The sci-fi queen, Rebecca Fergusonhas had a mixed year so far. She debuted in 2026 with the film “screenlife” with a critical panel Mercywith a head Chris Pratt. The film failed to recoup its reported $60 million budget at the box office, but emerged as a strong hit on Prime Video despite poor reviews. Ferguson followed it up with the fourth season of her hit Apple TV series Silowhich has a 96% “Certified Fresh” score on aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. She will end the year by reprising her role as Lady Jessica in the highly anticipated film Dune: Part Threedirected by Denis Villeneuve. This month, Ferguson fans can revisit one of the most overlooked gems, a recent addition to the Paramount+ library.
This film debuted amidst much fanfare in 2019, positioned as the next major horror title after the blockbuster. he isand follow, Yes: Chapter Two. Like that epic duology, which grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, the 2019 Ferguson film was based on a book by Stephen King. It cast a wider net by being a legacy sequel to the horror masterpiece The Claritywhich the famous King hates. However, the film did not perform well at the box office despite receiving mostly positive reviews, and looks set to become one of the most popular cult classics of the 2010s.
Collider Exclusive · 8 questions · 2 minutes what are you The biggest horrible nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four awesome franchises. Four completely different ways to scare you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure that no one believes you. One of them is already in your friend group. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how horrible you really look, and find out what nightmare you’ve been made of.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Children’s Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️the conjuring(The Warren Files)
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What horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic pictures. One is worse than the other for you.
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You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everyone has one. It comes before you decide anything.
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What horror movie rule did you break first? Everyone thinks they will survive. Almost no one does.
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Something very scary happens. What are you doing? Not a movie. In your actual living room, tonight.
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How do you watch a horror movie? Be honest about this one. No one is checking.
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Someone offers you real money. What do you still refuse? The amount doesn’t matter. There is one on this list that you do not.
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What feeling stays with you a week after the movie? Good horror doesn’t stop when the credits roll.
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Something wakes you up at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that will decide your nightmare.
The Lights just went out You have a nightmare…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting under your skin. This is the one that was built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what it would leave behind.
A Nightmare on Elm Street · From 1984
Elm Street
Your nightmare is not waiting outside the door. He is waiting for you to close your eyes, which you will eventually have to do, because no one has ever won that particular argument.
Freddy is horror’s toughest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you can’t protect, can’t lock, and can never avoid.
You are the one who is well through the movie and wide awake at two in the morning. Your own head is where this will damage it.
These films understood fatigue as a terrible engine. The kids on Elm Street don’t lose because they’re weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still need to sleep.
Children’s Play · Chucky · From 1988
Chucky
The doll is definitely not your nightmare. It is the face of the person who tells you, and the way in which they decide, kindly, that you have thought of everything.
Chucky works precisely because it’s absurd. That’s the trap: the more accurately you describe it, the less anyone will believe you.
You’re the one yelling at the screen because the characters aren’t listening. You know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are a real obstacle, and you’ve met those adults.
By the time someone finally believes you, you will have handled most of it yourself.
Scream · Ghostface · Since 1996
Scream
You have the nightmare number, you know your name, and it has almost certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes off the mask and turns out to be someone who was at the party.
You are the one who says the twist above before it lands. You watch people the same way you watch movies.
The franchise made the horror rules part of the plot, which means that the survivors are the ones who care. You would pay attention.
Everyone is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring · The Warren Files · From 2013
the conjuring
Your nightmare is not entirely about you. It’s about the people sleeping down the hall, and the feeling that nothing here wants to leave.
The Conjuring movies are domestic horror. The house, the family, the very ordinary room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everyone into one room. Your fear is defensive rather than personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the only franchise where belief is a weapon. The people who come through are the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. He came for the house, and you are the one standing in the hall.
Mike Flanagan continues in the Stephen King business
We are talking, of course, about him Doctor Sleepled by longtime King aficionado Mike Flanagan. Star Ewan MacGregorthe film grossed just over $72 million against a reported $55 million budget. In contrast, the first he is made the change 10 times bigger with a similar price tag. Doctor Sleep received mostly positive reviews, and now sits at a 79% “Certified Fresh” critics score and an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The collector’s website consensus states, “Doctor Sleep abandoning the elemental horror of its predecessor for a more meditative sequel that balances poignant themes against spine-tingling chills.” You can look Doctor Sleep on Paramount+ this month. Meanwhile, Flanagan’s latest King version, the limited series Carriedebuts on Prime Video on October 7. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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