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Horror Movies: Classic Era Chillers from the 1930s to the 1970s

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  1. 2. Psycho's host sounds like things on fishhooks
  2. 3. Three initials behind the original 1933 giant-ape blockbuster
  3. 4. Chaney Jr.'s professional first name, borrowed from his silent-screen father
  4. 8. David Lynch's 1977 feature debut turns fatherhood into an industrial fever dream
  5. 10. Hammer's 1957 breakthrough: The ___ of Frankenstein
  6. 11. Lugosi's scheming blacksmith in Son of Frankenstein, whose name begins with a sometimes vowel
  7. 12. Lugosi's first name, also borne by several Hungarian kings

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  1. 1. Poe's doomed family name also seats you at the cinema
  2. 2. Psycho's novelist sounds like a neighborhood unit
  3. 3. Farrow's 1968 expectant mother has a name fit for an herb garden
  4. 5. Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 supernatural tale follows the uncanny travels of Allan Gray
  5. 6. Producer Val behind Cat People and The Seventh Victim
  6. 7. King's telekinetic schoolgirl sounds like an instruction to transport something
  7. 9. The Exorcist's troubled daughter shares her name with one of Lear's daughters

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Horror Movies: Sequels, Remakes and Reboots

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  1. 2. The ___ Witch Project, followed by Book of Shadows
  2. 5. The ___: Election Year, third film in a masked-menace franchise
  3. 6. Adult Torrance played by Ewan McGregor in the 2019 sequel to The Shining
  4. 8. Good Guy toy whose screen debut was Child's Play
  5. 11. Puzzle-box horror franchise reimagined with Jamie Clayton in 2022
  6. 12. The ___, David Cronenberg's 1986 insect-themed remake
  7. 13. Jarvis, played by Corey Feldman in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
  8. 14. 1997 sci-fi horror film remade in Japan in 2021
  9. 15. Bruce Campbell's reluctant hero in a 1987 horror sequel
  10. 16. The ___ Part 2, follow-up to a spelunking nightmare

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  1. 1. Count who returns in Hammer's Prince of Darkness
  2. 3. Young owner of a troublesome toy in Child's Play
  3. 4. The ___ Two, 2005 follow-up to a cursed-videotape thriller
  4. 7. Mischievous creatures back for The New Batch in 1990
  5. 9. Small, hungry space creatures whose second film is set around Easter
  6. 10. ___ Night, a 1980 high-school chiller remade in 2008

Horror Movies: Famous Lines and Memorable Moments

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  1. 1. Pennywise's chosen circus disguise in It
  2. 3. Bathroom fixture at the center of Psycho's most famous scene
  3. 4. 'I ___ dead people,' confesses Cole in The Sixth Sense
  4. 6. Creatures who demand 'Brains!' in The Return of the Living Dead
  5. 9. Silent classic in which Count Orlok's shadow climbs a staircase
  6. 11. First name of Mrs. Bates in Psycho
  7. 12. What conceals the supermarket's strange visitors in a 2007 Stephen King adaptation
  8. 13. Buzzing insects that swarm around the title figure in a 1992 mirror legend film

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  1. 1. Shape formed by two candlesticks to repel the count in 1958's Dracula
  2. 2. Poltergeist announcement: 'They're ___!'
  3. 5. Ritual attempted by two priests in a landmark 1973 possession film
  4. 7. Snowbound resort that hires Jack Torrance for the winter
  5. 8. Jaws' famous warning calls for a bigger one
  6. 10. Cursed viewing material passed around in The Ring

Horror Movies: Famous Horror Directors

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  1. 1. Hereditary's director has a surname that is also a flower
  2. 4. Get Out marked this comedian's feature directing debut
  3. 6. Whannell's first name, seen in the directing credit for The Invisible Man (2020)
  4. 8. The Birds filmmaker famous for slipping into his own movies
  5. 12. A sea giant shares this Frankenstein director's surname
  6. 14. Silent-film pioneer who directed Nosferatu in 1922
  7. 15. Jennifer's surname on the directing credit for The Babadook

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  1. 2. Pittsburgh-based filmmaker who reshaped zombie cinema with Night of the Living Dead
  2. 3. Eli ___, director of The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  3. 5. Eraserhead's director, also known for the mysteries of Twin Peaks
  4. 7. Terence ___, director of Hammer's 1958 Dracula
  5. 9. The People Under the Stairs director whose surname means 'cowardly'
  6. 10. Drag Me to Hell director who also launched a Spider-Man trilogy
  7. 11. A compass direction doubles as The Innkeepers director Ti's surname
  8. 13. The Conjuring director with a three-letter surname

