Slashers
This franchise was kicked off by the brutal death of Casey Becker, in what audiences expected to be a central role played by Drew Barrymore.
What is Scream?
"The power of Christ compels you!"
What is the Exorcist?
This 2013 movie based on real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, spawned a franchise that included spinoffs like Annabelle, The Nun, and M3gan.
What is The Conjuring?
This 1984 star-studded film followed a vigilante group that fights the paranormal - with proton packs.
What is Ghostbusters?
This 1980 Kubrick flick, based on a Stephen King novel, followed Jack Nicholson as he tried not to lose his mind in a remote mountain resort.
What is The Shining?
In the film that coined the term "final girl," this scream queen played Laurie Strode, a babysitter trying to survive the night in this holiday-titled slasher.
What is Halloween?
"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
This 1982 film co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg follows the Freeling family and their peaceful life before demons start to contact their daughter through a television set.
What is Poltergeist?
This 1988 Michael Keaton vehicle inspired a sequel and a Broadway musical. Just don't say the answer three times!
What is Beetlejuice?
This 1968 Polanski movie is based on an Ira Levin novel of the same name, and follows a VERY pregnant Mia Farrow as she avoids a cult who is trying to steal her baby.
What is Rosemary's Baby?
This movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is widely considered the first slasher movie and started Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
What is Psycho?
"The box... you opened it. We came."
What is Hellraiser?
This 2018 film by Ari Aster followed a mother and son in the wake of a loss, not only of their daughter/sister, but of the future vessel of the demon Paimon.
What is Hereditary?
This 2004 zombie comedy follows Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright as they try to stay alive. Or, maybe they'll just go down to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for this all to blow over?
What is Shaun of the Dead?
This 2002 movie is based on Koji Suzuki's 1991 horror novel Ringu.
What is The Ring?
This is the name of the killer in the first Friday the 13th film.
Who is Pamela Voorhees?
"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"
What is The Witch?
This 1981 Sam Raimi movie was remade by Raimi just six years later and is credited as the origin of the "cabin in the woods" horror trope.
What is The Evil Dead?
This 1974 comedy by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder follows the grandson of an infamous scientist as he tries to recreate his notorious experiment, albeit with a brain that is "Abby Normal."
What is Young Frankenstein?
This 1992 horror is based on a Clive Barker short story, focuses on an urban legend of a hook-handed artist who was lynched. Look out for the bees!
What is Candyman?
This 1974 family movie was marketed as a true story about a group of teens surviving a skin-mask wearing cannibal, but that was a lie.
What is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
"I'm scared to close my eyes, I'm scared to open them... I'm going to die out here."
What is The Blair Witch Project?
This 2022 Australian movie directed by Danny and Michael Philippou is an allegory about teen drug use, but follows a group of kids who like to shake a mummified hand.
What is Talk To Me?
This 2014 mockumentary by Taika Waititi and the team behind Flight of the Conchords follows a group of vampires trying to live in modern-day Wellington, NZ and inspired an American sitcom by the same name that ran for 6 seasons.
What is What We Do in the Shadows?
This 1979 haunting movie (and its 2005 remake) follow the Lutz family in their home on Long Island, and are based on the 1977 Jay Anson novel of the same name.
What is Amityville Horror?