Classic Horror
Re: Ed Wood
All Things Halloween
Potpourri
100

This German silent film from 1922 is the first (unauthorized) film adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula

What is Nosferatu?

100

in 1980, Edward D. Wood Jr. was given this infamous "title." 

What is the Worst Director of All-Time?

100

In Trick ’r Treat, this small, masked figure enforces Halloween traditions and punishes those who break them.


Who is Sam?

100
Which state produces the largest volume of pumpkins?

What is Illinois?

200

1975 Steven Speilberg film causes folks to re-think swimming in the ocean

What is Jaws?

200

This 1931 Universal horror film made Bela Lugosi’s voice, cape, and aristocratic manner inseparable from its title character.

What is Dracula?

200

This annual Halloween installment of The Simpsons features spooky tales and parodies of famous horror films.

What is The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror.
200

This massive franchise features a sinister puppet and a mastermind who forces victims into deadly games to test their will to live.

What is SAW

300

1960 Alfred Hitchcock film causes folks to reconsider taking showers

What is PSYCHO?

300

Originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space, this Ed Wood production features aliens resurrecting the dead.

What is Plan 9 from Outer Space?

300

The author of this 1966 TV classic

Who is Charles M. Schulz?

300

Wes Craven directed film from 1996 reinvents the modern slasher genre with a postmodern flavor

What is SCREAM?

400

1973 film caused hysteria and made folks think differently about projectile green pea soup vomit

What is The Exorcist?

400

In Burton’s film, Ed meets this legendary director of Citizen Kane and discovers that even his idol struggles with studio interference.


Who is Orson Welles?

400

Michael Myers’s iconic mask in John Carpenter’s Halloween was adapted from a store-bought mask of this famous TV Sci-fi character.


Who is Captain Kirk (William Shatner)?

400

Although Jason Voorhees became the franchise’s signature killer, this character commits the murders in the original Friday the 13th. (an HBO series starts this week)


Who is Pamela Voorhees (Jason’s mother)?

500

This 1968 George A. Romero film trapped survivors in a farmhouse and completely established the modern zombie film.

What is Night of the Living Dead?

500

The film Ed Wood correctly highlights the professional feud/jealousy between Bela Lugosi and his rival:

Who is Boris Karloff?

500


What is la Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

500

Horror criticism uses this term for the surviving young woman who confronts the killer near the end of many slasher films.

What is the final girl?

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