If You Fail This Horror Movie Quiz, You're Definitely A Scaredy Cat
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The popularity of horror movies is pretty inexplicable. Who in their right mind would go out of their way and pay money to have the bejeebers scared out of them? Well, that’s what Hollywood has managed to turn into a multi billion dollar business. The horror film genre started out with the simple low budget B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s – the kind directed by Ed Wood and starring Vincent Price. They were the worst movies with the worst directors and the worst scripts and the worst actors. Just fun, low budget trash. That’s because Hollywood didn’t think that a horror movie could be a blockbuster, and they also didn’t think that a horror movie could ever be considered to be a good movie in the conventional sense by critics and audiences. But that all changed when Alfred Hitchcock came along with his dark black-and-white thriller Psycho, which took the story of a murderer who runs a motel and has mommy issues and spun it into a cinematic masterpiece that has been regarded as one of the best movies ever made for over half a century now. But how well do you know Hollywood’s horror flicks? Take this quiz to find out! Let’s play a game...
What is the It's clown name?
It became the highest grossing horror movie of all time last year, with over $700 million in worldwide box office receipts. It also has the honor of being ranked among Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s favorite movies of all time. The movie was adapted from the novel of the same name by Stephen King and the title refers to a shapeshifting monster who more often than not appears in clown form. What is the It monster’s name when It’s a clown?
What US state was the site of Leatherface’s chainsaw massacre?
Tobe Hooper’s seminal ‘70s slasher horror movie The ____ Chain Saw Massacre has a reputation as being one of the most brutally violent and gory and horrific movies ever made, but it’s actually relatively bloodless. Most of the violence is off screen and a lot of the scares are psychological. The movie is actually a lot better crafted than its reputation would make it out to be. It also introduced us to the iconic Leatherface. What US state was the site of Leatherface’s chainsaw massacre?
What movie is the line “Here’s Johnny!” from?
Obviously, the line “Here’s Johnny!” is a reference to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The character who says it isn’t even called Johnny – he’s called Jack Torrance. He was created by Stephen King for the novel that this movie is based on, although King himself denounces the movie and says that director Stanley Kubrick completely missed the point. Actor Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line while they were shooting the scene. So, what movie is the line “Here’s Johnny!” from?
What kind of monster is Jaws about?
It might be hard to imagine Steven Spielberg as a struggling director who the studios didn’t trust and who found it difficult to get movies made. He started out with a TV movie called Duel about a monster truck that hunts people. Universal Pictures saw that and hired him to direct their next movie, which was also about a monster that hunted people – but it wasn’t a truck. The movie went on to become a classic. What monster is it?
What movie is this tall, creepy gentleman from?
This movie is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved horror movies in recent memory. It didn’t go winning any Oscars like another recent critically acclaimed horror movie, but it is great and it does stand the test of time. It’s about a sexually transmitted parasite that has its victims persistently followed around by a shapeshifting demon. It’s damned terrifying. At one point, it shapeshifts into this guy. In what horror movie does this tall, creepy gentleman make an appearance?
Complete this Scream quote: “What’s your favorite...”
Scream brought on a whole slew of satirical horror movies that attacked and subverted the clichés of the genre and referenced themselves and got all meta. It was cool and original and unique when Scream did it, but all the ones that followed it smacked of desperation. They lacked the inspiration of Scream. It was like all the darkly comic and nonlinearly structured crime movies that came after Pulp Fiction. Complete this iconic quote from the movie Scream: “What’s your favorite...”
On what street did A Nightmare take place?
This movie was the movie that introduced Johnny Depp to a widespread mainstream cinema audience and made him a star. Director Wes Craven was sifting through headshots of clean, neatly dressed guys and then he saw Johnny Depp’s headshot and dismissed it, because his hair was greasy and he had cigarette stained fingernails and he looked dirty. But then his daughter said, “Oh my God, Dad, he’s beautiful!” so he cast him there and then. On what street did A Nightmare take place?
What is the sociopolitical theme of Get Out?
On paper, it should’ve been a surprise that Get Out – a horror movie written and directed by a comedian best known for impersonating Barack Obama and portraying a whiny girlfriend named Meegan – won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But it’s no surprise to anyone who’s seen the movie and is familiar with how brilliantly socially relevant it is in its themes. It’s about a social issue that’s important right now. What is the sociopolitical theme of Get Out?
How long is all crime legal for during The Purge?
There’s a new Purge movie coming out this year called The First Purge that will show us what happened during the very first period of time that the US government decided to allocate to all crime being legal every year, which, for God knows what reason, acts as a kind of population control and also brings the crime rate down by bringing it up. It should be a good movie. How long is all crime legal for during The Purge?
What disability does the bad guy in Don’t Breathe have?
Don’t Breathe is one of the best horror movies of the 21st century. Hell, it’s one of the finest damn horror movies ever made. It’s a home invasion thriller, but there’s the twist. The ones invading the home are the ones we’re supposed to empathize with and root for, and the one who’s home is being invaded is apparently the bad guy. He suffers from a disability that works to his advantage. What disability does the bad guy in Don’t Breathe have?
Who is the killer in Halloween?
Psycho is cited as being the earliest example of a slasher movie, but Halloween is considered to be the first slasher movie as we know them, with the killer taking out teenagers, one by one, until he’s brought down by the sweet, innocent, pure virgin girl. It’s a formula that’s been copied a million times in the decades since and it’ll be copied a million times more, because it works! It’s one of the most influential horror films ever made. Who is the killer in Halloween?
Whose game leaves Carla Gugino chained to bed posts?
