In a perfect world, both audiences and critics would be in love with a particular TV show. However, we sadly don’t live in a perfect world, and the television landscape is littered with numerous shows that are either loved by professional critics but hated by audiences, or loathed by the critics, but are beloved by viewers. Then, there’s a third angle: TV shows are lauded by critics, but, upon watching them, are actually kind of bad.
So, we’re going to take a look at the TV shows that were darlings of the critics, but were actually kind of bad. It’s not that I absolutely hated these shows. I tried to give all of them a chance (and may do so again in the future), but I just simply couldn’t get into these shows.
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‘Quantico’ (2015–2018)
Priyanka Chopra as Alex Parrish in Quantico Season 2 looking concerned at something in the distance.Image via ABC
We talk a lot about thrillers on this site, but I think one sub-genre that we don’t talk enough about is terrorism thrillers. These are shows in which the storyline is centered on a terrorist plot in which a law enforcement officer must prevent. 24 was probably the standard-bearer of the sub-genre, and it was a huge hit for Fox. So, in 2015, ABC, which was desperate for dramatic hits at the time, decided to create their own 24-inspired terrorism thriller, Quantico; and, to put it nicely, it was spectacularly mid.
Starring Priyanka Chopra, Quantico follows an FBI rookie who, all of a sudden, becomes the prime suspect in a terrorist attack on New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, and, according to the terrorism thriller textbook, our protagonist must clear her name. Critics loved Chopra’s performance, and the incredibly diverse cast, but the dual timelines made the show hard to follow for the average viewer. After three seasons, Quantico faded into the television purgatory.
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‘FBI’ (2018–Present)
Isobel Castille (Alana de la Garza) and Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) standing outside in black FBI gear in FBI.Image via CBS
Dick Wolf is no stranger to the crime procedural sub-genre, and he has created some absolute gems, from the genre-transforming Law & Order universe to the criminally underrated New York Undercover. I love Dick Wolf’s work, which pains me to write that FBI, the police procedural that premiered on CBS in 2018, is not among his best despite critical acclaim.
If you’ve watched a Dick Wolf series, you pretty much know how FBI works. Set in its New York City field office, the series follows a unit of FBI special agents as they work to protect the citizens of the city from bad guys. While I agree with the critics that the performances are great, I can’t help that FBI feels eerily like a knock-off version of Law & Order. Everything, from the episode structure to how the characters interact with each other, just seems like Law & Order-like. I wanted FBI to be different, to take more risks, and it just sticks to the tried-and-true, which isn’t bad, but if you want that, just go watch Law & Order.
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‘Supergirl’ (2015–2021)
Alex Danvers and Supergirl standing next to each other and looking ahead in Supergirl.Image via The CW
This is a CW show, so I’m going to be grading this show on a steep curve. Everyone knows that CW superhero shows are hit-or-miss, and for a time, Supergirlseemed like a hit, until it wasn’t. Supergirl follows the cousin of Superman, Kara Zor-El/ Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), as she defends National City (what an interesting name for a city) from the bad guys who want to do harm to it.
The first three seasons of Supergirl were pretty good (for a CW show, anyway), and I got into the plot. But afterward, it was all downhill from there. The storyline began to make no sense, and the characters became pretty bland. It’s a shame, because Supergirl could have been among the great superhero shows on the small screen. Instead, it’s another in a line of examples as to why superheroes belong on the big screen, not on TV.
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‘Homeland’ (2011–2020)
Carrie looking angry while talking to someone in Homeland.Image via Showtime
There’s always one show in every list I write that brings me chest pain for criticizing it, mainly because I enjoyed said show during its initial run, but, rewatching it, I can see the flaws more clearly. Here, it’s Homeland, the Showtime espionage thriller that had me in a chokehold in the 2010s, but I can now understand why it’s not seen in such a great light today.
Each season of Homeland is different, but the main plot centers around Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a CIA operations agent who embarked on an unauthorized operation in Iraq and, as punishment (I guess), was re-assigned to the agency’s Counterterrorism Center. It’s here where most of the action of the series takes place, and the series has received numerous industry awards and nominations. But, where I have a problem with Homelandis how it constantly misrepresents Muslims. Yes, this was a time in which the War on Terror was at its peak, but it still wasn’t a fair portrayal of the faith, and the criticisms that this show got for its portrayal of Muslims are warranted.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
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Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
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🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
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The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
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Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
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Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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‘Ten Percent’ (2022)
Jim Broadbent, Hiftu Quasem, and Jack Davenport in ‘Ten Percent’Image via Prime Video
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We normally don’t accommodate comedies with miniseries. While there are a few examples of comedic exploits turning into miniseries (Beef is a great example of this), comedies normally get multiple seasons to pull in an audience. So, it was weird when Ten Percent, a British comedy streamed on Prime Video, only got one season on the series. Then, I rewatched it, and I could see why.
