Horror Film Remakes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Friday the 13th

The original film was directed by Sean S. Cunningham. It starred Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer and Kevin Bacon to name a few. It was about a group of teens who got murdered at Camp Crystal Lake while trying to get it re-opened for the summer. The remake starred Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees and Jared Padalecki as Clay Miller, who was looking for his missing sister.

Answer: Prom Night

Because of a tragic accident that caused the death of a young girl who fell out of a school window, a masked killer wound up targeting the ones responsible and began stalking and killing them one by one on prom night. The original 1980 version starred Jamie Lee Curtis as Kim, the older sister of the girl who died.

In the 2008 remake, Brittany Snow played the role of Donna Keppel. She and her friends went to their school prom, while she was being stalked by a man named Richard Fenton... who had no problem offing anyone who got in his way of getting to Donna!

Answer: Dawn of the Dead

Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames and Mekhi Phifer starred in this remake to the iconic 1978 film. A group of survivors took refuge in the town mall to escape hordes of zombies during a worldwide epidemic. The tagline for both films was "When there's no more room in Hell the dead will walk the Earth".

Answer: The Fly

Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis starred in the 1986 remake of 'The Fly'. A scientist named Seth had a teleportation experiment go horribly wrong, which wound up mashing his DNA with that of a housefly. His transformation was slow and gruesome! The original film starred Vincent Price and was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann.

Answer: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

There was a hooded serial killer on the loose in Texarkana, Arkansas. The original film took place in the year 1946, while the remake took place 65 years later... which had the viewer wondering if it was a copycat killer on the loose that time around.

Answer: Maniac

The original film starred Joe Spinell as the psycho killer who scalped his victims and had a thing for creepy mannequins. Make-up artist Tom Savini had a role in the 1980 version as a victim who got his head blown off with a shotgun.

Answer: Night of the Demons

In the original film released in 1988, a group of friends decided to throw a party on Halloween night at a funeral parlor that went by the name of "Hull House". After they performed a seance, they wound up releasing demons that took over their souls one by one. Linnea Quigley starred in the original and had a very small cameo in the remake.

Answer: The Hills Have Eyes

Alexandre Aja wrote and directed the 2006 remake of this Wes Craven classic. A family vacationing with their RV became victims to a family of cannibals that stalked and terrorized them in the mountain areas away from civilization.

Answer: The Wicker Man

In the original film, a police sergeant went to a village in Scotland to search for a young girl who went missing. The more time he spent there, the more he realized something was definitely wrong with the town and its residents! Nicolas Cage played the role of Sheriff Edward Malus in the 2006 remake.

Answer: Dark Water

Like the original, a woman and her young daughter moved to a run down old apartment to start a new life together. This was during a bitter custody battle between her and her ex husband over their daughter Cecilia. While living there strange things happened, including a very dark stain on the leaky ceiling... which just kept getting larger! Then there was the ghost of a little girl that kept appearing...