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0 - You'll find small plastic swords stored here on Oct 31

1 - In a horror movie, splitting up can be "---"

2 - Prefix of a comedy-horror film based on an H. P. Lovecraft story

3 - First name of chainsaw wielding maniac

5 - Jamie Lee Curtis' first big hit

6 - Ripley wakes up (again) in this sequel

7 - Played opposite Jeff Goldblum

8 - General location of the fictional 1974 massacre

13 - Movie starring Bettie Davis² (squared)

14 - A number of whipped-nougat French swashbucklers

15 - Originally titled "Scary Movie"

16 - Last name of the original "Last Man on Earth"

17 - Hitchcock of B-Movies, not the building.

19 - "Candyman", actor (first name)

21 - Dr Frank's assistant

22 - 'House cleaner' from "Poltergeist"

23 - Sherly Jackson's "The Haunting of "---'House'

25 - Hand powered oracle from Parker Brothers

26 - Not actually the shape of a square fruit candy

27 - Please, Mr. Lantern is my father

ACROSS

0 - A ghost or a haint does this

1 - Eastern European frequent fuzzy flyer

4 - Horror movie buzzer in "Candyman"

6 - Friend of Fay Ray, NYC transplant

9 - Author of "The Stepford Wives"

10 - Granddaddy of gore films

11 - Always asking "who" but never "whom"

12 - Killer's attitude in some movies

14 - One of the plants in a Bradbury story

18 - MJ's Thriller warns us the unfunky will "--- inside a corpse's shell"

20 - A premonition; or 1976's sixth highest-grossing film

24 - Essentially a thimble of edible wax

27 - First name of the tricycle-riding murderer

28 - A spooky substory

29 - The town in "Jaws"

30 - 2000s splatter hit, see 27 ACROSS