Quiz! Horror Films
Curious Quiz, October 2024
Here’s a devilishly difficult quiz to test your horror knowledge. Scroll down for hints and further down for answers. Let me know how you did in the comments and well done to Anne Thomas aka Anne of Green Places for being the first person to guess the secret connection in last month’s melancholy literature quiz.
As a special spooky prize, @martinkasmer from Arkham Radio has kindly given me two free download codes for ‘Sounds from the Void,’ a horror music album designed to create a creepy atmosphere for playing tabletop games, or for when you’re reading and writing your own horror stories. The first two people to comment below with a score 7/10 or higher will receive the codes. Be honest, or the elder gods will be displeased…
Questions
Kate Bush’s song ‘Hounds of Love’ opens with a sample from which 1957 horror film?
‘Eruption’ and ‘Sada’ are the only discernible words in which cursed piece of media?
Which of the following horror directors did NOT direct a music video?
David Cronenberg, William Friedkin, John Landis.
What links the devil's son adopted by a US diplomat and the director of the Terrifier franchise?
John Lennon was murdered leaving a building that featured heavily in which 1968 horror film?
Zombie Flesh Eaters, Night of the Bloody Apes and Possession are all examples of what according to the Director of Public Prosecutions?
What links Butterball, Chatterer and Female/Deep Throat?
In Evil Dead II (1987), Ash cuts off his possessed right hand and traps it under a bucket and a pile of books. Which book is on top of the pile?
The appearance of The Babadook was inspired by stills of a Lon Chaney makeup design from which lost 1927 horror film:
The Hunchback and the Dancer, London after Midnight, or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
The band Goblin provided the soundtrack for which 1977 horror?
Hints
“It’s in the trees! It’s coming!”
‘Sada’ is short for ‘Sadako.’
The videos are for ‘Thriller’ and ‘Self Control.’
“It’s all for you…”
The building is called ‘The Dakota’ or ‘The Dakota Apartment,’
Mary Whitehouse led the campaign against them.
‘Pinhead’ is the nickname of their leader.
The title of this 1929 classic novel becomes a pun in this context.
Photo below:
It’s set in a ballet school.
Answers
Night of the Demon.
The videotape in Ringu (1998).
David Cronenberg. John Landis directed Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ and William Friedkin directed Laura Branigan’s ‘Self Control.’
The name ‘Damien.’
Rosemary’s Baby.
Obscene films or ‘video nasties.’
Cenobites from the original Hellraiser movie.
A Farewell to Arms.
London After Midnight.
Suspiria.
Fiendish or fine? Did you use the hints? Tell me how it went in the comments below and don’t forget to share and subscribe. Thank you again to @martinkasmer of Arkham Radio for providing today’s prize.
7/10 without the hints, and no better with them.
The first three were the ones I missed: I almost got #2, but I said 'The Ring' instead of 'Ringu'. (Haven't seen either of them, as it happens.)
Before I used the hints, I got 5 out of 10. After the hints, I got 7 out of 10.
I should have known that it was a Farewell to Arms knowing it would probably be a beautifully stupid pun. Alas, I've only seen the first Evil Dead, which is not nearly as silly.