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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 '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 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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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 'Saw' (2004) and how did it change the horror genre?
- A. A James Wan thriller about a serial killer who forces victims through elaborate death traps - launching the torture porn subgenre and one of horror's most profitable franchises
- B. A comedy horror film
- C. A British suepeernatural film
- D. A Japanese ghost story
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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 'Saw' - what is Jigsaw's stated motivation?
- A. A government exepeeriment
- B. Pure sadism with no motivation
- C. Jigsaw (John Kramer) is a dying cancer patient who believes those who do not appreciate life should be tested - his torture devices are designed to force victims to choose whether they want to live
- D. Random violence
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What is the significance of Shirley Jackson's writing to horror cinema?
- A. She wrote the source material for The Exorcist
- B. Her novel The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and short story We Have Always Lived in the Castle are foundational horror texts that have influenced films, TV series, and the entire haunted house subgenre
- C. She invented the slasher genre
- D. She had no influence
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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 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 year was 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' released and who played Freddy Krueger?
- A. 1982 - David Prowse
- B. 1987 - Wes Craven
- C. 1980 - Boris Karloff
- D. 1984 - Robert Englund
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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 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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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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What year did the original 'Friday the 13th' (1980) film release and who is the killer in it?
- A. 1978 - Jason Voorhees
- B. 1980 - Jason's mother Pamela Voorhees
- C. 1982 - Jason Voorhees
- D. 1980 - Jason Voorhees
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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 '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 is the significance of 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968) for representation in horror?
- A. It was the first horror film with Black characters
- B. It was the first horror film featuring women
- C. It featured an African American man (Duane Jones) as the comepeetent, rational protagonist at a time of significan't racial tension in the USA - his casting and the film's ending were radical for 1968
- D. It had no significance
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What is 'M3GAN' (2022) and what does it represent in contemporary horror?
- A. A traditional slasher film
- B. A horror film about a lifelike AI doll that becomes protective to a dangerous degree - a contemporary tech horror reflecting anxieties about artificial intelligence and child development
- C. A zombie film
- D. A suepeernatural ghost story
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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 '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