Welcome to our new column that will run for the entire year of 2026, this is a list of trivia Horror covering the genre, and various influences. This is different from the ‘Weird Stats & Morbid Facts’ from Rue Morgue magazine, for those who read many of the film analysis on our site and from the Baron’s Crypt podcasts.

• The Lost Boys [1987] inspired another vampire lore film was filmed in Ocean City, NJ called Cold Hearts [1999], some of the locations still exist.
• The Brady Bunch has what interesting connection to a 1975 horror movie? Answer: The kitchen and living room which featured in the movie Bug.
• What book series intended for children is cautiously on the Library Association’s challenged list for removal? Answer: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, namely for the illustrations.

• The Jigsaw killer of the famed Saw franchise teaches his victims to value life over their vices, however it other film strives to teach society awareness 9-years before? Answer: Se7en [1995] the shock the deaths to have awareness of sin and value morality.
• 1896 marks the year of the first horror film entitled Le Manoir du Diable (The House of the Devil) a 3-minutes featuring skeletons, demons, and ghosts. 130-year-old genre!
• Ready to battle Satan and his demons! The Catholic Church requires each diocese to have at least one exorcist available at any moment.

• What author help popularized dark literature by enplaning psychological terror rather progressing gothic tales? Answer: Edgar Allen Poe, who fascinated by torture and death of women (3 died in life – mother, foster mother and wife).
• Authors are their own worst critics… What stopped Stephen King from temporally tossing Carrie into the trash? Answer: Writing from a women’s point of view, therefore open yourself to your feminine side.
• Smile [2022] is a direct sequel to what short film? Answer: Laura Hasn’t Slept [2020].
• CREEPY FACT: The air you breathe in your home is filled with dead skin cells, 1.8 million shed in 1-hour. More than half the dust floating in the sunlight in your house/apartment is from the residents. Inhale their and your remains!