About This Quiz
For as long as movies have existed, there have been film makers who want to sent audiences home terrified. The earliest horror movies were silent black and white offerings, evolving into Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, then '80s slasher flicks, and more recently the "torture porn" trend that gave us films likes Saw and Hostel.The genre of horror movies continues to grow. Films like Get Out even attracted major Oscar consideration, a rarity for most scary movies. Do you consider yourself a horror movie expert? Do you know your Freddys from you Jasons, your Pinheads from your Leatherfaces? If so, test your knowledge with Goliath's Ultimate Horror Movie Quiz!
Technically, the IT monster is more than just a clown, as it can shapeshift to represent your greatest fear.
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Leatherface, who we later learn is named Jedidiah Sawyer, wears gruesome masks made out of the skin of his previous victims.
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The famed Overlook Hotel in the movie is actually the Timberline Lodge in Oregon.
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The Orca was no match for Jaws, which promptly sank. It appears in the sequel though, as divers explore its wreckage.
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The movie is a metaphor for an STD -- you can only remove (postpone?) the curse by passing it on to someone else.
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Played by Neeve Campbell, Sidney is terrorized by a number of different killers, most of them donning the now iconic Ghostface mask.
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While alive, Krueger escaped jail on a technicality. Angry citizens formed a mob and burned him to death.
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The sunken place is a metaphor for all those who are marginalized, no matter how loud they scream about it.
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The oppressive government dubbed The New Founding Fathers uses this event to push the crime rate under 1% for the rest of the calendar year.
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After his daughter is killed in a car accident, he kidnaps the guilty driver and plans to force her into providing a replacement child.
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The production crew purchased the mask for $2, and then painted it white and modified it slightly.
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Released way back in 1980, this film was so graphic and realistic that the director had to prove he hadn’t actually murdered the actors.
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Presumably, it was that creepy girl who crawls out of televisions and murders everyone.
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“It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again” is a terrifying movie quote.
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Annabelle has two solo movies already, with a third one on the way.
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In one of horror’s great twist endings, Jigsaw was actually the “dead body” in the middle of the bathroom cell the whole time!
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Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor despite only appearing on screen for roughly 20 minutes of the movie!
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After rigging an election to have Carrie named Prom Queen, a bucket of pig’s blood is dumped on her, unleashing a vengeful telekinetic fury!
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The Swedish film was remade in English under the name 'Let Me In', but most horror fans will tell you that the original is way better.
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In the second movie, Jason merely appears with a sack over his head. The hockey mask debuted in the third film.
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The couple are famous for investigating the Amityville haunting, although there's plenty of skepticism about their methods and findings.
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This slogan was displayed right on the poster of 'Alien', which launched an entire franchise of sequels, comics, spinoffs, and video games.
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Before 'Gremlins' was released in 1984, there was no middle ground between PG and R ratings.
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Sam Raimi's 'Evil Dead' trilogy has became a cult classic, with Bruce Campbell starring as the campy Ash Williams.
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The elderly women rips a button off Christine’s coat, and curses it. Attempts to remove the curse prove unsuccessful.
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The 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s best-selling novel teaches a hard lesson about accepting death.
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David Cronenberg directed 'The Fly'. Carpenter also directed 'Christine' and 'Village of the Damned'.
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Ray managed to use a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into the doll right before he died in a shootout with the police.
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Dressed in a clown costume for Halloween, a six-year-old Myers stabs his older sister to death, claiming his first victim.
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“Mother” was not a fan of the young Marion Crane. The scene was considered highly controversial when the movie was released in 1960.
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