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Horror QUIZ #24: True or False?

July 18th 2008 04:56
Hellraiser

1. Dr. Hannibal Lector’s sister’s name was Mischa.
2. The diabolical creatures in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser are known as Demonites.
3. The original title of the slasher flick Rosemary’s Killer is The Stalker.
4. The soles of Boris Karloff’s boots worn while he played the monster in Frankenstein were made of lead.
5. Freddy Krueger was described as the bastard child of a 1,000 maniacs.
6. David Lynch’s working title for Eraserhead was Henry’s Baby.
7. The covert government organisation in Stephen King’s novel and the subsequent movie Firestarter is known as The Store.
8. Brett Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho is based on the homicidal sex-crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Lifeforce
9. Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce is loosely based on the novel The Vampires of Space by Colin Wilson.
10. The prog-rock soundtrack to Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) is written and performed by Rick Emerson.
11. “This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition, but no jury in America could ever convict her.” is the tagline to Abel Ferrara’s Angel of Vengeance.
12. Special effects make-up whiz Rick Baker was initially working on both An American Werewolf in London and The Howling until Howling director Joe Dante found out and fired him, replacing him with Baker’s protégé Rob Bottin.
13. Brian De Palma’s re-envisioning of Scarface was submitted three times to the MPAA, each time receiving an X rating, De Palma finally got an R and then released the first “X” cut.

13 … You’re a walking, talking polygraph machine!
9 – 12 … You’re almost good enough to be a traveling salesman!
5 – 8 … You need to practice your poker face more often.
1 – 4 … I think you should stick to fibbing about wearing clean underwear!

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1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. F 8. F 9. F 10. F 11. F 12. F 13. T

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Comment by JohnDoe

July 18th 2008 06:27
A lot of these are very close to the truth which mad eit really hard to spot the bullshit.....

I know #1 is true hannibal's sister is Mischa.
#9 is certainly true, unless the word "loosely" is a trick.
#13 is true too, poor DePalma


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