🎬 6. SCREAM QUEENS & KINGS
Before becoming the face of the Halloween franchise, Jamie Lee Curtis made her feature-film debut playing this iconic final girl.
Laurie Strode
This author wrote the 1986 novel It, featuring a shapeshifting entity that often appears as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Stephen King
In the original 1980 Friday the 13th, this character is revealed to be responsible for the murders at Camp Crystal Lake.
Pamela Voorhees
In The Conjuring films, this married couple investigates paranormal activity and demonic hauntings.
Ed and Lorraine Warren
In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the famous shower-scene blood was created using this chocolate-flavored liquid.
chocolate syrup
This actor played both the tormented Jack Torrance in The Shining and the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman.
Jack Nicholson
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein creates his creature while studying at a university in this German city.
Ingolstadt
In the original Scream, the opening victim Casey Becker is portrayed by this actress, whose appearance was heavily featured in the film's marketing.
Drew Barrymore
In the 1982 film Poltergeist, young Carol Anne communicates with spirits through this household electronic device.
television
This 1999 found-footage horror film used a viral-style marketing campaign that convinced some audiences its missing filmmakers might actually be real.
The Blair Witch Project
Before becoming famous as Freddy Krueger, Robert Englund played the alien Willie in this 1980s science-fiction television miniseries and series.
V
This Shirley Jackson novel, published in 1959, inspired multiple film adaptations and a 2018 Netflix series sharing its title.
The Haunting of Hill House
In the original 1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, what area of Texas was the movie filmed in.
towns near Austin, including Round Rock, Leander, Bastrop, and Hutto
In the 2002 American remake of The Ring, viewers receive a phone call warning them they have this many days left to live.
seven
Director John Carpenter composed the main theme of Halloween using this unusual musical time signature.
5/4 time
This actress received an Academy Award nomination for portraying the fanatically religious Margaret White in the original 1976 film Carrie.
Piper Laurie
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, this ship carries the vampire's boxes of Transylvanian earth to England, arriving at Whitby with its crew missing or dead.
Demeter
In the 1981 slasher film My Bloody Valentine, the killer wears this type of industrial protective equipment, complete with a gas mask.
mining gear (a miner's uniform)
In the original 1973 The Exorcist, the demon possessing Regan MacNeil identifies itself by this name, associated with an ancient Mesopotamian figure.
Pazuzu
This 1922 German silent horror film, an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, introduced Count Orlok to cinema.
Nosferatu
Known for her collaborations with director Mario Bava, this British actress starred in the 1960 Italian Gothic horror film Black Sunday, portraying both Princess Asa and Katia Vajda.
Barbara Steele
**DAILY DOUBLE**
This author created the fictional forbidden book Necronomicon, attributed within his stories to the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred.
H. P. Lovecraft
**DAILY DOUBLE**
In the original 1981 film The Burning, the disfigured killer who stalks campers at Camp Stonewater is known by this name.
Cropsy
In the 2018 film Hereditary, the cult seeks to provide a male host for this demon king, whose name appears in historical grimoires.
Paimon
This legendary makeup artist created the iconic appearances of Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man for Universal's classic monster films.
Pierce