Lights Off: Name the Scariest Halloween Films

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Some films take fear to the limits. Terror does not necessarily involve graphic violence. Indeed, it begins and lives in the mind, and from it ripples horrific cinematic images that are not easily forgotten, if ever. This is the lair of the most frightening Halloween films you can imagine. Take it now, but do not be surprised if you need to leave the lights on afterward.

Terror-Filled Films Quiz Questions

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Question 1

This 1991 film featuring two horrifying murderers won five Oscars. A young FBI agent, on the trail of a savage killer who skins his victims, must consult with a brilliant cannibal psychiatrist behind bars for insights into the murderer's mind. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Steel and Lace
  • B
    Bad Karma
  • C
    The Silence of the Lambs
  • D
    Body Parts

Question 2

This 1973 film has been named the most frightening film of all time, with good reason. No matter what you believe, scenes throughout the film, especially the emotional and frightening climax, will stay with you for a long time.

  • A
    The Exorcist
  • B
    Dark Places
  • C
    The Devil's Wedding Night
  • D
    The Crazies

Question 3

Open, empty spaces are even more frightening than confined ones, and long hallways with many closed doors are terrifying. This 1980 film tells the story of the terrible things that happen when an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic moves his family into a large, remote hotel for the winter when he agrees to serve as caretaker. Can you name this film?

  • A
    The Children
  • B
    The Shining
  • C
    The Changeling
  • D
    Demented

Question 4

This 1990 miniseries is an adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 eponymous novel, in which children are terrorized and haunted by a dreadful being. Can you name it?

  • A
    The Bye Bye Man
  • B
    It
  • C
    The Evil Within
  • D
    Jigsaw

Question 5

This 2004 film begins in a filthy bathroom, with two men chained to pipes and a bloody corpse splayed on the floor. The story of how they came to be there is told in flashbacks until the slow realization comes to them both that the only way to escape is through self-mutilation, which is meant to prove their strong drive to survive. Can you name this film?

  • A
    12 Days of Terror
  • B
    Bone Sickness
  • C
    Creep
  • D
    Saw

Question 6

This 1968 film delivers horror in eerie black and white as a group of people try to stay alive as hordes of flesh-eating zombies close in and attack them. Can you name it?

  • A
    Night of the Living Dead
  • B
    The Ghastly Ones
  • C
    Genocide
  • D
    The Devil Rides Out

Question 7

This 2002 British horror film portrays post-apocalyptic devastation after a terrible virus is released into the population, and chronicles the efforts of four survivors making their way through the newly bleak landscape of their world. Can you name it?

  • A
    28 Days Later
  • B
    Dog Soldiers
  • C
    Darkness
  • D
    Dead Above Ground

Question 8

What if Nature finally gets tired of human meddling and abuses? The audience is thrown into this frightening situation just as are the characters in this 1963 film that poses the question "what if?" as flocks of black birds gather around a coastal town. Can you name this terror-filled film?

  • A
    The Birds
  • B
    The Terror
  • C
    Dementia 13
  • D
    Black Zoo

Question 9

This 1978 film may be labeled as a "slasher movie," but it is much more frightening than subsequent flicks involving numerous bloody deaths. A small child (wearing a clown costume, no less) murders his sister and escapes from a mental institution 15 years later to return to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, and terrible and terrifying events follow. Can you name this film?

  • A
    I Spit on Your Grave
  • B
    Are You in the House Alone?
  • C
    The Legacy
  • D
    Halloween

Question 10

This 2002 home-invasion film touches on our deepest fears. A terrified mother and her diabetic daughter find out their most sacred retreat is not safe after all when burglars invade their home, and they must fight to stay alive. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Panic Room
  • B
    Close Your Eyes
  • C
    Make a Wish
  • D
    Hunting Humans

Question 11

In this 1982 film, spirits come out of the television and a child disappears in her closet and can later only be heard through the television. Furniture is rearranged and people's lives are turned upside down in this frightening film that begins as a deceptively normal day in the suburbs and becomes a descent into a spiritual netherworld. Can you name it?

  • A
    Poltergeist
  • B
    Don't Go to Sleep
  • C
    The Aftermath
  • D
    The Beast Within

Question 12

This 1967 film is based on Truman Capote's eponymous true crime book. Yes, this actually happened. Two vagrants break into the Clutter family home in Kansas and murder everyone. Can you name this film?

  • A
    In Cold Blood
  • B
    Night of the Big Heat
  • C
    Even the Wind Is Scared
  • D
    Berserk!

Question 13

Can you name this 1984 film in which a murdered killer returns to stalk and kill teenagers in their dreams?

  • A
    A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • B
    Deadly Intruder
  • C
    Satan's Blade
  • D
    Razorback

Question 14

This silent German horror film from 1920 tells the story of an insane, immoral hypnotist who compels a somnambulist called Cesare to commit murders. Can you name it?

  • A
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • B
    The Golem: How He Came into the World
  • C
    A Blind Bargain
  • D
    The Ghost Breaker

Question 15

In this 1974 film from Tobe Hooper, a young woman and her brother, along with three other young people, travel to check her grandfather's grave after hearing reports of grave desecration. What they find is much worse, when they discover a strange dwelling that houses a family of homicidal cannibals. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Drive-In Massacre
  • B
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • C
    The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe
  • D
    Deranged

Question 16

This 1951 black-and-white horror film tells the story of what happens at a remote arctic outpost when an alien visitor frozen in a block of ice is accidentally revived. A small group of military personnel and scientists must then fight for their lives. Can you name this film?

