Horror/Halloween Characters
Being dead never bothered him. Getting someone to say his name three times was the hard part.
Beetlejuice
This flying mammal is often associated with vampires and uses echolocation to navigate in darkness.
Bat
This serial killer, known as the "Night Stalker", terrorized Southern California during the 1980s.
Richard Ramirez
This chemical is released by the body during the fight-or-flight response, increasing heart rate and alertness.
Adrenaline
A masked man returns to his hometown every Halloween to terrorize babysitters.
Halloween
Dreams were his workplace. Stripes were his style. He probably should've kept those gloves to himself.
Freddy Krueger
These three insects are notorious for eating their mate after reproduction. Name one of them (100 bonus points if you can name all three)
Praying Mantis, black widow, and the jumping spider
This unidentified killer sent coded messages and threatening letters to newspapers in Northern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Zodiac Killer
This phenomenon occurs when a person wakes up but temporarily cannot move or speak, sometimes experiencing frightening hallucinations.
Sleep paralysis
A group of people watches a mysterious videotape, after which they receive a phone call warning them that they have seven days to live.
The Ring
He never called it murder. He just wanted people to appreciate their lives. He always wanted to play a game.
Jigsaw
This cute amphibian can regenerate entire limbs, portions of its heart, and parts of its brain. It is a unique type of salamander that spends its entire life underwater.
Axolotl
This Wisconsin murderer inspired multiple fictional horror characters, including Norman Bates from Psycho and Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Ed Gein
This involuntary stiffening of muscles occurs after death due to chemical changes in muscle tissue.
Rigor mortis
A group of camp counselors learns why reopening a summer camp with a tragic history might be a terrible idea.
Friday the 13th
All work and no play made him a dull boy. He should've stayed out of room 237. Also famous for the line "Here's Johnny!"
Jack Torrance from The Shining (played by Jack Nicholson)
This insect can live for days after losing its head, although eventually it dies from dehydration.
Cockroach
This serial killer was nicknamed the "Green River Killer" after victims were discovered near a river in Washington State.
Gary Ridgeway
This phenomenon causes people to hear loud explosions or crashing sounds while falling asleep or waking up, despite there being no external noise.
Exploding head syndrome
A young woman is forced to participate in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with her new husband's wealthy family.
Ready or Not
As the eldest, most intelligent, and most powerful of the three sisters, she kept her sisters in line, her one-eyed spell book close, and her ex-lover Billy Butcherson very angry after raising him from the dead into a zombie.
Winifred Sanderson from Hocus Pocus
This real-life parasite is transmitted by drinking stagnant water (such as pond water) and can emerge painfully through the skin after growing inside the human body.
Guinea Worm
This 1947 Los Angeles murder victim became known as the "Black Dahlia".
Elizabeth Short
This condition causes a person to believe that they are dead, do not exist, or are missing internal organs.
Cotard's syndrome (also known as walking corpse syndrome)
A group of cave explorers discovers that getting lost underground is the least of their problems.
The Descent