Final Girls
Original final girl Laurie Strode survives psychotic killer Michael Myers across multiple installments of this movie series.
What is Halloween?
It's said that if you repeat this name three times into a mirror, she will appear and possibly strangle or claw the eyes out of the summoner.
Who is Bloody Mary?
Two priests try to help a little girl possessed by the demon Pazuzu in this horror classic that changed the way people looked at pea soup forever.
What is the Exorcist?
A tradition in England of low-income families asking for "soul cakes" to eat in exchange for a promise to pray for the givers' dead relatives is the origin of this modern Halloween practice.
What is trick-or-treating?
This book series started in the 90s, and has grown into a huge franchise featuring TV shows, streaming series, and movies starring Jack Black and Slappy the ventriloquist's dummy.
What is "Goosebumps"?
Tree Gelbman, played by Jessica Rothe, must break a murderous time loop where she is killed over and over in this scarier version of Groundhog Day.
What is Happy Death Day?
Originating from a creepypasta post on the Something Awful forums in 2009, this imposing creature is said to stalk and abduct children, and inspired a real-life stabbing in 2014.
Who is Slenderman?
Groups of teens need to fight the urge to sleep, or else they might be cut to ribbons by the dream-haunting Freddy Krueger across nine movies in this horror franchise that began in 1984.
What is A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Bobbing for bouquets? In the 1700s, the first lady to successfully bob for an apple was predicted to be the next to go through this life milestone.
What is getting married?
The victims in this horror-movie allegory for sexually-transmitted infections are chased, slowly but eternally, by an entity that will kill them if it catches up.
What is It Follows?
Nancy Thompson, (played by Heather Langenkamp), uses force of will and courage to trap the demonic slasher in the dream world.
Who is Freddy Krueger?
This American cryptid is alleged to be responsible for killing and draining blood from livestock (and sometimes human!) in Mexico and the American southwest.
What is the chupacabra?
The first of a number of Japanese horror remakes, this story of young psychic Samara and the tape that kills you seven days after you watch it led to dozens of imitations.
What is "The Ring"?
Stories about poison-laced candy and razor blades in Halloween apples are rarely true, and instead are usually examples of these kind of tall tales that spread through retelling and exaggeration. Other examples include sewer alligators or the Jersey Devil.
A Black man meets his white in-laws-to-be and spends time in the Sunken Place in this Jordan Peele horror film. "I voted for Obama, twice!"
What is "Get Out"?
This final girl from the second and third Terrifier films uses her Valkyrie persona to battle the sinister Art the Clown.
Who is Sienna Shaw?
Allegedly based on an urban myth from Maryland, this low-budget "found footage" movie from 1999 made $248 million on a $750,000 budget, and launched the found footage horror genre.
What is the Blair Witch Project?
The original summer camp horror movie Friday the 13th appears to feature undead Jason Voorhees as the slasher hellbent on revenge, until a twist reveals the killer is this person instead.
What is Jason's mother, Pamela Voorhees?
Before pumpkins took over, these purple-and-white vegetables were carved into the original jack-o-lanterns in Ireland.
What are turnips?
An entire class of students, except one boy, disappears in this 2025 horror movie from the director of Barbarian and Resident Evil. The boy's teacher risks her career and life to find out what really happened.
What is Weapons?
She played Sidney Prescott, who fights off multiple Ghostface slashers throughout the Scream franchise, including 2022 and 2026 films.
Who is Neve Campbell?
The northern US and Canadian mythical creature is depicted as tall and gaunt. It is said to drive people to madness and cannibalism, especially during hard winters.
What is the Wendigo?
Trust no one in this 80s horror classic, where an antarctic science outpost unfreezes a shape-shifting alien. Fear and suspicion tear the crew apart as they try to identify and destroy the creature.
What is "The Thing"?
In this ancient Celtic celebration on October 31st, people wore animal skins and masks to blend in with the ghost they believed could cross into the living world.
What is Samhain (pronounced sow-in)?
A typical horror setup of a group of college friends on a remote vacation turns out to be a carefully-controlled series of scary movie cliches unleashed by a team of technicians designed to sacrifice the friends for the amusement of underground Ancient Ones.
What is The Cabin in the Woods?