Alphabetical Horror Movies Trivia

1. Available in the public domain, what 1968 seminal horror film, written and directed by George A. Romero, followed the aftermath of space radiation coming to Earth from Venus?

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Answer: Night of the Living Dead

A true classic, Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" is considered by many to be the zombie movie that started it all, showing up as an independently-made, mostly ad-libbed horror feature in the late 1960s. Containing flesh-hungry ghouls brought about by radiation from an exploding space probe, the film showcased a group of people who sought refuge in an otherwise abandoned farmhouse. The film, in the public domain, would be remade and resold several times over, though Romero would have a long and fruitful career in the industry. On top of this, the 'ghouls' (or zombies) featured in the film would become a template for the creatures from that point on. Romero's first direct follow-up, "Dawn of the Dead", would appear in theatres ten years later.

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Answer: Malignant

Releasing in 2021 during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, "Malignant" was a return to form for director James Wan who, while making it big in the "Fast and the Furious" and "Aquaman" franchises, cut his teeth on genre films like "Saw" and "The Conjuring". "Malignant" released in open theatres and on HBO Max simultaneously and starred Annabelle Wallis as a woman suffering from the torment of a murderous spectre in her life. This brooding tale was said, by Wan, to be inspired by the Giallo horror films of Dario Argento.

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Answer: Killer Klowns From Outer Space

The Chiodo Brothers, who made the sci-fi/horror comedy "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" in 1988, were perhaps better known for their animatronics and practical effects work throughout the 1980s and 1990s, having worked on "Critters", "UHF", and "Ernest Scared Stupid" amongst other films. "Killer Klowns", however, became a cult classic (or a 'kult klassic'?) due in part to its campy nature. Featuring a small town's-worth of actors, the movie involved aliens that landed in a sleepy region in their big-top-style UFO with the intent to consume humans. They were, of course, clown-like.

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Answer: Ju-On

"Ju-On: The Grudge" released in Japan in 2002 and sparked a series based on ghosts that could wreak havoc from beyond the grave by enacting their rage on people they came into contact with. The series was massively popular in Japan, and upon the remake and release of "The Ring" in 2000, it became one of the earliest American hits in the J-horror trend that swept Hollywood. The American remake, known only as "The Grudge", starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and was set in Japan. The American version quickly crossed the ocean to Chicago in "The Grudge 2".

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Answer: Infection

"Infection", the first to be released from the six-year-long collection in 'J-Horror Theater', was made by Masayuki Ochiai, who directed the U.S. version of "Shutter" in 2008 (despite that originally being a Thai film). "Kansen", as the movie was known in Japan, followed several doctors and nurses in a clearly understaffed, run-down hospital trying to deal with a mysterious illness and, eventually, their own delusions and hysteria. When patients and workers started melting into a green goo, tensions ran high and the staff started to turn on each other.

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Answer: Halloween

Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, "Halloween" is commonly regarded in horror circles as one of the most popular early slasher flicks of all time. In this movie, a young psychopath by the name of Michael Myers returned to Haddonfield, Illinois after 15 years to murder several hapless teenagers in the suburbs. The movie put Michael Myers on the horror villain map and several sequels (including a reboot by Rob Zombie) were filmed over the years. Carpenter found subsequent fame in the horror genre with "The Fog" (1980), "The Thing" (1982), and "Christine" (1983).

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Answer: Grave Encounters

Directed by Canadian film duo The Vicious Brothers, this film got its start in the film festivals before a short limited run and on-demand release. After picking up a number of followers upon its 2011 release, it ended up gaining the steam to go to home video, so much so that it received a sequel in 2012. "Grave Encounters" followed a handful of people filming their paranormal investigation show in a reputedly-haunted, old asylum. When it turned out that it was, in fact, much more haunted than they ever imagined, they realized that escape would, perhaps, be impossible. The film followed a they handycam/documentary feel typical of horror films in the late 2010s, albeit with more clever special effects tricks than normal.

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Answer: Friday the 13th

The first in this long-running horror franchise (perhaps one of the most famous exemplars of slasher horror) was released in 1980 and directed by Sean S. Cunningham. Although purists would never forget that Jason wasn't the killer in the first film (it was his mother), he would return to Camp Crystal Lake and beyond to stalk teens and, well, virtually anyone in his way. He never got a hockey mask until "Part III" (1982) but it remains one of the most iconic images in horror. "Friday the 13th" has since been remade under Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes (as was "A Nightmare on Elm Street"). It's earned hundreds of millions of dollars over at least a dozen films.

