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.
In the 1985 film Fright Night , Roddy McDowell's Character Peter Vincent, was taken from horror masters Peter Cushing and Vincent Price.
In the 1982 film The Thing , the Norwegian camp scenes were actually the charred remains 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 ANSWERS
At the start of the 2003 movie Underworld , when Selene encounters a werewolf in the train tunnel, you hear a wolf howl - the sound effect is taken directly from An American Were- wolf in London .
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 Poltergeist, the skeletons that emerge from the swimming pool while Diane searches for help are actual skeletons. The original title of the 2001 movie Jeepers Creepers was " Here Comes the Boogeyman .”
To make the baboons attack the car in the Windsor Zoo park scene in The Omen , 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 Remick s’ terror as the baboons attack the car was real.
Kevin Bacon was offered the lead role in 1983's Christine , but ended up choosing Footloose instead.
The name " Cujo " 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 Pet Sematary .
Boris Karloff's character in the 1932 film The Mummy ,'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 Child's Play was "Blood Buddy".
In the 2005 film The Devil's Rejects , 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 In The Mouth of Madness, the car keys that Ac- tress Julie Carmen swallow are made out of pasta.
John Carpenter plays an uncredited role of Bennett in his 1980 horror classic The Fog .
During the shooting of the 1997 film Anaconda , 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 Hellraiser .
HORROR MOVIE TRIVIA ANSWERS
Actress Julie Adam's character in the 1954 classic The Creature From the Black Lagoon , 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 The Grudge was built entirely on a sound set, all the actors and crew were still required to remove their shoes before entering.
Although Near Dark (1987) is a vampire movie, the word "vampire" is never used in the film.
The title song for the 1958 classic The Blob , was co-written by Burt Bacharach.
The exterior of the house that was haunted in the 1960 film 13 Ghosts was later used for the Munster's TV show.
The three sharks that are killed in the movie Deep Blue Sea 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 Arachnophobia , mustard packs were used when any spiders were squashed underfoot.
There is a scene in Stephen King's The Mist where a man runs into a wire rotating book shelf. All the books were written by Stephen King.
The movie Cloverfield , (2007) has no musical score until a minute after the end credits start.
In the 1987 Goonies style horror feature The Monster Squad , there is a scene when Dracula picks up Phoebe, (played by Ashley Bank) and she screams. This scene was shot in one take because Ashley's scream was real.
When filming the 1996 spook movie The Frighteners , 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, Shocker was submitted 13 times to the MPAA to get it from an "X" rating down to an "R".
The original title of Final Destination (2000) was "Flight 180", and was originally the concept for an X-files TV episode.
In the 2005 remake of House of Wax , the scenes in which the wax is melting is actually peanut butter.
The original title of the 2002 spider movie Eight Legged Freaks was "Arac Attack".
In the Resident Evil films, the undead creatures are never referred to as zombies.