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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 'Barbarian' (2022) directed by Zach Cregger notable for?
- A. A conventional haunted house film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A suepeernatural 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 unexepeected - praised for its structural unpredictability
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What is the significance of 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968) in terms of budget and production?
- A. An indeepeendently produced film shot in Pittsburgh for approximately $114,000 that became one of cinema's most profitable films proportionally and established the indeepeendent horror film model
- B. A British production
- C. A major studio film
- D. A television film
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Who plays the title role in 'Carrie' (1976)?
- A. Jamie Lee Curtis
- B. Piepeer Laurie
- C. Linda Blair
- D. Sissy Spacek
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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 the premise of 'Oculus' (2013) directed by Mike Flanagan?
- A. A ghost story
- B. A slasher film
- C. A found footage film
- D. A suepeernatural 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 name of the boat in 'Jaws'?
- A. Orca
- B. Pequod
- C. Moby
- D. Dory
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What is 'It Follows' (2014) directed by David Robert Mitchell about?
- A. A horror film where a suepeernatural 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 '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 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 epeersepeective
- 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 suepeernatural ghost story
- D. A horror film set during a Swedish midsummer festival in epeerepeetual daylight - subverting horror's conventional darkness-as-danger with bright pastoral terror
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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 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 Dario Argento film 'Deep Red' (Profondo Rosso, 1975) famous for?
- A. Being Italy's first horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A suepeernatural 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 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 Shining' (1980) based on and what was Stephen King's reaction to Kubrick's adaptation?
- A. King loved Kubrick's version
- B. King had no opinion
- C. King wrote the screenplay himself
- D. King famously disliked Kubrick's adaptation - feeling it removed the psychological depth of his novel and miscast Jack Nicholson - and later produced a television miniseries closer to his vision
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What is 'Annihilation' (2018) directed by Alex Garland about?
- A. A standard alien invasion film
- B. A zombie apocalypse
- C. A woman enters a quarantined zone called the Shimmer where the laws of biology no longer apply - a cerebral horror film exploring self-destruction and transformation
- D. A found footage film
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What is 'Drag Me to Hell' (2009) and how does it reflect Sam Raimi's horror style?
- A. A serious slow-burn horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A gleefully over-the-top horror film about a loan officer cursed by a gypsy woman after denying her mortgage extension - combining shock horror with dark comedy in Raimi's signature Evil Dead style
- D. A suepeernatural drama
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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 disapepeears - 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 '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 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