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Answer: The Evil Dead

Although "The Evil Dead" was better known at the time for being banned in a number of countries upon its 1981 release, it has since become one of the most famous possession-style movies and one of the most popular cult horror classics of the 1980s. Starring Bruce Campbell as Ash, the movie followed a group of friends reading from "The Necronomicon" on a trip to a cabin in the woods. Campbell returned for "The Evil Dead II" and "Army of Darkness" becoming a horror and cult mainstay. "The Evil Dead" has since premiered as a musical (in Toronto) which has spread around North America. Sam Raimi returned to horror in 2010 with the well-received "Drag Me to Hell".

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Answer: Candyman

Director Bernard Rose was perhaps best known for his work on Clive Barker's "Candyman", his only horror release. First available to view in theaters in 1992, the film revolved around Virgnia Madsen's character, Helen, as she began her thesis on urban legends. When she began to uncover the legend of the Candyman, she realized that some urban legends were dying to be recognized. Soon, she had to fight what may either be her own madness or the wrath of one of time's forgotten myths. The original "Candyman" film did quite well in the box office, grossing three times its $8,000,000 budget. Two sequels, "Farewell to the Flesh" and "Day of the Dead", were released in 1995 and 1999 respectively to continue the story of the fabled Candyman though neither of these were directly written by Barker himself. It remains as yet another example of Clive Barker's tendency to make cult horror films.

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Answer: The Birds & Birds

This well-known horror film appeared at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards and was known for its 'nature takes its revenge' plot. In the movie, the coastal town of Bodega Bay is terrorized by flocks upon flocks of wild birds, seemingly for no apparent reason. As the small California town succumbs to nature's harsh wrath, the citizens fight to stay alive and hide from the birds. Viewers will always remember the scene where a woman is trapped in a phone booth as birds continuously fly into the glass. A made-for-television version of the movie called "The Birds II: Land's End" aired in 1994. "The Birds" was based on a short story written by Daphne du Maurier.

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Answer: Alien

"Alien", directed by Ridley Scott, became one of the most successful horror films of the seventies, and shot star Sigourney Weaver to fame. In the movie, the Nostromo discovered a signal from a nearby planet and when one crew member investigated the area, he was attacked by a creature which leapt out of a giant egg. After it hatched from his chest cavity, the crew had to try to capture or kill the creature in their ship before it killed them first. The movie spawned sequels (three of which starred Weaver, who reprised her role as the strong-willed Ellen Ripley), comic books, video games, and various other "Alien" items. In 2003, the American Film Institute rated Ellen Ripley as the eighth greatest film hero.

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Answer: Midsommar

The follow-up to Ari Aster's hit indie horror film "Hereditary", "Midsommar" was a unique take on folk horror and dysfunction as a group of friends travelled to Sweden to participate in a remote midsummer festival only to find that the customs attended to under the midnight sun were much more shocking and dangerous than ever expected. While set almost entirely within Sweden, this movie, starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor, was filmed in Hungary. For an A24 horror, it turned a modest profit at the box office though only grossed half as much as "Hereditary" a year before.

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Answer: Krampus

Created by Michael Dougherty, who emerged onto the horror scene with the renowned film "Trick 'r Treat", "Krampus" brought horror back to the holidays with the terrifying creature of European folklore, Krampus, whose aim was to punish naughty people during Christmas. Though the film wasn't a box office hit, it was a foray into the genre for both Adam Scott and Toni Collette, the former of whom would appear in the Netflix movie "Little Evil" and the latter of whom would help bring Ari Aster's "Hereditary" to life a few years later. "Krampus" also sparked a couple of knock-offs, as is wont to happen in these situations; "Krampus: The Reckoning" came out in the same year and "Krampus Unleashed" showed up the year after.

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Answer: Jack Frost

This honestly is a classic. The story of "Jack Frost" was a holiday horror film about a serial killer sent to the electric chair who, escaping his police van in transit, ended up breaking down to the molecular level to be able to transform into a snowman outside the aptly-named town of Snowmonton. Shannon Elizabeth made her first appearance in this movie before finding mainstream success in "American Pie". Interestingly, "Jack Frost" was released a year before the Michael Keaton holiday film of the same name. A sequel, "Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman", was released a few years later and was set on Hawaii. You know - where snowmen live?

