1. HALLOWEEN MOVIES
Three retired Salem residents wake up from a 300-year nap, throw a musical number about jazzing up a local town, and get defeated by a vacuum cleaner and a teenager.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This popular multiplayer video game takes place in a pizza shop where animatronic animals come alive at night.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's (FNAF)?
Two rival factory workers get into a massive corporate feud over whether the chocolate should be poured down the left side or the right side of a cookie finger.
What is Twix?
A very pale European aristocrat who refuses to eat garlic, hates the sun, and turns into a flying rodent just to avoid his taxes and drink people's neck juices.
Who is Dracula? (or Vampires)
To prevent local teens from ruining their own dignity, a city in California has a strict law making it illegal to possess or use this stringy, aerosolized plastic on Halloween night.
What is Silly String?
A skeletal overachiever gets bored of scaring people, steals someone else's holiday, and nearly ruins Christmas with a bunch of homemade explosives.
What is The Nightmare before Christmas
This classic point-and-click survival game features a creepy pixelated neighbor hiding secrets in his basement.
What is Hello Neighbor?
An aggressive throat lozenge masquerading as a candy that features a cartoon kid screaming into a void on the box.
What are Warheads?
A giant, emotionally sensitive green guy built out of recycled human spare parts who just wants to make friends but gets constantly bullied by locals with pitchforks and torches.
Who is Frankenstein's Monster?
If you are over the age of 12 in Chesapeake, Virginia, trying to get free candy on October 31st could technically land you a misdemeanor charge and a fine for this activity.
What is Trick or Treating
A guy builds an entire house and refuses to move on just to emotionally guilt-trip his dead ex-wife's new tenants into remembering their life.
What is Beetlejuice?
In the Harry Potter series, these dark, hooded creatures guard Azkaban prison and literally suck the happiness out of people.
What are Dementors?
The creators of this candy couldn't decide on a flavor, so they just let the machine run between batches and wrapped the accidental mystery combination anyway.
What are Mystery Flavor Dum Dums?
In Greek mythology, looking directly into the snake-haired head of this creature turns a person to stone
Who is Medusa?
Before Americans started carving pumpkins, people in Ireland carved faces into this white root vegetable.
What is a turnip?
A young girl finds a little door in her new house, meets a woman with buttons for eyes, and learns that sewing things into your face is a terrible hobby.
What is Coraline
In a classic sitcom episode, a paleontologist tries to dress up as a Soviet satellite, but everyone at the party just thinks he is a giant piece of pre-historic feces
Who is Ross Geller?
This triangle-shaped Halloween candy comes in layers of orange, yellow, and white.
What is candy corn?
This legendary creature from Latin American folklore has a name that translates literally to "goat-sucker."
What is the Chupacabra?
An old Halloween tradition dictated that if a woman threw these fruits over her shoulder, the peels would land on the floor in the shape of her future husband's initials.
What are apples?
Five teenagers spend their summer vacation getting chased by a man in a costume, only to pull his face off and realize it was just the local amusement park owner the whole time.
What is Scooby Doo?
A guy wearing a black turtleneck and a spirit Halloween pumpkin mask does an aggressively energetic dance in front of a green screen, cementing himself as the king of October memes.
Who is the Pumpkin Dance Guy?
This popular chocolate bar, consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, was named after a favorite horse of the Mars family.
What is a Snickers bar?
Irish folklore tells us this guy was so annoying that both Heaven and Hell banned him, forcing him to walk eternity with a glowing turnip flashlight like a sketchy security guard.
Who is Stingy Jack? (The origin of the Jack-o'-lantern)
Halloween originally stems from this ancient Celtic harvest festival
What is Samhain?