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1) Approximately how many Frankenstein movies have been made, including spoofs, but not including shorts, TV series or episodes, or made for TV movies? (some form of The Monster must have a role in the film--movies that simply use the name Frankenstein without having The Monster or which merely borrow the Frankenstein name for some other silly type of monster don't count)

a. At least 8
b. no more than 20
c. less than 30
d. at least 50

2) How do you kill a werewolf?

a. A wooden stake through its heart
b. Behead it
c. With a silver bullet
d. With holy water
e. all of the above

3) What was Halloween's Michael Meyers famous for wearing?

a. A hockey mask
b. A Nixon mask
c. A glove with steel claws
d. Nothing at all

4) How do you become a vampire?

a. You get bitten by one
b. You get bitten and then drink some of its blood
c. A magic spell
d. Hypnosis

5) What made the movie TheTingler unusual?

a. The producer installed small electric shock devices under theater seats
b. It was the first horror movie to use 3-D glasses
c. The audience was sprayed with fake blood each time the Tingler appeared onscreen
d. The audience booed and walked out of the first showing

6) How do you become a werewolf?

a. You get bitten by one
b. You get clawed by one
c. You get bitten then drink some of its blood
d. You inherit the werewolf genes from your parents

7) Which of these was not a 1950's grade B horror movie?

a. The Blob
b. The Tingler
c. The Little Shop Of Horrors
d. Frankenstein Unbound

8) Which of the following movies is not based on a Stephen King book?

a. Christine
b. Nightmare On Elm Street
c. The Shining
d. Maximum Overdrive

9) In Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire, what is the name of the vampire friend that Lestat made for himself?

a. Etienne
b. David
c. Louis
d. Armand

10) Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein:

a. To make money after Keats dumped her
b. As a spoof
c. During a weekend spent with Keats, Lord Byron and other friends in a spooky old house
d. To prove to Keats and Byron that women could write as well as men

11) How do you kill a vampire?

a. A wooden stake through its hearty
b. Set it on fire
c. With sunlight
d. Cut off its head
d. All of the above

12) In the movie and book Cujo, what kind of a creature was Cujo?

a. A crocodile
b. A very large bat
c. A very large rat
d. A Saint Bernard

13) Bram Stoker based his famous character Dracula on what real person?

a. Ivan the Terrible
b. Ghangis Khan
c. Vlad the Impaler
d. Hilter

14) According to movie lore, why does The Mummy attack people?

a. He wants to eat their brains
b. He is angry that his tomb was violated
a. He wants to suck the life out of people so he can live again
b. He is cursed to walk the earth searching for his lost love

15) What grade “B” horror film director loosely based several of his films on Edgar Allen Poe's stories?

a. Joe D'Amato
b. Ed Wood
c. Roger Corman
d. Rick Baker

16) Which of the following is not a story by Edgar Allen Poe?

a. The Faces Of Death
b. The Pit And The Pendulum
c. The Telltale Heart
d. The Red Masque

17) In Anne Rice's The Mummy, who does The Mummy try to bring back to life, with disastrous results?

a. Cleopatra
b. Helen Of Troy
c. Joan Of Arc
d. Lucretia Borgia

18) What Roger Corman spoof co-starred a young Jack Nicholson as the handsome young hero—in tights? (Hint: Vincent Price and Boris Karloff starred)

a. The Pit And The Pendulum
b. The Telltale Heart
c. The Raven
d. Little Shop Of Horrors

19) In Little Shop Of Horrors, what was the monster?

a. A plant
b. a dentist
c. a puppy
d. an alien

20) Which of the following horror film remakes was a musical?

a. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
b. The Blob
c. Dracula
d. Little Shop Of Horrors

21) What famous and once beautiful actress made a series of scissor-murder movies?

a. Shirley McLaine
b. Mary Pickford
a. Bette Davis
b. Joan Crawford

22) What two actors played the masochistic dental patient in the two versions of Little Shop Of Horrors?

a. Steve McQueen and Robert Redford
b. Jack Nicholson and Bill Murray
c. Michael Landon and Martin Short
d. Lon Chaney and Rick Moranis

23) Which of the following Stephen King books has not been made into a TV movie?

a. The Stand
b. The Tommyknockers
c. The Langoliers
d. The Shining
e. none of the above

24) Which of the following Stephen King books was written under the pen name Richard Bachman?

a. Thinner
b. Stand By Me
c. Misery
d. It

25) In Phantasm, what unusual thing was used to kill people?

a. A triple crossbow
b. A flying orb
c. A robotic axe with legs
d. A dwarf dressed like a Jawa

26) What was the name of the monster in the Nightmare On Elm Street series?

a. Eddy Kroger
b. Freddy Krueger
c. Freddy Kagel
d. Franky Krueger

27) What actor played The Werewolf in a number of movies, as well as playing the Hunchback Of Notre Dame?

a. Bela Lugosi
b. Peter Lorri
c. Lon Chaney
d. Boris Karloff

28) Which of the following did not feature a murderous talking doll?

a. Child's Play
b. The Twilight Zone Episode "Living Doll"
c. The X-Files episode "Chinga"
d. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episode "The Puppet Show"
e. none of the above

29) What was the tag line (the line used to advertise the movie) for the original Alien?

a. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
b. In space, no one can hear you scream.
c. Help me, help me!
d. It's not our system…

30) In Evil Dead II, what did the lead character replace his severed hand with?

a. A hook
b. an hatchet
c. a machine gun
d. a chain saw

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