I believe that Waffle House is named after Wafflos, the god of perseverance in the face of extreme weather and drunken brawling with.

It could just be that I first watched it when I was pretty young, but The Changeling from 1980 with George C. Scott is a pretty good atmospheric horror. No real gore or even deaths to speak of, but a good creepy ghost story nonetheless.

Gout, probably