Top 12 Scary Movie Couples

A spooky movie is a surefire way to enjoy your Halloween season. If you randomly select any of a number of scary movies, you’ll probably get a pretty similar plot each time. What scary movie doesn’t have an attractive teenage girl, lots of booze, or a serial ax murderer? If you’re looking for something a little more in depth, look for the side plot that lies within the hearts of these ten scary movie couples. You may find yourself a little confusing when you’re overwhelmed with the love between the two but still shaking in your socks.

 

  1. Burt and Vicky, Children of the Corn
    We all know what the film is about, but the side story has just as much thrill. This couple sets out on a trip to repair a troubled marriage, but they get a lot more than they bargained for. While fighting for their life again the evil forces they face, they quickly find each other to be worth living for. Sometimes dread can bring you together as nothing else can. 

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  2. Sally and Jack, The Nightmare Before Christmas
    If you say you don’t love this Burton classic, you’re lying. Sally and Jack Skellington are the epitome of leery lovers, with just enough excitement and joy to help you overlook their ghoulish appearance. There’s a reason many people choose this coupling when dressing up for Halloween. Their love is unmatched and there nothing less than unique and extraordinary. 
  3. Sam and Molly, Ghost
    Ghost is the most terrifying and simultaneously heartfelt experience you will ever have. The love between Molly and her dead lover is tear-jerking. Of course, some might be afraid when their passed beloved comes back in ghost form to revisit his sweetheart, but Molly was anything but. This is a tale about undying love, literally, that will leave you weeping for more.
  4. Boris and Elsa, The Bride of Frankenstein
    They may be two of the most easily recognizable lovebirds in the world of spooky films. The classic movie is killer, but the love between these two evil creations is anything but vile. Maybe Frankenstein’s original monster never expected there to be a part two, much less a partner, but you can tell in this film that manmade monsters have love, too.
    Frankenstein, Monster, Boris Karloff, Actor, Vintage
  5. Bobby and Cindy, Scary Movie
    This freakshow parody captures all the best early era spooky movies in one laughable, but equally creepy mash up. What else does it capture? The bubbling teenage love between Cindy and Bobby, two of the movie’s main characters. Of course, she probably doesn’t know that Bobby might just be a copycat murderer. 
  6. Adam and Barbara, Beetlejuice
    What’s better than a deceased couple haunting their previous home together? Of course, they probably weren’t expecting to be riddled with the confusion of the tumbling, scatterbrained, freaky world of Nietherworld, but they faired alright. You can’t die twice right? Maybe you can. 
  7. Seymour and Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors
    If you give your love a flower, make sure it’s not a giant, man-eating, murderous flower. Seymour and Audrey live through the terror of a lifetime and have a chemical connection that definitely shows throughout the original performance. They might have chemistry, but they sure aren’t botanists.  

    Woman Watering Plant

  8. The Phantom and Christine, The Phantom of the Opera
    This classic movie is unseen by very few eyes, and for everyone that has seen it, the love between Christine and the Phantom is as undeniably eerie as it is romantic. Of course, the Phantom’s rage ruins it in the end. It may be rage born of love, but it eventually leads Christine to hate and even fear.  
  9. Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring
    Of course, Ed and Lorraine are real-life people, and they have several movies other than the Conjuring (like Annabelle). Their spooky coupling is near perfection though, with Lorraine working as a medium and Ed as a demonologist. What better way to spend your life with your sweetheart than tracking and demolishing demons and ghosts, right? 
  10. Frederick and Annabelle Loren, House on Haunted Hill
    Frederick is throwing a haunted house party for his fourth wife, Annabelle, but they have no idea the night they are about to (hopefully) live through. This adorable couple has all the right kicks. They’re smart, brave, and apparently, have tried to murder each other (and other family members) several times. One of them goes off on a horrifying tangent, and suddenly nobody is safe.  
  11. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Sterling, The Silence of the Lambs
    Hopefully every genius-level man isn’t a cannibal, but this one is. Of course, he landed himself in the pen, and now he’s helping Clarice, a witty FBI agent, capture another serial killer on the loose. Their love is tense and barred by bars, but its not any less real. So real, in fact, that it continues for multiple movies because the audience just couldn’t get enough of this odd pair. 

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  12. Norman Bates and His Mother, Psycho
    It’s probably a little weird to be so in love with your mother that you murder both her and her lover, and then manage to cover it up for almost ten years. But Normal Bates was a psycho, so normality wasn’t exactly something he was famous for. Normans love for his mother is exactly the kind of love that most women dream of, except not from their son. Nevertheless, the kind of passion his displays is the foundation for the eerily gruesome plot of this classic movie.

 

If a few scary movies don’t help you get your fix this Halloween season, try grabbing some haunted house tickets for the largest haunted house in Dallas area. At Thrillvania Haunted House Park, we have terrifying fun for the entire family. If you’re feeling really brave, bring your sweetheart along. She may leap into your arms out of fright, or we may just send her screaming in the other direction.

 

The Story of Thrillvania Haunted House Park

What’s new at Thrillvania Haunted House Park? Well, did you know that for a haunting to take place, a house must have a history.

