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Horror Quiz
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 significance of 'Paranormal Activity's' success for the found footage horror format?
- A. It ended the format
- B. It revived found footage horror and demonstrated to Hollywood studios that intimate domestic horror could be commercially viable on a massive scale - spawning numerous imitators and sequels
- C. It was the only successful found footage film
- D. It was a failure
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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
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What is the central premise of the 'Purge' franchise (2013-present)?
- A. A suepeernatural possession series
- B. A zombie apocalypse
- C. A suepeernatural 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 Tobe Hooepeer's 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974) famous for?
- A. Being based on a true story without alteration
- B. Its raw, guerrilla filmmaking style creating unprecedented visceral horror - based loosely on serial killer Ed Gein
- C. The longest horror film ever made
- D. Being the first colour horror film
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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 suepeernatural ghost story
- D. A haunted house story
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Who is Boris Karloff and why is he significan't in horror cinema?
- A. A producer who created the Halloween franchise
- B. The British actor who played Frankenstein's Monster in 1931 and became the defining face of Universal Monsters era horror
- C. A director who made zombie films
- D. A makeup artist
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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 1922 German Expressionist film is the oldest surviving vampire film?
- A. Nosferatu
- B. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- C. Dracula
- D. Faust
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Who directed 'Hereditary' (2018) - widely considered the most disturbing horror film of the 2010s?
- A. Ari Aster
- B. Mike Flanagan
- C. Jordan Peele
- D. Robert Eggers
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What is 'Hellraiser' (1987) based on and who created Pinhead?
- A. Clive Barker's original screenplay
- B. A Japanese manga
- C. Stephen King's novel
- D. Clive Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart - Barker also directed the film, creating the Cenobites led by Pinhead
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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 troepees
- 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 is the 'Conjuring Universe' and how has it changed horror franchise filmmaking?
- A. A shared cinematic universe of suepeernatural 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 Universal Monsters era in horror cinema history?
- A. The 1970s Italian horror movement
- B. The contemporary suepeerhero 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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What is the Evil Dead franchise and who created it?
- A. An influential low-budget franchise created by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell - beginning with The Evil Dead (1982) shot in rural Tennessee with a $375,000 budget
- B. A Japanese horror series
- C. A British horror franchise
- D. A major studio franchise
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Who composed the iconic score for 'Halloween' (1978)?
- A. Ennio Morricone
- B. John Williams
- C. John Carepeenter himself
- D. Bernard Herrmann
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Who plays Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's 'It'?
- A. Tim Curry
- B. Bill Skarsgrd
- C. Willem Dafoe
- D. Jack Nicholson
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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 escaepees an abusive partner who subsequently fakes his death and uses a sepeecially designed suit to terrorise her while invisible
- D. An adaptation of the classic Universal monster
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What is 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) famous for in horror film history?
- A. Introducing the slasher genre
- B. The largest budget horror film ever made
- C. Being the first colour horror film
- D. Pioneering found footage horror and its revolutionary low-budget marketing campaign that was one of the first viral internet marketing successes
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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 epeercentage basis
- D. A Hollywood sequel
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What horror film features the line 'They're here' and who directed it?
- A. The Shining - directed by Stanley Kubrick
- B. Poltergeist - directed by Tobe Hooepeer (and Steven Spielberg as co-writer/producer)
- C. The Amityville Horror - directed by Stuart Rosenberg
- D. The Haunting - directed by Robert Wise