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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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Who played the iconic killer Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' (1978)?
- A. Doug Bradley
- B. Robert Englund
- C. Kane Hodder
- D. Tony Moran (face) and Nick Castle (body) - Castle was a friend of Carpenter who agreed to wear the mask and move around for a week as a favour
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What is the significance of 'Paranormal Activity' (2007) in horror's relationship with the found footage format?
- A. It was a critical failure
- B. It ended the found footage genre
- C. It invented found footage
- D. It demonstrated that found footage horror could be commercially successful on a major scale after Blair Witch Project - reviving the format and launching numerous imitators
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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 '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 Omen' (1976) about?
- A. A serial killer film
- B. A zombie apocalypse
- C. An American diplomat discovers his young son Damien may be the Antichrist
- D. A haunted house story
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What is the central premise of the 'Purge' franchise (2013-present)?
- A. A supernatural possession series
- B. A zombie apocalypse
- C. A supernatural night
- D. A near-future America where all crime is legal for 12 hours annually - the franchise uses the concept to examine class warfare, systemic racism, and American violence
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What is 'It Follows' (2014) directed by David Robert Mitchell about?
- A. A horror film where a supernatural entity can only be passed sexually - it follows you slowly wherever you are unless you pass it to someone else
- B. A stalker thriller
- C. A ghost story
- D. A slasher film
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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 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 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 'Hammer Horror' tradition in British cinema?
- A. A documentary tradition
- B. A 1990s British horror movement
- C. The British studio Hammer Film Productions' series of Gothic horror films from the late 1950s through 1970s - starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Dracula and Frankenstein cycles
- D. A contemporary streaming horror series
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What is the French horror film 'Martyrs' (2008) about and what makes it distinctive?
- A. An extreme French horror film about two young women whose traumatic childhood leads to a secret society that tortures victims to induce martyrdom - seeking evidence of an afterlife
- B. A vampire film
- C. A conventional ghost story
- D. A zombie film
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Who directed 'Suspiria' (1977) - the Italian horror masterpiece of colour and sound?
- A. Dario Argento
- B. Lucio Fulci
- C. Mario Bava
- D. Bernardo Bertolucci
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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 Italian Giallo horror subgenre?
- A. A French horror tradition
- B. A type of supernatural possession film
- C. A specifically Italian thriller-horror subgenre featuring stylised murder mystery stories with black-gloved killers - influenced Slasher films globally
- D. A German Expressionist horror subgenre
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What is the premise of 'The Lighthouse' (2019) by Robert Eggers?
- A. A lighthouse that is haunted
- B. Two lighthouse keepers become increasingly mad and violent in isolation on a New England island - shot in black and white in near-square 1.19:1 aspect ratio
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A submarine thriller
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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 is 'Terrifier 2' (2022) and what made it a cultural phenomenon?
- A. A supernatural horror film
- B. An ultra-low-budget independent horror sequel about Art the Clown - whose extreme practical gore effects caused audience fainting and vomiting while it made enormous profits
- C. A mainstream studio horror film
- D. A satirical horror comedy
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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 significance of 'Psycho' (1960) in terms of genre conventions it violated?
- A. It violated all horror conventions - killing the apparent protagonist in the first act, featuring a villain with split personality rather than supernatural powers, and building to a climax in a police station rather than haunted location
- B. It followed all conventional horror rules
- C. It invented the slasher genre
- D. It was the first horror film