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Q 01Bob Clark, director of the 1974 sorority-house slasher, made which 1983 family comedy?
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story (1983), the Ralphie-and-the-BB-gun comedy, was directed by Bob Clark, who had made the sorority slasher Black Christmas in 1974 and the raunchy hit Porky's in between.
Q 02Who wrote, directed and composed the score for Halloween (1978), the film that kicked off the slasher's golden age?
John Carpenter
John Carpenter co-wrote the script with producer Debra Hill, directed, and composed the 5/4 piano theme himself; he cited the mask in Eyes Without a Face and Westworld's relentless android as influences.
Q 03What do critics call the lone woman left standing to face the killer, a term coined by scholar Carol J. Clover?
Final girl
Final girl, usually the most chaste and watchful of the group, while her friends are picked off for their sins. Clover's 1992 book Men, Women, and Chain Saws made the term standard.
Q 04Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980) takes place at which summer camp, where a boy drowned in 1957?
Camp Crystal Lake
Camp Crystal Lake, which the locals call 'Camp Blood'; the backstory has young Jason drowning there in 1957, and the film was shot at a real working summer camp in Blairstown, New Jersey.
Q 05Which future star made his film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), as a teenager sucked into his own bed?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, whose death scene ends in a geyser of blood from the mattress, shot on a rotating set. He was cast after tagging along to the audition with a friend.
Q 06Which director created Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and then skewered the whole genre with Scream (1996)?
Wes Craven
Wes Craven, a former humanities professor who had made The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes before Freddy. He cameos in Scream as a school janitor dressed exactly like Freddy.
Q 07Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) was partly inspired by which real murderer?
Ed Gein
Ed Gein, the Wisconsin killer arrested in 1957 whose farmhouse held masks and furniture made of human skin; Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel borrowed the skin-wearing idea, while the plot itself is invented.
Q 08Sidney Prescott and her friends are stalked by a costumed killer in which fictional California town?
Woodsboro
Woodsboro, a fictional Northern California town; Scream (1996) opens there with Drew Barrymore's Casey Becker killed a year after the murder of Sidney's mother, Maureen Prescott.
Q 09Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho (1960) in black and white partly so which sequence would not look too gory?
The shower murder
The shower murder of Marion Crane: Hitchcock felt its blood (chocolate syrup on screen) would be too gruesome in colour, and monochrome helped keep the budget near $800,000 after Paramount refused to finance the film.
Q 10Bernard Herrmann's shrieking score for Psycho (1960) was written for what kind of ensemble?
Strings only
Herrmann turned the reduced music budget into a stylistic choice, and the all-string sound became one of the most imitated in horror.
Q 11In the British proto-slasher Peeping Tom (1960), killer Mark Lewis hides a blade in what?
A leg of his camera tripod
A leg of his camera tripod conceals the spike; Mark Lewis films each victim as she dies, and a mirror on the rig makes her watch her own death, an early meditation on the audience's voyeurism.
Q 12Peeping Tom (1960) was so savaged by critics that it nearly ended the British career of which director?
Michael Powell
Powell had made The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; the film was later rehabilitated, with Martin Scorsese among its champions.
Q 13In the original Friday the 13th (1980), who turns out to be the killer?
Pamela Voorhees
Q 21Candyman (1992) is set largely in which Chicago public housing project?
Cabrini-Green
Clive Barker's source story "The Forbidden" was set on a Liverpool council estate; the film moved it to Chicago and made the ghost the son of a slave.
Q 22Who has voiced Ghostface on the phone in every Scream film?
Roger L. Jackson
Jackson was kept off set so the actors never saw him, and he really phoned them during their scenes to get genuine reactions.
Q 23The Ghostface mask began as a Halloween novelty mask sold by which company?
Fun World
Fun World sold it as 'The Peanut-Eyed Ghost' in its Fantastic Faces novelty line; producer Marianne Maddalena found one in a house while location scouting, and the studio licensed the design from the company.
