Iconic Horror Flicks
This film written by and starring John Krasinski features a family that must stay silent to avoid being hunted by horrifying creatures in the woods.
What is A Quiet Place?
In the Disney channel original series Gravity Falls, the town residents celebrate "Summerween" and carve this instead of a pumpkin.
What is watermelon?
This famous professor/vampire hunter shares a first name with his Author in the novel "Dracula"
Who is Abraham Van Helsing?
This floor is oftentimes nonexistent in older buildings of fourteen or more stories based on superstitions.
What is the thirteenth floor?
It is an urban legend that these body parts continue to grown after death; this is an illusion caused by the recession of skin.
What are fingernails/nails?
This real-life Raggedy Ann plush appears as a porcelain doll in the Conjuring series of movies.
Who is Annabelle?
This miniseries has a total run time of about two hours and originally aired on Cartoon Network in ten episodes and has since become an Autumnal favorite due to its Halloween imagery, fairytale-like plot, and macabre themes.
What is Over the Garden Wall?
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster ultimately concludes his story in this biome of the world.
What is the Arctic?
An old wives' tale claims that this household pet may suck the breath out of your newborn baby.
What is a cat?
The discoloration caused by the pooling of blood at the lowest point of a dead body.
What is lividity?
The iconic mask used in this 1996 slasher film was inspired by the elongated facial features of serial killer Danny Rolling, upon whom the film was loosely based.
What is Scream?
In season 9 of Bob's Burgers, this is Tina Belcher's costume as portrayed with a wimple and briefcase.
What is nun of your business?
This Neil Gaiman parallels' Rudyard Kiplings "The Jungle Book" both in name and plot with this 2008 novel.
What is the Graveyard Book?
Italian, Egyptian, and Native American folklore and mythology all claim that this bird of prey is a harbinger of death either to oneself or to a loved one.
What is an owl?
This facility at the University of Tennessee allows aspiring forensic anthropologists to study the process of human decomposition
What is the body farm?
In The Exorcist, this food is used as the projectile vomit spewed from the possessed little girl.
What is pea soup?
This Halloween episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is a fan-favorite and often lauded as on of the best "musical" episodes on television.
What is "Once More With Feeling?"
In this piece of morose Edgar Allen Poe verse, Poe introduces the titular character with "She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea. But we loved with a love that was more than love--"
Who is Annabel Lee?
In Japan, one superstition asserts that one should never lay with their head in this direction as it is how the dead are oriented in their graves.
What is North?
Caused by the deterioration of the connection between the dermis and epidermis, this post-mortem effect shares a name with the term used in finance to describe the difference between computer predictions and actual outcome in the stockmarket.
What is slippage?
This 2011 horror/comedy subverts the horror genre by stopping the trite plot in its tracks and revealing that the world is being manipulated into horror narratives by a secret organization of scientists in order to appease sleeping gods.
What is Cabin in the Woods?
ABC Family ran a Halloween tv special based on the James Howe's children's series about a vampiric rabbit of the same name.
What is Bunnicula?
This child is referred to as a "miracle" in the Twilight series due to the number of complications endured during the difficult pregnancy between human Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen.
Who is Renesmee?
A Filipino tradition called "pagpag" dictates that people should never go directly home after attending this event, lest a bad spirit should follow them home.
What is a funeral?
Scientifically known as adipocere, this substance is so named for the bodies on which it forms through a process called "Saponification."
What is corpse wax?