Pop Culture Halloween 1
This artist’s 1984 hit “Thriller” featured a 14-minute horror-inspired music video directed by John Landis.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This Netflix series revived interest in Addams Family lore with Jenna Ortega’s deadpan performance.
What is Wednesday?
This 2009 stop-motion film follows a girl who discovers an eerie “Other World” through a hidden door in her new house.
What is Coraline?
The Celts celebrated Samhain beginning at sundown on this date each year.
What is October 31st?
The character Kalabar appears as the villain in which Halloweentown movie?
What is the original Halloweentown (1998)?
This singer’s 2023 Halloween costume recreated a full alien species with custom prosthetics and viral red carpet footage.
Who is Heidi Klum?
The Nightmare Before Christmas’s Oogie Boogie is filled with these.
What are bugs/insects?
In The Sixth Sense (1999), this child actor famously says, “I see dead people.”
Who is Haley Joel Osment?
In the 19th century, Irish immigrants brought Halloween to this country, where it became a national phenomenon.
What is the United States?
Debbie Reynolds played this witchy grandmother in Halloweentown.
Who is Aggie Cromwell?
In The Office, Jim once wore a name tag that said “Dave” as his lazy Halloween costume. What word was written on his forehead another year?
What is “BOOKFACE”?
This 1990s Nickelodeon show featured teens telling ghost stories around a campfire.
What is Are You Afraid of the Dark?
This 1999 Tim Burton film, starring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, is based on a Washington Irving legend.
What is Sleepy Hollow?
The tradition of dressing up originated from the belief that disguises would do this.
What is “confuse or ward off spirits”?
This 2002 Disney Channel movie stars Shia LaBeouf as a boy who meets a ghost named Jim Evers.
What is The Even Stevens Halloween episode / The Fright Before Christmas?
This American Horror Story season, subtitled “Murder House,” featured a Rubber Man and a ghostly maid.
What is American Horror Story: Season 1?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired a Halloween episode where everyone turned into their costumes in this season.
What is Season 2?
This 2015 horror film features a supernatural entity that appears after you read a children’s book aloud.
What is The Babadook?
This U.S. city was the first to officially organize community trick-or-treating as a citywide event in 1927, aiming to curb vandalism.
What is Anoka, Minnesota?
The 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie Phantom of the Megaplex takes place in this setting.
What is a movie theater?
In 2020, this video game introduced a Halloween event called “All Hallows’ Eve,” featuring the character Junkenstein.
What is Overwatch?
This 1987 vampire film set in California inspired countless “cool vampire” portrayals in later pop culture.
What is The Lost Boys?
This 2007 anthology horror film intertwines multiple stories on Halloween night, all connected by a mysterious childlike figure named Sam.
What is Trick ’r Treat?
Before it became a child-centered holiday, Halloween in early 20th-century America was primarily associated with this type of social activity among young adults.
What are courtship or matchmaking parties?
The Black Cauldron (1985) was one of Disney’s darkest animated films and introduced this skeletal villain.
Who is The Horned King?