Horror Movies: Slasher Films and Masked Villains

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  1. 1. Actress Campbell who plays Prescott in a long-running horror franchise
  2. 3. First name of the filmmaker behind The Hills Have Eyes
  3. 7. Kitchen utensil that becomes Michael's signature prop in a 1978 horror classic
  4. 8. A striped-sweater villain's sinister accessory, worn on one hand
  5. 9. 2006 swamp-set slasher that introduced Victor Crowley
  6. 12. Voorhees, the terror of Crystal Lake
  7. 13. Prescott who fields threatening calls in a 1996 horror hit
  8. 14. Chopping tool for splitting logs at a lakeside cabin
  9. 15. Krueger, the screen villain who gives sleep a bad name

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  1. 2. 2001 slasher whose sinister figure wears a Cupid face
  2. 4. 1996 horror hit that turns scary-movie rules into part of the plot
  3. 5. Amanda Wyss's character in a 1984 dream-haunting horror classic
  4. 6. ___ Camp, 1983 summer-retreat horror film with a famous twist
  5. 10. Face covering that hides a movie villain's identity
  6. 11. Roadside lodging whose shower becomes a suspense landmark in Psycho

Horror Movies: Spooky Settings and Props

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  1. 1. Dusty spider's web hanging in a neglected corner
  2. 4. Natural underground chamber entered through an opening in rock
  3. 7. Decorative ceiling light with several branching arms
  4. 8. Human-shaped figure placed in a field to keep birds away
  5. 12. Room equipped for scientific experiments, such as Dr. Frankenstein's
  6. 13. Large musical instrument that produces sound by sending air through pipes
  7. 14. Small wooden house in the woods, like the one in The Evil Dead

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  1. 2. Farm building used to store hay
  2. 3. Large inland body of water beside the summer retreat in Friday the 13th
  3. 5. Large storage box with a hinged lid
  4. 6. Burial ground filled with headstones
  5. 9. Small metal object turned in a lock to open it
  6. 10. Long, pointed vampire tooth copied by costume makers
  7. 11. Stone burial chamber

Horror Movies: Haunted House and Ghost Story Films

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  1. 1. Low in temperature, like a room chilled by an unseen presence.
  2. 3. Burial place marked by a headstone, often visited in spooky films.
  3. 5. Deep wickedness behind a supernatural threat.
  4. 8. The ___, John Carpenter's 1980 film about mysterious coastal mist.
  5. 9. Frightening dream that can make a sleeper wake in panic.
  6. 11. Occupied by restless spirits, as a spooky mansion might be.
  7. 13. Part of a person believed to live on after the body dies.
  8. 14. Hinged barrier that may slam shut by itself in a spooky movie.

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  1. 1. Long, squeaky sound from an old wooden stair when nobody is there.
  2. 2. Small instrument with a clapper, sometimes rung by an unseen presence in spooky films.
  3. 4. Supernatural figure that becomes visible to a living person.
  4. 6. 2010 supernatural film that introduces the Lambert family and a realm called the Further.
  5. 7. Painting of a person whose eyes may seem to follow viewers in a spooky mansion.
  6. 10. Spirit of a dead person believed to visit the living.
  7. 12. Lights Out (2016) features a figure who appears only in the ___.

Horror Movies: Famous Franchises and Their Villains

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  1. 1. The Overlook in The Shining is this kind of lodging.
  2. 3. The kind of toy that comes to life in Child's Play.
  3. 8. 1979 space horror film starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley.
  4. 10. 1982 haunted-house film with the famous line, 'They're here.'
  5. 11. Trap-themed horror franchise featuring John Kramer.
  6. 12. First name of the obsessive fan who holds author Paul Sheldon captive in Misery.
  7. 13. The ___, a 2018 horror film featuring a sinister figure in a religious habit.
  8. 14. A Nightmare on ___ Street.

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  1. 2. Masked villain of the horror series set in rural Texas.
  2. 4. The ___, the 1976 horror film about a sinister boy named Damien.
  3. 5. Black-robed phone caller who terrorizes Woodsboro in the Scream films.
  4. 6. Crystal Lake is this type of summer getaway in Friday the 13th.
  5. 7. 1978 John Carpenter horror film set in Haddonfield, Illinois.
  6. 9. Nail-studded Cenobite villain of the Hellraiser films.
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