Horror Movie Trivia
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HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA 13 Ghosts Pet Sematary Alien Poltergeist An American Werewolf in London Resident Evil Anaconda Shocker Arachnophobia Snakes on a Plane Beetlejuice The Blob Child's Play The Creature From the Black Lagoon Christine The Curse of Frankenstein Cloverfield The Devil's Rejects Cujo The Exorcist Darkman The Fog Deep Blue Sea The Frighteners Eight Legged Freaks The Grudge Final Destination The Lost Boys Frankenstein The Mist Fright Night The Monster Squad Halloween The Mummy Hellraiser The Omen House of Wax The Ring In The Mouth of Madness The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Interview with the Vampire The Thing Jeepers Creepers Underworld Near Dark Vampire's Kiss FILL IN THE BLANKS ON WITH THE MOVIE TITLES ABOVE. USE EACH TITLE ONLY ONCE. HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA QUESTIONS Bela Lugosi turned down the role as the Monster in the 1931 film ____________. Child Actress Daveigh Chase played the cursed girl, Samara Morgan from the 2002 movie ____________ . She was also the voice of Lilo in Disney’s Lilo and Stitch . In the 2006 movie ____________ , there is a scene in which the male flight attendant throws a snake into the microwave. The button he pushes to cook actually reads "Snake". Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming of ____________ . In a se- quence where she was thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her from the bed. Burstyn fell on her coccyx and screamed out in pain, which was filmed. Director Tim Burton originally wanted Sammy Davis, Jr. to play the lead role in his 1988 Horror/Comedy ____________ . The name of the ship in Dan O'Bannon's script for the 1979 film ____________ came from the 1904 novel written by Joseph Conrad, Nostromo. Actor Bruce Campbell was originally set to star in the 1990 film ____________ before it went to Liam Neeson. Jamie Lee Curtis was paid $8,000 for her role as Laurie Strode in the 1978 film ________ . John Larroquette was the narrator in the 1974 film ____________ In the 1987 movie ____________ , Kiefer Sutherland was only meant to wear black gloves when riding the motorbike. However, while messing around on the bike he fell off, breaking his wrist, which forced him to wear the gloves through the whole movie to cover his cast. Christopher Lee actually played the role of the Creature in the 1957 film ______________ a year before he ever starred as Dracula. Nicolas Cage had to eat a live cockroach in the 1989 film ____________ which took him three takes. For the 1994 film ____________ , Anne Rice initially voiced her objections to the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat; but, after seeing the finished film, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in Daily Variety praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about the film. In the 1985 film ____________ , Roddy McDowell's Character Peter Vincent, was taken from horror masters Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. In the 1982 film ____________ , the Norwegian camp scenes were actually the charred re- mains of the American site from the end of the film. Rather than go to the expense of building and burning down another camp, Carpenter re-used the destroyed American camp. HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA QUESTIONS At the start of the 2003 movie ____________ , when Selene encounters a werewolf in the train tunnel, you hear a wolf howl - the sound effect is taken directly from An American Werewolf in London . ____________ was the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Makeup. That category was created in 1981. In the 1982 movie ____________, the skeletons that emerge from the swimming pool while Diane searches for help are actual skeletons. The original title of the 2001 movie ____________ was " Here Comes the Boogeyman .” To make the baboons attack the car in the Windsor Zoo park scene in ____________ , an official from the zoo was in the back seat of the car with a baby baboon, but the baboons had no response at all. They then took the head of the baboons in the car, and the baboons outside went crazy. Lee Remicks’ terror as the baboons attack the car was real. Kevin Bacon was offered the lead role in 1983's ____________ but ended up choosing Foot- loose instead. The name " ____________ " used for the 1983 film of the same name is an ancient Indian word meaning "unstoppable force." Seven cats were used to play the part of "Church" in the film ____________ . Boris Karloff's character in the 1932 film ____________ 'Ardath Bey',(the name Imhotep assumes after his exhumation) is an anagram of 'Death by Ra' (Ra is the Egyptian sun-god). The original working title of the 1988 film ____________ was "Blood Buddy". In the 2005 film ____________ Karen Black demanded a higher salary to reprise her role as Mother