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Horror Quiz
Horror · Sci-Fi Quiz
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Horror movies are designed to thrill, unsettle, and keep audiences on the edge of their seats through suspense, mystery, and unexpected twists. From supernatural hauntings to psych...
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All 20 questions in this Horror quiz
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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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Who played Dr. Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster in the original Universal films?
- A. Colin Clive and Boris Karloff
- B. Vincent Price and Lon Chaney
- C. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
- D. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
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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 premise of 'Bone Tomahawk' (2015) by S. Craig Zahler?
- A. A zombie western
- B. A horror-western about a sheriff and small posse who pursue troglodyte cannibals who have kidnapped townspeople - combining brutal slow-burn western with extreme horror
- C. A supernatural western
- D. A found footage film
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What is the folk horror subgenre and which films define it?
- A. Horror films set in rural communities with ancient pagan or folk traditions - The Wicker Man (1973), Midsommar (2019), and The Witch (2015) are defining examples
- B. Horror films featuring technology
- C. Horror films set in urban environments
- D. Horror films set in hospitals
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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 '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 '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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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
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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 the horror anthology format and which is the most famous example?
- A. A single film split into chapters
- B. A found footage format
- C. A single story told across multiple films
- D. Multiple short horror stories linked by a framing device - 'Creepshow' (1982) written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero is a celebrated example
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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 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 the Dario Argento film 'Deep Red' (Profondo Rosso, 1975) famous for?
- A. Being Italy's first horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A supernatural possession story
- D. A landmark Giallo featuring an extraordinary Goblin score and elaborate murder set-pieces - considered Argento's masterpiece
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What is 'Paranormal Activity' (2007) and how was it made?
- A. A major studio production
- B. A British television film
- C. 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 percentage basis
- D. A Hollywood sequel
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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 '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 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 NEON supernatural horror film 'Lamb' (2021) from Iceland about?
- A. A contemporary ghost story
- B. A Scandinavian horror film about a childless couple who raise a half-human, half-sheep child born on their isolated farm
- C. A zombie film
- D. A Viking epic
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What is the name of the haunted hotel in 'The Shining'?
- A. The Redrum Inn
- B. The Overlook Hotel
- C. The Bates Motel
- D. The Shirley Hotel