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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…

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

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

This week’s entry: Salish Sea human foot discoveries

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

Every year around this time, I find myself pondering the thin line between horror and suspense.…

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

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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

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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

The monsters that patrol the ruined halls of Brennenburg Castle are not scary. Once you’ve gotten a

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

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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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