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This Haunts Me: COVID, "The Box", and the Worthlessness of Strangers Lives

In the Covid era, Americans have proven that we don't value the lives of strangers.

In 2009 Cameron Diaz and James Marsden starred in a surreal psychological thriller called The Box.

The premise — lifted from Richard Matheson's 1970 short story, "Button, Button" — had already been adapted into an installment of the Twilight Zone in 1986. But writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) evidently thought he could get more out of the material.

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9 of the Best Horror Shows to Binge Watch on Netflix

From jump scares to subtle psychological terror, these series have you covered.

The Haunting of Hill House

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Horror movies are all well and good, but sometimes 90 minutes of white-knuckle terror just aren't enough.

Sometimes you want to spend hours or even days hiding behind your hands and muffling your screams as you're sucked into a terrifying realm of blood and guts and ghosts and monsters. When you're in that kind of mood, you need a TV show that can consistently deliver nightmares straight to your skull.

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