Don't Take This Horror Movie Quiz Unless You're A True Fan
- by Ursula Nizalowski
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It takes a certain kind of person to enjoy a Horror film. Depending on what era it’s from, the level of violence gore or suspense can vary. There’s also the type of film to consider, and the director who might have a distinct style that appears in their films. For instance, a Wes Craven film might have creepy dream-like sequences while a John Carpenter flick will combine intense gore with stark contrasts in lighting. So no two horror films are exactly alike, except when they’re trying to copy the styles of more successful movies that came beforehand.
The best kind of horror film is not only frightening and tells a good story, but also has relatable characters. Otherwise, you start delving into Slasher flicks where the killers tend to be more interesting than the main characters or Torture Porn where it’s nothing but brutal killings whether the killer is interesting or not. Not to say either of these two genres are bad, because it all comes down to a matter of tolerance levels and taste. So if you consider yourself a fan of these types of films, then come take this quiz and see if you can identify all these characters!
Jack Torrance
A recovering alcoholic and writer named Jack becomes the designated caretaker of a fancy hotel that’s built up a notorious reputation for bad things happening there. Yet despite this, Jack thinks this will be the perfect place to get his writing done without any distractions since it’s the off-season. So he brings his wife and son to live with him at the hotel, but it isn’t long before strange visions start appearing in the form of the many ghosts that supposedly haunt the place.
Which character is summoned by a puzzle box?
Following the mysterious death of Frank Cotton, his brother Larry moves into their family home along with his wife Julia and teenage daughter Kirsty. Then after Larry accidentally cuts himself, Frank is resurrected. The first one who sees him is Julia, whom he had an affair with, and she agrees to give Frank victims to feed on in order to completely resurrect himself. He also explains the reason for his death was because he solved a puzzle box which opened a gateway to a realm where the sadistic Cenobites live.
Which character sees aliens pretending to be humans?
An average drifter arrives in Los Angeles and is warned of a conspiracy by a TV signal and preacher. He then stumbles upon a church that has various equipment inside, which immediately gets raided by the authorities. Fortunately, the drifter managed to steal a box containing sunglasses and takes a pair for himself. With them, he sees subliminal messages of conformity on every billboard and media outlet created by aliens that walk among humans undetected thanks to a special broadcasting system.
Which character was created through a teleportation malfunction?
A scientist named Seth Brundle meets journalist Veronica Quaife and persuades her to take a look at his new invention which allows an object to be teleported from one place to another. Unfortunately, the device can’t transport living things as it messes with their tissue. Then after programming the machine differently, a baboon is successfully transported unharmed. Before Seth can celebrate this momentous occasion, though, Veronica leaves much to his confusion. So he attempts to teleport himself just as a housefly buzzes around the teleportation device.
Which character doesn't have a consistent identity?
Prior to the anniversary of her mother’s death at the hands of a guy named Cotton Weary, high school student Sidney Prescott gets a phone call before a masked killer shows up and attacks her. She luckily survives, unlike the latest murder victim who was killed in a similar fashion, and stays at a friend’s house. So while the police are investigating, the high school is temporarily closed and a handful of students decide to have a party in celebration which Sidney attends.
Which character reached El Rey?
Two bank robbers known as Seth and Richie Gecko make their way towards the Mexican border while taking a priest and his children hostage. They intend to meet a contact named Carlos on the other side and hopefully get into a sanctuary for fugitive criminals called El Rey. But at the strip club where they planned to rendezvous with Carlos the following morning, the Geckos and the priest have to deal with vampires which completely take over the place forcing them in a fight for their lives.
Which character drowned in a well in The Ring?
Following the mysterious death of her niece Katie, journalist Rachel Keller decides to investigate. She learns that not only were all of Katie’s friends killed on the same day but also they had rented a cabin at Shelter Mountain Inn prior where they watched an unusual videotape together. So Rachel rents the same cabin and watches the tape herself, followed by an unusual phone-call. After giving the tape to ex-boyfriend who happens to be a video analyst, Rachel starts seeing images from the tape appearing in real life.
Which movie has a character that only attacks in darkness?
