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What iconic, hockey-mask-wearing slasher is known for terrorizing the unfortunate counselors at Camp Crystal Lake?
Who is Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)?
What 2018 slasher film directed by David Gordon Green acts as a direct sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic, ignoring all other franchise sequels?
What is Halloween ?
This slasher sequel, Halloween II (1981), reveals that the unkillable Michael Myers is actually the brother of this final girl played by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Who is Laurie Strode?
Directed by William Friedkin, this 1973 landmark horror film follows a young girl named Regan MacNeil who becomes possessed by a demon.
What is The Exorcist?
In John Krasinski’s 2018 hit A Quiet Place, a family must navigate a post-apocalyptic world completely in silence because the blind alien monsters hunt using this sense.
Answer: What is Hearing? (Sound)
Armed with a glove customized with razor-sharp metal blades, which dream-stalking killer hunts his victims in their sleep?
Who is Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)?
In Jordan Peele's 2019 psychological horror film Us what specific item of red clothing do the tethered "doppelgängers" wear over one of their shoulders?
What is a single leather glove?
In The Conjuring 2 (2016), Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to England to investigate this famous real-life haunting involving a poltergeist terrorizing the Hodgson family.
What is the Enfield poltergeist (or Enfield haunting)?
In this 2013 James Wan film, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren try to help the Perron family rid their Rhode Island farmhouse of a malevolent spirit.
What is The Conjuring?
In Jordan Peele’s 2022 sci-fi horror film Nope, the terrifying, territorial airborne creature hiding in the clouds is given this name by the Haywood siblings.
Answer: What is Jean Jacket?
In the Scream franchise, what is the official name of the recurring, black-robed persona worn by the various killers behind the mask?
Who is Ghostface?
Ari Aster's 2019 folk horror film Midsommar takes place in a remote commune located in which European country?
What is Sweden?
In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Jason Voorhees is accidentally resurrected when a metal fence post acts as a lightning rod, striking this object buried in his grave.
What is a metal fence post/his grave/a corpse?
In the 2001 remake of Thirteen Ghosts, the glass walls of Cyrus Kriticos's mansion are etched with containment spells written in this ancient language.
What is Latin?
In the 2019 creature feature Crawl, a woman and her father become trapped in a crawlspace fighting off aggressive giant alligators during this type of extreme weather event.
Answer: What is a hurricane? (Accept: Category 5 hurricane)
Before adopting the iconic leather mask made of human skin in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, what is the actual birth name of Leatherface's character?
Who is Bubba Sawyer (or Thomas Hewitt in the 2003 remake continuity)?
In Ti West's 2022 slasher film X, what is the name of the secluded Texas farm where the young filmmakers attempt to shoot an adult film?
What is the Pearl farm (or the Howard farm)?
In Saw II (2005), Detective Eric Matthews and several others are locked in a house filled with a nerve agent, racing against a timer to survive in a game set up by Jigsaw.
What is a house? (Or more specifically: What is the nerve gas house?)
The unique glass house built to trap the spirits in Thirteen Ghosts is designed to harness the power of all thirteen entities to activate this ultimate piece of machinery, allowing the user to see the past, present, and future.
What is the Basileus's Machine (or the Ocularis / The Machine)?
In Clive Barker's Hellraiser, what was the human name of the primary Cenobite leader (commonly known as Pinhead) before he was transformed by the Lament Configuration puzzle box?
Who is Captain Elliott Spencer (a British Army captain who served in World War I)?
In David Robert Mitchell's 2014 supernatural horror film It Follows, what specific classic board game are Jay and her friends playing in the living room when they first discuss the rules and paranoia of the entity?
What is The Game of Life?
In A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985), this specific animal acts as the host body that allows Freddy Krueger to possess the teenage protagonist Jesse Walsh in the real world.
What is a pet parakeet (bird)?
Among the Black Zodiac spirits, this specific ghost is legally/biographically named Jimmy Gambino—a gambler whose body parts were wrapped in cellophane after thugs mutilated him, creating one of the film's most striking visual effects.
What is The Torso?