While the series was filmed in Britain, the show is actually based on a French series, Dix pour Cent, which is set in a talent agency in London that is thrown into turmoil when the agency’s founder dies unexpectedly. While critics did like the fact that it was pleasant, I had the pleasure of watching the original French show, and once you watch that one, you’ll quickly see that this is a carbon copy of that series. The British version of Ten Percent did little to differentiate itself from its French counterpart, which is jarring because the British are pioneers when it comes to comedy, and it’s usually other countries copying them, not the other way around. Why would they do this? No wonder it was done after just eight episodes.
‘Star Wars Resistance’ (2018–2020)
Kragan Gorr, voiced by Gary Anthony Williams, wearing armor and a helmet in Star Wars Resistance.Image via Lucasfilm
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I’m going to preface this by saying that Star Warsrarely works as a comedy. Especially after the genius grittiness of Andor, Star Wars is at its best when it stays in its space opera roots. So, when I decided to re-watch Star Wars Resistance, I was completely taken aback by the comedic scale of this series, and it just didn’t work for me.
It’s shocking for me to write this because, back during its original run, I liked Star Wars Resistance. I totally get why it has a 92% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, as the story of Star Wars Resistance did set the stage for bigger adventures that were more kid-friendly. But, this is where it also lost me. I don’t want kid-friendly Star Wars. I want gritty Star Wars, and Resistance just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
‘The Morning Show’ (2019–Present)
I feel like TV morning shows have a cutthroat nature behind those scenes that would be ripped for exploration into a television series. That’s what Jay Carson thought as well when he adapted Brian Stelter‘s 2013 novel, Top of the Morning, into The Morning Show, for Apple TV. Starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show looks at the sad nature of what it’s like behind the scenes of a morning show.
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The Morning Show is a textbook example of a “critical darling” series. It was beloved by critics, and was nominated for a number of awards, and most of them rightfully so. The performances of Aniston and Witherspoon were dynamite, and this series accurately hit on a number of topics that many viewers could relate to. Having said that, The Morning Show had one major flaw: it is really boring. It doesn’t matter how good the writing is or how great the performances are, if a show works best as sleep-inducing background noise, it doesn’t work as an entertaining program. The Morning Show could have been among my favorites, but you can’t cook a steak without seasoning and expect it to taste great.
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ (2022–Present)
Charles Edwards as Celebrimbor in ‘Rings of Power’Image via Prime Video
Oh, I’m pretty sure I’m going to get some hate in the comments for including this show, but let me explain why it should be here, and I’ll let you form your own opinions. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerwas critically loved, but it’s incredibly overrated, and I didn’t think the storyline was really well fleshed out, especially in the mess that was the second season.
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The Rings of Power was a good idea that had a ton of potential to be one of the best high fantasy shows on television, but its overwrought performances, thin plotline, and questionable accuracy to theJ. R. R. Tolkien novels are what weighs this series down. There is a reason why the second season had a lower viewership than the first; fans saw through the smokescreen and saw the series for what it was: an underwhelming fantasy series that was over-hyped by critics.
‘NCIS: Sydney’ (2023–Present)
Olivia Swann and Todd Lasance in ‘NCIS: Sydney’Image via Paramount+
As much as I’m a huge fan of the Law & Order universe, I am equally a fan of the NCIS franchise. The original NCIS will never be touched, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the spin-offs. They’re not as good in quality as the OG NCIS, but they hold their own and have managed to differentiate themselves from the original as so, they stand on their own two-feet and don’t need assistance from the parent series, except one: NCIS: Sydney.
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If you’ve watched NCIS, you don’t need me to explain the plot. It’s the same flavor, except the NCIS agents are now in Instagram-scenic Sydney, Australia catching bad guys this time around. Unlike its siblings, NCIS: Sydney doesn’t offer anything different or exciting than the other spin-offs offered. It doesn’t have enough flavor to justify its existence, and while the action is just as good, you’re better off watching NCIS‘sbetter spin-offs.
‘Halo’ (2022–2024)
Members of Silver Team prepare to deploy in ‘Halo’.Image via Paramount+
This one is personal. As a fan of the Halo games, I wanted so long to see what a TV series based off of the video game series would be like. I have been on board ever since I learned it was in development in 2013. I waited like a kid on Christmas Eve for this series to drop. So, when it finally did in 2022, I grabbed my popcorn, my Gatorade, and settled in for a night of binge-watching. To say I was disappointed with the finishing product is a tremendous understatement. I was crushed.