  • A
    From Hell It Came
  • B
    The Thing from Another World
  • C
    The Disembodied
  • D
    The Snow Creature

Question 17

In this 1976 film directed by Brian De Palma, a confused teenager struggles to function normally and fit in while dealing with a strange power and a mother who is a religious fanatic. Can you name it?

  • A
    Alice, Sweet Alice
  • B
    J.D.'s Revenge
  • C
    Carrie
  • D
    To the Devil a Daughter

Question 18

This 1963 British horror film is rich in atmosphere and interesting character development as well as has a fascinating plot. A scientist and three other people meet at a large house reputedly haunted to determine whether spirits do haunt its halls. Can you name this film?

  • A
    The Old Dark House
  • B
    Tomb of Torture
  • C
    The Haunting
  • D
    Twice-Told Tales

Question 19

In this 1968 film, a waif-like young woman dreams she is raped by a beast-like creature, and she soon discovers she is pregnant. She is on her own, as her husband grows farther and farther away from her, influenced by sinister elderly residents in their apartment building. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Enigma of Death
  • B
    Rosemary's Baby
  • C
    The Joy of Torture
  • D
    Spider Baby

Question 20

This 1922 German Expressionist horror film may be silent, but its creepy atmosphere, shadowy sets, and eerie movements say a great deal about how terrifying vampires can be. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Nosferatu
  • B
    The Haunted Castle
  • C
    The Monster
  • D
    The Penalty

Question 21

In this 1979 film, the commercial space ship Nostromo receives a beacon from an unknown vessel. When the crew investigate, a strange creature attaches itself to the face of one of the crew members, who suddenly becomes ill at a jovial dinner a few days later. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Beyond the Darkness
  • B
    Up From the Depths
  • C
    Alien
  • D
    Nightwing

Question 22

This 1988 film is fertile in psychological horror. Twin gynecologists who share everything find their twisted worlds turned upside down when they meet a woman. From grotesque medical examining equipment to the deterioration of minds, this film is harrowing.

  • A
    American Gothic
  • B
    Dead Ringers
  • C
    Faceless
  • D
    Bad Dreams

Question 23

This 1973 film follows events on a Scottish island when a policeman arrives to investigate the death of a child. Pagan rites are obviously picking up steam, until residents bring out the ultimate horror, devised by ancient Celts to be used only in terms of dire emergencies but perverted in the 20th century. Can you name this film, starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward?

  • A
    The Hanging Woman
  • B
    And Now the Screaming Starts!
  • C
    The Wicker Man
  • D
    The Iron Rose

Question 24

In this black-and-white film from 1960, a young woman who stole money to start a new life with her lover stops at a remote hotel to rest and rethink her decision. This choice will prove fateful. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Peeping Tom
  • B
    Psycho
  • C
    Tormented
  • D
    Village of the Damned

Question 25

This 2007 horror film is about malevolent supernatural entities that terrorize a young couple in their home. The slow pace builds up suspense to a maddening level, as the audience must wait, along with those in the film, for something to happen, dreading that finally, it will. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Beneath the Surface
  • B
    Black Swarm
  • C
    Paranormal Activity
  • D
    Buried Alive

Question 26

This stylish 1973 film eschews jump-and-startle violence and instead focuses on a different sort of terror. Two parents grieving the recent accidental loss of their daughter travel to Venice for the husband's work, where they meet two strange sisters and begin to experience unusual sightings that hint at their daughter's return. Can you name this scary film?

  • A
    Assignment Terror
  • B
    Don't Look Now
  • C
    And Soon the Darkness
  • D
    The Baby

Question 27

Playing on what we do not see, this 1999 film is styled to be found footage shot by young people going into the Maryland woods to investigate legends of a supernatural being. Can you name this film?

  • A
    The Blair Witch Project
  • B
    Bats
  • C
    The Nameless
  • D
    Desecration

Question 28

This 1998 Japanese film is a psychological horror-fest about a video tape that kills its viewers within seven days of watching it. Can you name this film?

  • A
    I've Been Waiting for You
  • B
    Deep Rising
  • C
    The Ring, aka Ringu
  • D
    The Killer Eye

Question 29

In this 1976 film, an American diplomat and his wife notice there is something strange about their son, especially when death and disturbance follow him everywhere. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Death Machines
  • B
    Who Can Kill a Child?
  • C
    The Omen
  • D
    The Rat Savior

Question 30

This 1964 film from American International Pictures follows the disintegration of a man's second marriage and his mind, because he is haunted by the spirit of his dead wife. The true terror comes in watching the human psyche degenerate. Can you name this film?

  • A
    Castle of the Living Dead
  • B
    2000 Maniacs
  • C
    The Tomb of Ligeia
  • D
    The Black Torment

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Very refreshing . I like that this quiz is in place,it brings back a lot of memories. You have me really thinking.. Thank you??✌

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Every single answer was A... once I realized that I didn't even read the questions and got 100%. Disappointing.

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