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Horrors Week

The A.V. Club

10/24/16 12:00am

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The A.V. Club's Horrors Week

It’s Horrors Week at The A.V. Club

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24 hours of horror with the new masters of the genre

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How a forgotten ’80s gem created the formula for video game horror

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Nancy Allen dies 3 times in the films of Brian De Palma

With Together Again, Jesse Hassenger looks at actors and directors who have worked together on at…

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No one knows why severed feet have been washing up along the Salish Sea

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The Halloween Tree remains an adventure in understanding and friendship

“It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest…

Finally, a slasher movie that doesn’t make sex a death sentence

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Fake blood is easy to make and tastes like chocolate

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The suspense is better than the horror in John Carpenter’s The Thing

In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.

The Paranormal Activity series milks found-footage for all it’s worth

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve…

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The Thing’s video game sequel got everything right except the Thing

The Thing is nauseating. Seeing it for the first time in a sticky-floored screening room a couple…

Bereavement weds a brutal slasher flick to a Lifetime-style weepie

One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or…

Pack up your knives and die: Bitter Feast turned cooking into horror

This article discusses major plot points of the 2010 indie horror film Bitter Feast.

The horror-game renaissance started with a monster you couldn’t see

Special Topics In Gameology explores a specific corner of the gaming world in a miniseries of…

The 25 scariest opening scenes in horror-movie history

At least a half-hour passes in Psycho before Marion Crane takes that fateful shower. Even more…

Scream wasn’t the first slasher whodunit

One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or…

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Karin Slaughter recommends 7 thrilling, disturbing mysteries written by women

With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list…

Spend Halloween with monsters only a mother could love

Ah, Halloween, the push-me/pull-you of children’s holidays. Pro: Candy. Con: Scary monsters. Pro:…

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