Spooky Movies
This 2010s series of low-budget horror movies follows families experiencing mysterious disturbances in their homes
What is Paranormal Activity?
This title of a horror game is part of Survivor's tagline - Outwit, Outplay, _______
What is outlast?
A 2021 book by Grady Hendrix details a support group for this type of woman - the last person left in a horror story.
What is a Final Girl?
After her 2020 album Sour chronicled the highs and lows of life at 17, this artists 2023 album includes tales of encountering exploitative and manipulative older men in early adulthood
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
The British television show spooks was known as this in America - the real life agency the characters work for
What is MI5?
This 1973 horror movie with Max Von Sydow and Linda Blair featured a later convincted murder working as an X-Ray Technician
What is The Exorcist?
Spec Ops: The Line is a critique of how the language of video games encourages players to view war, most famously in moments where the player character commits war crimes at the behest of the game design. The game is a loose adapation of this 1979 Vietnam movie.
What is Apocylapse Now?
Alison Rumfitt's 2023 trans horror book takes its name from a misspelling of this common internet phrase - to refer to a type of obsession, neuroses or delusion often claimed to be a result from exposure on the internet.
What are Brainworms?
This particularly spooky David Bowie album opens talking about 'fleas the size of rats sucked rats the size of cats' and maintains the oppressive, dystopian energy - no wonder Kojima used it for the name of Private Military Company in Metal Gear Solid
What is Diamond Dogs?
"Spooks" can also be another words for these cryptids/government agents - though many won't believe you, after the three succesful comedy movies (though most people mainly remember the first one)
Who are Men In Black?
Jennifer's Body is not only an amazing movie - it was also a song written by this band. The lead singer was so confident the band would be bigger than Nirvana she insisted on a pre-nup.
What is Hole?
Disco Elysium depicts a stagnant, decaying world - one in which a communist revolution half a century ago was crushed by the United Nations Equivelent - the communards who believed in a new world have been killed, leaving a world devoid of hope and of any meaningful alternatives to the neoliberal consensus which provides some degree of stability whilst dooming the characters to an endless loop of misery. All the people who believed that things could be better are dead, and those who remain are too hopeless to even imagine how things could improve. The Berlin Wall fell in this year.
What is 1989?
This Authors's "In Cold Blood" was the first major true crime book, kicking off a genre and morbid fascination among the American public.
Who is Truman Capote?
Body Horror transgender folk masterpiece "Divorce Lawyers I shaved my head" is unrelenting in its horrifying imagery - it follows a transgender couple attempting to escape their social obligations to 'the horses' by dissolving their senses of individual identity, something which goes really well. It's set in this year, the same year the Gulf War Started.
What is 1990?
A common line from spooks in conspiracy theories:
Bullets are ______
What is Cheap?
This director tried to use a psyuedonym for Alien 3, because he was worried the studio intervention in the film would tank his career before it began
Who is David Fincher?
Two Weeks after 9/11, this Japanese Horror game offered a reckoning with trauma of it's own - telling the story of a defeated man searching for answers as repressed trauma oozes from every crack.
What is Silent Hill 2?
Richard Bachman is a pseudonym that was used by this author until he was discovered - Rage and Thinner are amongst the books published under this name, though not the most famous
Who is Stephen King?
The horror of Ethel Cain's Preachers Daughter is most palpable in the song Ptolemaea - a series of hallucinations from the drugged protagnoist as she senses her incoming murder, the title of which is taken from this famous narrative poem.
What is The Divine Comedy?
What is McDonalds?
This 1983 horror film is most memorable for the zoom-out at the climax, revealing the character's transgender status by way of their gennitals
What is Sleepaway Camp?
This 2003 Rockstar North Game, placing the player in the position of a Snuff Film creator, became a lynchpin of controversy in the 2000s due to its incredibly graphic content.
What is Manhunt?
In fact, every copy of Shirley Jackson's ___ ________ has been checked out from the Springfield public library. Of course the book does not contain any hints on how to win ____ _____. It is rather a chilling tale of conformity gone mad.
What is The Lottery?
We Didn't Start Fire pays tribute to this artist who responded to allegations that his records, when played backwards, would encourage suicide by saying "Why would I kill my fans? They buy my records?"
Who is Ozzy Osborne?
In Spooks, Tom Quinn was played by this British actor - most famous for playing Mr. Darcy, or more recently the charmingly terrible Tom Wambsgans in Succession
Who is Matthew Macfayden?