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Answer: House of Wax

"House of Wax" was originally made in 1953 and featured Vincent Price. Although released to theaters at the first height of 3D films, the movie stood up well in home releases and became quite popular in its own right. In 2005, Jaume Collet-Serra (also known for "Orphan") directed this remake starring a slew of popular early twenty-somethings and took the violence up a few levels to provide a more graphic turn. With a number of remakes from Dark Castle in earlier years, this one was considered one of the better quality productions by many critics and, unsurprisingly, it was a box office success with many heading to the movies just to see Paris Hilton get impaled on a metal pipe. In this version of the film, a group of kids heading to a football game got sidetracked in a town of wax people... and a couple of psychopaths. It was a hot mess.

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Answer: Grace

Originally based on a short film by Paul Solet, "Grace" ended up falling into the horror canon in the late 2010s, appearing in several Indie festivals before seeing modest returns on DVD. Starring modern scream queen Jordan Ladd (of "Cabin Fever", "Death Proof", "Hostel: Part II", etc.), the movie involved a mother who lost her unborn child in a car crash. Opting to bring the fetus to term, she was shocked to discover that instead of being born dead, it was alive. Unfortunately, this ended up being more a curse than a little blessing. The movie debuted at Sundance.

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Answer: Final Destination

"Final Destination" was quite well-received upon its release because it took a relatively new concept and approached it without being jokey. Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, and Seann William Scott all starred in the original 2000 film by James Wong. In it, a group of students on a plane bound for Paris decided to get off the flight before takeoff when one of them had a premonition about the plane crashing midflight. When they realize that their deaths would've been fulfilled, they started dying in the order they were supposed to die on the plane...only in more freakish ways. The series had a lot of merit with viewers and several sequels were made with varying success; later ones were in 3D.

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Answer: The Eye

Directed by the Pang Brothers, "The Eye" featured a woman who received a cornea transplant granting her the ability to see after years of blindness. As is the tendency in horror films, things didn't go too well-- she started seeing ghosts in the following days. "The Eye" received a sequel in 2004, "The Eye 2", and another, "The Eye 10", in 2005. India remade it in the same year while it became yet another Americanized Asian horror offering in 2008. Jessica Alba starred in the U.S. version of "The Eye" (with the same name) and it went on to earn nearly $60,000,000 in the box office. On the flipside, despite the money, it was critically-panned and Alba was nominated for a Razzie. Certainly something not worth seeing.

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Answer: Demons

A very graphic foray into Italian gore-horror, "Demons" (known in Italy as "Demoni") followed a group of movie-goers watching an exclusive feature film. When one of the viewers accidentally cut herself on one of the film's props, she violently transformed into a hideous demon... and then more people followed the same fate in very bloody manners. Eventually, when the demon forces found an emergency exit (the whole building is barricaded shut, of course), the whole ordeal went on the loose. The protagonists were forced to crawl through vents, unearth an ancient temple, evade demons, ride a motorcycle through the theater, and find a way out. Amazing, really. "Demons" was followed by the aptly-titled "Demons 2" (brought to us by Argento and Bava once more) in 1986, the year after "Demoni" was released.

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Answer: Cabin Fever

"Cabin Fever", released in 2002, was Roth's first feature film. While its budget was quite minute, the film grossed $30,000,000 in the box office. This unprecedented gross revenue later led him to greenlight work on the "Hostel" films, renowned for their unflinching inclusion of violence and torture. Roth, aside from directing, has also acted in the Quentin Tarantino films "Death Proof" and "Inglorious Basterds". "Cabin Fever" itself was based on the premise of five friends taking a trip to a remote cabin in the woods. When they arrived, everything was fine until one of them got sick. Soon, they came to realize that a flesh-eating disease was in the water system but, of course, it was too late for many of them to act on it. When the sheriff's department found out, it was a matter of self-preservation for all sides of the battle.

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Answer: The Blob

"The Blob" tells the tale of a gooey, acidic creature found in a meteorite that is found by a small town in the United States. Soon after the discovery though, they realize that this thing has an insatiable appetite that not even a theater full of moviegoers, a doctor, a nurse, and a full diner can quell. A remake, starring Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith (Matt Dillon's brother and a star of the "Saw" films, respectively) failed in the box office. An original sequel to the 1958 movie was released on TV. This film, known as "Beware! The Blob" was released with a shoddy script (probably the reason they never used one in the first place). Evidently, the only way to kill the blob is by freezing it- as shown in the films. If that doesn't make you think twice about global warming...