The town of Darkness Falls has its own legend regarding the ghost of an elderly woman named Matilda Dixon who was liked by the children because she would give them money in exchange for their baby teeth. However, when two children went missing she was blamed for it and killed by the town’s people. In the present, a teenage boy loses his baby tooth and he sees Matilda’s ghost causing him to run into the well-lit bathroom while his mother dies.
Which character makes a game out of torturing people?
In a single bathroom, two men named Adam and Lawrence find themselves chained across from each other with a dead body lying between them. After receiving different messages on a pair of tapes they had on them, the two attempt to free themselves using hacksaws which doesn’t work. Eventually, Lawrence realizes this is the doing of a killer who tends to torture his victims by putting them in difficult situations or death traps which they must get out of in order to be let go.
Which monster destroyed the Statue of Liberty?
On May 22, 2009, a couple named Rob and Beth attend a party their friends have arranged in celebration of Rob’s departure to Japan from New York City. But after the two argue, Beth leaves and then an earthquake disrupts the party followed by a power outage. While everyone leaves, the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty lands in the middle of the street while further away a massive creature destroys the Woolworth Building forcing the city to evacuate.
Which monster wants to find his younger sister and end her?
Showing signs of mental instability, a young boy murders several people including his older sister and her boyfriend. This in turn lands him in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium where he meets psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis. Over several years, Loomis attempts to understand the boy’s psyche but as he grows more unpredictable the less faith Loomis has in him. Then after fifteen years since he was committed, the boy has now grown up and escaped Smith’s Grove in order to find his younger sister and kill her.
Who is the most famous Cannibal to hit the screens?
Caught in the crossfire between the Russians and the Germans during World War II, a Lithuanian boy and his family leave their castle. They hide in a cabin for a few years, until an explosion kills the boy’s parents except for him and his sister. Then a group of rogue Lithuanian soldiers including a Nazi collaborator invade the cabin where they kill the sister and eat her. Many years later, the boy has grown up into a proficient medical student in France with a murderous streak to him.
Who hangs out near a lake?
Following the massacre of an entire summer camp by a crazy mother, one counselor manages to kill her. However, her son saw the whole thing and after thirty years go by he kills a group of teenagers who’ve come to the nearby lake to get high and party. But there is one girl he spares named Whitney, whom he takes hostage. Then sometime later, Whitney’s brother arrives at the lake to look for her and meets a bunch of other teens who’ve come to party at a cabin.
Father Merrin
An actress named Chris MacNeil is shooting a movie in Georgetown, Washington, D. C., while her daughter Regan is with her. To pass the time, Regan plays with an Ouija board and manages to contact whom she thinks is her imaginary friend Captain Howdy. Afterwards, Regan’s behavior drastically changes for the worse which concerns Chris though the doctors can find nothing wrong with her physically. So a couple of priests named Father Merrin and Karras are called in, who think Regan may be possessed by a demon.
Who has silver bullets as a weakness?
Lawrence Talbot is a Shakespearean actor in the Victorian era who learns that his brother Ben has gone missing. Returning to his family home, he soon finds his brother’s dead body. While most of the locals think a band of traveling Gypsies are involved, a few believe Ben was killed by a werewolf. Curious, Lawrence pays a visit to the Gypsies and gets attacked by a werewolf in the process. Despite being bitten in the neck, he recovers pretty quickly.
Who can get you in your dreams?
After witnessing her ex-boyfriend kill himself right in front of her, high school girl Kris starts dreaming about a man with a burnt face. Fearing for her life, she refuses to go back to sleep. But when she does fall asleep accidentally, the burnt-faced man kills her and another ex-boyfriend of hers is blamed for it. Meanwhile, a teenage waitress named Nancy Holbrook has been dreaming of the same man and starts to wonder why he’s targeting her and her friends.
Who survived the first attack by The Thing?
After an alien spacecraft is discovered in 1982, a group of Norwegian scientists are called in to investigate. They also find a body that appears to be extra-terrestrial in origin, which breaks out of its icy encasement and kills a dog. Then after it tries attaching itself to one of the team members, the alien is burnt alive. Later, further analysis of the alien’s body shows that it has the ability to imitate other living organisms and assimilate them into itself even if the original body is dead.
