HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE QUIZ

aka DR. ANTON PHIBES’ ABOMINABLY ERUDITE, MUSICALLY MALIGNANT, CURSEDLY CLEVER HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE QUIZ

another, from the mind of D.Cozzalio.








1) 

FAVORITE VINCENT PRICE 

/ AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

PICTURES RELEASE
Corman's MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964). 

Nicolas Roeg's cinematography - nightmarishly 

beautiful (as always). And Price in it is nothing 

less than iconic.

2) WHAT HORROR CLASSIC (OR 

NON-CLASSIC) THAT HAS NOT YET 

BEEN REMADE WOULD YOU LIKE 

TO SEE UPGRADED FOR MODERN 

AUDIENCES?
I'd personally like to see Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED 

get a big budget HELLBOY-esque facelift. And I 

have somewhat lofty dreams of being the director 

who gets to update it. Granted, I'd need to get studio 

backing and establish more screen cred to even 

get Clive's permission to redo it.

3) JONATHAN FRID 

      OR THAVER DAVID?
the Fridster.

4) 

NAME ONE HORROR MOVIE 

YOU NEED TO SEE THAT 

HAS SO FAR ELUDED YOU
Off the top of my head; I've never 

seen the BASKET CASE sequels.

also, Wes Craven's SHOCKER ('89)

5) 

FAVORITE FILM DIRECTOR 

MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED 

WITH HORROR
Cronenberg.

6) INGRID PITT 

  OR BARBARA STEELE?
Barbara Steele.

7) FAVORITE 50'S SCI-FI 

/ HORROR CREATURE

Those spinal cord & brain monsters 

from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE!!

8) FAVORITE / BEST SEQUEL 

TO AN ESTABLISHED 

HORROR CLASSIC
Cameron's ALIENS (1986) 

is immaculate.

9) NAME A SEQUEL IN A HORROR 

SERIES WHICH CLEARLY 

SIGNALED THAT THE 

ONCE-VITAL FRANCHISE 

HAD RUN OUT OF GAS
FINAL DESTINATION 3 

was a letdown to me.. even if i do 

love the intro part

10) JOHN CARRADINE 

 OR LON CHANEY JR?
Lon Chaney Jr.

11) 

WHAT WAS THE LAST 

HORROR MOVIE YOU SAW 

IN A THEATER? ON DVD 

OR BLU-RAY?
Theater: Kevin Smith's RED STATE
At home on dvd: 

CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

12) 

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE 

FIEND / MONSTER
Guilala from X FROM OUTER SPACE! 

Adorable and hilarious

13) 

FAVORITE MARIO BAVA?
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES 

14) FAVORITE HORROR 

    ACTOR OR ACTRESS
Christopher Lee.

15) NAME A GREAT HORROR 

DIRECTOR'S LEAST EFFECTIVE 

MOVIE
not a fan of Carpenter's 

VAMPIRES ('98)

16) GRAYSON HALL 

    OR JOAN BENNETT?
My Joanie.

17) WHEN DID YOU REALIZE 

THAT YOU WERE A FAN OF 

THE HORROR GENRE? 

& IF YOU'RE NOT, WHEN DID YOU 

REALIZE YOU WEREN'T?
In 6th grade I became obsessed with 

Romero's DEAD trilogy. Especially DAY 

OF THE DEAD (1985). The whole survival 

horror scenario & general bleakness of those 

films captivated me.

18) FAVORITE 

BERT I. GORDON 

    (MR. B.I.G.) MOVIE?
THE FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)

19) 

NAME AN OBSCURE 

HORROR FAVORITE THAT 

YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE 

KNEW ABOUT
This creepy Aussie movie 

called CELIA ('89).

20) HUMAN CENTIPEDE-- 

         YES OR NO?
Yes to the first one.. I can't vouch for the 2nd though. 

The first one is a genuine oddity and deserves

 its cult status

21) AND WHILE WE'RE IN THE 

NEIGHBORHOOD, IS THERE A

 HORROR FILM YOU CAN 

THINK OF THAT YOU FELT 

"WENT TOO FAR"?
I feel the graphic depictions of rape in I SPIT ON YOUR 

GRAVE (1978) and A SERBIAN FILM (2009) go too far. 

Especially the latter. I don't know where the line is for 

me, but those two films cross it..

22) 

NAME A FILM THAT IS TECHNICALLY 

OUTSIDE OF THE HORROR GENRE 

THAT YOU MIGHT STILL FEEL 

COMFORTABLE DESCRIBING 

AS A HORROR
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

23) LARA PARKER 

OR KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT?
Lara!

24) IF YOU'RE A HORROR FAN AT 

SOME POINT IN YOUR PAST YOUR 

DAD, GRANDMOTHER, TEACHER 

OR SOME OTHER DISGUSTED FIGURE 

OF AUTHORITY PROBABLY WAGGED

 HER/HIS FINGER AT YOU AND SAID, 

"WHY DO YOU INSIST ON READING

/WATCHING ALL THIS MORBID 

MONSTER/HORROR JUNK?" HOW 

DID YOU REPLY? AND IF THAT REPLY 

FELL SHORT SOMEHOW, HOW WOULD 

YOU HAVE LIKED TO HAVE REPLIED?
My mother was the one who was always trying to 

shield me from horror and would get mad when I was 

always watching them as a teenager. Due to her 

protective nature+ all the memories she has of me not 

being able to sleepas a child because I was scared. 

"You're filling your mind with all that violence and 

scary images!" to which I only replied something like 

"It's not that scary.".. Now I wish I had said "Some of 

these movies have great resilient characters & are 

causing me to think long & hard about philosophical 

questions!" And "they're preparing me for the 

nightmare of adult life!"

25) 

NAME THE CRITIC OR WEB 

SITE YOU MOST ENJOY 

READING ON THE SUBJECT 

OF THE HORROR GENRE
Scott Weinberg has exposed me to many 

horror movies! Plus he writes about them 

with infectious passion.

26) MOST FRIGHTENING 

IMAGE YOU'VE EVER TAKEN 

AWAY FROM A HORROR MOVIE
Those human shaped burn marks on the 

walls in PULSE (2001).. 

They cry Hiroshima 💔

27) 

YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY 

ASSOCIATED WITH WATCHING 

A HORROR MOVIE
Watching DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) for the first time 

with my dad in middle school! We had to drive all the 

way to a Best Buy in Plano to get the only copy they 

had in stock. My dad had fond memories of seeing it 

during it's original release and he had got me super 

stoked to see it. I already loved NIGHT OF THE 

LIVING DEAD (1968) at that point but he knew I 

would like the 2nd one even more for its more modern 

setting & action tropes. DAWN did not disappoint!

28) 

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT/SIGNIFICANT HORROR 

MOVIE OF THE PAST 20 YEARS 

(1992-2012)? WHY?
28 DAYS LATER (2002) for the technical innovation 

of being shot digital and also for the way it visualized 

pandemic & civil unrest. It took all of Romero's pet 

themes & updated them perfectly to the age of 

terrorism. It felt like I was watching a visceral 

documentary about the collapse of society and not just 

another big studio movie. Almost as revolutionary as 

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) must have 

been in its day.

29) FAVORITE 

DR. PHIBES CURSE 

(FROM EITHER FILM)
The locusts!

30) YOU ARE PROGRAMMING AN 

ALL-NIGHT HALLOWEEN HORROR-THON 

FOR YOUR FAVORITE OLD MOVIE 

PLACE. WHAT FIVE MOVIES MAKE 

UP YOUR SCHEDULE?
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

THE ASPHYX (1972)

AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

TREMORS (1990)

& DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001)