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Exploding heads, mutant aliens and bursting chests: horror’s greatest special effects – ranked!
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From the beheading in The Omen to the attic scene in The Birds, here’s a countdown of the genre’s most iconic moments – in glorious, old-school pre-CGI style Towards the end of the 20th century, when film-makers’ overreliance on CGI was increasingly making special effects less special, it took the…
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Exploding heads, mutant aliens and bursting chests: horror’s greatest special effects – ranked!
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