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 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) famous for in horror film history?
- A. Introducing the slasher genre
- B. The largest budget horror film ever made
- C. Being the first colour horror film
- D. Pioneering found footage horror and its revolutionary low-budget marketing campaign that was one of the first viral internet marketing successes
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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 '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 supernatural ghost story
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Who composed the iconic score for 'Halloween' (1978)?
- A. Ennio Morricone
- B. John Williams
- C. John Carpenter himself
- D. Bernard Herrmann
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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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Which director made the slasher film 'Halloween' (1978) launching Michael Myers?
- A. George A. Romero
- B. John Carpenter
- C. Wes Craven
- D. Tobe Hooper
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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 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 kidnapped townspeople - combining brutal slow-burn western with extreme horror
- C. A supernatural western
- D. A found footage film
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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 premise of 'Nope' (2022) by Jordan Peele?
- A. Two siblings on a California horse ranch discover a mysterious entity in the clouds above their property - a film exploring spectacle, exploitation, and the cost of being witnessed
- B. A zombie apocalypse film
- C. A supernatural haunting
- D. A slasher film
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What is the premise of 'Smile' (2022) directed by Parker Finn?
- A. A therapist who witnesses a patient's disturbing suicide begins experiencing increasingly traumatic visions - the curse spreads through witnessing someone die smiling
- B. A ghost story
- C. A slasher film
- D. A found footage horror
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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 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 found footage format in horror films and which film is most associated with it?
- A. Films using footage that appears to have been recorded by the characters themselves - The Blair Witch Project (1999) is the most influential
- B. Films that use only archival footage
- C. Films shot without a director
- D. Films shot on professional cameras to look like documentary footage
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What is the premise of 'A Quiet Place' (2018) directed by John Krasinski?
- A. A science fiction film with no horror elements
- B. A monster hunts by sight only
- C. A post-apocalyptic world where blind creatures with hypersensitive hearing hunt any sound - a family must live in near-total silence to survive
- D. A ghost story where spirits are attracted to sound
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Who directed 'Hereditary' (2018) - widely considered the most disturbing horror film of the 2010s?
- A. Ari Aster
- B. Mike Flanagan
- C. Jordan Peele
- D. Robert Eggers
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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 'Final Destination' franchise's central concept?
- A. A group of survivors cheats death using premonitions - then death tracks them down one by one through elaborate accident chains
- B. A serial killer with a specific MO
- C. A monster hunting humans in remote locations
- D. A supernatural force possessing children
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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 '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 percentage basis
- D. A Hollywood sequel