Welcome to Horrors Week 2026
As Halloween approaches, The A.V. Club is celebrating all that goes bump in the night, be it on screen, stage, or the page.
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Boo! Did we get you? No, not yet? Well, hopefully in the next few days, we at The A.V. Club will be able to serve up something that spooks or startles. That’s right, it’s time for our annual Horrors Week. It’s been a banner year for the genre, with young filmmakers like Curry Barker and Kane Parsons emerging from social media to create some of the biggest hits of the year, with the genre only becoming more entrenched and popular across the small screen, the stage, and the page. This week, we’re going to talk about it all.
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