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Halo, the TV series, had tremendous promise, and, to be fair, I wasn’t expecting it to be perfect. Having written that, when you’re sourcing from a beloved video game franchise, you need to give that source material the justice it deserves, and Halo, the TV series, didn’t do that at all. It’s very derivative, the writing is uninspiring, and it’s too plot-driven for a franchise that’s centered on its characters. While the critics gave it hope, I gave up midway through Season 1. Halo, the TV series, is a bad show, and its first impression left a very bad taste in my mouth.
The biggest weekend in domestic box-office history delivered a massive $400 million-plus haul, thanks mainly to Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s record-breaking $360 million debut. This wasn’t like the “Barbenheimer” event three years ago, when Oppenheimer and Barbie delivered more than $220 million in combined revenue in one weekend. Later this year, Warner Bros. and Disney are hoping for a repeat of the “Barbenheimer” event when Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday clash at the box office. Both films began pre-sales months before release; based on current revenue, they could produce another $400 million-plus weekend and possibly a new record.
Avengers: Doomsday has generated $35 million in advance ticket sales so far, according to Global Box Office. The movie is projected to gross between $260 million and $300 million in its opening weekend, with room for change given how much time there is until its release in December. By comparison, Avengers: Endgame set an opening-weekend record in 2019, grossing $357 million. This record was beaten by Spider-Man: Brand New Day in July. Marvel and Disney are leaving no stone unturned in bringing the MCU back to its former glory; despite the success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the franchise has been damaged in recent years by the underperformance of movies such as The Marvels, Thunderbolts*, Captain America: Brave New World, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
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Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
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🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
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USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
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The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
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The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
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The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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How Much Is ‘Dune: Part Three’ Projected to Gross in Its Box-Office Debut?
Meanwhile, Global Box Office is reporting that Dune: Part Three has generated $10 million in advance sales already. This sets the movie up for a franchise-record opening, putting it on track to become the trilogy’s first installment to gross more than $100 million in its first weekend. By comparison, Dune: Part Two grossed $82 million in its domestic debut in 2024, and finished its global run with around $715 million. The first Dune was controversially released day-and-date on HBO Max, which dented its overall box-office performance. Despite the setback, it ended up grossing more than $430 million worldwide, including revenue from a re-release in 2024. All three movies in the acclaimed sci-fi series have been directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Timothée Chalamet and Zendayain the lead roles. The third film will also feature Anya Taylor-Joy, Florence Pugh, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Robert Pattinson, Jason Momoa, and others. Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday will face off on December 18. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Although it has been an extremely strong year at the box office, 2026 has still had its fair share of flops, from Jessie Buckley‘s divisive performance in The Bride! and director Travis Knight‘s Masters of the Universeto the critically panned AI-based thriller Mercy and the inevitable flop The Death of Robin Hood. But perhaps the most notable flop of the year came from the new DC Universe, as talented young star Milly Alcock headlined as Kara Zor-El for the first time.
Opening to just $38 million domestically and $68 million worldwide, Supergirl marked a significant drop compared to last summer’s surprise smash Superman, as it whimpered out of theaters with just $126 million worldwide, against a reported budget of $170 million. So poor was this result that DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safranfelt the need to publicly comment, admitting that “Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations,” but adding, “it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in.” For James Gunn, who was an executive producer and creative supervisor on Supergirl, this is far from his first flop.
Back in 2021, Gunn faced a similar box office disaster as writer and director of The Suicide Squad, a sequel to David Ayer‘s Suicide Squad from 2016. The film boasted a $185 million budget and a stacked cast of famous faces, from Margot Robbie and John Cena to Idris Elba. However, it only made $168.7 million in total global revenue, falling far short of expectations and becoming one of the most high-profile flops of 2021. Gunn himself acknowledged the failure, although he was quick to admit that the COVID-19 pandemic and a poor streaming release strategy harmed its chances.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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‘The Suicide Squad’ Has Bounced Back
Five years later and in the shadow of Supergirl‘s collapse, The Suicide Squad has surprisingly bounced back. At the time of writing, the film is one of the ten most-watched on Netflix worldwide. Other films to have ranked in the current top ten include the 2026 Indian film Cocktail 2, Kevin Hart‘s latest Netflix comedy 72 Hours, the 2003 rom-com gem What a Girl Wants, the 2015 sci-fi favorite Extinction, and Louis Leterrier‘s The Last House.
Stay tuned to Collider for the latest streaming stories.
