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Q 01Which 1984 film features a serial killer who preys on teenagers in their dreams?
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger murders teenagers through their dreams as revenge on the parents who burned him alive; Wes Craven wrote and directed it, and Johnny Depp made his screen debut.
Q 02What is the 1973 possession film centred on a young girl named Regan?
The Exorcist
The Exorcist (1973), directed by William Friedkin, follows the possession of 12-year-old Regan MacNeil; it was the first horror film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Q 03Which director made the 1960 thriller about the Bates Motel that is famous for its shower scene?
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock directed Psycho (1960) in black and white with his television crew on a small budget; the shower scene alone took about seven days to shoot.
Q 04Which 1975 Steven Spielberg film made a two-note theme scarier than the great white shark?
Jaws
Jaws (1975) is Spielberg's great-white thriller; its mechanical sharks kept breaking, so he mostly hid the creature and let John Williams's two-note theme announce it.
Q 05Which 1974 horror film introduced Leatherface, who wears masks made of human skin?
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' introduced the iconic villain Leatherface and is considered a seminal film in the slasher genre, despite its limited on-screen gore.
Q 06What horror franchise features a murderous doll named Chucky?
Child's Play
Child's Play (1988) introduced Chucky, a Good Guy doll possessed by killer Charles Lee Ray; Brad Dourif voices him in the original films and Mark Hamill in the 2019 remake.
Q 07Which 1991 film sends FBI trainee Clarice Starling to consult cannibal Hannibal Lecter?
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) won the 'Big Five' Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Adapted Screenplay), only the third film ever to do so after It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Q 08What famous author is known for horror novels such as 'It,' 'The Shining,' and 'Carrie'?
Stephen King
King has published more than 60 novels, and his adaptations range from Carrie to The Shawshank Redemption.
Q 09Which horror subgenre presents the story through a character's own camera for realism?
Found Footage
Found footage presents the story as the characters' own recordings; The Blair Witch Project (1999) turned a roughly $60,000 shoot into a global hit and made the style a horror staple.
Q 10Which masked killer quizzes victims by phone in the Scream franchise?
Ghostface
Ghostface is the Scream killer whose mask and voice changer pass to a different culprit in each film, making every entry a whodunit; the mask itself is Fun World's 'Peanut-Eyed Ghost'.
Q 11The 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In comes from which country?
Sweden
An American remake, Let Me In, followed just two years later.
Q 12Which actress made her film debut as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter's 1978 slasher?
Jamie Lee Curtis
It was Curtis's first film role; her mother Janet Leigh had been the shower-scene victim in Psycho.
Q 13What Rocky Mountain establishment is the terrifying setting of the 1980 film 'The Shining'?
Overlook Hotel
The Overlook Hotel is the snowbound Colorado resort the Torrances caretake; Kubrick shot its exteriors at Oregon's Timberline Lodge and built the interiors at Elstree Studios in England.
Q 21In Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), what is the name of the commercial space tug carrying the crew?
Nostromo
The Nostromo carries a seven-member crew in stasis plus the ship's cat, Jones, one of the film's few survivors.
Q 22Most of 'The Descent' (2005) takes place in what kind of confined setting?
An uncharted cave system
The Descent traps six women in an uncharted Appalachian cave system; the cave interiors were built at Pinewood Studios because shooting in real caves was judged too dangerous.
Q 23What 2018 film features a family who must stay silent to avoid creatures with heightened hearing?
A Quiet Place
Q 14Which director created 'The Evil Dead' film series, featuring Ash Williams and Deadites?
Sam Raimi
Raimi dropped out of Michigan State to shoot The Evil Dead, financing it through friends, family and small investors.
Q 15Which 1968 film by George A. Romero is largely credited with popularizing the modern zombie subgenre?
Night of the Living Dead
Romero never used the word 'zombie' in Night of the Living Dead or its script, calling his flesh-eaters ghouls because they were something new; the film redefined the zombie.
Q 16What murderous clown terrorizes the children of Derry, Maine, every 27 years?
Pennywise
Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the favourite form of It, the shape-shifter of Stephen King's 1986 novel; Tim Curry played him in 1990 and Bill Skarsgård in 2017.
Q 17Who leads the Cenobites as the main antagonist of Clive Barker's Hellraiser franchise?
Pinhead
Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, extra-dimensional beings who perceive pain and pleasure as intertwined, offering extreme experiences to those who summon them.
Q 18Which 2015 horror film follows a Puritan family facing malevolent forces in 17th-century New England?
The Witch
The Witch (2015) is Robert Eggers's debut, following a banished Puritan family in 1630s New England; its dialogue draws on period diaries and court records, and the goat Black Phillip became its breakout star.
Q 19What line does five-year-old Carol Anne deliver to the static-filled TV in 'Poltergeist'?
'They're here!'
'They're here!' was delivered by five-year-old Heather O'Rourke, who died in 1988 shortly before the third film was released.
Q 20Which journalist investigates the cursed videotape in the American 'The Ring' films?
Rachel Keller
Rachel Keller, played by Naomi Watts in The Ring (2002) and The Ring Two, is the Seattle reporter who starts by investigating her niece Katie's death.
A Quiet Place was directed by John Krasinski, who stars alongside his real-life wife Emily Blunt; the sightless aliens hunt by their sharp hearing.
Q 24Which 2011 horror-comedy reveals college friends being manipulated by underground technicians?
The Cabin in the Woods
The Cabin in the Woods, directed by Drew Goddard and produced by Joss Whedon, was shot in 2009 but sat on a shelf through MGM's bankruptcy and only reached cinemas in April 2012.
Q 25Which 1998 Hideo Nakata film did Gore Verbinski remake in America in 2002?
Ringu
Ringu, Hideo Nakata's 1998 original, was based on Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel; the American remake's success triggered a wave of J-horror remakes.
Q 26Which 2006 horror-comedy lets slug-like alien parasites loose on a South Carolina town?
Slither
It was James Gunn's directorial debut, made long before Guardians of the Galaxy.
Q 27Which 1977 Dario Argento film is set at a German ballet academy run by a coven?
Suspiria
Suspiria (1977) follows American dancer Suzy Bannion into a Freiburg dance academy secretly run by witches; Goblin scored it, and Luca Guadagnino remade it in 2018.
Q 28What 1982 John Carpenter film has a shape-shifting alien terrorising an Antarctic research station?
The Thing
The film flopped on release, opening two weeks after E.T., before being reappraised as a classic of practical effects.
Q 29Which director's horror films 'Get Out' and 'Us' blend social commentary with psychological thrills?
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele wrote and directed Get Out (2017), which won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and followed it with Us (2019) and Nope (2022).
Q 30Who is revealed to be the killer at the end of the original Friday the 13th (1980)?
Pamela Voorhees
Pamela Voorhees, played by Betsy Palmer, is the killer avenging her son Jason's drowning at Camp Crystal Lake; Jason himself does not start killing until the 1981 sequel.