Monster Mash
This creature of the night was featured in a series of different films, but none more famous than a 1999 epic starring Brendan Fraser with the same name.
What is a Mummy?
Joss Whedon directed a film and a far more popular television show all about Buffy, who is famous for killing this monster.
What is a vampire?
Once considered the king of YouTube, PewDiePie rose to prominence playing two games: Happy Wheels, and this horror classic from 2010; facing down monsters in the water... and BARRELS.
What is Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
This television channel was responsible for the mass suicide of hundreds of Americans, as it aired footage asking them to lay in the "Victory Position" and take the lives of themselves and their families, facing the moon.
What is Local 58?
John Carpenter directed this 1982 creature feature, wherein several men and women on a mission to Antartica take in a stray dog, unleashing a monster that can shapeshift, brewing mistrust and tension right up to the very end.
What is The Thing?
This found footage film from 1999 explores the disappearance of several teenagers in the woods, and pioneered the found footage genre of horror film.
What is The Blair Witch Project?
This lizard-like creature is known to stalk areas of North and South America, draining the blood from sheep and other livestock, and representing a bad omen among the more superstitious.
What is the Chupcabra?
This monster from beyond space is a technological terror, opposing a certain doctor and his friends as they solve issues across the cosmos, shrieking "Exterminate!" as they go.
What is a dalek?
This 2001 PlayStation 2 classic series follows the main character as they contend with the spirits of the damned, often in grand locales like an abandoned Japanese village, armed only with a camera.
What is Fatal Frame?
Jeff the Killer, a popular story spread around on Newgrounds and DeviantArt, gained notoriety for it's curse and kills, but it's disfigurement by this method that starts Jeff's story out tragically.
What is being set on fire by his bullies?
The 2002 Scooby-Doo movie is a cult classic, revered for it's comedy, accuracy to the source material, and the inclusion of this twist villain, replacing Rowan Atkinson's Mondavarious at the last minute.
Who is Scrappy Doo?
This acronym is frequently used when a horror video is released with hidden messaging, website links, and puzzles to solve to unlock the next video or piece in the series.
What is an ARG? (Alternate Reality Game)
This Providence, Rhode Island native is one of the most famous horror authors of all time, penning such works as "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Out of Time," and "Hypnos" as well as creating monsters like Dagon and Shub-Niggurath before his death in 1937 of intestinal cancer.
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
The Simpsons has a long running tradition of producing Halloween specials of varying intensity and hilarity, sharing this title across every episode.
What is the Treehouse of Horror?
1999 was a good year for horror, as the release of this Capcom survival horror experience, better defined by it's "panic horror," features prehistoric baddies overtaking a research laboratory.
What is Dino Crisis?
This SCP has an intimidating identification number of 999, however this slimy blob only wants to help you, often hugging and physically teasing you to cure your depression and mental afflictions.
What is The Tickle Monster?
2019's Brightburn, a film following young Brandon as he experiences the discovery of his powers and the evil he could commit with them, he begins his reign of terror with this perverted action on a fellow girl he develops feelings for.
What is sneaking into her room?
This is the term used to define the empty spaces and eerily quiet locales that influence the horror game and video formats of the same name.
What are liminal spaces?
This popular cryptid had multiple sightings surrounding disasters, being viewed several times in 1967 until the Silver Bridge collapsed days before it's final area sighting, killing 46 people in West Virginia.
Who is the Mothman?
Children's horror is important too, and this Canadian television show, while low budget and often clunky, rivaled "Goosebumps" on the regular, mainly for having the "edgier" product and stories.
What is Are You Afraid of the Dark?
This 2010 psychological horror entry into a long running franchise sees Alex Shepherd, a soldier looking for his brother, finds himself battling an evil cult that once planned to sacrifice him as well as his brother's spirit, with five possible endings including one with a UFO.
What is Silent Hill: Homecoming?
This 2009 internet horror series explores the origins of Slenderman, released on YouTube, referring to him as 'The Operator," released only days after the original images were posted.
What is Marble Hornets?
This 1983 slasher flick follows orphaned twin Angela as she navigates a summer getaway in which one of the other youths is killing the others, before the big twist reveal that Angela was the killer after all, as well as actually being her deceased brother Peter.
What is Sleepaway Camo?
Trevor Robert's released this eerie and revolting piece of work in 2001, featuring brochures and illustrations surrounding a tourist trap and mining operation in Texas that is as dangerous as it is disgusting, even with it's Amniotic hot springs.
What is Mystery Flesh Pit National Park?
Ichabod Crane is the protagonist of this 1820 horror story written by Washington Irving, set in New York during the Winter, as the superstitious and frightful teacher finds himself at odds with a Headless Horseman in pursuit of love.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"
Supernatural's story is a long and twisted tale about two brothers, Dean and Sam, chasing monsters and fighting higher powers for their own free will, and it's this line, spoken in the pilot, that kicks the entire story off.
What is 'Dad's on a hunting trip, and he hasn't been home in a few days?"
Five Nights at Freddy's has several locations, secret locations, sister locations and body locations, but all these locations lead to the setting being placed in this real American town.
What is Hurricane, Utah?
This infamous haunted house is considered to be "unbeatable," with it's owner and showrunner going out of his way to torture and abuse people in the name of scares, posted to a facebook page with the owner regularly arguing with "haters." It only costs a bag of dog food to try...
What is McKamey Manor?
Saw 3 was originally penned as the final entry in the now 10 entry saga, culminating with this iconic trap, and Jigsaw's personal favorite , which tortures and twists the man who killed Jeff's son in a drunk driving accident- literally.
What is The Rack?
Horror is often associated with the mystery and thriller genres for all kinds of media, but this type of film in particular features real horror and violence, often crimes, but it is still considered an urban legend, with 'Cannibal Holocaust" being confused for one in 1980.
What is a snuff film?