Pamela Voorhees, the camp cook, is avenging her son Jason's drowning at the camp in 1957; Jason himself does not pick up a weapon until Part 2.
Q 14In which Friday the 13th film does Jason first put on his hockey mask?
Part III (1982)
Part III (1982): Jason wore a burlap sack over his head in Part 2, then takes the goalie mask from prankster Shelly in the third film, and it became the franchise's logo.
Q 15Jason X (2001) wakes Jason Voorhees from cryogenic freezing aboard what?
A spaceship in the year 2455
A spaceship, the Grendel, in the year 2455: students on a field trip to an abandoned Earth find Jason frozen, and a nanite rebuild later turns him into the cyborg fans call Uber Jason.
Q 16Sleepaway Camp (1983) is notorious for its final-shot twist revealing what about camper Angela?
She is really her brother Peter
She is really her brother Peter: the real Angela died in the boating accident that opens the film, and the surviving boy was raised as a girl by his Aunt Martha, revealed in the final freeze-frame.
Q 17The killer in My Bloody Valentine (1981) stalks the mining town of Valentine Bluffs dressed as what?
A miner in a gas mask
A miner in a gas mask and helmet, the guise of legendary killer Harry Warden; director George Mihalka said the MPAA 'cut to ribbons' the Canadian film's gore, and a 2009 special edition restored the cut footage.
Q 18Chucky's name Charles Lee Ray draws on Manson, James Earl Ray and which third killer?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald supplies Charles Lee Ray's middle name; creator Don Mancini combined three killers' names, and his original script was a darker satire of the 1980s talking-doll toy craze.
Q 19Who has voiced Chucky since the original Child's Play (1988)?
Brad Dourif
Dourif also plays the human Charles Lee Ray on screen; Mark Hamill voiced the doll only in the 2019 remake.
Q 20Which minimalist composer wrote the score for Candyman (1992)?
Philip Glass
Philip Glass wrote the organ-and-choir score; he was unhappy that the finished film was more commercial than he expected, but later called the soundtrack a classic that kept paying him royalties.
Q 24What colours are the stripes on Freddy Krueger's sweater?
Red and green
The director reportedly picked the pair after reading that red and green are the hardest colours for the human eye to see side by side.
Q 25Michael Myers' mask in Halloween (1978) was a two-dollar Captain Kirk mask, painted white, cast from which actor's face?
William Shatner
William Shatner, who said he was flattered once he found out, and has reportedly gone trick-or-treating in the mask himself. The crew widened the eye holes and teased out the hair.
Q 26Which Eastbound & Down actor co-wrote the 2018 Michael Myers sequel directed by David Gordon Green?
Danny McBride
Danny McBride co-wrote Halloween (2018) with David Gordon Green and Jeff Fradley; the film ignores every sequel after 1978 and, on release, became the highest-grossing slasher ever in unadjusted dollars.
Q 27Art the Clown of the Terrifier films has been played since the 2016 feature by which actor?
David Howard Thornton
David Howard Thornton took over the silent role for Terrifier (2016) after Mike Giannelli, who played Art in the early shorts and All Hallows' Eve (2013), left acting; creator Damien Leone directs the films.
Q 28In the 2017 time-loop slasher starring Jessica Rothe, Tree Gelbman keeps being murdered on which day?
Her birthday
Her birthday, the joke in the title Happy Death Day: Tree relives the same Monday at fictional Bayfield University, dying each night at the hands of a killer in the Bayfield Babies' baby-faced mascot mask.
Q 29The home invaders in You're Next (2011) wear masks of which three animals?
Lamb, fox and tiger
Lamb, fox and tiger masks hide the three hired attackers in Adam Wingard's film, which premiered at Toronto in 2011 but did not reach cinemas until 2013 after distribution delays.
Q 30The Cabin in the Woods, shot in 2009, was delayed until 2012 by trouble at which studio?
MGM
MGM's 2010 bankruptcy shelved the finished film; Lionsgate bought it and released it in April 2012, by which time co-star Chris Hemsworth had already become Thor.