saturday Night Live’s first Black cast member broke ground for the comics who followed him, fighting against typecasting and ‘a lot of racism going on’
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story review – fascinating tribute undermined by bombast
The life of the actor who played Superman before becoming paralysed, told by his own children, is poignant enough so why the cod-mythic animations and pompous music?
‘Genuinely disturbing’: Guardian writers on their scariest horror villains
For Halloween, critics pick their most nightmarish baddies, from Count Orlok in Nosferatu to Annie Wilkes in Misery
Heretic review – religious horror with a suave, dapper and evil Hugh Grant
Two young missionaries visit a man at his cavernous house to discuss Mormon doctrines but get drawn into a psychological game of terror and manipulation
The Guardian view on female-led horror: time for a new formula
Editorial: Bloodied women’s bodies are once more to the fore in a seasonal crop of hagsploitation films
Saoirse Ronan taken aback by ‘wild’ reaction to women’s safety comments
Comment on Graham Norton’s chatshow has gained support from women after clip shared around world
Christopher Penfold obituary
Other lives: Writer and script editor of much-loved television series including Casualty, The Bill and Space: 1999
Teri Garr obituary
American actor who brought superb comic timing to her roles in film classics such as Young Frankenstein and Tootsie
Time Cut review – tinny time-travel Netflix slasher offers too much deja vu
The streamer’s gimmicky and over-familiar Halloween offering sees a teen going back to 2003 to save her sister from a masked killer
‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all
What’s it like to be the spine-chilling child in a scary film? In a Halloween special, we speak to the girl who played a demonic telepath in Village of the Damned – and the star of homicidal-virus shocker The Children
Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I will always be an American before I am a Republican’
The former Republican governor said that he was backing the Democrat because a Trump victory would mean ‘four more years of bullshit’
Juror #2 review – Clint Eastwood puts Nicholas Hoult in court … and an unusual pickle
The 94-year-old director has delivered a courtroom thriller that pits justice against self-preservation
Martha review – sharp if spotty Netflix retrospective on Martha Stewart
The ‘doyenne of domesticity’ proves a blunt and at times frustratingly opaque yet always compelling subject in a new documentary
The Moogai review – Stolen Generations trauma feeds a haunting horror film
Jon Bell’s bold and daring film about a mother who is stalked by a child-stealing bogeyman is a little underdeveloped