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Legendary Horror Films Quiz

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What famous 1922 silent horror film helped begin the genre as it told an adaptation of the classic story of Dracula?
Nosferatu
Silent Night
Prince of Shadows
Vampyr

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What 1968 horror film introduced many people to the idea of zombies as it told the tale of a group of humans fighting to survive amidst a world that was being taken over by the undead?
Night of the Living Dead
End of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead

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What 1999 horror film popularized the found-footage subgenre of horror as it told the story of three film students exploring Maryland woods in search of a hostile spirit?
Cabin in the Woods
The Blair Witch Project
It
Haunt

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What is the name of the 1976 horror film about a young boy named Damian who turned out to be a demonic entity?
The Omen
The Amityville Horror
Possessed
The Exorcist

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What 1941 horror film followed Laurence Talbot as he succumbed to a curse that transformed him into a savage werewolf?
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Fang
The Curse of the Moon
The Wolf Man
The Howling

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What bizarre 1987 horror film by Clive Barker featured a family who unleashed a race of wicked sadistic beings called the cenobites onto the world?
Speak When Spoken
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Hellraiser
Evil Dead

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What 2014 horror film saw a family contend with the haunting of a supernatural being from a children's book?
The Babadook
Sinister
Malignant
Hereditary

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What 1958 horror film followed a town of people who tried to survive the onslaught of a mindless consuming ball of ooze?
The Blob
The Stuff
The Thing
It Came from Outer Space

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What 1992 horror flick followed an academic named Helen who investigated an urban legend following a murderous specter with a hook for a hand?
The Cornerstore
The Amityville Horror
My Bloody Valentine
Candyman

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What 1988 slasher film showed the macabre exploits of the murderous doll Chucky?
Friday the 13th
Child's Play
Dollhouse
Saw

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What critically acclaimed horror/thriller movie released in 1991 to introduce the world to the characters of Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter?
The Silence of the Lambs
Disturbia
The Man Next Door
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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What 1976 movie based on a Stephen King book of the same name told the tale of a bullied girl who used her telekinetic powers to take revenge on those who tormented her?
Christine
Carrie
Coraline
Claudia

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What is the name of the film franchise that featured the slasher Jason Vorhees who terrorized the campers of Crystal Lake?
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Cabin Fever
Sleepaway Camp

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In what revolutionary 1973 horror movie did a pair of priests try to save a young girl from a demon that was possessing her body?
The Book of Shadows
The Exorcist
Ouija
The Dark Mark

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What 1982 John Carpenter film followed a group of Antarctic researchers who were infiltrated by a shapeshifting alien that was previously frozen in the continental ice?
Signs
Alien
The Thing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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What is the name of the 1996 film about a masked killer who hunted teenagers that was also known for its odd commentaries on horror as a genre?
I Spit on Your Grave
Dead Man Walking
What We Do in the Shadows
Scream

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What 2004 horror film presented the twisted acts of a serial killer who put people in death traps to try and punish them for their iniquities?
Child's Play
Dark
Hate
Saw

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What 1968 horror film followed a woman who discovered that the child she gave birth to was actually a vessel for a demonic entity?
The Haunting of West Lane
Sordid
Hereditary
Rosemary's Baby

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What 2002 horror film based on a Japanese story told the tale of a killer video tape that would send a ghost to attack those who watched it?
VHS
War of the Worlds
The Ring
The Omen

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What Universal monster movie told the story of a vampiric nobleman who terrorized the people of Britain?
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The Phantom of the Opera
Frankenstein
Dracula

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What 1982 horror film written by Steven Spielberg followed a family as they moved into a house haunted by spirits?
Poltergeist
The Haunting
Black Christmas
Drag Me to Hell

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What 2017 horror movie told the tale of a group of misfit children who had to defend themselves from the evil Pennywise the Clown?
It
The Thing
Saw
Gremlins

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What 1980 horror film by Stanley Kubrick saw a family tormented in isolation at the possibly haunted Overlook Hotel?
Alien
The Haunting
The Shining
Snowbound

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What is the name of the 1974 horror film which featured the killer Leatherface and his family hunting a group of young adults?
Wrong Turn
Friday the 13th
Cannibal Holocaust
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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What 1984 horror movie featured the dream-crossing serial killer Freddy Krueger who would torment his victims while they were asleep?
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Black Christmas
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Scream

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What 1981 horror film and dark comedy told the tale of an American backpacker who was infected with lycanthropy in the United Kingdom?
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
The Next Wolf Man
Fangs

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What 1931 Universal monster movie told the tale of a mad scientist who managed to create a living being out of corpse parts?
Frankenstein
Drag Me to Hell
Cemetery
Grimm

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What 1978 horror film followed babysitter Laurie Strode who was the subject of the violence of a psychopath named Michael Myers?
Scream
Halloween
Friday the 13th
Psycho

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What 1978 horror movie starred Donald Sutherland as he attempted to survive an alien invasion?
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Apocalypse Now
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Alien

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What 1981 Sam Raimi horror film followed a cabin full of young adults who read from an eldritch book that ended up summoning the spirits of the dead to haunt them?
The Evil Dead
The Black Hills
Suspiria
Stone Hearth

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