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    Sarah not scary enough? Here are the most terrifying movies of all time, from the totally obvious to the obscure and obnoxious.
  • Their favorite things

    Writers, filmmakers and other notable figures tip us off to the stuff that most excited them this year.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    David Cronenberg on his gritty film "Eastern Promises" and being "hot for 10 minutes" (an interview and podcast). Plus: The charming "Great World of Sound" and more.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    David Cronenberg on whether his new movie is an allegory for George W. Bush's America. Plus: Controversial Lars von Trier's latest, and if you don't see "Forty Shades of Blue," shame on you!
  • The Baron of Blood does Bergman

    David Cronenberg on Nabokov, his creepy, minimalist new "Spider" and why memory can never tell us who we really are.
  • It isn't easy being in the green

    Anna Nicole Smith sobs to a jury; Cosmo honors "fun, fearless females." Plus: "Survivor 2's" Debb pulls a Woody with stepson!
  • Blame Canada? Hell, let's declare war!

    It's a vile, cold, wooded wasteland populated with propaganda-spewing lumberjacks and their irritating ilk. Who needs it?
  • David Cronenberg

    For more than three decades, his films have been taking you to the weirdest of worlds. Lucky for you, you can always walk out -- unless you're too terrified to move.
  • "Felicia's Journey"

    Atom Egoyan's follow-up to "The Sweet Hereafter" is a dank and claustrophobic thriller.
  • You can never read too much into it

    David Cronenberg on the dislocating experience of watching "Existenz," modernist moviemaking and technology as an extension of the human body.
  • Buzzed on metaphysics

    David Cronenberg's "Existenz" imagines a dangerously exotic video game -- and it looks a lot like life.
  • J.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs' naked truth

    The experimental writer J.G. Ballard, author of "Crash" and other controversial works, on the late, legendary William S. Burroughs.
  • Crash

    David Cronenberg's "Crash" hypnotically explores the intersection between sex and death.

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