On-Screen Screams (Horror Movies)
In this 1996 Wes Craven film, a masked killer asks his victims, "What's your favorite scary movie?"
What is Scream?
This iconic fall cocktail shares its name with a dark, swampy environment and is traditionally made with vodka, Kahlúa, and heavy cream over ice.
What is a Black Russian (or White Russian)?
This Romanian prince, known for his brutal methods of punishing enemies, served as the primary historical inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Who is Vlad the Impaler (or Vlad Dracula)?
In the classic 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus, Bette Midler plays this eldest and most powerful leader of the Sanderson sisters.
Who is Winifred Sanderson?
This flat, wooden board features letters, numbers, and a planchette used by participants who hope to receive messages from the afterlife.
What is the Ouija board?
Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman, a wealthy New York investment banking executive who hides his alternate psychopathic ego, in this 2000 satirical horror film.
What is American Psycho?
Invented in the 1880s by the Wunderlee Candy Company and originally called "Chicken Feed," this tri-colored treat is one of Halloween's most debated candies.
What is Candy Corn?
Originating in Europe during the 14th century, this artistic and literary motif used dancing skeletons to remind people that death unites us all.
What is the Danse Macabre (Dance of Death)?
This 17th-century Massachusetts town became infamous for its 1692 witch trials, which resulted in the executions of twenty people.
What is Salem?
This specific condition, characterized by a temporary inability to move or speak while falling asleep or waking up, was historically blamed on a demon sitting on the chest.
What is sleep paralysis?
This 1973 classic was the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, featuring a young girl possessed by a demon.
What is The Exorcist?
This famous, effervescent cocktail consists of champagne and a splash of Guinness stout, giving it a dark, velvety, and spooky appearance.
What is a Black Velvet?
Located beneath the streets of Paris, this ossuary holds the remains of more than six million people, relocated there in the late 18th century due to overflowing graveyards.
What are the Paris Catacombs?
According to standard folklore, this specific hour—typically between 3:00 AM and 4:00 AM—is when supernatural entities are at their strongest.
What is the witching hour?
According to sailors' lore, bad luck will follow any ship if someone commits this avian crime, a central plot point in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem.
Danny Trejo stars as a federale-turned-vigilante in a film that originated as a fake trailer in this 2007 Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino double-feature collaboration.
What is Grindhouse?
In 2023, this classic marshmallow brand caused a stir among adult fans by releasing a hot-sauce-flavored variety in collaboration with Frank's RedHot.
What are Peeps?
This 19th-century American author, famous for "The Tell-Tale Heart," died mysteriously in Baltimore after being found delirious in clothes that weren't his own.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
In Wiccan and pagan traditions, this ceremonial double-edged dagger with a black handle is used to direct energy during rituals, but never to cut physically.
What is an athame?
In Irish folklore, this wailing female spirit shrieks or keens outside a house to predict the imminent death of a family member.
What is a banshee?
This 2022 tech-horror film features an AI doll built by a roboticist named Gemma who takes her protective programming to a murderous extreme.
What is M3GAN?
This classic Mexican candy, featuring a hard candy spoon or lollipop coated in spicy chili powder and salty tamarind pulp, is highly popular during Day of the Dead celebrations.
What is Vero Elotes (or Lucas/Pulparindo)?
In Victorian England, these security devices were iron cages placed over graves to prevent body snatchers from stealing corpses for medical dissection.
What are mortsafes?
In Slavic folklore, this supernatural crone lives in a magical hut that stands on giant, moving chicken legs.
Who is the Baba Yaga?
This specific psychological phenomenon describes our tendency to see faces in random objects, such as a ghost in a curtain or a demon in wood grain.
What is a pareidolia?