Horror Movies
This horror icon stalks his victims in their dreams and is known to have sharp claws and a striped sweater.
Who is Freddy Kreuger?
Originally called "Chicken Feed" when invented in the 1880s, this tri-colored triangular candy divides people into love-it or hate-it camps every October.
What is Candy Corn?
According to legend, looking into a dark mirror and saying this ghostly woman's name three times will cause her to appear before you.
Who is Bloody Mary?
In this indie horror phenomenon, you play as a night security guard monitoring security cameras to survive against animatronics like Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
In this 1984 comedy classic, a team of parapsychologists wears tan flight suits and straps particle-accelerating "Proton Packs" to their backs to trap specters.
What is Ghostbusters?
This modern horror franchise follows a team of paranormal investigators and is based on real-life investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
What is The Conjuring?
This candy, designed for sharing, encourages you to "Break me off a piece of that..." (But I'm not sharing!)
What is Kit-Kat?
This urban legend started on a popular internet forum called Something Awful and has turned into a pop culture icon with multiple films, games, and online creepy pastas.
Who is Slenderman?
In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Link is trapped in a repeating three-day time loop trying to prevent this celestial body with an ominous face from crashing into Clock Town.
What is The Moon?
This deadpan Addams Family daughter is known for her twin braided pigtails, black collared dress, and pet black widow spider.
Who is Wednesday Addams?
In The Shining, Danny repeats this backwards word while writing it in bright red lipstick on the bathroom door.
What is REDRUM (or murder)?
This fizzy, sensory-popping novelty candy crackles violently in your mouth due to pressurized carbon dioxide bubbles trapped in the sugar crystals.
What are Pop Rocks?
This legendary Latin American creature, whose name translates literally to "goat sucker," is rumored to drain the blood of farm livestock.
What is the Chupacabra?
In the survival horror game Silent Hill 2, this hulking executioner wielding a massive Great Knife wears a rusted, geometric metal casing over his face.
What is Pyramid Head?
Saying this mischievous "bio-exorcist’s" name three times summons him in his signature black-and-white vertically striped suit.
Who is Beetlejuice?
In Jordan Peele’s 2017 psychological horror film Get Out, tapping a silver spoon against a teacup sends Chris into this hypnotic mental void.
What is the Sunken Place?
Three Musketeers, the classic nougat-filled chocolate bar, is named after a novel by this famous French author.
Who is Alexandre Dumas?
According to classic vampire lore, a vampire cannot cross the threshold of your home unless you give them this specific courtesy first.
What is an invitation?
Many of the games in the Resident Evil series revolve around an outbreak in this fictional midwest city.
What is Raccoon City?
The iconic Ghostface mask worn by killers in the Scream franchise was directly modeled after this famous 1893 expressionist painting by Edvard Munch.
What is The Scream?
The director Ari Aster subverted audience expectations by setting this modern horror film entirely in broad daylight, using vibrant colors to depict a remote Swedish commune.
What is Midsommar?
This fruit chew candy was developed in Austria in 1927 as an anti-smoking breath mint; its iconic mechanical dispensers weren't given character heads until 1955, starting with a witch and Santa Claus.
What are Pez?
In this classic slasher-style urban legend, a babysitter receives increasingly menacing phone calls asking, "Have you checked the children?", only for the operator to reveal this terrifying detail.
What is "The call is coming from inside the house?"
In The Last of Us, humans infected with the mutated Cordyceps fungus who have lost their sight and navigate using gruesome echolocation clicks are known by this stage name.
What are Clickers?
In the 2014 psychological horror film The Babadook, the monster haunting the pop-up book is identified by pale white skin, claws, a long black trenchcoat, and this vintage formal headwear.
What is The Babadook?