Horror Movie Mania
This 1978 John Carpenter film introduced the masked killer Michael Myers.
What is Halloween?
This country celebrates Día de los Muertos on November 1 and 2, honoring deceased loved ones.
What is Mexico?
These yellow, orange, and white candies are shaped like kernels of a harvest crop.
What is candy corn?
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula made this blood-drinking creature famous.
What is a vampire?
Kids shout this phrase at the door on Halloween night.
What is “Trick or treat”?
In this 1984 horror film, Freddy Krueger haunts teens in their dreams on this street.
What is Elm Street?
Halloween’s name comes from “All Hallows’ Eve,” the night before this holiday on November 1.
What is All Saints’ Day?
“Taste the Rainbow” is the slogan of this fruity candy.
What is Skittles?
Folklore says this creature transforms under a full moon.
What is a werewolf?
Botanically speaking, a pumpkin is classified as this: a fruit or a vegetable.
What is a fruit?
Jack Nicholson shouts “Here’s Johnny!” in this 1980 Stanley Kubrick film set at the Overlook Hotel.
What is The Shining?
Before pumpkins, Irish and Scottish people carved jack-o’-lanterns out of this root vegetable.
What are turnips?
This candy bar was named after a beloved horse owned by the Mars family.
What is Snickers?
Washington Irving’s story about the Headless Horseman is set in this New York town.
What is Sleepy Hollow?
In It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, this Peanuts character waits in the pumpkin patch every Halloween.
Who is Linus?
This 1999 found-footage film about students lost in the Maryland woods was made on a tiny budget and grossed nearly $250 million.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
This ancient Celtic festival, celebrated around October 31, is considered the origin of Halloween.
What is Samhain?
When candy corn was first marketed in the late 1800s, it was nicknamed this, after something you’d feed to farm birds.
What is “chicken feed”?
In Irish folklore, the wailing cry of this female spirit foretells a death in the family.
What is a banshee?
This Midwestern state grows more pumpkins than any other in the U.S.
What is Illinois?
“They’re here!” is the famous line from this 1982 film about a haunted suburban home.
What is Poltergeist?
In medieval Britain, the poor went door to door offering prayers for the dead in exchange for these treats.
What are soul cakes?
Invented in Germany in the 1920s by Hans Riegel, these gummies were originally shaped like dancing animals of this type.
What are bears (gummy bears)?
Many people call the monster “Frankenstein,” but this is the actual first name of the scientist who created him.
Who is Victor?
According to Irish legend, “Stingy” this character tricked the devil and inspired the jack-o’-lantern.
Who is Jack?