While hit movies may come and go — there have been four billion-dollar grossers this year alone — very few films have the power to influence the culture. This happens perhaps once a decade, and even though the 1980s were replete with landmark hits such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, and The Shining, no movie has had the lasting impact of James Cameron’s breakout hit, The Terminator. Not only was it a critical and commercial smash that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office pull, but it went on to spawn a franchise that continues to this day. The Terminator is currently streaming in the United States on HBO Max, but it won’t stick around for much longer.
The film was released in 1984, with Linda Hamilton playing a young woman who must fight for her life against a cybernetic assassin from the future, played by Schwarzenegger. Produced on a reported budget of around $6.5 million, The Terminator was a massive hit, grossing nearly $80 million at the box office. It was followed by an even more groundbreaking sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which made more than $520 million against a reported budget of around $100 million.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch ‘The Terminator’ on HBO Max
The Terminator remains a cornerstone of ‘80s sci-fi, with a “Certified Fresh” 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “With its impressive action sequences, taut economic direction, and relentlessly fast pace, it’s clear why The Terminator continues to be an influence on sci-fi and action flicks.” Quentin Tarantino, who was raised on cinema of the 1970s and ‘80s, spoke highly of the movie’s success. “The Terminator was a complete surprise. When you were sitting in the movie theater, you couldn’t believe that an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie could be that good. You were gobsmacked,” he said on the Empire Movie Podcast. The Terminator is currently available on HBO Max, but it’ll be removed from the platform on September 1. The franchise is currently in a state of flux after the box-office failure of 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
A two-time Oscar winner with one of the finest filmographies of the 21st century, Emma Stone is one of a kind. After delighting in beloved big hits such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Birdman, and La La Land, Stone turned her attention to Greek writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos, a five-time Oscar nominee in his own right. The pair made magic on their first try, with the period comedy The Favouriteearning 10 Academy Award nominations and a Best Actress win for Stone’s co-star, Olivia Colman.
Then came the utterly mesmerizing Poor Things, based on the eponymous 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, and the slightly underwhelming but certainly ambitious Kind of Kindness, an avant-garde anthology movie featuring Stone alongside another Lanthimos favorite, Jesse Plemons. The latest of the pair’s four collaborations to date arrived in 2025 and proved one of the year’s most exciting sci-fi projects. The science fiction satireBugonia, a remake of Jang Joon-hwan‘s 2003 South Korean comedy Save the Green Planet!, starred both Stone and Plemons, with the latter kidnapping Stone’s high-powered CEO, convinced she is an alien sent to destroy Earth.
Exploring the power of truth, conspiracy, and class in the modern age, Bugonia takes plenty of big swings, no bigger than its final twist, which many consider to be one of the best in recent cinema. Collider’s Ross Bonaime awarded the movie a strong 8/10 rating in his review, writing, “With Bugonia, Lanthimos elevates an already fantastic concept, making an essential film about the world we live in and just how insane and hopeless it can feel at times.” A year on and Bugonia is still proving popular. At the time of writing, the film is one of the ten most-streamed movies on HBO Max in the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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How Much Did ‘Bugonia’ Make at the Box Office?
Lanthimos is known for pushing the boundaries of cinema on a relatively low budget. However, with Bugonia, the master of the strange was given his biggest allowance yet, estimated to be between $45 million and $55 million. Sadly, this meant that the film was a box office flop, falling short of its reported budget with a global haul of just $43 million, split between $17 million in domestic revenue and a further $26 million from overseas markets.
Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates.
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November 7, 2025
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119 minutes
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Yorgos Lanthimos
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Will Tracy
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Andrew Lowe, Ari Aster, Ed Guiney, Emma Stone, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kasia Malipan, Will Greenfield
The Punisher has been a difficult character to crack in Marvel Comics adaptations because the notion of a vigilante gunslinger is no longer as novel or as appealing as it was when Frank Castle debuted. Three different actors have portrayed Castle in live-action films, and each portrayal failed, despite the talent of their stars; these films ranged from being completely ignorant of the character’s real-world ramifications to being trapped in a generic revenge-thriller formula. The one spark of hope that fans of the Punisher earned after years of disappointment was in the second season of Netflix’s Daredevil, in which Jon Bernthal’s version of Castle appeared as a nemesis-turned-ally of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox). While Daredevil suggested that Castle might be best utilized as a supporting character, The Punisherdoes justice to the source material with a modernized, emotional, and surprisingly timely approach to his complex mythology.