Who keeps things from previous cases they have worked on?
During the early 1970s, a couple and their daughters move into a house on Rhode Island where strange things begin happening. So the mother decides to contact a pair of paranormal investigators who believe the house may be haunted but they need approval from the Catholic Church before an exorcism can be performed. They also discover the house belonged to a witch who killed her child and committed suicide in 1863 cursing anyone who sets foot on her property hence the large number of murders and suicides reported around the area.
Who destroyed the Abomination?
At an abandoned cabin, a couple named Natalie and David decide to spend the night along with their friends Eric Olivia and David’s sister Mia. They find a basement littered with dead animals and a book. Called the Naturom Demonto, the book fascinates Eric who reads an incantation from it. This causes a malevolent being to appear before Mia and possess her. Then as she commits horrible acts, the group are unable to leave because of heavy rains and so they lock her in the basement only to become sacrifices to the Abomination.
Which known horror character has telekinetic powers?
A teenage girl has an abusive mother who’s a religious nut, and she’s constantly teased at school by other girls. The only who offers comfort is the school’s gym teacher, who promptly gets the girls who bullied her punished. Then as the girl discovers she has telekinetic abilities, she learns how to control them while the bullies plan their revenge. But one of them has a change of heart and allows her boyfriend to take the girl to the prom where she’s made Prom Queen.
Which character was brought to life via lightning?
During the Victorian era, there was a medical student named Victor whose methods were notoriously questionable. He befriends a hunchback from the circus and decides to improve his condition calling him “Igor” in the process. The two then set to work on trying to animate a dead creature with various parts taken from animals. Nicknamed “Gordon,” the creature causes mayhem throughout Victor’s university, causing him to get kicked out until a student named Finnegan asks Victor to make him an artificial human.
What other name is Vlad The Impaler known for?
Long ago, a man known as Vlad Țepeș was the prince of two regions in present-day Romania. But he was taken as a boy by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and trained to be a Janissary, an elite soldier in the Sultan’s army. He became quite efficient and ruthless in his killings, which earned him the nickname “Vlad the Impaler” and eventually freedom. But years later, the Sultan attempts to invade his lands forcing Vlad to turn to a vampire for help.
Which character was possessed by a demon and became a ghost?
During the late 60s, a man presents his wife with a doll for their soon-to-be-born child. Later that night, their neighbors get killed by a man and woman who then target the couple. Fortunately, the police show up and shoot the man dead while the woman commits suicide in the room where the doll is. A few days later, the wife gives birth to a baby girl and they move from Santa Monica to Pasadena leaving the doll behind in wake of strange events. Yet the doll follows them as the strange events continue.
Which character "saved" San Francisco?
In the 1950s, the Japanese Government attempted to kill a giant monster that was unleashed after a deep sea expedition awakened it with several atomic bombs disguised as nuclear tests. Then in the late 90s, a nuclear plant in Japan experiences a meltdown following immense seismic activity. After fifteen years, the former supervisor for the plant Joe Brody attempts to investigate the meltdown’s cause along with his son who’s a Naval officer. The two are immediately captured by soldiers just as a winged monster appears.
Karen Barclay
While on the run from the cops Charles Lee Ray, a well-known serial killer, gets shot by Detective Mike Norris inside a toy store. As he’s dying, he uses a Voodoo spell taught to him by practitioner John Bishop to transfer his soul into something else just as the store explodes via lightning. Later, a widowed woman named Karen Barclay buys a doll for her son Andy. Then while another woman babysits Andy, the doll comes to life and kills her.
Which character becomes stronger the more it's ignored?
After her son Samuel gets in trouble at school for bringing a handmade weapon, widowed mother Amelia Vanek learns the reason for his neurotic behavior is because he thinks a character from a pop-up book in his possession is real. Amelia naturally dismisses this, but overtime unusual things begin happening around the house. She even tries destroying the pop-up book, but it miraculously comes back together in one piece claiming the more Amelia ignores the character the stronger it will become.
How did Laura Barns lose her life?
