Q 01/05

Bob Clark, director of the 1974 sorority-house slasher, made which 1983 family comedy?

A) Home Alone

B) A Christmas Story

C) Uncle Buck

D) National Lampoon's Vacation

Answer · why

B) A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story came nine years after Bob Clark's slasher Black Christmas, and he could only get it made once his raunchy hit Porky's had given him ...

Q 02/05

Who wrote, directed and composed the score for Halloween (1978), the film that kicked off the slasher's golden age?

A) John Carpenter

B) Wes Craven

C) Tobe Hooper

D) Brian De Palma

Answer · why

A) John Carpenter

John Carpenter co-wrote the script with producer Debra Hill and, with no room in the budget for a composer, wrote and recorded the whole score himself...

Q 03/05

In what decade did the 'Golden Age' of slasher films begin?

A) 1960s

B) 1990s

C) 1980s

D) 1970s

Answer · why

D) 1970s

Scholars count more than 100 similar films from 1978 to 1984, mostly panned and hugely profitable, set in high schools, summer camps and hospitals.

Q 04/05

What do critics call the lone woman left standing to face the killer, a term coined by scholar Carol J. Clover?

A) Final girl

B) Scream queen

C) Lone survivor

D) Heroine

Answer · why

A) Final girl

Final girl, usually the most chaste and watchful of the group, while her friends are picked off for their sins. Clover's 1992 book Men, Women, and Cha...

Q 05/05

Which 1978 film, made for $300,000, has Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode as its lone survivor?

A) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

B) Friday the 13th

C) Halloween

D) Black Christmas

Answer · why

C) Halloween

Its financier was Syrian-American producer Moustapha Akkad, and its 'killer in a previously safe place' set-up owes a debt to Black Christmas from fou...