Halloween Films
This 1993 Disney movie features three witch sisters resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts, after a virgin lights the Black Flame Candle.
Hocus Pocus
This holiday is famous for honoring deceased loved ones with altars, sugar skulls, and marigolds.
Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead
These small, colorful, fruit-flavored candies come in flavors like cherry, lemon, and green apple, and are often found in bags labeled “fun size.”
Skittles
This is the classic Halloween activity where children go door-to-door asking for candy.
Trick or Treating
This green-skinned monster with bolts in his neck was created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel.
Frakenstien
Jamie Lee Curtis made her film debut in this 1978 slasher classic set on Halloween night.
Halloween
This holiday is centered around families visiting cemeteries to honor and pray for deceased relatives.
Dia de Finados
This tri-colored candy, often called the “official candy of Halloween,” has a distinctive orange, yellow, and white design.
Candy Corn
Pumpkins
This bloodsucking creature is famously known for living in a castle in Transylvania.
Dracula
In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington is known as the "Pumpkin King" of this spooky town.
Nightmare before Christmas
This Taoist & Buddhist holiday occurs when the gates of the underworld open and spirits visit Earth. Offerings and lanterns are made to appease wandering ghosts.
Hungry Ghost Festival
These peanut butter-filled chocolate cups are a Halloween favorite in the U.S., often handed out in fun-size packs.
Reeses
This popular Halloween attraction often features actors, props, and special effects designed to scare visitors as they walk or ride through spooky environments.
Haunted house
This 1954 Japanese kaiju first appeared in a movie of the same name, and has become a worldwide pop culture icon, often battling other monsters.
Godzilla
This eccentric character’s name must be said three times to summon him.
Beetlejuice
This Buddhist holiday is where families honor the spirits of ancestors with lanterns, dances, and offerings. Lanterns often float away to guide spirits back to the afterlife.
Obon (Festival of the Dead
This chewy caramel-and-chocolate candy is a classic Halloween treat, originally called “Chicken Feed” when sold in 1898.
Milk Duds
In the original Celtic festival of Samhain, it was believed that this thing became“thin” between two realms allowed spirits to play tricks on humans.
The Viel to the Afterlife
This famous haunted Doll has scared his way into the households of millions when the first film of this classic horror franchise launched in 1988.
Chucky (Child's Play)
In this 2007 anthology horror film, several intertwining stories unfold on Halloween night, all connected by a mysterious trick-or-treater named Sam.
Trick R Treat
Ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the harvest and beginning of winter. Believed to be when spirits could cross into the mortal world — the direct ancestor of modern Halloween.
Samhain
Invented in 1847, this chocolate bar was one of the first commercially successful U.S. chocolate bars and remains a popular choice for trick-or-treaters.
In medieval Europe, peasants would sometimes perform this type of “trick” at harvest festivals, dressing as spirits or goblins to scare landlords and collect food or coins.
Mumming or Guising
This swamp-dwelling creature, featured in a 1954 Universal horror film, was created by a scientist who used “unusual experimental techniques” and is known for its mossy green skin.
Creature of the Black Lagoon