The Book Was a Horror!
"B" Movies
Musical Macabre
Killer Subtitles
Television Terror
Zoophobia
Vampire-Pourri
Final Question
100
Anne Rice, 1976: "Interview with" him.
What is the Vampire?
100
Whatever you do, don't say the title of THIS Tim Burton classic three times.
What is Beetlejuice?
100
THIS "demon barber" had his victims baked into pies (no one could accuse him of good taste).
Who is Sweeney Todd?
100
: The Final Friday
What is Friday the 13th?
100
With the original airing on October 25th, 1990, THIS animated sitcom has now produced 32 episodes in its "Treehouse of Horror" series.
What is The Simpsons?
100
Arachnophobia.
What are spiders?
100
Charlaine Harris's "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" became THIS HBO drama, also a Justin Timberlake song.
What is True Blood?
200
Ira Levin, 1967: her "Baby".
What is Rosemary?
200
The title of THIS 2014 Aussie film refers to a pop-up book about a demon who knocks on your door.
What is The Babadook?
200
The carnivorous plant in THIS horror-comedy screams "Feed me!"
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
200
: 20 Years Later
What is Halloween?
200
Like, Zoinks! Scooby-Doo's nephew who finally got revenge on his haters in the 2002 live-action movie.
Who is Scrappy-Doo?
200
Taurophobia.
What are bulls?
200
Reading aloud from THIS novel:
"Chapter 13, Confessions, 'Edward in the sunlight was shocking."
What is Twilight?
300
Stephen King, 1986: this putrid pronoun.
What is It?
300
What a pain in the neck! An African prince is turned into a vampire in THIS 1972 blaxploitation film.
What is Blacula?
300
THIS Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988, & stuck around for a while.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
300
: Dream Warriors
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
300
Members of THIS frightful family include Herman, Lily, Eddie, Marilyn, and Grandpa.
Who are The Munsters?
300
Ranidaphobia.
What are frogs?
300
Sink your teeth into this vampire-themed cereal that frequently makes a comeback around Halloween.
What is Count Chocula?
400
Ray Bradbury, 1962: "Something" definitely not Elphaba "This Way Comes."
What is Wicked?
400
Nearly ten years before he brought the misadventures of Ralphie Parker and his Red Ryder BB Gun to the silver screen, director Bob Clark filmed THIS sorority house holiday horror classic.
What is Black Christmas?
400
David Hasselhoff brought both sides of the lead character to life at New York's Plymouth Theatre, when he starred in THIS surprisingly well-received 2000 musical production of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale about the battle of good and evil.
What is Jekyll and Hyde?
400
: Transformania.
What is Hotel Transylvania?
400
A corpse character was the master of "scaremonies" for THIS HBO horror anthology.
What is Tales from the Crypt?
400
Ailurophobia.
What are cats?
400
This Marvel character from a 1998 movie is described as "Part man. Part vampire. All hero."
Who is Blade?
500
Joe Hill, 2007: also a Nirvana song that may or may not be about Courtney Love.
What is Heart-Shaped Box?
500
Oddly, Hal David & Burt Bacharach composed the title song of THIS gooey 1958 Steve McQueen drive-in staple.
What is The Blob?
500
Based on a Stephen King novel, THIS '88 musical featured a high school dance to remember but closed after only 5 performances.
What is Carrie?
500
: Your Sister is a Werewolf.
What is The Howling?
500
In the "The Twilight Zone" episode "To Serve Man", the aliens' intentions are revealed, as "it's" THIS kind of book!
What is a cookbook?
500
Hippophobia (hint: it's not hippos).
What are horses?
500
THIS dimestore Dracula made a cameo in the Spongebob Squarepants S2 Ep36a entitled "Graveyard Shift."
Who is Nosferatu?
500
In 2010 when a video of the Silly Symphony cartoon "The Skeleton Dance" was posted to YouTube THIS song by Andrew Gold was playing in the background. These days, the song's remix has nearly 5M plays (and its own dance!) on TikTok.
What is "Spooky Scary Skeletons?"