Q 01/05

In the 1960 film Psycho, where does Marion Crane stop for the night and meet her fate?

A) Overlook Motel

B) Bates Motel

C) Black Lodge Motel

D) Pinehurst Motel

Answer · why

B) Bates Motel

Bates Motel is where Psycho kills off its star well before the halfway mark; Hitchcock had cinemas turn away anyone who arrived after the film had sta...

Q 02/05

Which author wrote the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus?

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Bram Stoker

C) Mary Shelley

D) Ann Radcliffe

Answer · why

C) Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley began Frankenstein at 18, after Lord Byron challenged his guests at Lake Geneva in 1816 to each write a ghost story; the novel first appe...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the killer in the Friday the 13th franchise who wears a hockey mask?

A) Leatherface

B) Freddy Krueger

C) Michael Myers

D) Jason Voorhees

Answer · why

D) Jason Voorhees

Jason Voorhees is the iconic hockey-masked killer of the Friday the 13th series. Interestingly, he didn't get the hockey mask until Part III (1982) — ...

Q 04/05

In The Shining, what has Wendy's husband typed endlessly in his manuscript?

A) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

B) Come and play with us, Danny

C) Here's Johnny, here's Johnny

D) Redrum, redrum, redrum, redrum

Answer · why

A) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy fills the whole manuscript; for foreign prints Kubrick reshot the pages with local sayings, so the German J...

Q 05/05

Which 2017 Jordan Peele film follows a Black man visiting his white girlfriend's family?

A) Antebellum

B) Us

C) Get Out

D) Candyman

Answer · why

C) Get Out

Get Out was the directing debut of Jordan Peele, until then known for sketch comedy; he calls it a 'social thriller', a film in which society itself i...