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October is the month for all things spooky when, in addition to dressing up and trick-or-treating, people like to revisit their favourite scary movies. Much like Halloween itself, horror films are fun and fascinating because they allow us to explore our darkest fears in a safe and entertaining way. But we want to know: if the terrors were real, could you survive? Answer these 13 devilish questions to find out!
1. The original horror movie icon, Count Dracula, has been featured in over 200 films over the years, most famously by Sir Christopher Lee in the 1950s. In most interpretations, how is the villainous vampire usually defeated?
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2. ‘Gremlins’ (1984) is the classic family horror where a boy is given a Mogwai for Christmas, an adorable furry creature that turns into a Gremlin if three rules aren’t followed: do not expose it to sunlight, never feed it after midnight; and…
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3. While considered sci-fi rather than horror, plenty were terrified by the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) when he went back to the ‘80s to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the future mother of a revolutionary. What was the machinery she used to kill the murderous android?
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4. In ‘IT Chapter 2’ (2019), the now-adult members of the Losers Club, who were terrorised by IT, or Pennywise The Clown (Bill Skarsgård), as children, confront the entity once and for all. But how did they defeat it?
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5. 2022’s ‘Prey’ marked the return of the Predator, one of the most enduring characters in horror history. In the 1987 original, Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) gets the upper hand on the alien huntsman when he realises the following…
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6. Australian hit ‘The Babadook’ birthed a new vision of fear in 2014, as a single mother (Essie Davis) overcomes a spectre based on a children’s tale. While you can never kill the Babadook, where does she eventually lock him away?
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7. Killers always come back for more! Case in point: the ‘Scream’ franchise that was revived in 2022 when the fifth movie became an instant hit. In the original, movie nerd Randy (Jamie Kennedy) lists the rules of surviving a horror movie: never have sex, never drink or do drugs, and never say…
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8. Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ (1980) is considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made. In it, hotel custodian Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson) is driven to murderous rage by a supernatural hotel. How does Jack’s son Danny (Danny Lloyd) eventually escape his father?
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9. Freddy Krueger became one of the most famous faces of 1980s horror, primarily played by Robert Englund throughout the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ film series. A horrific killer who preys on people in their dreams, the evil spirit is invincible unless his prey does what?
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10. Where there’s Freddy, there’s got to be Jason! Masked serial killer Jason Voorhees is considered one of the great movie villains, despite not being the actual murderer in the original ‘Friday The 13th’ movie. Who was?
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11. ‘Child’s Play’ has been a controversial film series for decades, facing calls to be banned in multiple countries despite being a cult hit among horror fans. Possessed doll Chucky has been killed numerous ways in five movies, but what straightforward method is the most common?
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12. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece ‘Psycho’ starred Anthony Perkins as a motel owner who kills his victims. At the end, it’s revealed that which person from his past has taken control of his mind?
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13. We end, appropriately, with 1978’s ‘Halloween’. Considered the original slasher film, the series has had multiple sequels and included several timelines. Michael Myers, with his iconic facemask, has been an unstoppable constant throughout the films and has never been killed. What explanation does one of the sequels give for his apparent immortality?
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Question 6: Sonse/Flickr
Question 13: tutincommon/Flickr
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