Answer Archive
Every puzzle in the current run is built around a horror film, and across all 788 of them no film is used twice. This is the record of the ones that have already come round — the word, the day it ran, and where to read about the film.
Films featured
52 films so far, newest first. A new one every day.
- SATANRosemary's Baby (1968)
A young wife in the Dakota, neighbours far too helpful, and a pregnancy the coven arranged.
- VAULTThe Vault of Horror (1973)
Five men descend in a lift that will not rise, into a chamber that opens only inward.
- MANORThe Haunting (1963)
Hill House stood ninety years and might stand ninety more; whatever walked that great house walked alone.
- CLAWSThe Wolf Man (1941)
Chaney Jr. under Pierce's yak hair — wolfsbane blooms, the moon rises, and his nails lengthen.
- SEWERIt (2017)
Derry's storm drains, a paper boat, and a clown who has been hungry for twenty-seven years.
- DEVILThe Devil's Backbone (2001)
Del Toro's orphanage under Franco, a bomb in the courtyard, and the oldest fiend blamed in the title.
- TAROTTarot (2024)
Read the cards with a deck that isn't yours, and each drawn figure comes to collect.
- SPELLSpell (2020)
A plane crash in rural Appalachia, a poppet made of skin, and a host who won't let go.
- GOLEMThe Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
Wegener's clay man walks through Prague in 1920 — cinema's first monster built to protect.
- GRAVEThe Grave (1996)
Two brothers dig for a fortune buried with a dead man, and greed does the rest.
- STAKEStake Land (2010)
A road movie through vampire-emptied America, where a sharpened length of wood is currency.
- SIRENSiren (2016)
A bachelor party frees something beautiful from a locked room, and the singing starts.
- RELICRelic (2020)
Three generations in a rotting house, where the grandmother becomes an heirloom nobody can throw out.
- CURSEThe Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Hammer's first colour gothic: Cushing's baron brings down on his own line a doom no science lifts.
- OUIJAOuija (2014)
Hasbro's parlour game as a portal — say goodbye properly or something stays behind.
- BONESBones and All (2022)
Two young cannibals cross Reagan's America, eating lovers down to what the earth keeps.
- DEMONNight of the Demon (1957)
Jacques Tourneur's runes pass hand to hand, and the fiend they summon arrives down the railway line.
- SHOCKShock (1977)
Bava's last film: a widow returns to the house where her husband died, and her son delivers the jolt.
- TEETHTeeth (2008)
A chastity-pledged girl finds her body has grown a set of defences where no dentist looks.
- RAVENThe Raven (1963)
Corman turned Poe into comedy and let Price, Lorre and Karloff duel as wizards.
- FLESHZombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Fulci's undead shamble out of the Caribbean to eat the living meat off the bone.
- COVENSuspiria (1977)
A German dance academy hides a sisterhood; Argento lit it in colours no nightmare has matched.
- GHOULThe Ghoul (1933)
Karloff, back from the grave over a stolen jewel, in Gaumont's answer to the Universal cycle.
- CRYPTTales from the Crypt (1972)
Amicus locked five strangers underground with a keeper who already knew how each would die.
- BLOODBlood and Black Lace (1964)
Bava dressed murder in gel colours, and what runs down the mannequins is the whole point.
- WITCHThe Witch (2016)
A New England family unravels at the wood's edge, and the crone in the trees is patient.
- ANGRYDrive Angry (2011)
Nicolas Cage breaks out of hell in a muscle car, driving on pure fury toward a cult.
- LOATHSpeak No Evil (2022)
A Danish family accept a second invitation from the Dutch couple they met on holiday and are too polite to leave.
- RIDERGhost Rider (2007)
Johnny Blaze's bargain with Mephistopheles, a flaming skull and a very large motorcycle.
- CABALThe Babysitter (2017)
Cole stays awake past bedtime and finds his babysitter's friends drawing a pentagram in the living room.
- MERGETogether (2025)
A couple move to the countryside and start finding it physically difficult to be in separate rooms.
- BIRTHBirth (2004)
Nicole Kidman's dead husband returns as a ten-year-old boy who knows things he shouldn't.
- MANIAManiac Cop (1988)
A uniformed killer works New York, and the officer everyone blames was left for dead by his own force.
- TRACTShivers (1975)
Cronenberg's parasite spreads through a Montreal high-rise, and it goes in by the mouth.
- WORRYDon't Worry Darling (2022)
Florence Pugh's desert company town, where the wives are told there is nothing to fret about.
- MOORSAn American Werewolf in London (1981)
Two backpackers ignore the locals, stray off the path onto the open Yorkshire uplands, and one of them keeps visiting the other.
- SWARMThe Swarm (1978)
Irwin Allen throws Michael Caine and half of Hollywood at African bees, at enormous expense.
- GAUZEHollow Man (2000)
Sebastian's serum takes him out of sight, and the only way the team can tell where he is standing is to wrap him in bandages.
- HOSTSPossessor (2020)
A corporate assassin does her killing from inside other people's bodies, and getting back out of them is getting harder.
- STRAWStraw Dogs (1971)
Peckinpah's Cornish siege: a mild American mathematician discovers what he is capable of.
- BLEAKThe Road (2009)
A father and son push a shopping trolley south through grey ash, past dead trees and burnt houses, with nothing green left anywhere.
- SHAVEThe Big Shave (1967)
Scorsese's six-minute student short: a man in a white bathroom does not put the razor down.
- BRACEArcadian (2024)
A father and his twin sons bar the farmhouse at dusk because of what comes across the fields.
- ELDERThe Village (2004)
Covington keeps its young away from the woods with a truce that nobody living has seen tested.
- WHITEWhite Zombie (1932)
Lugosi's Haitian mill runs on the reanimated poor — the first feature-length zombie film.
- DRANKWake in Fright (1971)
A schoolteacher misses his flight out of the outback and loses five days to beer and a kangaroo shoot.
- GATORAlligator (1980)
A baby flushed down a Chicago toilet grows on lab waste and comes back up through the pavement, jaws first.
- HABITThe Addiction (1995)
A New York philosophy student is bitten in a doorway and starts quoting Nietzsche between feeds.
- SHAMECarrie (1976)
A locker-room cruelty, a prom crown, and a mother who was right about the town.
- MOTELPsycho (1960)
Marion Crane pulls off the wet highway into cabin one, and the young man at the desk would rather talk about his birds.
- HAUNTHaunt (2019)
A fraternity party turns into a nightmare when the masks come off—and something far worse emerges.
- ALIENAlien (1979)
In space, no one can hear you scream—especially not when this uninvited guest has arrived.
Today's puzzle is never listed here — a day only appears once it has finished everywhere in the world.