During a typical Skype session, high school student Blaire Lily is talking to her boyfriend Mitch Roussel about what they plan to do for prom night when several of their other friends show up on Skype. But then an unknown user called “billie227” shows up in session, whom they’re unable to disconnect with. After doing some digging around on Facebook, they discover “billie227” is the Skype username of Laura Barns, a former friend of theirs who left them way too soon.
Which character made it out of Allerdale Hall alive?
During the late 1800s, an American heiress named Edith experienced a ghostly vision warning her of a place called Crimson Peak. Years later, she meets Englishman Sir Thomas Sharpe and his sister Lucille. As she begins a romantic relationship with Thomas, her wealthy father doesn’t approve along with her childhood friend Alan. Then after her father unexpectedly dies, Edith decides to marry Thomas and move into his family estate known as Allerdale Hall or Crimson Peak due to the red clay mine it’s slowly sinking into.
Which character takes on the forms of its victims biggest fears?
College student Jaime “Jay” Height and her boyfriend Hugh are out on a date when Hugh sees a girl Jay can’t see. Exhibiting paranoia, Hugh forces them to leave despite Jay’s confusion. Later, the two go on another date where Hugh knocks Jay out with chloroform and ties her to a wheelchair in order to explain that an entity will be following her in multiple forms that only she will see while others won’t. Then after Hugh takes Jay back home, he flees and is never seen again.
Who resides on Skull Island?
In 1973, a place known as Skull Island is discovered despite being found twenty-nine years prior by a couple of World War II pilots who went missing. So the United States Government organizes an expedition consisting of military personnel scientists and a female photojournalist. However, their arrival on the island attracts the attention of a giant creature that proceeds to destroy several helicopters causing the survivors to scatter. While trying to regroup, they encounter several other massive creatures before running into the island’s natives.
Which of the personalities in Split had no control over his own actions?
A teenage girl named Casey Cooke is stuck with an abusive uncle and is very withdrawn as a result. But one day, she and two of her classmates are kidnapped by a guy who has dissociative identity disorder with 23 different personalities inside of him. Typically, they’re controlled by one called “Barry” though some of them allude to a 24th personality called “The Beast”. During their captivity, Casey and the others attempt to reason with some of the guy's other personalities such as the child-like “Hedwig” which doesn’t ultimately work out.
Who feeds on the fears of children?
Haunted by the disappearance of his brother Georgie, Bill Denbrough and his friends investigate the Barrens marshlands to find Georgie’s body. Meanwhile, a kid named Ben Hanscom finds out the town of Derry where they live has a history of disappearing children while outcast girl Beverly Marsh joins Bill’s group. Along with Ben, the kids start to see scary visions which are being caused by the same entity that takes the appearance of whatever they fear the most with the intention of killing them.
Whose origin story starts with him getting buried alive?
During the New Kingdom era in Ancient Egypt, an Egyptian Princess named Ahmanet is the next in line to the throne when a son is born to her father the Pharaoh’s second wife. So she makes a deal with Set, the God of Disorder, to help her claim the throne. He agrees to do this in exchange that she provide him a physical body when can be achieved if she stabs someone with a special dagger. But before she can complete the ritual, a group of priests manage to stop Ahmanet and bury her alive.
Who causes hallucinations in his victims?
A group of college students consisting of lovers Elliot and Sasha along with Elliot’s friend John decide to move in together only to experience unusual events such as disappearing coins and ominous writing. Also, Sasha’s health begins to rapidly deteriorate while Elliot and John have hallucinations. Then after a friend of theirs named Kim gets killed by an oncoming train, Elliot is questioned by Detective Shaw. Fortunately, they find a suicide note which lets Elliot off the hook but the note’s contents claim Kim was going to kill him and everyone else.
Who from the Abbott family sacrifices themselves to save the others?
In a post-apocalyptic future where mysterious creatures overrun the planet and hunt down anything that makes noise, the Abbott family struggle to survive as they silently scavenge nearby areas. Then when Beau, one of the two sons, finds a toy the father Lee takes it away. So the older sister Regan gives the toy back to Beau but its noise draws a creature to him. Following Beau's death, Regan feels guilty as her mother Evelyn is about to have another child.