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Horror Codes

A partnership with four Hollywood studios to turn history's most iconic movie quotes into Halloween promo codes. Made at Rethink NY for Uber Eats.

Do you want to play a game?

For Halloween, we turned ten of the most iconic lines in horror movie history into Uber Eats promo codes.

Then, we put horror fans’ knowledge to the test—removing letters from each famous quote to create a global game of Hangman.

Recognized 1x at D&AD (🥈), 4x at The One Show (🥈🥉🥉🥉), 1x at Cannes (🥉), 1x at LIA (🥉), and covered by AdAge & USA Today.

If you know the horror, you get the candy.

Our campaign launched with a horror short set in an old-school video rental store—in which an obsessive video clerk forces captives to get his movie quotes right for candy.

Then, our full campaign sent the internet into a frenzy.

We turned each film’s code into its own piece of OOH & social full of easter eggs.

Behind the scenes of our film, we built a video rental store and filled it with fake, legally cleared DVDs.

For legal reasons, we had to fill our set with bootleg DVD titles like Gladiawar, Laws, Police Nuts 4, and everyone’s favorite, Gesund Height.

🧠 Made with Álvaro Palma, Alex Maggi, Jess Pester, Cara Johnson & Lauren Cooper under Tara Lawall & Daniel Lobatón at Rethink NY.

⚡ Film directed by Aaron Stoller, shot by Mike Gioulakis, and edited by Brad Waskewich, with set design by Don Burt.