Although the fundamentals of Castle’s backstory were laid out in Daredevil, The Punisher offers a partial origin story through flashbacks that is necessary, given that it wasn’t nailed in any of the previous film interpretations. However, Castle is trapped in the present because he is haunted by the loss of his family, which has caused him to retreat into being a solemn recluse hunting down the criminals that murdered his loved ones. The hardest step Castle has to take is finding a new purpose after vengeance, as he does not feel that justice has been served by his bloodlust. Bernthal gives a damaged, multifaceted performance that highlights Castle’s struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and the two-season show delves into the societal evils that shaped his cynical perspective.
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Netflix’s ‘The Punisher’ Reinvents Frank Castle
Although Daredevil had already indicated it, The Punisher confirms that Bernthal was born to play Castle because he understands the sadness and intensity that cause him to be constantly under strain. Bernthal’s Castle is just as obsessed with vengeance as the character is in most comic book depictions, but his fixation has become an addiction because of how in flux his moral code is; having concluded that anyone guilty of committing crimes similar to those made against his family deserves to be punished, Castle has set himself up on an unquenchable quest for revenge that will never be completed. Since the show picks up after Daredevil Season 2, which itself featured Castle already established as an anti-hero, there is no pleasure or spark within the routine that he has committed himself to. Castle works best as a character when he is grizzled and indigent, and The Punisher draws him out of repetition with a newfound mystery that links to his past.
The Punisher finds a clever way to explore Castle’s history in the military because it introduces the character of Billy Russo, a former member of his Force Recon team, played by Ben Barnes. Russo represents an alternative to Castle who initially seems to be better adjusted because he leads a recovery group for fellow veterans and has found new work as a private contractor; however, this masks an insidious lie that Russo has used to hide his guilt, as he has not been made to suffer as Castle has. That The Punisher is a series, and not a film, gives it more time to take a sincere look at veterans’ issues that Bernthal undoubtedly takes seriously, and it also makes an effort to question gun control tactics during a time in which mass shooting incidents are sadly all too common. In addition to acknowledging why Castle’s fatalistic techniques are ultimately not helpful, The Punisher examines how easy it is for vulnerable young men, especially veterans with mental health issues, to be seduced into joining radical groups that promote violence and hate speech.
‘The Punisher’ Is Marvel at Its Grittiest and Most Psychological
Bernthal has the presence to carry The Punisheron its shoulders, but the show has a surprisingly stacked ensemble that ensures it is more than just a solo adventure. Bernthal has been a longtime friend and collaborator with Ebon Moss-Bachrach, whose role as Ben Grimm in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was predated by his performance in The Punisher as the former NSA analyst David Lieberman, who goes by the codename “Mirco.” Lieberman is a veteran of a different sort who has also been denied the opportunity to connect with his family, which sparks parallels with Castle. It’s compelling to have another hero with a different skill set, and the real-life friendship between Bernthal and Moss-Bachrach makes their onscreen chemistry all the more authentic and adds a healthy amount of humor to an otherwise dark show.
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Although many of the Netflix Marvel shows struggled as they went along because they had to connect to one another, The Punisher maintains a degree of quality throughout and justifies the episode count for each season. It even gets a boost of momentum in its second season thanks to the addition of Giorgia Whigham as Amy Bendix, a drifter who becomes a surrogate daughter for Castle. It’s also among the most dynamic streaming shows in terms of action, as the brutal, unglamorized brawls couldn’t be more different than the elegant choreography in Daredevil. It has been exciting to see Bernthal expand upon the character with his most recent appearances in the MCU, but The Punisher remains the most riveting and exhilarating depiction of the character on screen.
You generally consider a trilogy capper to be the cherry on the icing at the top of the cake, if in this scenario the cake is three epic films telling one grand tale. Well, in this baking analogy, this cake is overly sickly sweet, probably store bought and full of chemicals. But you know what, we still love it, and we’ll gorge ourselves silly on it. Anyway, enough of that, let’s talk about saving the world and saying goodbye to Tom Hardy.
Venom: The Last Dance is having, well, its last dance on Netflix in the United States. The movie officially leaves the streaming platform on August 25, which is sure to be a blow to fans who’ve made the movie one of the most popular in the world. The film even made its way to No. 1 all across the world. And whatever you think about the Venom movies, they made some serious money at the box office. The Last Dance earned $478.9 million worldwide, including approximately $139.8 million domestically and $339.2 million internationally.
In Venom: The Last Dance, Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance. Fair to say, though, things get worse when Knull — the ancient creator of the symbiotes — enters the picture. See, his forces need the Codex carried by Eddie and Venom, sending the pair on one final chaotic road trip.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Who Starred in ‘Venom: The Last Dance’?
