Spooky Psychology
In 1920, John B. Watson used a loud noise to condition this namesake baby to fear a white rat.
Who is Little Albert?
This 2005 movie stars twin actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry as twin witches named Alex and Camryn.
What is Twitches?
The first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is The Exorcist?
This serial killer, known for murdering at least 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, was also famous for his community work as a costumed performer named Pogo.
Who is John Wayne Gacy? (also known as "The Killer Clown")
Don't look down! This is the common term for the fear of heights.
What is Acrophobia?
Stanley Milgram's famous 1961 experiment tested obedience by having participants believe they were delivering painful, and potentially lethal, electric shocks to this unseen person.
Who is "the learner"?
The last name of the family whose witch grandmother, Aggie, tries to train her magical granddaughter Marnie in Halloweentown.
What is Piper?
This director's 1960 horror masterpiece features the notorious Bates Motel and an iconic shower scene.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This man, whose crimes involved kidnapping, torture, and murder in Wichita, Kansas, communicated with police and the media by coining the acronym BTK.
Who is Dennis Rader? (BTK stands for Bind, Torture, Kill)
This phobia is the specific fear of the number 13.
What is Triskaidekaphobia?
This 1971 experiment led by Philip Zimbardo was shut down early after college students role-playing as "guards" became psychologically abusive toward the "prisoners."
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This trio starred as the "Sanderson Sisters" in Hocus Pocus
Who are Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, and Bette Middler?
The main villain of this franchise, Michael Myers, wears a mask modeled after the face of actor William Shatner.
What is Halloween?
The character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs was a composite of several real killers, including this man who imprisoned women in a pit in his Philadelphia basement.
Who is Gary Heidnik?
If you're afraid of ghosts, ghouls, and specters, you might have this aptly named phobia.
What is Phasmophobia?
Intended to "cure" stuttering, this 1939 experiment on orphans involved one group receiving praise and another group receiving relentlessly negative feedback, causing lifelong psychological harm.
What is the Monster Study?
The name of the monster, created from parts and reanimated, who is the romantic interest of the Corpse Bride in Tim Burton's 2005 stop-motion animated film
Who is Victor Van Dort?
A cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching it is the central plot device of this 2002 film, an American remake of a Japanese horror movie.
What is The Ring?
Known for his distinctive bite mark evidence and his good looks, this charming serial killer committed a string of murders across several US states in the 1970s.
Who is Ted Bundy?
This rare delusion causes a person to believe they are dead, do not exist, or are missing their internal organs.
What is Cotard's Delusion (or Walking Corpse Syndrome)?
This delusion causes a person to believe that a familiar person (like a spouse or parent) has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
What is Capgras Delusion?
This darker 1999 DCOM, which garnered complaints for being too scary, is about a teenage girl fighting the Boogeyman with the help of her little brother's imaginary friend, Larry Houdini.
What is Don't Look Under the Bed?
Not Jason, but his mother, Pamela Voorhees, was the killer in the original 1980 film set at Camp Crystal Lake.
What is Friday the 13th?
This serial killer, who terrorized New York City from 1976-1977, originally claimed his murders were carried out on the command of a demon speaking through his neighbor's dog.
Who is David Berkowitz (or the "Son of Sam")?
The "call of the void," or l'appel du vide, is the common name for this fleeting, unexplained urge to jump from a high place.
What is High-Place Phenomenon?