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31 Days of Horror: The Meta-List of Many Horrors
It’s been a hell of a spooky season. We’ve had a lot of fun bringing you a new horror feature every day. But it doesn’t have to end! Spooky can be a year-round thing.That’s why we compiled for you a list of some of our favorite horror movies, video games, and TV shows. This list couldn’t possibly be comprehensive, but we did try to curate for you a diverse list that looks at more than just horror genres.

Culture Combine Staff
1 day ago19 min read


31 Days of Horror: The Crows (All the Other Ones)
There’s no doubt that The Crow managed to capture the imaginations of many Gen Xers and Millennials, like myself. Perhaps it was the combination of the death of Brandon Lee–son of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee–and the fact that The Crow managed to capture the zeitgeist of the younger generation at the time. It was unique visually, and edgy in a way that just wasn’t the same. It also had a fantastic soundtrack. You can read about Aaron Cynic’s thoughts on it here. I’m not
Antal Bokor
2 days ago6 min read


31 Days of Horror: The Crow
Horror and Halloween aren’t entirely about just scaring yourself silly. They’re a tapestry of emotions carefully seeded across a landscape of the dark and macabre. Thirty-two years ago, despite the tragic death of Brandon Lee on set during filming, The Crow hit theaters.
aaroncynic
3 days ago2 min read


31 Days of Horror : Some of Our Favorite YouTube Horror Shorts
https://unsplash.com/@zulfugarkarimov?utm_source=wix-media-manager&utm_medium=referral Horror isn’t just a genre; it’s an amalgamation of pop culture, cozy traditions, and things that go bump in the night. This year, we're taking our 31 Days of Horror across the entire cultural spectrum. We’ll be taking a look at movies that scare us, games that kept us paranoid, scary books we cozy up with under blankets, music that sets that spooky tone and seasonal food we’re craving–or st
Antal Bokor
Oct 242 min read


31 Days of Horror: House (1977)
Sometimes you just want to sit down and watch a normal, run of the mill horror movie that is easy to follow with plenty of standard issue scares coming at you at a steady clip and totally not a batshit insane trip into a fantastical Japanese countryside where a supernatural house devours a pack of schoolgirls one by one in the most absurd and inventive way. And by sometimes I mean not today be cause we're talking about House (1977).

Julian Ramirez
Oct 222 min read


31 Days of Horror: Don't Look Now
Horror isn't all jump scares, scary monsters, or disturbing imagery. While these motifs are the ones most associated with the genre, and lets be honest are the most fun, not everything falls into those visceral experiences. Sometimes a more nuanced story, with out all these easy to detect scares, are more indicative of the genre. Sometimes horror is just sitting in a pile of grief for the majority of its 110 minute runtime.. That is what Don't Look Now is.

Julian Ramirez
Oct 202 min read


31 Days of Horror: i'm thinking of ending things
i'm thinking of ending things stars Jessie Buckley as a young woman who realizes she is at an impasse in her relationship with Jake, played by Jessie Plemons. This happens just as they are taking a road trip to meet Jake's parents at their family farm. It's a perfect set up for a different movie, one that is accessible and maybe a straight forward examination of couple at the end of their time together. But thats not Charlie Kaufman's vibe and i'm thinking of ending things is

Julian Ramirez
Oct 173 min read


31 Days of Horror: Abigail
Unfortunately this is a movie that was ruined by its marketing. I am not the most strict about going into a movie blind, usually I think if the journey to the spoiler is good, the spoiler isn't actually a spoiler. But for this movie it absolutely is. Too much of the film relies on you knowing nothing about the story, the characters, and in order to enjoy the journey. Which is already a Herculean task in this modern age of everything ends up online from the word go. I think w

Julian Ramirez
Oct 153 min read


31 Days of Horror: Audition
Audition tends to be a big introduction to J-Horror. The film is practically ubiquitous with the the country's horror output, right their with Ringu. But unlike Ringu, Audition has maintained it origins, never getting a remake (note: there has been one in development for a long time) and for good reason. Audition is an incredible nuanced and subtle film that presents itself as one thing, transforms slowly into another, then hits you a bus of horror.

