Beginnings
This ancient Celtic festival marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
What is Samhain
This seasonal retailer is famous for popping up in vacant storefronts every fall.
What is Spirit Halloween?
This 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi helped define the vampire genre in cinema.
What is Dracula?
This lunar cycle traditionally prompts the wicked transformation from human to vicious wolf-like creature
Full Moon
This album is the best selling album of all time with over 70 million in sales
Thriller
The belief that the veil between the living and the dead was thinnest on October 31st comes from this tradition.
What is the spiritual significance of Samhain?
Spirit Halloween was founded in this year, marking the beginning of its spooky retail legacy.
What is 1983?
This 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film shocked audiences with its infamous shower scene.
What is Psycho?
The chemical symbol 'Ag' denotes what is a common weakness of werewolves
Silver
This definitive film franchise released the "end" in 2022.
Halloween
his Christian holiday was established to honor saints and was placed on November 1st to coincide with pagan celebrations.
What is All Saints’ Day?
Spirit Halloween is a subsidiary of this larger company known for its party supplies.
What is Spencer Gifts?
This 1978 slasher film introduced the character Michael Myers and launched a franchise.
What is Halloween?
This member of Dumbledore's Army secretly lived with his werewolf status his entire adult life.
Remus Lupin
This actor made less than $1,000 for his participation in Thriller
Vincent Price
The practice of dressing in costumes on Halloween originated from this medieval custom of impersonating spirits to avoid harm.
What is mumming or guising?
Spirit Halloween’s first store opened in this California city.
What is Castro Valley?
This Japanese horror film, later remade in the U.S., features a cursed videotape that kills viewers in seven days.
What is Ringu?
The scientific term for folks that turn into werewolves
Lycanthropy
This horror film inspired the music video for Thriller
An American Werewolf in London
This term, now associated with Halloween, originally referred to the practice of going door-to-door offering prayers for the dead in exchange for food.
What is souling?
Spirit Halloween launched this charitable initiative to support children’s hospitals and health organizations.
What is Spirit of Children?
This 1920 German Expressionist film is considered one of the first true horror movies and influenced the genre’s visual style.
What is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
While Lon Cheney is widely thought to be the first actor to portray a werewolf on screen, this film predates The Wolf Man by six years and stars Henry Hull.
Werewolf of London
The first film in this gory horror film franchise was shot in just 18 days.
Saw