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Question 1
Which Wes Craven horror movie features Neve Campbell as Sydney Prescott, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer in a mask?
Question 2
Which actress starred as Rosemary in Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror classic “Rosemary’s Baby”?
Question 3
John Landis wrote and directed this 1981 comedy-horror about two American students who are attacked by a werewolf whilst backpacking in England. What’s the name of the movie?
Question 4
Six year old Michael Myers kills his older sister and then fifteen years later escapes from a sanitarium to kill again and again, in which 1978 film?
Question 5
“The Jigsaw Killer” is the main antagonist in which horror movie franchise?
Question 6
What is the name of the motel in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 psychological horror “Psycho”?
Question 7
Linda Blair starred as a possessed teenager in which 1973 horror movie?
Question 8
Which 1999 horror movie tells the story of three filmmakers who disappear while hiking and whose footage is found a year later?
Question 9
Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance in which classic Stanley Kubrick psychological horror film of 1980?
Question 10
Sissy Spacek stars as a teenager with telekinetic powers in which supernatural horror based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name?
Question 11
Which character was played by Robert Englund in the “Nightmare on Elm Street” horror series?
Question 12
Jason Voorhees is the main character from which series of horror films?
Question 13
After his newborn child dies, an American diplomat, played by Gregory Peck, replaces him with an orphan whose mother died giving birth to him. A few years later, mysterious things begin to happen to the diplomat’s family. What is the name of this 1976 supernatural horror film?
Question 14
Jodie Foster plays Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who seeks the advice of an imprisoned cannibal serial killer, in which movie?
Question 15
Which 1974 horror film which was banned in several countries upon release, features the protagonist “Leatherface”?
Question 16
Which supernatural horror movie from 2002 tells the story of a cursed video tape which kills anyone who watches it seven days later?
Question 17
Williiam Henry Pratt was an actor who appeared in many horror films in the 1930s, including “Frankenstein” and “The Mummy”. How was he better known?
Question 18
Which influential 1922 silent horror movie from Germany was heavily based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, leading to Stoker’s heirs suing the makers and most copies of the film being destroyed?
Question 19
Which 1973 British horror film, starring Edward Woodward, follows a police sergeant who visits a remote island in search of a missing girl, to find the inhabitants have turned to paganism?
Question 20
Nicole Kidman plays Grace Stewart, a woman living in a remote Channel Island house with her two children, in which 2001 Gothic horror movie?
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