Halloween Traditions
Horror Movies
Halloween Movies
Monsters
Halloween Characters
100

The name "Halloween" is a conjunction of this phrase

All Hallows Eve

100

The quintiessential Halloween horror movie that popularized the genre's association with the holiday

Halloween (1978)

100

The amount of times one must call Beetlejuice to summon him

Three

100

The way to kill a vampire

Stake through the heart


100

The name of the killer from Halloween

Michael Myers

200

Halloween is a celebration of

A day to commemorate the dead, specifically holy individuals in the church/a celebration of the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter/the day when the veil between worlds is thinnest
200

The name of the company that makes the masks in Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Silver Shamrock 

200

The Great Pumpkin in It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown is just a silhoutte of 

Snoopy

200
The creature that witches are said to transform into, which has heightened their association with Halloween and bad omens

Black cats

200

The nickname for Jack Skellington

The Pumpkin King

300

Jack-O'-Lanterns were originally made using this instead of pumpkins

Turnips

300

The name of the main antagonist of the film Trick 'r Treat, who is the personification of the spirit of Halloween

Sam (short for Samhain)

300

The name of the cat from Hocus Pocus

Binx

300

Zombies were tradtionally brought back from the dead using this practice

Voodoo

300

Oogie Boogie is made up of

Bugs

400

The original name of the festival that would eventually become Halloween

Samhain

400

The name of the actor who portrayed Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, and numerous other horror villains during the Golden Age of Hollywood

Boris Karloff

400

Each holiday represented on the trees in The Nightmare Before Christmas

Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas

400

Ghosts wear sheets to indicate

The shroud that the dead were buried in during the Victorian Era

400

This character popularized the traditional Halloween imagery of a witch

The Wicked Witch of the West

500

Halloween originated in this country

Ireland

500

The name of the first ever film recognized as a horror film

The Haunted Castle or The House of the Devil

500

Every horror/sci-fi film mentioned by name in the opening title for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, :"Science Fiction/Double Feature"

The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Invisible Man, King Kong, It Came from Outer Space, Doctor X, Forbidden Planet, Tarantula, The Day of the Triffids, When Worlds Collide

500

The name for the mental disease which spread the accusations of werewolves during the Victorian Era

Lycanthropy

500

The Headless Horseman originated from 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow