Hallows History
The Celtic festival thought to be the origin of Halloween.
What is Samhain?
What is The Monster Mash?
Hocus Pocus features this trio of familial witches.
Who are the Sanderson Sisters?
This creature accidentally became a queer icon, when Netflix mistakenly listed it's film under "LGBTQ movies"
What is The Babadook?
Who is Count Von Count?
Before Pumpkins, this root vegetable was carved to make decorations.
What are Turnips?
The Halloween episode of this show features the main characters fighting a witch disguised as a high-school cheerleader.
What is Supernatural?
The classic witch line "double double, toil and trouble" comes from this Scottish Shakespeare play.
What is Macbeth?
The seminal werewolf film starring Lon Chaney Jr as the titular character.
What is The Wolf Man?
The man who played the most famous Dracula of all time- also inspired a song.
Who is Bela Lugosi?
The old tradition thought to reveal who you'd marry- whatever letter you got was the first initial of his name.
What is tossing an apple peel over your shoulder?
What is Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
In the film Sinners by Ryan Coogler, Annie gives one of these to Smoke for protection.
What is a Spell/Mojo Bag?
The popular animated movie Coraline features this creature as the villain, named after a John Keats poem.
What is a Beldam?
The name of the fictional theater in Interview with the Vampire where Louis meets Armand.
What is Theatres des Vampires?
The film widely believed to be the first horror movie, created in 1896 by George Melies.
The Director of the 2025 film Nosferatu, as well as the 2015 film The VVitch.
Who is Robert Eggers?
The VVitch features a girl enticed towards witchcraft by the devil in the form of a goat with this name.
Who is Black Phillip?
This TV show featured a Rocky Horror show themed episode, where cast members hovered over the camera to sing the line "creature of the night"
What is Glee?
The real life ruler who supposedly inspired Dracula.
Who is Vlad of Walachia? (Vlad the Impaler)
This company, founded in 1900, popularized Halloween paper cut out decorations, and is still selling their products today.
What is Beistle?
In the film Jason X, the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason and the main characters are fighting in this location.
What is Space?
This novel by Brom, set in 1800s New England, follows a witch as her town turns against her, ending in a bloody massacre.
What is Slewfoot?
The actor who played Frankenstein in the 1931 film, creating the classic image of the monster.
Who is Boris Karloff?
The Filipino mythical vampiric creature who the CIA recreated as a psy-op.
What is an Aswang?