Ask horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…

Name a significant event in horror history over the past half century, and odds are Tom Savini was there. From his…

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Bass Pro Shop in downtown Memphis is actually an occult monument to…

“Instead of the cross, the Albatross around my neck was hung” laments the narrator of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge…

As we settle into Horrors Week and prepare for Halloween, this week we’re asking:

Even if you watch horror movies year ’round, there’s something extra special about watching them during Halloween.…

In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders to shed some light on how the pop culture sausage gets…

Most movie marketing is about enticement: Hear Greta Garbo talk! Believe that a man can fly! Feel the unremitting,…

I’ve never seen a ghost. I don’t want to see a ghost. That doesn’t stop me from asking everyone I meet if they’ve…

Pizza pundits have been riffing on the uncanny valley awfulness inherent to animatronic mascot characters since long…

Some won’t do musicals and others have a distaste for romance, but horror might be the only genre with which a large…

This week’s entry: Geography of Halloween

I’m up for pretty much anything when it comes to horror movies, but I’ll make a special point to watch anything that…

“She’s a girl with a problem,” Roman Polanski says on the director’s commentary of Repulsion, speaking as…

As films from Village Of The Damned to The Omen to this year’s Tales Of Halloween have made very clear, children are…

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: For Horrors Week, we’re once…

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Get in…

NBC’s Today has a longstanding tradition of dressing its hosts in elaborate costumes every Halloween, the better to…

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

Implacability ranks high on the list of a psycho killer’s scariest attributes. It’s not just that they want to…