Julian Ramirez
Oct 133 min read


Matchbox: The Movie: Less Toy Tie-In, More Discount Fast & Furious
Matchbox: The Movie is barely about Matchbox cars. It ends up being a little bit of Fast and the Furious and a little bit of True Lies meets Grosse Pointe Blank with a small (tiny) pinch of The Road Warrior–but never as good as any one of those films were. It’s also full of the self-referential "wow, that just happened" style humor, and characters that are overused tropes.
Antal Bokor
Oct 124 min read


31 Days of Horror: Possession
Birthed out of the painful and tumultuous emotions of writer /director Andrzej Żuławski faced while getting divorced, Possession is a masterpiece of horror. Combining a variety of genre elements in the most pervasive avant garde fashion, the film had been a difficult to procure cult classic. But thanks to the resurgence of physical media, it's now readily available (albeit contentious color grading throughout its releases).

Julian Ramirez
Oct 112 min read


31 Days of Horror: Coherence
We live in a world where the whole universes converging and smashing together are old hat and an expected plotline in even the most pedestrian of movies. But Coherence, a small budget film that takes place in one location, was doing it way back in 2013 and doing it well.

Julian Ramirez
Oct 102 min read


31 Days of Horror: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is…well…not bad. Let's start there. While it's nowhere near the quality of the first, it's still worth a watch. Honestly, I think it has to do with all the typical pitfalls that come with sequels. Everything seems to always need to be one-upped from its predecessor - from the kills to Samara Weaving's incredible banshee scream- instead of letting things flow forward. The tone balance is there but the plotline veers off the edge of silliness, the ki

Julian Ramirez
Oct 82 min read


31 Days of Horror: Watcher
Horror isn’t just a genre; it’s an amalgamation of pop culture, cozy traditions, and things that go bump in the night. This year, we're taking our 31 Days of Horror across the entire cultural spectrum. We’ll be taking a look at movies that scare us, games that kept us paranoid, scary books we cozy up with under blankets, music that sets that spooky tone and seasonal food we’re craving–or strange food you’d have to tie us up and force feed us. Whether you’re looking for someth

Julian Ramirez
Oct 52 min read


31 Days of Horror: VIY
Viy is a Soviet era gothic horror that is as surreal and liminal as you can get. A trio of seminary students get lost in the countryside and one of them, Khoma, becomes the target of witch. The film follows the student as he escapes the clutches of the witch (who shape shifts between an old hag and a young woman) , seemingly kills her, and is then tasked with praying over her body for 3 days.

Julian Ramirez
Oct 42 min read


31 Days of Horror: Existenz
Horror isn’t just a genre; it’s an amalgamation of pop culture, cozy traditions, and things that go bump in the night. So this year, we're taking our 31 Days of Horror across the entire cultural spectrum. We aren't just talking about movies—we're talking about the video games that kept us up till 3 AM, the books that gave us chills, the music that sets the perfect eerie vibe, and the seasonal food we're craving—or the strange food you’d have to tie us up and force feed us. Wh

Julian Ramirez
Oct 33 min read


31 Days of Horror: Ready or Not
When I first saw Ready or Not, I was completely entranced by its completely absurd brand of horror comedy that follows Samara Weaving as Grace, a young woman on her wedding day as she married into the wealthy Le Domas family. Once the night comes she must play a traditional family game that surprisingly turns into a The Most Dangerous Game riff full of spoilery stuff I won't go into just yet. So, yeah fun!!

Julian Ramirez
Oct 22 min read


Brand New Day, True to Form Spiderman - How Spiderman: Brand New Day Respects the Material and Tells a Powerful Story
A Brand New review of Brand New Day.

Marielle Bokor
Sep 110 min read


Summerween Was in Full Effect During the Hocus Pocus Panel at Fan Expo Chicago 2026
The Halloween season just seems to be coming earlier and earlier with every passing year and honestly you won't hear me complaining. That was certainly the vibe for everyone at the Hocus Pocus panel at this year's Fan Expo when the packed crowd asked the panel of Thora Birch, Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw, and Jason Marsden what they though of the Summerween phenomena and if they were all spookygirlies. "Well I think we kinda started it." they responded as the crowd cheered their a

Julian Ramirez
Aug 212 min read


The Halloween Crew Panel Delighted The Fan Expo Crowd
Halloween panel @ Fan Expo Chicago 2026. John Carpenter, Nick Castle, PJ Soles, Dean Cundey, Tommy Lee Wallace. Photo: Julian Ramirez Halloween season is nearly upon us and what better way to usher it in than with a Halloween panel featuring John Carpenter, Nick Castle, P.J. Soles, Tommy Lee Wallace, and Dean Cundey! The cast and crew of the original, ground breaking horror film got together for a fun panel at Fan Expo's main hall, delighting the crowd with the best tidbits

Julian Ramirez
Aug 213 min read
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