Vlad the Impaler
What is Vlad the Impaler's real name
Vlad Dracula III
What movie started the slasher golden age?
Halloween
What group of people started the tradition of Halloween 2,000 years ago?
Celts
Who brought Jack O' Lanterns to America?
The Irish
Who starred as Dracula in the 1931 film of the same name?
Bela Lugosi
What region of Romania is Vlad from?
Wallachia
What was the Hays Code of 1930
a code that set the limits for the amount of sexual and violent content movies could show.
why was the Celtic celebration of Samhain celebrated?
it was the end of the summer harvest
What was originally used for Jack O' Lanterns before pumpkins
Turnips
How many times was Vlad Dracula Voivode of Wallachia
three times
Vlad refused to pay tribute to the sultan and impaled two enforcers as retaliation
learned of the sultan's deceit and trickery
Lon Chaney starred in movies such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. What was his famous nickname?
"The man of a thousand faces"
what Christian holiday was celebrated every November 1st that was basically Samhain
All Souls Day
Jack O' Lanterns were created during Samhain to do what?
they placed embers in them to ward off evil spirits
What problem almost caused Friday the 13th to become a box office failure
Siskel and Ebert hated it SO much,they gave away the killer to ruin box office results
What happened one night in June 1462 to the town of Târgoviște
Vlad's army impaled 20,000 men, women and children and placed their corpses in a nearby forest for the Ottoman army
Wes Craven originally wanted a clear ending to Nightmare on Elm Street. Who ultimately asked for, and received, the twist ending they wanted?
New Line
the distributor
How did Americans first celebrate Halloween and why was it celebrated
"play parties" were celebrated to celebrate to Autumnal Harvest
Why is the story of Stingy Jack so significant to Halloween?
It inspired the term " Jack O' Lantern"
What cartoon did Boris Karloff famously go on to narrate?
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
Why was Vlad imprisoned in Hungary? Why was he allegedly released?
He "wrote" letters saying he was going to overthrow the king of Hungary. He was released, according to myth, by converting to Catholicism.
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was considered risqué for sexual images, its violence and what strange third thing
a toilet flushing
Feralia and Pomona day
Name the two ways Stingy Jack tricked the devil
1.) He coerced the devil to turn into a coin to buy alcohol, but kept him in that form by keeping him next to a silver cross
2.) He tricked the devil into climbing a tree to get a fruit and carved a cross into it
What is the FRENCH name for the first horror movie ever made?
Le Manoir Du Diable