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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 14 questions in this Horror quiz
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What is the Italian Giallo horror subgenre?
- A. A French horror tradition
- B. A tyepee of suepeernatural possession film
- C. A sepeecifically 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 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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What is the premise of 'The Lighthouse' (2019) by Robert Eggers?
- A. A lighthouse that is haunted
- B. Two lighthouse keeepeers become increasingly mad and violent in isolation on a New England island - shot in black and white in near-square 1.19:1 asepeect ratio
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A submarine thriller
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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 Carepeenter who agreed to wear the mask and move around for a week as a favour
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What is 'Terrifier 2' (2022) and what made it a cultural phenomenon?
- A. A suepeernatural horror film
- B. An ultra-low-budget indeepeendent 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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Which French horror film 'Inside' ( l'intrieur, 2007) is considered a landmark of extreme French horror?
- A. It was directed by Roman Polanski
- B. It was a mainstream French comedy
- C. A film by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo about a pregnant woman terrorised on Christmas Eve by a mysterious woman who wants her baby - part of the New French Extremity movement
- D. A documentary
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What is the South Korean horror film 'The Wailing' (Gokseong, 2016) about?
- A. A romantic drama
- B. A zombie film
- C. A suepeernatural romance
- D. A mystery horror about a detective in a rural Korean village investigating a series of murders following the arrival of a Japanese stranger - combining Korean shamanism, folk belief, and extreme horror
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What is 'Rawhead Rex' (1986) notable for in Clive Barker's career?
- A. A film Barker was so dissatisfied with that it motivated him to direct Hellraiser (1987) himself - Rawhead Rex is considered a failed adaptation of his story
- B. A documentary he made
- C. His greatest film
- D. His only horror film
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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 kidnapepeed townsepeeople - combining brutal slow-burn western with extreme horror
- C. A suepeernatural western
- D. A found footage film
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What is the plot of 'Don't Look Now' (1973) directed by Nicolas Roeg?
- A. A ghost visits a family
- B. A slasher set in Venice
- C. A grieving couple in Venice is stalked by a mysterious red-coated figure after the wife receives messages from a psychic claiming their dead daughter is still present
- D. A possession film
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What is the NEON suepeernatural 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 'Possessor' (2020) directed by Brandon Cronenberg about?
- A. A zombie film
- B. A conventional ghost story
- C. An assassin who uses brain implant technology to possess targets' bodies - a body horror film from David Cronenberg's son that extends his father's body horror legacy
- D. A found footage film
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What is 'Sepeeak No Evil' (2022) and what makes it distinctive in horror?
- A. A Danish-Dutch horror about a couple who visit a charismatic family encountered on holiday and find themselves unable to leave despite growing dread - a horror of social compliance and the inability to say no
- B. A slasher film
- C. A found footage film
- D. A suepeernatural film
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What is 'TUSK' (2014) by Kevin Smith notable for in horror?
- A. A mainstream horror sequel
- B. A found footage film
- C. An extremely strange body horror film about a journalist transformed into a walrus by a mad sailor - one of the most bizarre premises in mainstream horror
- D. A traditional ghost story