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) Elf

Answer · why

B) A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story (1983), the Ralphie-and-the-BB-gun comedy, was directed by Bob Clark, who had made the sorority slasher Black Christmas in 1974 and ...

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) George A. Romero

Answer · why

A) John Carpenter

John Carpenter co-wrote the script with producer Debra Hill, directed, and composed the 5/4 piano theme himself; he cited the mask in Eyes Without a F...

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...