Hardy is joined by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) as Rex Strickland, Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) as Dr. Teddy Paine, Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man) as Martin Moon, Stephen Graham (Adolescence) as Patrick Mulligan, Clark Backo (Letterkenny) as Sadie Christmas, Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso) as the bartender and Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings) as Knull. Kelly Marcel, who co-wrote the first two movies, made her feature directorial debut with The Last Dance and wrote its screenplay from a story developed alongside Hardy.
Venom: The Last Dance is streaming on Netflix until August 25.
Portuguese soccer star Quévin Castrodied at age 25 after collapsing during a match.
The central midfielder was competing in a friendly preseason match between his team, Real Sport Clube, and rivals Estrela de Amadora at Estádio das Seixas stadium in Malveira, Portugal, on Saturday, August 22, when he collapsed. He was transferred to a local hospital where he was ultimately pronounced dead, per Press Association.
The Lisbon Football Association announced the tragic news in a Facebook post mourning Castro.
“To the family, friends, and the affiliated club [Real Sport Clube], we extend our deepest condolences during this tragic time for Portuguese football,” the organization wrote on Saturday.
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His current team, Real Sport Clube, also paid tribute via social media, writing, “Quevin Castro was far more than a player, he was a member of our family, leaving a mark on all those who had the privilege of knowing him, both on and off the pitch.”
“At this time of grief, Real Sport Clube – Futebol, SAD extends its most sincere condolences to the family and all friends of Quevin Castro, expressing its full solidarity and unconditional support,” the club’s statement read. “May the memory of Quevin Castro live on in our hearts. Rest in peace.”
Real Sport Clube’s friendly match against Estrela de Amadora was postponed indefinitely following Castro’s death.
Estrela de Amadora paid its respects to Castro’s teammates and family, sharing the team’s “deepest sorrow for the passing of Quevin Castro, player for [Real Sport Clube].”
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“At this moment of profound sadness, Estrela da Amadora extend their most heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Quevin Castro, as well as to the entire Real Massama structure,” Estrela de Amadora’s statement read. “Our thoughts are with all those close to him. Rest in peace, Quevin.”
Castro played for several English teams throughout his nine-year soccer career, including a two-year stint with West Bromwich Albion from 2021 to 2023. During his stint with West Brom — whose players are known as the Baggies — he was loaned out to Burton, Notts County and Gateshead.
He later played for Cambridge City and Eastbourne Borough in 2025 and 2026 before returning home to Portugal to sign with Real Sport Clube in June. Tragically, Castro died before he was ever able to play in an official match with Real Sport Clube.
Quévin Castro, of West Bromwich Albion, and Nuno Tavares, of Arsenal, face off in 2021Catherine Ivill/Getty Images
His former team West Bromwich Albion announced plans to honor Castro during the Baggies’ match against Burnley on Sunday, August 23.
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“West Bromwich Albion are devastated to learn of the untimely passing of Quevin Castro, aged just 25,” the team said in a statement. “Albion will pay tribute to Quevin on Sunday, with a period of applause in the 25th minute of the fixture against Burnley. [Coach] James Morrison’s men will also wear black armbands.”
The Baggies went on to offer condolences to Castro’s loved ones, saying, “The thoughts of everyone at Albion are with Quevin’s loved ones at this desperately sad time.”
Notts County Football Club — whom Castro played for on loan in 2022 — said in its own statement that the organization was “shocked and deeply saddened” to hear about the player’s death.
Sony’s war on physical media continues with Crunchyroll. After it announced it would change how it handles its storefront, fans were outraged, claiming the company is making it harder to get physical copies of their favorite shows. Now, a month has passed since the initial announcement, and Sony has not backed down.
Sony’s war on physical media began with PlayStation, when it announced that, by 2028, it would no longer produce physical discs for its games, moving toward all-digital distribution, as it claimed it made more digital sales. This has upset many gamers, and the message started to appear on PlayStation 5 boxes, warning buyers that the company would discontinue disc production. And it’s not just PlayStation, Sony also owns Crunchyroll, and last month it announced that the Crunchyroll Store will be available only to paid subscribers in the Mega and Ultimate Fan tiers, claiming it will create a “new curated experience.” This news also sparked backlash as fans accused Sony of making fans “pay the company more” just to buy merch.
The change to the Crunchyroll store began this month, and according to CBR, the anime platform has delisted many products from its online store, including anime, manga, light novels, Blu-ray discs, etc. Users on social media have also noticed the change, upset that a huge amount of physical media has been removed from the store and that the product selection has been reduced. There is still some anime merch to buy, like the Solo Leveling Season 1 Blu-ray and DVD or the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Complete Series Blu-ray, as well as a variety of figures and Funko Pops, clothing, and other collectible items, but to complete the purchase, customers must be paid subscribers.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
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🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
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Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
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Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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What Is Crunchyroll?
