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This 1989 NES game, published by LJN, features a sleep meter that goes down slowly as the player progresses through the level.
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
100
This 1931 monster film was loosely based on a novel of the same name by Mary Shelley.
What is Frankenstein?
100
This horror author has written more than 70 books, which have sold over half a billion copies.
Who is Stephen King?
100
This 2009 zombie comedy featured possibly the best cameo in horror film history by Bill Murray, playing himself.
What is Zombieland?
100
In this 1997 cult classic psychological thriller, a gigantic, mechanical structure of unknown purpose and origin is made up of many small rooms, each with 6 doors which lead into adjacent rooms, mostly laden with deadly booby traps.
What is Cube?
200
This 2002 rated "M" game utilizes "sanity effects" to enhance gameplay as the player navigates a number of locations as twelve different characters in different time periods.
What is Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Nintendo GameCube)?
200
This 1982 classic by John Carpenter featured Kurt Russell in the lead role.
What is The Thing?
200
Richard Matheson's 1954 novel of the same name was adapted into a 2007 post-apocalyptic zombie film featuring Will Smith.
What is I Am Legend?
200
This movie featured a video that, if watched, would kill the viewer in 7 days.
What is The Ring?
200
In the Alien franchise, this is the (good) reason why the protagonists don't just shoot the xenomorphs with their guns.
What is acid blood?
300
This 1989 horror role-playing game for the Famicom features random battles, and five characters that have specific skills that are necessary to complete the game.
What is Sweet Home?
300
9 people associated with the production of this 1973 classic died before the film was released.
What is The Exorcist? There are tales about ominous events surrounding the year-long shoot, including the deaths of nine people associated with the production and stories about a mysterious fire that destroyed the set one weekend. Actors Jack MacGowran (who played Burke Dennings) and Vasiliki Maliaros (Father Karras’ Mother) died before the film was released.
300
Anne Rice's classic novel Interview With the Vampire was adapted into a film starring Tom Cruise as a vampire by this name.
Who is Lestat?
300
In this horror film, the survivors of a zombie apocalypse decided to make their stand in a shopping mall.
What is Dawn of the Dead?
300
Director Ridley Scott used real cattle hearts and stomachs to create these in the 1979 sci-fi horror classic, Alien.
What are alien eggs?
400
In this unlicensed game for the Nintendo NES, the player uses the NES zapper light gun to maim, mutilate, and murder helpless victims om a variety of dungeon settings.
What is Chiller?
400
This state houses Camp Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th films.
What is New Jersey? Camp Crystal Lake, also known as Camp Forest Green, and, more commonly Camp Blood, was a summer camp for kids in the "Friday the 13th" film series. Located in or near Sussex County, New Jersey, Camp Crystal Lake was most infamous for being the home of serial killer Jason Voorhees and the site of many of his murders.
400
This author of The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and more, perished at the young age of 40 in 1849.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
This 2012 horror film featured an underground facility, from which a experiment on unsuspecting college students is performed, to an apocalyptic, Lovecraftian end.
What is Cabin in the Woods?
400
In this 1997 sci-fi horror film, Sam Neill stars as Dr. William Weir, who eventually falls victim to an evil sentience from an alternate dimension which torments and possesses the inhabitants of the titular interstellar starship.
What is Event Horizon?
500
This 1999 award-winning survival horror/sci-fi game for the PC/Mac features the player as a lone soldier trying to stem the outbreak of a genetic infection.
What is System Shock 2?
500
This 1922 German Expressionist horror film, regarded as a masterpiece of cinema, starred Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
What is Nosferatu?
500
This 1898 classic novella by Henry James ends in the death of a little boy named Miles.
What is Turn of the Screw?
500
This critically acclaimed 2008 film tells the story of the friendship between a 12 year old boy and a vampire.
What is Let the Right One In?
500
In this 1956 classic, a small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
What is Invasion of the Body-Snatchers?