Horror Movies
Spooky Pop Culture
Candy and Costumes
Halloween Riddles
Creepy Science and Nature
100

Ghostface is the killer in this 1996 slasher franchise.

What is Scream?

100

The Upside Down is a dimension in this Netflix series set in Hawkins, Indiana.

What is Stranger Things?

100

This candy brand’s slogan tells you to “taste the rainbow.”

What is Skittles?

100

I’m carved with a grin but never eat a bite, and I glow at night with a candle for light.

What is a jack-o’-lantern?

100

This is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight.

What is a bat?

200

Pennywise the Dancing Clown terrorizes Derry, Maine, in this Stephen King story.

What is IT?

200

Jenna Ortega plays this Addams Family daughter in a 2022 Netflix series.

Who is Wednesday Addams?

200

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are made by this company.

What is The Hershey Company?

200

I’m always hungry, I come at night, and I make a high-pitched sound that gives some people a fright.

What is a bat?

200

This is the term for the fear of spiders.

What is arachnophobia?

300

In this 2017 Jordan Peele film, Chris is hypnotized into “the Sunken Place."

What is Get Out?

300

The Sanderson sisters want to drain the life from Salem’s children in this 1993 Disney movie.

What is Hocus Pocus?

300

Greta Gerwig’s 2023 movie made this doll’s costume one of the year’s most popular.

Who is Barbie?

300

I follow you wherever you go, but I’m not a ghost. I disappear in the dark, and I’m biggest when the sun is low.

What is a shadow?

300

Glowing “foxfire” in forests is caused by fungi producing light through this process.

What is bioluminescence?

400

Toni Collette stars in this 2018 Ari Aster film about a family unraveling after a death

What is Hereditary?

400

Michael Jackson’s 1983 music video for this song features a zombie dance routine.

What is “Thriller”?

400

These candies are described as “sour, then sweet”

What are Sour Patch Kids?

400

I have a face but no eyes, a mouth but never speak, and I’m worn only one night a year.

What is a mask?

400

This parasitic fungus takes over ants’ bodies and inspired the zombies in The Last of Us.

What is Cordyceps?

500

This 2019 folk-horror film follows a group of friends to a Swedish midsummer festival.

What is Midsommar?

500

Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast of this H.G. Wells story convinced some listeners that Martians had landed.

What is The War of the Worlds?

500

This candy bar was named after a beloved horse of the Mars family.

What is Snickers?

500

I have keys but open no locks, and I have space but no room. I’m often played in haunted houses.

What is a piano (or organ)?

500

The titan arum, nicknamed the “corpse flower,” gets its name from giving off the smell of this.

What is rotting flesh?