Firefly, but since Director Rob Zombie could not afford to increase her pay, she was replaced by actress Leslie Easterbrook instead. In Director John Carpenter's 1994 movie ____________, the car keys that Actress Julie Carmen swallow are made out of pasta. John Carpenter plays an uncredited role of Bennett in his 1980 horror classic ____________ During the shooting of the 1997 film ____________ , the animatronics snake shorted out which caused it to lose control. Some of the footage was later used in the film. "Sadomasochists From Beyond the Grave" was the original working title for ___________ . HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA QUESTIONS Actress Julie Adam's character in the 1954 classic ____________ was accidentally knocked unconscious by the stuntman playing the creature when he hit her head on the side of the entrance of the cave while carrying her inside. Even though the house in the 2004 movie ____________ was built entirely on a sound set, all the actors and crew were still required to remove their shoes before entering. Although ____________ (1987) is a vampire movie, the word "vampire" is never used in the film. The title song for the 1958 classic ____________ was co-written by Burt Bacharach. The exterior of the house that was haunted in the 1960 film ____________ was later used for the Munster's TV show. The three sharks that are killed in the movie ____________ are killed in the same manner as the three sharks in the first three Jaws movies and in the same order. In the 1990 film ____________ , mustard packs were used when any spiders were squashed underfoot. There is a scene in Stephen King's ____________ where a man runs into a wire rotating book shelf. All the books were written by Stephen King. The movie ________ , (2007) has no musical score until a minute after the end credits start. In the 1987 Goonies style horror feature ____________ there is a scene when Dracula picks up Phoebe, (played by Ashley Bank) and she screams. This scene was shot in one take be- cause Ashley's scream was real. When filming the 1996 spook movie ____________ Michael J. Fox repeatedly blew his lines when calling John Astin's character "Doc", the name of Christopher Llyod's character in the Back to the Future trilogy. According to Wes Craven, his 1989 movie, ____________ was submitted 13 times to the MPAA to get it from an "X" rating down to an "R". The original title of ____________ (2000) was "Flight 180", and was originally the concept for an X-files TV episode. In the 2005 remake of ____________ the scenes in which the wax is melting is actually peanut butter. The original title of the 2002 spider movie ____________ was "Arac Attack". In the ____________ films, the undead creatures are never referred to as zombies. HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA ANSWERS Bela Lugosi turned down the role as the Monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein . Child Actress Daveigh Chase played the cursed girl, Samara Morgan from the 2002 movie The Ring . She was also the voice of Lilo in Disney’s Lilo and Stitch . In the 2006 movie Snakes on a Plane , there is a scene in which the male flight attendant throws a snake into the microwave. The button he pushes to cook actually reads "Snake". Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming of The Exorcist . In a se- quence where she was thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her from the bed. Burstyn fell on her coccyx and screamed out in pain, which was filmed filmed. Director Tim Burton originally wanted Sammy Davis, Jr. to play the lead role in his 1988 Horror/Comedy Beetlejuice . The name of the ship in Dan O'Bannon's script for the 1979 film Alien came from the 1904 novel written by Joseph Conrad, Nostromo. Actor Bruce Campbell was originally set to star in the 1990 film Darkman before it went to Liam Neeson. Jamie Lee Curtis was paid a total of $8,000 for her role as Laurie Strode in the 1978 film Halloween . John Larroquette was the narrator in the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the 1987 movie The Lost Boys , Kiefer Sutherland was only meant to wear black gloves when riding the motorbike. However, while messing around on the bike he fell off, breaking his wrist, which forced him to wear the gloves through the whole movie to cover his cast. Christopher Lee actually played the role of the Creature in the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein a year before he ever starred as Dracula. Nicolas Cage had to eat a live cockroach in the 1989 film Vampire's Kiss which took him three takes. For the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire , Anne Rice initially voiced her objections to the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat; but, after seeing the finished film, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in Daily Variety praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about the film.