Pumpkin Pictures
ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1978, THIS FILM FOLLOWS A STONE COLD KILLER AS HE STALKS THE FICTIONAL TOWN OF HADDONFIELD, ILLINOIS. ITS FRANCHISE CONTAINS 12 FILMS, AND HAS BEEN INSPIRATION FOR A LONG LINE OF SLASHER FILMS.
WHAT IS HALLOWEEN?
SLUMBERING UNDER DERRY, MAINE, THIS ANCIENT EVIL PREYS UPON CHILDREN EVERY 27 YEARS USING ILLUSIONS UNTIL THEY ARE TERRIFIED AND "RIPE" FOR CONSUMPTION.
WHO/WHAT IS IT?
THE FIRST JACK O'LANTERNS WERE ORIGINALLY MADE NOT FROM PUMPKINS, BUT FROM THIS ROOT VEGETABLE.
WHAT IS A TURNIP?
THIS 1982 HALLOWEEN CLASSIC DEPICTS A YOUNG MAN, AND HIS FLASH MOB OF UNDEAD BACKUP DANCERS.
WHAT IS "THRILLER"?
THIS HALLOWEEN TREAT WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED "CHICKEN FEED" DUE TO IT'S SHAPE AND COLOR.
WHAT IS CANDY CORN?
A FILM ADAPTED FROM STEPHEN KINGS TITULAR NOVEL, A MAIN CHARACTER NAMED DANNY HAS PSYCHIC ABILITIES WHICH ALLOW HIM TO SEE THE HORRIFIC PAST OF THE "OVERLOOK HOTEL." IN A FAMOUS SCENE, DANNY'S FATHER CHOPS THROUGH A DOOR IN A INSANE RAGE AND YELLS, "HEEERE'S JOHNNY!"
WHAT IS THE SHINING?
CREATED USING AN UNNAMED SCIENTIFIC PROCESS WHICH CREATES LIFE FROM NON-LIVING MATTER, THIS CREATURE IS OFTEN INCORRECTLY REFERRED TO BY HIS CREATOR'S NAME.
WHO/WHAT IS FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER?
THE MASK OF MICHAEL MYERS IS ACTUALLY THE FACE OF WILLIAM SHATNER, FAMOUS FOR HIS ACTING AS THIS CHARACTER IN STAR TREK.
WHO IS CAPTAIN KIRK?
THE BBC BANNED THIS HALLOWEEN CLASSIC FROM RADIO AIRPLAY IN THE U.K. DURING 1962, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED IT WAS "TOO MORBID."
WHAT IS "MONSTER MASH"?
ACCORDING TO CANDYSTORE.COM, THIS CANDY WAS NEBRASKA'S FAVORITE IN 2020 ACCORDING TO SALES DATA.
WHAT IS/ARE SOURPATCH KIDS?
JOHNNY DEPP'S FILM DEBUT, THIS SUPERNATURAL SLASHER FILM FOLLOWS A CHILD MURDERER'S VENGEFUL GHOST, AS HE TERRORIZES 4 TEENS IN THE FICTICIOUS TOWN OF SPRINGWOOD, OHIO.
WHAT IS A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET?
THIS SADISTIC KILLER TESTS "THE WILL TO LIVE" OF PEOPLE HE BELIEVES TAKE LIFE FOR GRANTED. HE IS NAMED AFTER THE PUZZLE-SHAPED PIECE OF FLESH HE CARVES FROM THOSE THAT FAIL.
WHO IS JIGSAW?
HALLOWEEN AS WE KNOW IT TODAY WOULD NOT EXIST, HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THESE EUROPEAN TRIBES, WHO CELEBRATED A PAGAN RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL CALLED "SAMHAIN." (SOW-IN)
WHO WERE THE CELTS/ANCIENT IRISH.
WHAT IS "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU"?
A COMMON SYMBOL OF HALLOWEEN, THIS FRUIT IS COMMONLY MISTAKEN FOR A VEGETABLE.
WHAT IS A PUMPKIN?
FILMED IN A STYLE REFERRED TO AS "FOUND FOOTAGE," THIS FILM FOLLOWS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF 3 HIKERS, AND INSPIRED MANY SIMILAR FILMS SUCH AS PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
WHAT IS THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT?
WHO IS DRACULA?
THERE IS A LITTLE KNOWN FEMALE MATCHMAKING RITUAL INVOLVING THIS COMMON HALLOWEEN GAME, IN WHICH THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL PLAYER IS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST TO BE MARRIED.
WHAT IS BOBBING FOR APPLES?
NOW AN ANTHEM OF SPOOKY INTERNET SUBCULTURE, THIS 1996 SONG FROM ANDREW GOLD'S ALBUM HALLOWEEN HOWLS HAS EXPLODED IN POPULARITY IN THE PAST FEW YEARS ON POPULAR MEDIA SITES AND APPS.
WHAT IS "SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS"?
TEENAGERS WITH BRACES REFRAIN, FOR CONSUMPTION OF THIS CLASSIC HALLOWEEN TREAT COULD RESULT IN ADDITIONAL TRIPS TO AN ORTHODONTIST.
WHAT IS A CARAMEL APPLE?
THIS 1996 FILM WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED SCARY MOVIE, AND WAS THE FIRST SLASHER FILM TO HAVE CHARACTERS AWARE OF REAL-WORLD HORROR FILMS, AND THE VARIOUS CLICHES PRESENT IN THEM. ITS NAME DESCRIBES A LONG, LOUD, PIERCING CRY.
WHAT IS SCREAM?
THIS COMICALLY-IMMORTAL MURDERER IS FAMOUS FOR HIS MACHETE MASSACRES, AND EVEN DUELED FREDDY KRUEGER.
WHO IS JASON?
THIS ADMINISTRATION WAS THE FIRST TO DECORATE THE WHITE HOUSE FOR HALLOWEEN IN 1958.
WHAT IS THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION?
WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY KENNEDY "ROCKWELL" GORDY, AND FEATURING GUEST VOCALS FROM HIS BROTHERS MICHAEL JACKSON, AND JERMAINE JACKSON, THIS SPOOKY SONG DEPICTS ROCKWELL FEELING AS THOUGH HE IS NOT ALONE.
WHAT IS "SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME"?
ACCORDING TO CANDYSTORE.COM, THIS CANDY WAS AMERICA'S FAVORITE HALLOWEEN TREAT BASED ON SALES DATA FROM 2007-2020.
WHAT ARE REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS?