| 100% | SCREAMCHEESE | 12 | Hors d'oeuvres for a horror movie? |
| 60% | GASP | 4 | Inspiration for a horror movie? |
| 59% | LORE | 4 | Backstory for a horror movie, say |
| 58% | BEAFRAID | 8 | Ominous tagline for a horror movie (2 wds.) |
| 54% | SAW | 3 | Horror movie named for a tool |
| 52% | SAW | 3 | 2004 horror movie named for a tool |
| 52% | TAPA | 4 | Hors d'oeuvre for Hernando |
| 47% | ELMST | 5 | Locale of a horror-movie “nightmare,” for short |
| 46% | ATHROB | 6 | Like the heart during a horror movie |
| 46% | VOODOODOLL | 10 | One getting stuck in a horror movie |
| 45% | GORIER | 6 | More explicit, as a horror movie |
| 45% | HAIRRAISING | 11 | Like a horror movie |
| 44% | TITANE | 6 | 2021 horror movie for which Julia Ducournau became the second female director to win the Palme d'Or |
| 44% | GORE | 4 | Blood and guts, in a horror movie |
| 44% | GRISLY | 6 | Like a horror movie scene |
| 44% | BOO | 3 | Greeting in a horror movie? |
| 44% | DOOR | 4 | Squeaker in a horror movie? |
| 44% | RUN | 3 | Command in a horror movie |
| 43% | GASP | 4 | Sound from a horror movie watcher |
| 43% | GASPS | 5 | Sounds from a horror movie audience |
| 43% | SCREAM | 6 | Sound from a horror movie victim |
| 43% | ELM | 3 | Street in a horror movie franchise |
| 43% | PATE | 4 | An hors d' oeuvre |
| 43% | ELM | 3 | Street name in a horror movie franchise |
| 43% | TENSE | 5 | Nerve-racking, like a horror movie scene |
| 43% | SCARED | 6 | Like someone watching a horror movie, probably |
| 43% | EERIE | 5 | Like silence in a horror movie, say |
| 43% | LOGLINE | 7 | Synopsis for a screenwriter pitching a movie |
| 43% | PUBLICIST | 9 | Promoter who seeks PR for a movie |
| 43% | TAGLINE | 7 | Slogan in an ad for a movie |