Are You a Horror Movie Expert? Take This Quiz to Find Out!
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Created 6/25/2024
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Do you consider yourself a true horror movie aficionado? Put your knowledge to the test with this quiz and find out if you truly have what it takes to claim the title of a Horror Movie Expert!
1. Which early horror literature author greatly influenced the development of the horror film genre?
Edgar Allan Poe
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley
All of the above
2. Which of these films codified horror as a distinct genre in the early 20th century?
Nosferatu
Dracula (1931)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Frankenstein (1931)
3. What type of horror film often involves an uncanny killer and a lot of slashing?
Slasher films
Comedy horror
Body horror
Psychological horror
4. In which countries is horror cinema particularly prominent?
Japan and Korea
Italy and Thailand
Both A and B
Germany and France
5. Which horror sub-genre involves grotesque transformations and mutilations of the human body?
Body horror
Slasher films
Splatter films
Supernatural horror
6. Which decade saw the introduction of more violence and erotic scenes into the horror genre?
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
7. Which film marked the entry of postmodernism into the horror genre in the 1990s?
The Silence of the Lambs
Scream
The Blair Witch Project
Ring
8. Why were many horror films of the 1980s banned in the United Kingdom?
Graphic violence
Moral panic
Both A and B
Legal controversy
9. Which contemporary horror film won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival?
Hereditary
Titane
Midsommar
Get Out
10. What is a common theme found in folk horror films?
