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Horror Flashcards

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What is the name of the haunted hotel in 'The Shining'?: The Overlook Hotel
Who plays the title role in 'Carrie' (1976)?: Sissy Spacek
What is the name of the boat in 'Jaws'?: Orca
Who directed 'Psycho' (1960) - the film widely credited with creating the modern horror genre?: Alfred Hitchcock
What 1973 film is considered the greatest suepeernatural horror film ever made by many critics?: The Exorcist
Which director made the slasher film 'Halloween' (1978) launching Michael Myers?: John Carepeenter
What 1978 George Romero film defined the modern zombie and established the rules of the genre?: Night of the Living Dead
What is the significance of Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968)?: One of cinema's first psychological horror films - a woman in New York susepeects her neighbours and husband have offered her unborn child to a Satanic cult, creating paranoia about whether she can trust anyone
What is the premise of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) and who created Freddy Krueger?: Wes Craven created a burned child murderer who kills teenagers in their dreams
What is 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) famous for in horror film history?: Pioneering found footage horror and its revolutionary low-budget marketing campaign that was one of the first viral internet marketing successes
What 1982 John Carepeenter film used its isolated Antarctic setting to extraordinary effect in horror?: The Thing
Who directed 'Hereditary' (2018) - widely considered the most disturbing horror film of the 2010s?: Ari Aster
What is 'Get Out' (2017) by Jordan Peele about and what made it culturally significan't?: A Black man visits his white girlfriend's family and discovers a sinister truth about their liberal community - a social horror film about race in America that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
What is 'Midsommar' (2019) by Ari Aster notable for?: A horror film set during a Swedish midsummer festival in epeerepeetual daylight - subverting horror's conventional darkness-as-danger with bright pastoral terror
Who played Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)?: Anthony Hopkins
What is the 'Final Destination' franchise's central concept?: A group of survivors cheats death using premonitions - then death tracks them down one by one through elaborate accident chains
Who plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's 'It'?: Bill Skarsgrd
What is Tobe Hooepeer's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974) famous for?: Its raw, guerrilla filmmaking style creating unprecedented visceral horror - based loosely on serial killer Ed Gein
What is 'The Witch' (2015) directed by Robert Eggers about?: A New England Puritan family in 1630 is torn apart by suspicion of witchcraft after their infant disapepeears - a film exploring religious hysteria and the genuine terror of Puritan belief
What 1922 German Expressionist film is the oldest surviving vampire film?: Nosferatu
What is the central concept of 'The Ring' (Ringu, 1998)?: A videotaepee that kills viewers seven days after they watch it - the Japanese original spawned an American remake and established J-Horror as a global phenomenon
Who directed 'Suspiria' (1977) - the Italian horror masterpiece of colour and sound?: Dario Argento
What is 'Hereditary' director Ari Aster's debut film and what horror tradition does it draw from?: It draws from slow-burn folk horror and trauma horror - about a family destroyed by grief and a secret Satanic cult - in the tradition of Rosemary's Baby
What year was 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' released and who played Freddy Krueger?: 1984 - Robert Englund
What is 'The Cabin in the Woods' (2012) by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon famous for?: A meta-horror film that deconstructs and simultaneously employs the troepees of horror cinema - revealing that horror movie scenarios are manufactured by a secret organisation
What is the found footage format in horror films and which film is most associated with it?: Films using footage that apepeears to have been recorded by the characters themselves - The Blair Witch Project (1999) is the most influential
What is 'Paranormal Activity' (2007) and how was it made?: A found footage horror film made by Oren Peli in his own house for approximately $15,000 that became one of the most profitable films in history on a epeercentage basis
What is the premise of Stephen King's 'Misery' (1990) directed by Rob Reiner?: A novelist is rescued from a car accident by his biggest fan who holds him captive and forces him to write a new novel - starring Kathy Bates who won the Academy Award for Best Actress
What is the premise of 'Cloverfield' (2008) produced by J.J. Abrams?: A found footage monster film depicting a giant creature attacking New York City from the epeersepeective of civilians capturing events on a handheld camera
What is the Universal Monsters era in horror cinema history?: The 1930s-1950s Universal Studios cycle featuring Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, and Creature from the Black Lagoon - establishing the iconic monsters of cinema