Happy Halloween: Classic Horror Characters from Literature and Film
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Across:
2. Benchley and Spielberg needed a bigger boat to hunt this ________ .
4. Fleming and Hamilton made Baum's ________ and her flying minions scary to kids.
5. From the dark Amazon, this ________ got revenge and walked among us.
6. Chaney, Rains, Webber and Crawford portrayed Leroux's ________ of the theater catacombs.
8. King, Kubrick and Nicholson made a ________ a chilling horror character.
11. Burton's ________ is the king of Halloweentown.
12. Jackson directed Tolkien's epic to return ________ 's Ring to the Cracks of Doom.
13. Weaver's Ripley fought Scott's ________ on the spacecraft Nostromo.
14. Rowling's evil wizard ________ orphaned her main character.
18. Stoker created ________ , Lugosi's undead Transylvanian count.
21. Demme and Hopkins made Harris' ________ clever, psychotic and a chianti lover.
23. Karloff starred as an Egyptian ________ revived after thousands of years.
24. Shyamalan's tagline was, "I see ________ ."
25. Hitchcock and Perkins made Bloch's ________ a creepy motel manager.
Down:
1. Seltzer and Donner's tale of bad omens starred ________ , Satan's son.
3. Jones and Christensen played Lucas' ________ , Jedi turned Sith Lord.
7. Irving, Disney, Burton and Depp told of one lazy village's ________ .
9. Friedkin made Blatty's ________ a little girl's last chance for salvation.
10. Rains was Wells' ________ , wreaking havoc on a British country village.
15. This Chaney Jr. character, bitten and cursed, became the ________ .
16. Shelley's mad scientist, ________ , reanimates Karloff's character.
17. Halloween never recovered from Carpenter's ________ ' asylum escape.
19. Chaney, Laughton, Quinn, Hopkins and Disney depicted Hugo's ________ of medieval Paris.
20. Barrymore, March and Tracy were Stevenson's ________ and his Hyde.
22. Romero's films of hordes of flesh-eating ________ are genre classics.
Keyword List:
Fill in the blanks in these sentences with the word that fits.
Phantom Damien Alien
Exorcist Dracula Wicked Witch
Dead People Zombies Jekyll
Hunchback Mummy Creature
Wolf Man Lord Sauron Norman Bates
Darth Vader Voldemort Headless Horseman
Michael Myers Haunted Hotel Invisible Man
Jack Skellington Hannibal Lecter Great White Shark
Frankenstein
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