Stephen King movie adaptations are ten a penny these days, because he’s a masterful horror writer and he comes up with the most devilishly brilliant premises, like this one, in which a married couple go out into the middle of the woods to a cabin to spice up their sex life – and then the guy dies of a heart attack, leaving his wife chained to the bed in the middle of nowhere. Whose game leaves Carla Gugino chained to bed posts?
Which of these horror movies is NOT found footage?
There’s been a big boom of found footage horror movies recently, because they’re very cheap to make and they make a lot of money back. It’s a very inventive concept, this idea that what we’re seeing in the movie was shot by the characters in it and then discovered by the police and sent to movie theaters. It adds an extra layer of realism. There’s boatloads of these things. Which of these horror movies is NOT in the found footage genre?
How many days after watching the tape in The Ring do you die?
You can always count on the masters of Asian cinema to give us a good horror movie, and you can always count on Hollywood to remake it in English. Just look at The Grudge, Dark Water, Pulse, One Missed Call, The Eye, Shutter, Mirrors, The Uninvited – there have been tons of them! That trend all started with The Ring, which was beloved by critics and audiences and made a ton of money at the box office. How many days after watching the tape in The Ring do you die?
What serial killer did Anthony Hopkins play in a bunch of movies?
Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of the greatest actors who ever lived. He’s played a ton of iconic roles in movies and TV shows, most recently as the enigmatic boss in Westworld. One of his best remembered characters – and the one that won him an Oscar for Best Actor with just 20 or so minutes of screen time – is a cannibalistic serial killer. He made that character somehow lovable. What serial killer did Anthony Hopkins play in a bunch of movies?
Who is the doll from The Conjuring?
The Conjuring franchise continues to grow and becomes more successful with each successive entry. It started with the original, which grossed a ton of money at the worldwide box office and warranted a sequel, which also grossed a ton of money at the worldwide box office. This led to the expansion of the cinematic universe of The Conjuring with all kinds of prequels and spin-offs. One of those spin-offs was about a creepy, demonically possessed doll. What’s the doll’s name?
Which Lethal Weapon star played the cop in Saw?
It’s easy to see this actor as a cop, because his most iconic role is that of Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon action buddy comedy franchise. That’s why James Wan cast him as the detective hunting the serial killer in his iconic horror movie Saw. This actor is not a major A-list name, but he has been in a ton of great movies and he is pretty famous. Who is this Lethal Weapon star who played the cop in Saw?
What animal’s blood is dumped on Carrie White at her prom?
The original Carrie movie from the 1970s was the first ever screen adaptation of a work by Stephen King, and since then, there have been literally more than a hundred movie and TV adaptations of King’s work. There’s been a remake of the movie, too. At the climax of the movie, there’s a scene at Carrie’s prom where the bullies dump some buckets full of blood on the poor girl. Then she goes nuts. What animal’s blood is dumped on Carrie White at her prom?
What kind of supernatural being does Chloë Grace Moretz play in Let Me In?
Matt Reeves is a great director. He gave us Cloverfield and the three most recent Planet of the Apes prequel movies and he’s currently at work on Ben Affleck’s first solo outing as Batman, which has been aptly and simply titled The Batman. He also directed an American remake of the horror movie Let the Right One In called Let Me In. What kind of supernatural being does Chloë Grace Moretz play in the spooky horror movie Let Me In?
Jason Voorhees is the main villain of what slasher movie franchise?
With his hockey mask and his machete and his immortality and his indestructibility, Jason Voorhees is a horror icon. He’s the star of one of the most beloved slasher movie franchises ever made, although he wasn’t actually the killer in the first one. It was, in fact, his mother in the first one. But he became the main villain as the sequels went on over time. The serial killer Jason Voorhees is the main villain of what slasher movie franchise?
What decade is the setting of The Conjuring?
The Conjuring is one of the highest grossing horror movies of all time. It was so successful that it spawned an equally successful string of sequels and spin-off movies in a shared cinematic universe that’s been described by critics as the first successful one since the MCU. The movies are taken from real life accounts of paranormal incidents involving a married pair of demonologists, so they have their roots in historical settings. What decade is the setting of The Conjuring?
What ship is Alien set on?
Sir Ridley Scott changed the game for both the genres of science fiction and horror when he made the movie Alien, which essentially has the premise of a haunted house movie in outer space. Sigourney Weaver stars in the movie as Ellen Ripley, one of the very first examples of a badass female action hero. The spaceship that is the setting of the movie has since become a cinematic icon. What fictional ship is the 1979 movie Alien set on?
What movie is this screenshot taken from?
This horror movie was one of the forerunners to the found footage horror movie genre. Sure, it all started with The Blair Witch Project, but this was the first one of the recent trend from the past ten years or so. This one spawned a ton of sequels and spin-offs and introduced the horror film market to a very cheap to produce and also very scary method of filmmaking. What modern classic horror movie is this eerie screenshot taken from?
Which of these horror movies is NOT based on a Stephen King story?
The works of Stephen King, often cited as the literary master of horror, have been adapted into more than 100 movies and TV shows. These adaptations have given us some of the greatest horror movies of all time, including the recent adaptation of It, the prison drama The Green Mile, and the IMDb Top 100 topper The Shawshank Redemption. Those last two are examples of non horror movies. Which of these horror movies is NOT based on a Stephen King story?
As of 2018, how many Insidious movies are there?
James Wan is quickly becoming the box office overlord of the horror genre, having brought two of the highest grossing horror franchises of the 21st century – Insidious and The Conjuring – into the world. Insidious isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, since the last movie grossed over $160 million on a budget of just $10 million. They’ll continue to make these movies until people stop going to watch them in droves, but as of 2018, how many Insidious movies are there?