Q 01/05

Which 1984 film introduced Freddy Krueger, the scarred killer with a bladed glove?

A) Friday the 13th

B) A Nightmare on Elm Street

C) Children of the Corn

D) My Bloody Valentine

Answer · why

B) A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger murders teenagers through their dreams as revenge on the parents who burned him alive; Wes Craven wrote and...

Q 02/05

Which 1973 film, with 'Tubular Bells' as its eerie theme, was the first horror movie nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?

A) Rosemary's Baby

B) The Exorcist

C) The Omen

D) Poltergeist

Answer · why

B) The Exorcist

The Exorcist earned ten Oscar nominations and won two, for sound and adapted screenplay; William Peter Blatty based his novel on reports of a 1949 exo...

Q 03/05

Which director made the 1960 thriller about the Bates Motel that is famous for its shower scene?

A) Alfred Hitchcock

B) Billy Wilder

C) Orson Welles

D) Stanley Kubrick

Answer · why

A) Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock directed Psycho (1960) in black and white with his television crew on a small budget; the shower scene alone took about seven days to...

Q 04/05

Which 1975 film made a two-note theme scarier than its great white shark?

A) Piranha

B) The Shallows

C) Jaws

D) Deep Blue Sea

Answer · why

C) Jaws

Jaws (1975) is Spielberg's great-white thriller; its mechanical sharks kept breaking, so he mostly hid the creature and let John Williams's two-note t...

Q 05/05

Which 1974 horror film introduced Leatherface, who wears masks made of human skin?

A) The Town That Dreaded Sundown

B) Last House on the Left

C) Black Christmas

D) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Answer · why

D) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was sold as a true story but is fiction: Leatherface was only loosely inspired by Wisconsin killer Ed Gein, who also insp...