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Answer: The Amityville Horror

Told to be based on real events, the story of "The Amityville Horror" was an odd one. A family moved into their beautiful new house to experience odd phenomena. Soon, they realized that the previous owners of the house were murdered. The movie and book soon spread into a large series of both novels and films. The remake featured some changes from the original, and was generally disliked by the author of the story, who sued the filmmakers. Both the original and the remake were generally popular in the box office. The sequels were not.

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Answer: Night of the Demon

Although the film title "Night of the Demon" was used several times prior to the graphic 1988 version, this one has proven to be one of the more enduring offerings, even receiving its own sequels and remakes. Directed by Kevin S. Tenney, the film had a group of teens head to a spooky place to drum up evil, demonic spirits, and the story to follow basically had them facing their untimely demises. The movie isn't necessarily the gold standard in terms of possession stories, but at a time where, internationally, these types of rampant slashers were the norm, "Night of the Demons" hit all the beats, even bringing in B-movie scream queen Linnea Quigley to chew the scenery for a bit, in all the ways you'd expect in the '80s.

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Answer: Martyrs

Considered one of the high water marks of discomforting 'New French Extremity', "Martyrs" shocked audiences at a time when torture porn and graphic horror films went mainstream. It stood up at the time when "Hostel" and "Saw" hit theatres and when other French films like "Haute Tension" were making the rounds in indie horror circles and film circuits. In "Martyrs", a family is attacked by a couple of young women who find that their house is much more nefarious than thought. "Martyrs" also saw a remake in 2015 though it never received the critical interest that the first one saw on its release.

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Answer: Lake Mungo

Filmed as though an episode of a paranormal or crime documentary, "Lake Mungo" focused on the events leading up to and following the drowning of a young girl in Australia whose body was found on a family trip to Lake Mungo. What followed was a hunt for unforeseen evidence as to the unearthly nature of her fate. "Lake Mungo" was critically acclaimed despite not really finding a theatrical audience; it went on the film festival circuit in 2008 before being picked up for the third round of After Dark's Horrorfest lineup.

From Quiz Alphabetical Horror Films - J

Answer: Joy Ride

"Joy Ride" was one in a short bout of horror films in the early 2000s that put real people in upsetting situations on the open road, and this particular one featured a prank played on a truck driver over a CB radio that got both Walker and Zahn into a great deal of trouble (involving dead bodies and near-fatal situations). "Joy Ride" was a unique thriller in retrospect as it was written and produced by J.J. Abrams before he made it bigger than he would become. It made over $36,000,000 in the box office and spun off two sequels, "Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead" and "Joy Ride 3: Roadkill", both of which were direct-to-video.

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Answer: Inferno

Intended as the second in Italian horror icon Dario Argento's 'Three Mothers' Trilogy, "Inferno" was made to represent Mater Tenebrarum, the Lady of Darkness (while "Suspiria" followed Mater Suspiriorum, the Lady of Sighs, and "The Mother of Tears" followed Mater Lachrymarum). "Inferno" has been considered one of Argento's strongest works, though many of his later giallo films and retellings of classics have been regarded as a sharp drop-off for the director. It took nearly thirty years before Argento released the third film in the trilogy starring his daughter, Asia Argento.

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Answer: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Although most critics dismissed "The Human Centipede" as nothing more than shock value, horror fans ate the negative press up; the movie turned out to be an instant cult hit amongst genre fans simply due to its premise. Showing very little actual gore, the setpiece for the movie was none other than a human centipede -- three people surgically attached from end to end to form a chain with kidnapped Asian traveler Katsuro on the front and partying friends Lindsay and Jenny in the middle and back respectively. Suffice to say it was a bonding experience for them all. Director Tom Six envisioned the movie as a franchise and, sure enough, sequels were made, each of them expanding on the idea in different ways... and expanding the chain.

From Quiz Alphabetical Horror Films - G

Answer: The Grudge & Grudge

"The Grudge", in essence, was about a curse placed upon a person who, when they died, would seek revenge and force himself upon any person, willing or not, so that they could know/experience the same suffering that they did during their death. In the original film, a woman, her son and cat were killed by the vengeful father and husband; the protagonist (and others) had to save themselves from the supernatural curse at all costs. The American remake of the film was immensely popular and, after "The Ring", it was the most famous J-Horror remake of the 2000s earning nearly $200,000,000. Two American sequels were made (only one of which went to theaters). Both the Japanese and American films were directed by Takashi Shimizu.

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