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This Is the Only Horror Movie to Ever Win Best Picture at the Academy Awards

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Horror movies have never gotten much love at the Academy Awards. And even when they do get some attention, it’s rarely in the Best Picture category. To date, only nine films in the genre have been nominated for the highly coveted award: The Exorcist , Jaws , The Silence of the Lambs , The Sixth Sense , Black Swan , Get Out , The Substance , the 2025 version of Frankenstein , and Sinners . To make matters worse, just one of those actually went home with the Oscar. The lone winner in question was The Silence of the Lambs , which pulled off another extremely rare feat at the 1992 Academy Awards: it swept the so-called “Big Five” categories. For the record, that includes Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. That evening, the Jodie Foster-Anthony Hopkins classic became the third film in history to accomplish that. It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had done so previously (in 1935 and 1976, respectively). The Osc...
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A Man Died While Watching ‘The Conjuring 2,’ and Then His Body Mysteriously Disappeared

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On June 7, 2016, James Wan’s first sequel to 2013’s The Conjuring , fittingly titled The Conjuring 2 , had its world premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. 10 days later, two Indian men attending an evening screening of the film in Tiruvannamalai became the subject of a creepy mystery that doesn’t appear to have ever been solved. According to a report from The Times of India , one of the men complained of chest pain during the movie’s climax and fainted. The 65-year-old was then rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. For whatever reason, the hospital staff asked the man’s friend to bring his body to a medical college on the outskirts of town for postmortem, instead of transporting him themselves. And that’s where things get even eerier. You see, as it turns out, the corpse never arrived at its destination, and we still don’t know why. The Bizarre True Story of a Man Who Died Watching ‘The Conjuring 2’ and Then Vanished Evidently, both t...
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The Pentagon Just Released a Bizarre UFO Report Involving a Mysterious Black Triangle

Apparently, this year, two anonymous federal agents briefly observed a mysterious matte black triangular object flying through the air. Another colleague had informed them of its presence. They were based in a redacted location in the western United States, dubbed a “national security site.” The dark triangle of their focus ascended, hovered, then sped away into a canyon. The unsettling, smooth craft resembled a delta-wing drone and boasted a wingspan of between nine and 15 ft. It made no noise and left no trail behind it, but it showed up on an infrared monocular. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office recorded the occurrence in a memo and a signed statement the experienced military observers gave to the FBI. Everything We Know About the Mysterious Black Triangle UFO in the Pentagon’s Latest Files The Pentagon made this sighting public in a recent release containing 28 PDFs. This amounted to the seventh release of its kind under an executi...
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Happy Fallout Day! Here’s How Bethesda Is Celebrating the Wasteland’s Biggest Holiday.

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Happy Fallout Day ! Although the in-game event won’t happen for another fifty-one years, players can celebrate the classic video game franchise now. With eleven games to choose from, from five mainline games to three mobile games, the Fallout franchise has plenty of material to dive into.  What is Fallout Day? In the world of  Fallout,  October 23 marks the date in 2077 when the Great War began, an event that set off the nuclear apocalypse and drove civilization, the luckier side,  into Vault-Tec bunkers.  Bethesda celebrates Fallout Day every year with in-game events, rewards, discounts, and more. This year, the event began early on October 19, ran all week, and culminated in celebrations on the 23. First , an official X account for  Fallout 76,  the franchise’s online multiplayer offering, focused on special Fallout Day events for that  game. A highlight this year was a sneak peek at the upcoming World Pets update, which lets players have furry friends that s...
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Panic! at the Pokémon Convention—This Week On VICE: Members Only

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To get past the paywall, sign up for VICE membership . A Digital Only subscription is just $2 a month (or $20 a year, if you prefer), while $70 a year also gets you 4 issues of VICE magazine, delivered straight to your door. (All three kill all the ads on this site.) It’s getting to that time of year where people who live in countries that experience at least six months of winter start dispatching themselves to warmer climates , like migrating birds with a preferred pilates trainer and access to Salesforce. Rio, Mexico City, Bali, Phuket—all about to get hit by the lesser-discussed Super El Niño event of Claudevangelists taking a break from their usual routine to stay in a hostel with its own mushroom blend tea and refresh their Instagram grid with pictures of waterfalls. A soldier on the wanderlust frontlines herself, VICE writer Niloufar Haidari has some concerns about the spirit of those who regularly hurl themselves halfway round the world to attend ancestral healing pra...
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Daily Horoscope: October 23, 2026

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Turn the lights down and the candor up, because Scorpio season just walked through the door. For the next month or so, small talk feels flimsy, and people want the full story, secrets included. The Sun opens the season by merging with Venus tonight, stargazer, so attraction gets serious and people stop pretending they don’t care. Earlier in the day, the Moon moves into Aries and puts a little swagger in everyone’s step, then turns romantic and starry-eyed as it meets Neptune. One piece of housekeeping: Mercury goes retrograde tomorrow, so send and confirm anything important before you log off. After that, let your Friday night take you wherever it wants. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Two days of dreamy Pisces Moon had you feeling like a sleepy houseplant. The Moon storms into your sign this morning, Aries, and your fire comes roaring back. Saturn’s trine to Mars is fadi...
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‘Dead by Daylight’ and ‘Diablo IV’ Have Joined Forces for a New Crossover. Here’s Everything We Know.

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Dead by Daylight frequently collaborates with other franchises, from video games like Five Nights at Freddy’s to movies and TV shows  like Ellen Ripley from the  Alien  films and various  Stranger Things characters . Recently, another collaboration with a popular franchise hit the Dead by Daylight store. ‘ Diablo IV’ and ‘Dead by Daylight’ – devilishly fun companions  DBD first announced the collaboration with Diablo IV during its tenth-anniversary livestream in June, and previewed the outfits on offer during the October of Horror broadcast earlier this month. Players can now finally get their hands on the Dead by Daylight x Diablo IV partnership.  Three new Survivor cosmetics are available for Taurie Cain, David King, and Zarina Kassir. All three are original characters to Dead by Daylight, with Taurie arriving most recently in the “Doomed Course” chapter back in 2024. David debuted early in the game with the 2017 “A Lullaby for the Dark” ch...
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