Think about some of the creepiest urban legends from the south. A playground in Alabama known to entertain the ghosts of dead children. Lake Lanier in Georgia. The dog boy at 65 Mulberry Street in Arkansas that wrecks havoc all over the neighborhood.

What do these urban legends all have in common?

Many of them are locations where bad things once happened. And it’s no different with houses, which many believe to harbor bad energy… that is if bad things once happened there.

Thrillvania Haunted House Park is no stranger to haunted houses. These 50 acres of land are home to three different – and equally terrifying – haunted attractions… all with a history of their own under the reign of Baron Michael Verdun.

Who is this Baron Verdun? And how is he the host of one of the best haunted houses in Texas? Read on to find out… but beware!

 

 

Verdun Manor Rises

Baron Michael Verdun was no ordinary human. During the day, he may have seemed like your typical Texan aristocrat. But by nightfall, Baron Verdun was anything but.

In 1901, Baron Verdun and his wife, Lady Cassandra D’Arque, constructed their Antebellum-style manor atop 50 acres of land. The area was Voodoo Bayou to the locals. And not far off was an old plantation cemetery harboring bad energy from those buried who suffered in this life.

Verdun hired foreign workers to build deep cellars circulating underneath his manor. Once finished, the workers were never seen again. It wasn’t long until travelers and people from the surrounding countryside suddenly began to go missing. Baron Verdun and Lady Cassandra were soon subject of the rumors and speculation surrounding these disappearances.

 

Thrillvania Haunted House Park - Terrell, Texas



After all, the townspeople of Terrell always felt something was very off about them. Even their manor was unlike any other home people had ever seen. Its structure and outside appearance was dark, foreboding, gothic, and warped. Who knew what the inside was like…

The Horrific History of Verdun Manor

To outsiders, Baron Verdun was your typical scientist. But the townspeople of Terrell would soon learn otherwise. Because, in fact, Baron Verdun had a sick, twisted fascination with the darkness. And he was especially keen on channeling the inner beasts inside all men.

He was no man. Every full moon, Baron Verdun transformed into the beast. The shapeshifter. A werewolf.

 

 

Verdun’s rage and hunger were ravenous and uncontrollable. And so was his beloved Lady Cassandra, no ordinary woman of elegance and prestige.

A creature of the night as some would call it. To most, she was a vampire. Her own thirst for blood led her to abduct those travelers and countrymen… and bring them back to Verdun Manor so the Baron could finish them off.

 


And that he did in the cruelest fashion. Conducting experiments on these people, he subjected them to great pain and mutilation… and stripped them of their humanity and transformed them into malformed, human-animals.

Baron Verdun wasn’t satisfied. In his eyes, his botched experiments were great failures. And so he set them loose into the wild, leaving them to fend for themselves. More people began to go missing, devoured by these creatures.

Every full moon, the Lady and the Baron hosted extravagant – yet grotesque – masquerade balls. Cocktails. Music. Dancing. And when it came time for the feast, guests were not fed a pig roast. Rather, the Baron and the Lady served up human flesh. And instead of games of cards or singing around the piano, the Baron would chase human prey for fun.

The Legend of Verdun Manor

The people of Terrell had had enough of the darkness that now loomed over their once peaceful town. Tired of the disappearances. Scared of leaving their homes. An angry mob took to the streets and stormed Verdun Manor one stormy night.

First, they rounded up the human-animal hybrids lurking around town. They locked the creatures up in the Baron’s laboratory and set fire to it.

Then, the mob found Lady Cassandra asleep in her crypt… and they put an end to her blood-thirsty rampage by mutilating and decapitating her.

Finally, they caught Baron Verdun and bludgeoned him to death. As he lay there dying, he swore vengeance upon anyone who dared enter his manor and the grounds.

The townspeople laid all the bloody remains deep into the ground. They desired to put this darkness behind them and resume their old lives. And for many years, the people of Terrell got exactly what they hoped. Silence. Yet they always wondered what – or who – remained at Verdun Manor.

New Beginnings?

A year after the deaths of Baron Verdun and Lady Cassandra, Vincent Carruther moved in. He and his family were a breath of fresh air to the townspeople of Terrell. Verdun was dead and so was Lady Cassandra. The dark past was behind them all…

But little did the Carruther’s know about the manor’s dark history.

One Halloween, the Carruther’s hosted a ball. But as they say, the dead can rise on Halloween. And so that’s exactly what the Baron and his Lady did… and they did more than crash the party.

Bursting inside, Baron Verdun and Lady Cassandra got the last laugh. They brutally murdered the Carruther’s and everyone inside. And the real man of the house and his lady scattered the remains of their guests around the house… in the corridors and cellars and in the walls.


Any remaining doubts and suspicions among the townspeople could now be horrifically confirmed. The Baron and Lady Cassandra were the real owners of Verdun Manor.

And anybody who wished to think otherwise would subject themselves to the darkness that lies in Verdun Manor… that is if they dared to enter.

