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.

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

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.

I know saying something is “the perfect” anything is a little bit fraught. It’s hard to satisfy everyone, and there’s so many different genres and individual taste to consider. Bold though it is to say this is the perfect Halloween Playlist, we’re gonna say it. Because this was the hard work of everyone at Culture Combine, and it crosses genre boundaries, spans decades, and includes deep cuts and pop culture favorites.

SOMA is Greek for “body” and while it’s an apt title, it’s also a bit ironic, as “body” is something SOMA plays fast and loose with. Taking the mechanics that made Penumbra: Overture and Amnesia: The Dark Descent hits, SOMA stays true to that formula while introducing a whole new level of body horror and existential dread. What makes a person a person? What happens when you copy consciousness? If you haven’t played SOMA, I highly recommend you just go and play it. Minor spoil

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

Screenshot: Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy I’ve been playing survival horror games for a really long time. Arguably, since the birth of the genre since I first cut my teeth on games like the Alone in the Dark series before I even started playing Resident Evil. In this time I’ve played some great survival horror, and some terrible survival horror games. (Ironically, games in the Resident Evil franchise touch on both ends of that spectrum.) I would love to say that Remothered: Re

Animation rarely gets a fair shake, and this Halloween we want to remind you of all the amazing animated thrills and chills you can find.

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

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

The point is, sometimes you want to feel spooky but you feel sad. Sometimes you miss how Halloween used to be. This is the cure for that sort of melancholy, I promise. I have what some people consider a moral failing: a love for TV, and a love for commercials. Growing up I constantly got the disapproving eye from people who "didn't watch any screens at all" and "made a TV planter because that's how much TV we don't watch." Not that it bothered me. Nope, didn't both

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

There is a distinct cruelty to short-form horror. Whether it’s short horror films on YouTube, short stories, or games you can wrap in a single sitting, brevity acts as an amplifier. The tight runtime prevents too much of the veil from being stripped away—you never spend enough time in the world for the monster or the mechanics to become familiar. Instead, you're trapped with the dreadful certainty that something terrible is coming, and it's arriving fast.

Just because the concept of something disgusts us here in the Western world (or outright frightens us) doesn’t mean that thing isn’t delicious or even a prized delicacy elsewhere. Still, there are certainly things that, if put on my plate, might make me run in the other direction.

I love a good Halloween episode of a TV show. And I love any holiday special. I think it’s because I’m a child of the late 80s, and early 90s. This was THE era for holiday themed TV, and Halloween was my favorite. Suddenly your favorite shows got a little scarier – even the sitcoms. And shows that were already scary? Well, you could count on them doubling down on the horror.

2019 Chicago Vampire Ball. Photo: Marielle Bokor. It’s near 2 am on some random side street or alleyway in and around the theater district or Lakeview in Chicago, and a few random vehicles are pulled up to the outside of a restaurant with a cabaret room run by somebody unfortunate, a big corporate brewery with several floors and an elevator up to the actual dressing room, a full on vintage ballroom, an incredibly unique bar or two, or a huge events space with “so much room fo

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

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

Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October is not only a book that goes along with the season perfectly, it’s also a culture mash-up of its own—which, you know, goes perfectly with the whole “Culture Combine” thing. It features a cast of characters spanning across fiction and non-fiction, serving as a massive love letter to Gothic literature, Universal Monsters, and Hammer Horror films.

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