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Exploring the World of Horror Films

Test your knowledge of horror films with this engaging quiz that covers iconic movies, directors, and trends in the genre.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Brad Dourif voices Chucky in Child's Play series   Zombies in Romero's influential Night of the Living Dead.   Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster   Brad Dourif voices Chucky in Child's Play series

2 Jaws is often credited as being one of the first films to use traditionally ________ elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.

3 The seemingly-endless sequels to Halloween, Friday the 13th (1980), and Wes Craven's successful supernatural slasher ________ (1984) were the popular face of horror films in the 1980s.

4 [citation needed] New Zealand director Peter Jackson followed in Raimi's footsteps with the ultra-gory micro-budget feature ________ (1987).

5 ________ created the hit Halloween (1978).

6 Other examples include Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960), Homicidal (________, 1961), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962), Hush...

7 [11] Some of these films were made by respected ________.

8 Among the popular English-language horror films of the late 1990s, only 1999's surprise independent hit ________ attempted straight-ahead scares.

9 Creepshow 3) as did ________ (1981).

10 Tod Browning, director of Dracula, also made the extremely controversial ________ based on Spurs by Ted Robbins.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the horror film Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep received its name through a 2006 contest held by the Sci Fi Channel.
  • the first Spanish film shot in English is La residencia, a 1969 horror film about murders in a female-only boarding school.
  • the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head".
  • the style and subject matter of German Expressionism, which produced movies like Nosferatu, influenced film genres like horror and film noir.
  • the Indian horror film 1920 was filmed at a Yorkshire mansion that was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a carpenter.
  • the 1972 science fiction horror film Night of the Lepus was panned by critics for its failure to make killer bunnies seem scary.
  • studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project.
  • Battlefield Baseball, a Japanese film, features elements of the sports, martial arts and horror genres, as well as including three musical numbers.
  • Son of Ingagi was the first film with an all-black cast in the science fiction-horror film genre.
  • John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other.
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