Phobias
Too Spooky For Some
Film Facts
Tall Tales
Old School Horror
100
This phobia, although most commonly known for being the fear of spiders, also includes the fear of scorpions and ticks.
What is Arachnophobia?
100
These court hearings were held in order to ascertain who out of an accused 200 have been in use of dark magic within a small Massachusetts town.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
100
In an interview with The New York Post, director Henry Selick said that this stop motion film is, at its heart, a Christmas movie.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
100
This number, however superstitious, has become the de-facto representation of bad luck - so much so that some hotels will skip this floor level.
What is 13?
100
This hulking figure of a man, or more accurately pieces of man, has a hard time choosing whether he has green or grey skin.
Who is Frankenstein' monster?
200
This phobia prevents those with it from comfortably sitting in an elevator or windowless rooms.
What is Claustrophobia?
200
Lavender Town is a land mark within this Nintendo franchise known for it's graveyard tower and it's headache inducing music.
What is Pokemon?
200
In Ghostbusters, this re-occurring ghost is well known for its endless appetite as well as the ectoplasm it leaves everywhere.
What is the Slimer?
200
Stingy Jack is a folklore legend in Irish culture who inspired people to carve scary faces in potatoes, turnips, and beets to ward him off. It wasn't until the immigration to the Americas that pumpkins were found and thus began the tradition of making these.
What are Jack-o-Lanterns?
200
This classic series is known for presenting unusual or outlandish events in order to end with a "moral of the story."
What is The Twilight Zone?
300
Acrophobia does not refer to the acro bike from the 3rd generation of Pokemon, nor acrobatics as a sport, but to this - the sensation of needing to hold onto something steady or crouch down.
What is the fear of heights?
300
Due to the high levels of violence and gore, this 1992 arcade game caused video games as a whole to have their own age ratings.
What is Mortal Kombat?
300
The 2026 film "Backrooms" is directly based on the YouTube series "Backrooms" which itself is based on the Backrooms ________, a common way of telling and sharing scary stories on the internet, originating on 4Chan.
What is Creepypasta?
300
This 1883 children's story features a young, selfish boy who kills his talking bug friend and eventually meets his own end by hanging from his own string.
What is Pinocchio?
300
"The Strange Case of" these two characters is more often than not misinterpreted, creating a monster out of the latter character.
Who are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
400
Plutophobia is an uncommon phobia, describing the very antithesis to a typical entrepreneur. As they say, more ___, more problems~.
The fear of money.
400
In this early 2000s Pixar film, an explosion of a sushi restaurant was changed so as to not mirror a recent real world event.
What is Monsters Inc.?
400
The 1979 film Alien was a strong influence for this Nintendo franchise featuring one of the earliest instances of a female protagonist. No flamethrower though.
What is Metroid?
400
This short tale by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first instances of an unreliable narrator.
What is A Tell-Tale Heart?
400
This film started what is now known as the "Slasher" genre.
What is Psycho?
500
Astraphobia describes not the fear of the stars, but a different creation of plasma. Something important to the history of a certain man on the $100 bill.
What is thunder and/ or lightning
500
Probably the most well known "rewrite" in recent history, this famous mascot character's big screen debut trailer was shown with a positively disgusting model, causing production to be delayed in order to correct the outlandish look.
Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?
500
What is the Blair Witch Project?
500
"The evil spirit that devours mankind" is a cannibalistic spirit from indigenous America that is widely depicted with a deer skull and antlers. Sadly, they do not sport a burger menu.
What is the Wendigo?
500
This film's namesake character is infamous for never blinking throughout the entire picture.
What is Dracula?