Vicious Vocabulary
An abnormal dread of being confined in a close or narrow space.
Claustrophobia
This iconic monster is of Haitian origin, and was popularized by the film Night of The Living Dead
Zombies
This film is known for a scary clown and his red balloon.
IT
A famous Maine horror author who created the book It
Stephen King
In this decade, Alfred Hitchcock did not have studio backing to finance his latest project and spent $800,000 to make his movie Psycho.
1960s
A spirit or animated corpse that has been brought back to life to haunt the living
Revenant
This horror villain is a serial killer in a doll’s body
Chucky
This Indie movie, directed by Tobe Hooper, is known for its chainsaw wielding villain and his family of cannibals.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
This iconic gothic literature author is the daughter of British writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Shelley
Director Wes Craven gives characters of Scream self-awareness in this decade.
1990s
When a work of literature has two separate modes, comedy, and tragedy, that are mixed. The result is a disturbing fiction in which comic circumstances prelude horrific tragedy or vice versa.
Grotesque
This iconic villain goes into people’s dreams and kills them
Freddy Krueger
This movie is about creatures from another planet invading the Nostromos.
Alien
This author wrote about a scientist splitting his good and evil selves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Science fiction in horror was common in this decade due to the Roswell incident and Area 51.
1950s
A literary movement that focuses on emotion above intellect and the beauty of nature and the human spirit. It focuses on the inherent evil in humanity and the brutality of nature.
Dark Romanticism
This slasher villain is actually multiple people who wear an iconic mask and kill people after calling them on a phone
Ghostface
This film directed by Jordan Peele covers topics such as imprisonment in one's mind and racism.
Get Out
Vlad the Impaler is thought to be an inspiration for a popular novel by this author.
Bram Stoker
This decade features “body horror,” many special effects, and lots of gore as a result of the decade’s materialistic ethos.
1980s
Uncanny, unearthly, and weird in a supernatural way
Eldritch
This character is the villain of the original Friday The 13th movie
Pamela Voorhees
A 1922 silent film about a vampire, which is eerily similar to the gothic title Dracula
Nosferatu
This author married his 13-year-old cousin at age 27.
Edgar Allen Poe
In this decade, the fear of children is prevalent in movies, stemming from birth defects in the western world and the introduction of the contraceptive pill.
1970s