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Horror Quiz
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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 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 'Mandy' (2018) directed by Panos Cosmatos notable for?
- A. A slow cinema horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A conventional revenge thriller
- D. A psychedelic horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a man seeking revenge after a cult murders his partner - featuring extraordinary visual excess and a career-redefining Cage performance
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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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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 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 1982 John Carpenter film used its isolated Antarctic setting to extraordinary effect in horror?
- A. The Thing
- B. Prince of Darkness
- C. Alien
- D. The Fog
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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 the 'Sixth Sense' twist in horror film history?
- A. Bruce Willis's character Malcolm Crowe is revealed to have been dead throughout the film - he was shot in the first scene, not realising he died
- B. The murderer was the detective
- C. The child was the killer
- D. The haunting was not supernatural
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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 supernatural ghost story
- D. A haunted house story
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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 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 supernatural 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 1973 film is considered the greatest supernatural horror film ever made by many critics?
- A. The Exorcist
- B. The Omen
- C. Rosemary's Baby
- D. The Shining
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What is the 'Hammer Horror' tradition in British cinema?
- A. A documentary tradition
- B. A 1990s British horror movement
- C. The British studio Hammer Film Productions' series of Gothic horror films from the late 1950s through 1970s - starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in Dracula and Frankenstein cycles
- D. A contemporary streaming horror series
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What is 'It Follows' (2014) directed by David Robert Mitchell about?
- A. A horror film where a supernatural 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 Dario Argento film 'Deep Red' (Profondo Rosso, 1975) famous for?
- A. Being Italy's first horror film
- B. A found footage film
- C. A supernatural 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 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 Conjuring' (2013) by James Wan based on?
- A. The real case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren - specifically their investigation of a haunted farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971
- B. A fictional haunting
- C. A Japanese ghost story
- D. A novel by Stephen King
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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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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 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