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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

Samhain approaches and the veil between worlds grows thin, which means that it’s time for another…

In the 1960s, Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man came for your kids

For kids who grew up in the late ’60s through the mid-’70s, as the song says, every day was…

24 hours of horror with the new masters of the genre

As as become a tradition here at The A.V. Club, in honor of every creepy kid’s favorite holiday,…

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

Imagine an alternate timeline where Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, instead of riding the wave of critical…

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

With more than 5.2 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a …

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

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

Fake blood is easy to make and tastes like chocolate

Let’s say you want to stage a murder scene this weekend. In the spirit of community, you invite the …

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

Adapt And Die is an ongoing look at how works of film, television, and literature have been…

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

Our A.V. Club Field Guide To Parenting is designed to guide you toward the best kids’ books, shows, …

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