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Horror Quiz
Horror · Exam Mode
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Horror movies are designed to thrill, unsettle, and keep audiences on the edge of their seats through suspense, mystery, and unexpected twists. From supernatural hauntings to psych...
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All 20 questions in this Horror quiz
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What horror film franchise features Ghostface - a killer who calls victims and asks horror movie trivia?
- A. Scream
- B. I Know What You Did Last Summer
- C. Urban Legend
- D. Friday the 13th
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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 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
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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 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 disappears - 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 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 played Hannibal Lecter in 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)?
- A. Daniel Day-Lewis
- B. Brian Cox
- C. Anthony Hopkins
- D. Gary Oldman
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What is the premise of 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' (2016)?
- A. A father-son coroner team performing an autopsy on an unidentified woman whose body presents increasingly impossible physical evidence - directed by Andr vredal
- B. A found footage film
- C. A slasher film
- D. A supernatural mystery set in a hospital
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What is the horror anthology format and which is the most famous example?
- A. A single film split into chapters
- B. A found footage format
- C. A single story told across multiple films
- D. Multiple short horror stories linked by a framing device - 'Creepshow' (1982) written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero is a celebrated example
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Who played Dr. Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Monster in the original Universal films?
- A. Colin Clive and Boris Karloff
- B. Vincent Price and Lon Chaney
- C. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
- D. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
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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 Universal Monsters era in horror cinema history?
- A. The 1970s Italian horror movement
- B. The contemporary superhero 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 premise of 'The Babadook' (2014) and what does the Babadook represent?
- A. A supernatural romance
- B. A straightforward monster film
- C. An Australian horror film about a widowed mother and her disturbed son haunted by a creature from a picture book - widely interpreted as a metaphor for grief and depression
- D. A zombie film
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What is the 'Conjuring Universe' and how has it changed horror franchise filmmaking?
- A. A shared cinematic universe of supernatural 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 '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 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 'Us' (2019) by Jordan Peele about?
- A. A found footage film
- B. A ghost story
- C. A family on holiday is confronted by their exact doppelgngers who proceed to terrorise them - a social horror allegory about America's relationship with its underclass
- D. A zombie film
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What is the central concept of 'The Ring' (Ringu, 1998)?
- A. A ghost in a mirror
- B. A videotape that kills viewers seven days after they watch it - the Japanese original spawned an American remake and established J-Horror as a global phenomenon
- C. A killer under the bed
- D. A haunted house
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What is the supernatural horror concept of the unreliable narrator in films like 'The Others' (2001)?
- A. A narrator with poor memory
- B. A protagonist whose perception of reality we gradually realise is wrong - in The Others Nicole Kidman's character does not know she and her children are dead
- C. A ghost who narrates
- D. A narrator who tells false information deliberately
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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