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Crunchyroll is the largest streaming platform for anime content. Founded in 2006, it houses over 2,000 titles. It has over 15 million subscribers, and in 2020, the streaming platform was acquired by Sony from its previous owner, AT&T. Crunchyroll is the place for anime fans if they want to watch some of the biggest titles, like Solo Leveling, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, and Witch Hat Atelier. But because of licensing agreements, the platform isn’t available in every region, including Japan and other Asian countries. Crunchyroll isn’t the only platform that carries anime. Prime Video carries Studio Ghibli content, as well as other shows like the new Ghost in the Shell series, and Netflix also has its own anime library and is the go-to platform for those who don’t have access to Crunchyroll.
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Horror literature is not just about frightening stories; it serves as a mirror of humanity’s darkest sides and deepest fears: a fever dream, or a whispered warning from the beyond. The finest works in the genre go beyond mere fright, lingering in our minds and reshaping how we see morality, beauty, and even the safety of our own homes. So it’s no wonder that the masterpieces of horror across the centuries have reshaped literature, culture, and the way we imagine fear itself.
From primal blood thirst and macabre madness to spiritual and psychological collapse, every generation of horror literature has something to add to its explorations of the dark side of humanity. Some of these books are fundamentally connected to their respective time and era, while others are rare works of literature that achieve perfection in horror and have become timeless cultural landmarks, turning fear into pure art. Read on to discover our handpicked selection of horror books that are all 10/10 masterpieces.
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‘Uzumaki’ (1998–1999)
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A Japanese horror manga written and illustrated by Junji Ito, Uzumaki revolves around the people of Kurouzu‑cho, a fog‑shrouded coastal town cursed by spirals, where everyone is slowly consumed by the unseen force. Said to hold the secret of the world, the titular pattern infects every corner of life, twisting bodies, minds, and even the landscape itself. As the obsession deepens, ordinary citizens mutate into grotesque spiraling forms, while teenagers Kirie and Shuichi attempt to fight the spell and escape the nightmare.
Hailed as Ito’s magnum opus, Uzumaki redefined horror in manga and earned widespread acclaim when it was first published, landing an Eisner Award nomination for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material. The ’90s Japanese cult classic transforms a simple shape into a cosmic terror, weaving imagery so grotesque and hypnotic that readers feel trapped in its coils. Celebrated as a horror manga masterpiece, the nightmare of Uzumaki deepens in every chapter, blurring the line between body horror and existential dread.
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‘The Shining’ (1977)
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Stephen King’s third published novel, The Shining tells the story of Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a job as a caretaker at a heritage hotel in the Colorado Rockies. He moves there in the off-season with his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, who possesses a unique psychic ability, unbeknownst to his parents, that helps him see the unseen supernatural forces present in the hotel. When the family gets trapped inside during a snowstorm, Jack starts getting terrifying visions that take a toll on his sanity, leaving Wendy and Danny in danger.
The Shining was King’s first hardcover bestseller and went on to become a massive literary and cultural phenomenon. Drawing from his personal experiences, the author depicts the terrifying realities of abuse, addiction, and psychological collapse through the lens of the supernatural. Celebrated as one of King’s greatest horror masterpieces, The Shining was the first work that changed his status from a rising name to a master of the genre.
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‘The Haunting of Hill House’ (1959)
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A gothic horror novel by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House is one of the most influential haunted house stories of modern literature. The story follows an occult scholar who invites a few people to the titular, isolated mansion to investigate supernatural occurrences. As eerie events begin unfolding at the mansion, it significantly impacts a fragile, traumatized woman in the group, pushing her down a psychological spiral. In 1960, the novel was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Since its first publication, The Haunting of Hill House has been celebrated as one of the greatest haunted house stories ever written and a high point in 20th-century psychological Gothic horror. The story’s real terror comes not from external elements but from within its characters, as the house turns into a dreadful entity in itself. The novel cemented Jackson’s reputation for chilling fiction and has since been adapted into films, plays, radio shows, and a loosely adapted streaming hit.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
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Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
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🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
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Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
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Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
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Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
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Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1886)
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic horror novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is easily one of the most famous pieces of 19th-century English literature. A respected London doctor, Henry Jekyll, develops a formula that can split the morally opposed aspects of his personality into separate identities. His friend and lawyer, Gabriel Utterson, begins investigating a series of strange occurrences connecting Henry and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde. Through Utterson’s investigation, the reader is exposed to the spine-chilling, horrifying mystery of the two men.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a defining work of Gothic horror fiction that gave rise to the titular metaphor to symbolize contrasting identities and personalities. Narrated as a chilling Victorian mystery, the novel examines humanity’s perpetual struggle with the duality of our nature and is a masterpiece of psychological terror. The original story and the core concept have since been adapted into every possible medium and storytelling style, including parodies and spoofs, even though no major adaptation has been faithful to the original narrative.
