Pop-Culture
Thousands of people worldwide gather annually to perform the synchronized zombie dance routine from this 1982 hit music video.
What is Thriller?
Directed by Henry Selick, this stop-motion animated film follows Jack Skellington as he attempts to take over Christmas.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
This 1897 Bram Stoker novel is structured entirely through diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings.
What is Dracula?
A father buys an exotic pet in Chinatown, ignores every basic feeding instruction, and ruins Christmas for his entire suburban town.
What is Gremlins?
The town of Keene, New Hampshire set a Guinness World Record by lit-up displaying over 30,500 of these holiday decorations simultaneously.
What are Jack-o'-lanterns?
This 1988 Tim Burton comedy features a bio-exorcist summoned by repeating his name three times.
What is Beetlejuice?
Mary Shelley conceived this classic gothic horror novel in 1816 during a ghost story competition at Lord Byron's Swiss villa.
What is Frankenstein?
Unemployed academics set up an unlicensed nuclear pest-control business to clean up Manhattan's ghost infestation.
What is Ghostbusters?
Since 1990, this animated TV series has aired an annual Halloween special titled "Treehouse of Horror."
What is The Simpsons?
This 1984 Wes Craven film features a razor-gloved killer who targets teenagers inside their dreams.
What is A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Edgar Allan Poe's famous 1845 poem features a grieving lover visited by a midnight bird that utters only this single word.
What is "Nevermore"?
A budget-conscious mother buys her son a popular talking doll, only to discover it comes pre-loaded with the soul of a fugitive murderer and zero safety warnings.
What is Child's Play?
This legendary stage magician and escape artist unexpectedly passed away on Halloween day in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
In Hocus Pocus, the Sanderson Sisters are resurrected in Salem after Max does this.
What is light the Black Flame Candle?
In Washington Irving's story set in Tarrytown, New York, this superstitious schoolmaster is pursued by the Headless Horseman.
Who is Ichabod Crane?
A concerned mother calls two priests to deal with her pre-teen daughter's sudden behavioral issues, extreme neck flexibility, and terrible table manners involving pea soup.
What is The Exorcist?
In "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," Charlie Brown famously laments receiving this useless item while trick-or-treating.
What is a rock?
Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, faces off against a masked killer in this 1978 John Carpenter slasher classic.
What is Halloween?
his 1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson explores dual human nature through a London doctor who brews a potion to unleash his sinister alter ego.
What is Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Three college students take an extended walk in the Maryland woods, lose their paper map, cry directly into a camcorder, and star in a film where the primary antagonist is a bunch of tied-together sticks.
What is The Blair Witch Project?