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Horror Quiz
Horror · Easy
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Horror is one of cinema's oldest and most enduring genres, designed to frighten, disturb, and unsettle audiences. From the silent-era expressionism of Nosferatu (1922) to the psych...
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All 20 questions in this Horror quiz
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What is the 'Conjuring Universe' and how has it changed horror franchise filmmaking?
- A. A shared cinematic universe of supernatural horror films based on the real case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren - the highest-grossing horror franchise in history
- B. An anthology television series
- C. A slasher franchise
- D. A single film
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What is the central concept of 'The Ring' (Ringu, 1998)?
- A. A ghost in a mirror
- B. A videotape that kills viewers seven days after they watch it - the Japanese original spawned an American remake and established J-Horror as a global phenomenon
- C. A killer under the bed
- D. A haunted house
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What is 'Saw' (2004) and how did it change the horror genre?
- A. A James Wan thriller about a serial killer who forces victims through elaborate death traps - launching the torture porn subgenre and one of horror's most profitable franchises
- B. A comedy horror film
- C. A British supernatural film
- D. A Japanese ghost story
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What is the premise of 'Cloverfield' (2008) produced by J.J. Abrams?
- A. A zombie apocalypse
- B. A slasher film
- C. A supernatural possession film
- D. A found footage monster film depicting a giant creature attacking New York City from the perspective of civilians capturing events on a handheld camera
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What is the 'Scream' franchise's meta-horror element and which academic character embodies it?
- A. The police explain horror movie tropes
- B. The killer explains the rules
- C. None - it's a straight slasher
- D. Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) explains slasher movie rules that the characters are simultaneously living through - creating a self-aware horror film that comments on its own genre conventions
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What horror film franchise features Ghostface - a killer who calls victims and asks horror movie trivia?
- A. Scream
- B. I Know What You Did Last Summer
- C. Urban Legend
- D. Friday the 13th
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Which director made the slasher film 'Halloween' (1978) launching Michael Myers?
- A. George A. Romero
- B. John Carpenter
- C. Wes Craven
- D. Tobe Hooper
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What is the found footage format in horror films and which film is most associated with it?
- A. Films using footage that appears to have been recorded by the characters themselves - The Blair Witch Project (1999) is the most influential
- B. Films that use only archival footage
- C. Films shot without a director
- D. Films shot on professional cameras to look like documentary footage
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What is 'Get Out' (2017) by Jordan Peele about and what made it culturally significan't?
- A. A zombie film
- B. A supernatural possession story
- C. 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
- D. A ghost story
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What is the 'Final Destination' franchise's central concept?
- A. A group of survivors cheats death using premonitions - then death tracks them down one by one through elaborate accident chains
- B. A serial killer with a specific MO
- C. A monster hunting humans in remote locations
- D. A supernatural force possessing children
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What is the premise of 'The Invisible Man' (2020) directed by Leigh Whannell?
- A. A comedy about invisibility
- B. A science fiction film with no horror elements
- C. A contemporary horror thriller where a woman escapes an abusive partner who subsequently fakes his death and uses a specially designed suit to terrorise her while invisible
- D. An adaptation of the classic Universal monster
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What is the significance of Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968)?
- A. The first zombie film
- B. The first film to show blood
- C. The first slasher film
- D. One of cinema's first psychological horror films - a woman in New York suspects her neighbours and husband have offered her unborn child to a Satanic cult, creating paranoia about whether she can trust anyone
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What is 'Alien' (1979) and how did it change science fiction horror?
- A. A found footage film
- B. A soft science fiction film
- C. A Ridley Scott film that combined science fiction and horror - isolating characters in a spaceship with an unknown creature - creating the terrifying concept that In space no one can hear you scream
- D. A zombie film set in space
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What is Mike Flanagan's Netflix series 'The Haunting of Hill House' (2018) based on?
- A. A Stephen King novel
- B. Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel of the same name - but adapted as a loose reimagining that adds a new contemporary family framework while maintaining Jackson's themes
- C. An original screenplay
- D. A true haunting case
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What is the Universal Monsters era in horror cinema history?
- A. The 1970s Italian horror movement
- B. The contemporary superhero era
- C. The 1980s slasher era
- D. 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
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Who played Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)?
- A. Daniel Day-Lewis
- B. Brian Cox
- C. Anthony Hopkins
- D. Gary Oldman
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What is the premise of 'Saw' - what is Jigsaw's stated motivation?
- A. A government experiment
- B. Pure sadism with no motivation
- C. Jigsaw (John Kramer) is a dying cancer patient who believes those who do not appreciate life should be tested - his torture devices are designed to force victims to choose whether they want to live
- D. Random violence
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What is the premise of Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary' (1989) directed by Mary Lambert?
- A. A zombie film
- B. A possession story
- C. A family moves to rural Maine where a pet cemetery - and beyond it an ancient burial ground - can resurrect the dead, but the resurrected return changed
- D. A haunted house story
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What is 'The Conjuring' (2013) by James Wan based on?
- A. The real case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren - specifically their investigation of a haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971
- B. A fictional haunting
- C. A Japanese ghost story
- D. A novel by Stephen King
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What is the premise of Stephen King's 'Misery' (1990) directed by Rob Reiner?
- A. A killer-on-the-loose story
- B. 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
- C. A supernatural ghost story
- D. A haunted house story