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‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1890)
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A Gothic horror and philosophical masterpiece by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray is his first and only completed novel and revolves around the titular character, a wealthy young man in Victorian England and the muse of his artist friend, Basil Hallward, who pictures him as a flawless example of male beauty. After meeting Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is quickly taken in by the aristocrat’s hedonistic outlook toward beauty and self-fulfillment, which pushes Dorian to make a deal with the Devil, resulting in gruesome consequences.
With themes of vanity, morality, and spiritual decay, the novel is hailed as a masterpiece of psychological and philosophical horror and one of Wilde’s finest works. When it was first published, The Picture of Dorian Gray attracted extensive controversy and criticism, and it was largely ignored until the 1980s. Now, however, it’s considered a classic of Gothic literature in particular and English literature in general. The Picture of Dorian Gray has since been adapted for film and stage, with the most notable example being the 2009 film starring Ben Barnes.
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‘Dracula’ (1897)
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A vampire novel that spawned a whole new generation of vampire horror literature, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a literary landmark that has remained at the heights of its genre throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The epistolary novel largely follows an English solicitor named Jonathan Harker, who visits the titular nobleman in Transylvania for business. Count Dracula soon reveals his true nature and moves to England, plaguing the coastal town of Whitby and terrorizing Harker’s fiancée, Mina. Harker then joins a group led by Dutch scholar Abraham Van Helsing to hunt and kill the Count.
With Dracula, Bram Stoker created a monster that has become an icon of vampire horror and remains a significant artifact of Victorian history studied for what it reveals about race, religion, gender, and sexuality in the context of that era. Drawing from ancient folklore and history, the novel drives terror not through violent actions but through the slow, invisible corruption that the dreaded monster instills in his victim’s mind. One of the most seminal works of Gothic horror fiction and an influential piece of British literature, Dracula has almost single-handedly defined the depiction of vampires in modern pop culture.
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‘Frankenstein’ (1818)
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, better known as simply Frankenstein, is not just the first novel by an English novelist but is also considered the first true science fiction horror book. The story follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an obsessive young scientist who conducts an unconventional experiment and creates a sapient creature from various parts of dead bodies. Frankenstein’s ambitious endeavors lead to disturbing and shocking results, escalating into tragedy and revenge.
Ever since it was first published, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has profoundly influenced horror storytelling in art, literature, theater, and later cinema, with the name “Frankenstein” becoming synonymous with freakish monsters. Thought-provoking and deeply unsettling in its exploration of unbridled ambition and the dangerous consequences of playing God, Frankenstein’s horror is deeply rooted in the social, political, and cultural anxieties of the era. With elements of Gothic fiction and the Romantic movement, the novel is one of the most iconic works in English literature and a foundational piece of the genre.
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‘The Exorcist’ (1971)
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A novel better known for its film adaptation, The Exorcist is William Peter Blatty’s most acclaimed and successful novel and is inspired by a real-life incident that supposedly occurred in 1949. The story narrates how Regan, a 12-year-old girl and daughter of a famous actress, gets possessed by a demon, and two Roman Catholic priests attempt to exorcise it. In 1973, Blatty adapted the novel into a supernatural horror thriller directed by William Friedkin, which earned Blatty an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Exorcistredefined supernatural horror in contemporary literature by combining deep psychological realism and grounded subjects like theological controversies and human grief with paranormal terror. It is not just frightening but also drives a deeply unsettling feeling that lingers beyond the final chapter. While the book was a bestseller, it only garnered widespread attention after the film’s release, which itself became a benchmark for horror cinema, turning The Exorcist into both a literary and cinematic franchise.
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Many of Us default to a tee and jeans on the daily, but Ellen Pompeo opted for a coordinated style that’s comfier, classier and much more versatile. Her black lounge set is what rich moms wear for dinner, travel and beyond, and we found the look on sale for only $15. Run!
The Grey’s Anatomy star turned up to a West Hollywood sushi restaurant for a low-key dinner with a friend, and her outfit appeared effortlessly put together. It was comprised of a black tank, straight-leg pants, easy slides and a woven crossbody slung over her shoulder. We’re copying her sleek, expensive style from now through April!
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