Halloween Charades Clues: Word Lists and Other Game Ideas

Author:: Kristy Callan

Kristy Callan enjoys coming up with fun ideas for the holidays ranging from charades lists to party games.

Charades is a great game for a group at a Halloween party, especially if you use thematic spooky words as clues!
Image by sambeawesome from Pixabay

Halloween is the perfect night for a party, and charades is a perfect party game. It is easy to understand how to play, suitable for all ages and can be played with any number of people. Why not give your game a Halloween twist by using these dark and playful words and scary movies?

Rules

Put all of the Halloween charades ideas in a bowl.
A person is selected to go first somehow (maybe the oldest, the youngest, or the host). This person gets to draw a topic out of the bowl.
They must then try to act out this charades topic. They aren't allowed to talk.
Everybody else must try to guess what is being acted out. The first person to guess correctly gets to act out an idea next.

The game can be as long (or as short) as you want it to be.

halloween-charades-ideas-words-list — Image by ThePalm52 from Pixabay

Halloween-Themed Words for Charades

Jack-o- Lantern	Bonfire	Candy Apple	Dragon	Eyeball	Zombie
Pumpkin	Carving Pumpkins	Doorbell	Spell	Black Cat	Frankenstein
Brains	Shadow	Spider	Vampire	Cobwebs	Wizard
Lollies/Candy	Werewolf	Blood	Spooky	Graveyard	Fairy
Broomstick	Devil	Haunted House	Trick or Treat	Pirate	Ghost
Halloween	Monster	Dracula	Apple Bobbing	Scarecrow	Mummy
Costume	13	Troll	Trick	Bat	Freddy Krueger
Ninja	Skeleton	Alien	Treat	Witch	Flashlight

Hard-to-Guess Halloween Words

Poltergeist
Ghoul
Haunted
Soul

Scary Movies You Can Use as Charades Clues

Nightmare on Elm Street	Halloween	IT	The Omen	Jaws
Friday the 13th	Paranormal Activity	The Blair Witch Project	Nosferatu	The Thing
Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Night of the Living Dead	Pumpkinhead	The Exorcist	When a Stranger Calls
Saw	Psycho	House on Haunted Hill	The Amityville Horror	Pet Sematary
The Shining	The Grudge	Sleepy Hollow	Alien	Scream

Make It Spookier!

Why not include some pieces of paper in the bowl that have not only a charades idea, but also instructions to complete a secret task to scare everybody? Don't put one on every piece of paper, just some. That will add to the surprise because nobody will know who the people are that got a secret task.

For example, some secret tasks could be:

Sometime during the next person's turn, scream loudly.
Stare at somebody for 60 seconds without talking or moving.
Sometime after the charades game, grab somebody from behind.
Move all the food bowls from one table to another without anybody seeing you do it. (Then you, as the host, make a big deal of it—such as 'Hey guys, where did all the food go? How weird. Oh my gosh, it's all in the other room! Spooky!')