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Horror Quiz
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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 supernatural horror concept of the unreliable narrator in films like 'The Others' (2001)?
- A. A narrator with poor memory
- B. A protagonist whose perception of reality we gradually realise is wrong - in The Others Nicole Kidman's character does not know she and her children are dead
- C. A ghost who narrates
- D. A narrator who tells false information deliberately
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What is Wes Craven's 'The Hills Have Eyes' (1977) based on?
- A. Loosely based on the Scottish legend of Alexander Sawney Bean - a 16th century cave-dwelling cannibal who preyed on travellers
- B. A fictional concept
- C. A true crime case in Nevada
- D. A Japanese horror story
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What is 'Barbarian' (2022) directed by Zach Cregger notable for?
- A. A conventional haunted house film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A supernatural possession story
- D. An extreme tonal shift film that begins as a contemporary anxiety about a double-booked Airbnb rental and descends into something completely unexpected - praised for its structural unpredictability
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What is the concept of body horror in films like David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' (1986)?
- A. A supernatural subgenre
- B. Horror involving ghosts
- C. A horror subgenre focusing on the violation and transformation of the physical body - Cronenberg's films explore biological mutation as metaphor for sexuality, disease, and identity
- D. A slasher subgenre
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What is 'Train to Busan' (2016) significan't for in the zombie subgenre?
- A. A South Korean zombie film set on a bullet train that elevated the genre with emotional intelligence, social commentary, and extraordinary practical effects
- B. Being the first film to show zombies running
- C. The last zombie film ever made
- D. Being the first zombie film
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What is 'The Witch' (2015) directed by Robert Eggers about?
- A. A New England Puritan family in 1630 is torn apart by suspicion of witchcraft after their infant disappears - a film exploring religious hysteria and the genuine terror of Puritan belief
- B. A zombie film
- C. A contemporary ghost story
- D. A slasher film set in colonial times
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What is Wes Craven's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' famous for among horror's visual innovations?
- A. The first underwater horror sequence
- B. The first kill from a monster's perspective
- C. The first CGI creature
- D. Freddy Krueger's arm stretching across the alley walls and the bed-drowning sequence - nightmare physics that broke the rules of reality in ways that had never been shown so effectively
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What is 'Midsommar' (2019) by Ari Aster notable for?
- A. Being set in urban darkness
- B. A found footage horror film
- C. A supernatural ghost story
- D. A horror film set during a Swedish midsummer festival in perpetual daylight - subverting horror's conventional darkness-as-danger with bright pastoral terror
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What is 'Us' (2019) by Jordan Peele about?
- A. A found footage film
- B. A ghost story
- C. A family on holiday is confronted by their exact doppelgngers who proceed to terrorise them - a social horror allegory about America's relationship with its underclass
- D. A zombie film
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What is the significance of 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968) in terms of budget and production?
- A. An independently produced film shot in Pittsburgh for approximately $114,000 that became one of cinema's most profitable films proportionally and established the independent horror film model
- B. A British production
- C. A major studio film
- D. A television film
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What is 'Candyman' (1992) about and what social themes does it address?
- A. A conventional slasher film
- B. A zombie film set in Chicago
- C. A ghost story without social commentary
- D. A supernatural horror film where summoning the spirit of a lynched Black man five times in a mirror brings death - with Virginia Madsen investigating the legend in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing projects
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Who plays the title role in 'Carrie' (1976)?
- A. Jamie Lee Curtis
- B. Piper Laurie
- C. Linda Blair
- D. Sissy Spacek
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What 1978 George Romero film defined the modern zombie and established the rules of the genre?
- A. Land of the Dead
- B. Dawn of the Dead
- C. Day of the Dead
- D. Night of the Living Dead
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What is 'Hereditary' director Ari Aster's debut film and what horror tradition does it draw from?
- A. 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
- B. It draws from slasher films
- C. It's a found footage film
- D. It draws from zombie horror
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What is the premise of 'Nope' (2022) by Jordan Peele?
- A. Two siblings on a California horse ranch discover a mysterious entity in the clouds above their property - a film exploring spectacle, exploitation, and the cost of being witnessed
- B. A zombie apocalypse film
- C. A supernatural haunting
- D. A slasher film
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What is the premise of 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' (2016)?
- A. A father-son coroner team performing an autopsy on an unidentified woman whose body presents increasingly impossible physical evidence - directed by Andr vredal
- B. A found footage film
- C. A slasher film
- D. A supernatural mystery set in a hospital
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What is the premise of 'Oculus' (2013) directed by Mike Flanagan?
- A. A ghost story
- B. A slasher film
- C. A found footage film
- D. A supernatural horror film about a haunted mirror that distorts reality and has killed numerous previous owners - the only modern director to tackle the possession of an object as the horror source
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What is the concept of the 'final girl' in slasher horror films?
- A. A term for all female characters in horror
- B. The first victim
- C. The villain's female accomplice
- D. The female protagonist who survives the film's events - typically virginal, resourceful, and eventually turning the tables on the killer - the term was coined by film scholar Carol Clover
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What is 'The Wicker Man' (1973) directed by Robin Hardy about?
- A. A ghost story
- B. A slasher film
- C. A British folk horror film about a devout Christian policeman investigating a missing child on a Scottish island where the population practise ancient pagan religion
- D. A werewolf film
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What is 'Mandy' (2018) directed by Panos Cosmatos notable for?
- A. A slow cinema horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A conventional revenge thriller
- D. A psychedelic horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a man seeking revenge after a cult murders his partner - featuring extraordinary visual excess and a career-redefining Cage performance