Monster Movie Night

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Bright red fluid splashed across vintage Hammer Film productions (5)
• Pointed wooden weapon favored by cinematic vampire hunters (5)
• 1922 silent masterpiece featuring the eerie, rat-like Count Orlok (9)
• Puncture wound that turns a cinema victim into the undead (4)
• Vocal cue signaling that a lunar transformation is complete (4)
• Celestial body responsible for triggering a hairy cinematic curse (4)
• Elongated tooth revealed just before a dramatic neck plunge (4)

Down

• Facial disguise worn by slasher villains or crafted in a studio (4)
• Atmospheric effect pumped across cinematic graveyards to build dread (3)
• Radioactively altered creature spawned by 1950s atomic cinema fears (6)
• Transylvanian count who first terrified sound-era audiences in 1931 (7)
• Cursed protagonist whose palms grow hair when the wolfbane blooms (8)
• Massive outdoor surface illuminated by a drive-in projector (6)

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