What a year it’s been for Rebecca Ferguson, and to top it all off, one of the most underrated projects of her career is finding a second wind on streaming. To kick off 2026, Ferguson starred opposite Chris Pratt in the Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller, Mercy, which bombed at the box office before going on to become one of the biggest movies of the year on Prime Video. Ferguson also headlined one of the biggest sci-fi shows of the summer in Silo on Apple TV, and she’s returning to her role as Juliette in the fourth and final season of the show next summer. Ferguson will also reprise her role as Lady Jessica later this year in Dune: Part Three, but she has confirmed that she will only have one scene in the franchise-capping sci-fi threequel.
Rebecca Ferguson has starred in enough movies to this point in her career that it’s only natural for some to have been largely forgotten to the scope of time. One of said projects that fans don’t often remember is Doctor Sleep, the legacy sequel to The Shining starring Ferguson as the featured villain, Rose the Hat. Ewan McGregor, best known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, also has a key role in Doctor Sleep, along with Cliff Curtis and Zahn McClarnon. Based on the novel by Stephen King, Doctor Sleep was written and directed by Mike Flanagan, who is a frequent adapter of King’s work. Seven years after Doctor Sleep hit theaters, the film is still not available to watch on streaming, but fans are checking it out in droves on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV.
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Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
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Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child’s Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
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Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
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You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
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Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
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Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
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How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
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Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
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Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
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Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
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Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
A Nightmare on Elm Street · Since 1984
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Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage.
These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Child’s Play · Chucky · Since 1988
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Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults.
By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream · Ghostface · Since 1996
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Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party.
You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films.
The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring · The Warren Files · Since 2013
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The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
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What Is ‘Doctor Sleep’ About?
The official synopsis for Doctor Sleep, which holds scores of 79% from critics and 89% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift of the ‘shine.’ Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.” Doctor Sleep may be a sequel to The Shining, but it certainly isn’t remembered in the same light as the 1980 horror classic directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Check out Doctor Sleep on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Rebecca Ferguson’s future projects.
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