Thrillvania Haunted House Park

It’s said that the grounds of Verdun are still haunted to this day… especially around Halloween. To experience the haunting for yourself, you’ll first need to do so through Thrillvania Haunted House Park.

 

 

Those who dare enter Verdun Manor must first brave the Voodoo Bayou and the old burial ground. As they approach Verdun Manor, they’re then greeted by blasts of fire. These blasts may be reminiscent of the night the Baron’s laboratory was set aflame. But they serve as a final warning to those who still wish to enter.

If you yourself dare to enter, you’ll have a hard time deciphering what’s real… and what’s not.

Even America Haunts, the industry’s leading haunted association, has something to say. According to America Haunts, Thrillvania Haunted House Park is “a blood-tingling experience”.

This year, America Haunts also ranked Thrillvania one of the most extreme haunted houses in 2018. And those who dare to visit it will soon understand why.

Do you dare to learn the dark history behind one of the best haunted houses in 2018? If so, get your tickets to Thrillvania Haunted House Park today!

The Scary Truth About Mermaids

Pretty much every modern representation you’ll find of mermaid’s has it wrong. Even Disney’s interpretation of The Little Mermaid leaves out the gruesome details of Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale.

In it, the Little Mermaid drinks the sea witch’s potion to grow legs. In return, however, she is cursed in many ways. She gives up her tongue and her intoxicating voice and becomes mute. In return for her beautiful singing voice, though, she gains the most skilled dancing legs. But every time she takes a step with her new human legs, it pains her severely, feeling as if she’s stomping on swords. That isn’t the end of the curse, however. In order to receive a soul and escape death, she must convince the Prince to fall in love with her. If she doesn’t convince the prince to marry her, she will die accursed of a broken heart, soulless, and dissolve into the ocean to be forever lost at sea.

Luckily, the prince is attracted to her elegant dancing, so she dances for him endlessly, despite the pain in her feet. Later, the prince falls in love with another woman, and the mermaid is nearing her deadly fate. As she weeps by the sea, wounded by her broken heart, her sisters surface. They are carrying a knife from the sea witch, which they traded their long, luscious hair for.

The Little Mermaid must use the knife to slay the prince, and then place a drop of his blood on her feet to break the curse. She has fallen deeply in love with the Prince, though, so she cannot bring herself to kill him. Instead, she dives into the ocean, attempting to kill herself, where she dissolves into foam.


However, the honorable mermaid is not lost forever. Instead, she is given another chance at a soul, which she can gain after 300 years of good deeds for mankind.

Perhaps the earliest account of mermaids is the Syrian tale of Atargatis. She is often said to be the very first mermaid, who became so after an attempt at suicide. Atargatis was a beautiful goddess who fell in love with a human shepherd. However, she accidentally kills him with her godly power. Riddled with grief, she attempts to kill herself by diving into the depths of the ocean. Generally, when gods enter the ocean they become fish. But this tale accounts that Atargis was too beautiful to suffer this same fate, and the transformation stopped halfway through. Instead, Atargis was given the body of a fish and kept her beautiful hair and head.

The creepiest account of mermaids by far is the Greek account of the Sirens. Although initially depicted as devilish creatures with the legs of birds, eventually adaptations began to describe them as beautiful women with the bodies of fish. These mythical sea creatures were native to a group of islands known as the Sirenuse, and they were just as deadly as they were beautiful.

The Sirens has the voice of goddesses and sang a beautiful song that could be heard from miles away. Sailors heard their song as they passed through on their ships, which put them into a trance and lured them to the islands. The Sirens seduced the men with their beauty and lulled them with their gorgeous song, just before slaying them and devouring their bodies with their razor-sharp teeth.

The Sirens were repeatedly present in Greek mythology, even appearing as one of Odysseus’ obstacles during his homestretch.

To further the idea that mermaids are violent creatures, the Russian tales of the Rusalki describe the half-fish, half-woman creatures as the lost souls of women who drown themselves in the ocean due to unwanted pregnancies. The Rusalki angrily stalks the ocean, hunting down men and children to take them as prey, torturing them and devouring them as payment for their death.

While the ghastly tales of mermaids may be enough to keep you up at night, many accounts of mermen may have you replanning your vacation to the oceanside. Many accounts of mermen, like in the original Little Mermaid tale, depict them as a zombie-fish of sorts.

In the Little Mermaid tale, the sisters speak of the dead bodies of sailors that sink into the sea. They rise to become mermen but are unlike the mermaids and mermen born to the sea. Instead, these mermen are much like zombies, except with fish tails and fins. Some greek mythology describes them as carnivorous creatures much like the sirens. They travel in packs to hunt down passing ships, causing shipwrecks and devouring any unfortunate soul that is cast to the sea.

Every ancient account of mermaids across the world is a little different, but one thing is for certain. They are nowhere near as gentle and innocent as the Disney tales suggest.

There are more spooky souls than sirens and flesh-eating fish-men, though. If you’re looking for a fright the Halloween season, be sure to grab your haunted house tickets for the scariest haunted house in Dallas area. Thrillvania Haunted House Park is your one-stop-shop this Halloween for all the spooks and screams your heart desires.