All Hallow’s Eve is upon us, and my costume is all ready. (It’s Dustin from “Stranger Things.”) Also ready is a trivia quiz on my Top 10 Halloween movie list.
Some are scary, but for the most part, horror doesn’t do it for me. Terrified isn’t an emotion I actively seek out. But if a Halloween movie is eerie, chilling, creepy or fantastical? Sign me up.
And no, “Hocus Pocus” didn’t make the list. I never saw it as a kid, and I think if I watched it now, it would be terrible. Definitely one of those movies that requires nostalgia glasses.
To the quiz!
Questions
- “Beetlejuice” — After making a door to the underworld using their “Handbook for the Recently Deceased,” Barbara and Adam Maitland meet with what caseworker?
- “Scream” — What news reporter, played by Courteney Cox, appears in all four movies in the Scream franchise as an ally to protagonist Sidney Prescott?
- “The Shining” — What room in the Overlook Hotel does Hallorann warn Danny to stay away from?
- “Casper” — What ‘90s teen heartthrob briefly appears as the human version of Casper the friendly ghost, who is given a short reprieve from ghosthood for his selflessness and gets to dance with Kat at the Halloween party?
- “The Addams Family” — Though it starts as part of a con by villain Abigail Craven to fool Gomez Addams, what explanation for where Uncle Fester has been for the past 25 years turns out to be true?
- “The Craft” — Which (fictional) Wiccan deity do the coven of girls invoke, giving them the ability to cast powerful spells?
- “Gremlins” — After terrorizing Kingston Falls, the horde of gremlins congregates in a movie theater and become mesmerized by what film, allowing the heroes to destroy them en masse?
- “The Exorcist” — The studio initially wanted to cast Marlon Brando in the role of Father Lankester Merrin, the priest who dies trying to exorcise the demon Pazuzu from Regan, but director William Friedkin refused, instead casting what actor?
- “The Nightmare Before Christmas” — Though the full title is “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,” Burton didn’t direct the film. It was helmed by what animator who would go on to earn an Oscar nomination for “Coraline”?
- “The Witches” — Anjelica Huston stars as the Grand High Witch who wants to turn the world’s children into mice in this Jim Henson Productions adaptation of a book by what macabre children’s book author?
Answers up after Michael Keaton doing his damn thing in “Beetlejuice.” Not really Halloween-specific, but the season always has me craving a hit of ‘Juice.
Answers:
- Juno
- Gale Weathers
- Room 237
- Devon Sawa
- He was lost in the Bermuda Triangle
- Manon
- “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
- Max von Sydow
- Henry Selick
- Roald Dahl
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