LOS ANGELES, October 27, 2015 – As America scours its closets in search of costume ideas for upcoming Halloween festivities, E-Score, the nation’s leading character research service looked into its database to determine who are the creepiest characters that inhabit the small and large screen.

Following is our annual ranking of America’s film and television characters, sorted by the percentage of consumers who rated them as “Creepy:”

“With most of these movie characters going back decades, it illustrates how the creators tapped into our fears and imaginations so deeply that they’ll never be forgotten,” says Gerry Philpott, President/CEO. “It’s not surprising that a clown created by Stephen King is number 1. He never fails to get under our skin and into our heads. Happy Halloween!”

E-Score’s database contains consumer opinion regarding more than 4,000 characters from film, television, comics, advertising and more. E-Score’s services are used by a wide range of advertisers, entertainment producers and licensing companies. For each character, E-Score measures awareness, appeal and 37 descriptive attributes including “creepy,” “scary,” “cool,” “funny” and more. Each E-Score survey is conducted among 1,500 persons with general representation across income, age, education and geographic demographics to represent a cross-section of the U.S. population.

E-Score is a product of E-Poll Market Research, a full-service consumer research company that provides quantitative and qualitative research to media, entertainment and Fortune 1,000 companies. E-Poll was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. More information is available at http://www.epollresearch.com.