Can You Score 20/20? Guess the Movie From the Genre – Advanced Level Trivia Quiz!

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Think you’re a film buff who can pinpoint movies from their niche genres? This advanced-level quiz challenges you with obscure subgenres and pioneering works from horror, sci-fi, and extremity cinema. Questions ramp up from tough to expert – grab a pen and test your knowledge!

20 Trivia Questions on Guess the Movie From the Genre (Advanced Level)

Question 1: Which 1980 Italian horror film is widely regarded as the first major found footage movie, featuring graphic violence that led to bans and real animal cruelty controversy?

A. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
B. REC (2007)
C. Paranormal Activity (2007)
D. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Question 2: Dario Argento’s 1975 giallo thriller features a jazz soundtrack by Goblin and a killer with a mechanical hand – which film?

A. Suspiria (1977)
B. Tenebrae (1982)
C. Deep Red (1975)
D. Opera (1987)

Question 3: Which 1988 Japanese animated film is a cornerstone of cyberpunk cinema, depicting psychic powers and a dystopian Neo-Tokyo?

A. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
B. Akira (1988)
C. Perfect Blue (1997)
D. Paprika (2006)

Question 4: David Cronenberg’s 1983 body horror film introduces the ‘New Flesh’ concept with a TV screen that bleeds and mutates viewers?

A. Scanners (1981)
B. The Fly (1986)
C. Videodrome (1983)
D. Rabid (1977)

Question 5: Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 art-house horror starring Isabelle Adjani is infamous for its subway freakout in the possession/body horror subgenre?

A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
B. The Exorcist (1973)
C. Possession (1981)
D. Suspiria (1977)

Question 6: Brian Yuzna’s 1989 satirical body horror film culminates in the grotesque ‘shunting’ sequence among the elite?

A. Re-Animator (1985)
B. Society (1989)
C. From Beyond (1986)
D. Basket Case (1982)

Question 7: Lucio Fulci’s 1981 Italian horror, subtitled ‘Seven Doors of Death’, exemplifies the ‘gates of hell’ subgenre?

A. Zombie (1979)
B. City of the Living Dead (1980)
C. The Beyond (1981)
D. The Black Cat (1981)

Question 8: John Carpenter’s 1994 Lovecraftian cosmic horror film features reality-warping author Sutter Cane?

A. The Thing (1982)
B. Prince of Darkness (1987)
C. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
D. The Fog (1980)

Question 9: E. Elias Merhige’s 1990 experimental horror film has no dialogue and depicts the biblical torture birth of God?

A. Necromantik (1987)
B. Begotten (1990)
C. A Serbian Film (2010)
D. Salò (1975)

Question 10: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 adaptation of de Sade is a landmark of transgression/art-house extreme horror?

A. Irreversible (2002)
B. A Serbian Film (2010)
C. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
D. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Question 11: David Lynch’s 1977 debut is a surreal body horror landmark featuring the lady in the radiator singing?

A. Blue Velvet (1986)
B. Mulholland Drive (2001)
C. Eraserhead (1977)
D. Dune (1984)

Question 12: Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s 1989 micro-budget feature pioneers Japanese cyberpunk body horror with a man turning into metal?

A. Akira (1988)
B. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
C. Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
D. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Question 13: Tom Six’s 2009 Dutch extreme horror film popularised the ‘human centipede’ surgical abomination concept?

A. Martyrs (2008)
B. Inside (2007)
C. Frontier(s) (2007)
D. The Human Centipede (2009)

Question 14: Takashi Miike’s 1999 J-horror features the infamous acupuncture torture and ‘kiri kiri kiri’ chant?

A. Gozu (2003)
B. Ichi the Killer (2001)
C. Visitor Q (2001)
D. Audition (1999)

Question 15: Lars von Trier’s 2009 extreme art-horror stars Charlotte Gainsbourg in graphic genital mutilation scenes amid grief?

A. Melancholia (2011)
B. Dogville (2003)
C. Nymphomaniac (2013)
D. Antichrist (2009)

Question 16: Alexandre Aja’s 2003 French slasher launched the New French Extremity movement with a chainsaw home invasion?

A. Frontier(s) (2007)
B. Sheitan (2006)
C. Calvaire (2004)
D. High Tension (2003)

Question 17: Gaspar Noé’s 2002 French extremity film uses reverse chronology and a brutal 9-minute rape-revenge scene?

A. Climax (2018)
B. Enter the Void (2009)
C. Love (2015)
D. Irreversible (2002)

Question 18: Pascal Laugier’s 2008 French film defines extremity horror with its quest for martyrdom through prolonged torture?

A. High Tension (2003)
B. Inside (2007)
C. Martyrs (2008)
D. Frontier(s) (2007)

Question 19: Eli Roth’s 2013 found footage cannibal horror directly homages Cannibal Holocaust with activists in the Amazon?

A. Atroz (2010)
B. Savages (2012)
C. A Serbian Film (2010)
D. The Green Inferno (2013)

Question 20: Jörg Buttgereit’s 1987 German underground film exemplifies necro-erotic splatter horror with necrophilia themes?

A. Schramm (1993)
B. Der Todesking (1990)
C. Sadomania (1981)
D. Nekromantik (1987)

Answers

  1. D. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) – Directed by Ruggero Deodato, it’s credited as the first found footage horror due to its documentary-style filming; the others came later and were influenced by it.
  2. C. Deep Red (1975) – Argento’s film features the mechanical hand killer and Goblin score; distractors are other Argento gialli with different plots.
  3. B. Akira (1988) – Katsuhiro Otomo’s adaptation defined cyberpunk anime aesthetics; others are later cyberpunk works.
  4. C. Videodrome (1983) – Cronenberg’s ‘New Flesh’ philosophy centres on the fleshy TV; others are his body horrors without this motif.
  5. C. Possession (1981) – Żuławski’s film has Adjani’s iconic breakdown; classics like The Exorcist lack this specific intensity.
  6. B. Society (1989) – The shunting finale is uniquely grotesque; Yuzna’s other films have different body horror styles.
  7. C. The Beyond (1981) – Fulci’s gates-to-hell trilogy entry; others are his different zombie/supernatural works.
  8. C. In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – Explicitly Lovecraft-inspired with reality-bending fiction; Carpenter’s others draw from different sources.
  9. B. Begotten (1990) – Merhige’s silent biblical horror; others are extreme but narrative-driven.
  10. D. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – Pasolini’s de Sade adaptation is transgression canon; later films echo but don’t originate it.
  11. C. Eraserhead (1977) – Lynch’s surreal industrial nightmare; his later films are more narrative.
  12. D. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) – Tsukamoto’s feral metal mutation defines the subgenre; others are broader cyberpunk.
  13. D. The Human Centipede (2009) – Six’s film coined the term; French extremity films like Martyrs focus on different tortures.
  14. D. Audition (1999) – Miike’s slow-burn J-horror peaks in wire torture; his others are yakuza/gore without this.
  15. D. Antichrist (2009) – Von Trier’s grief-fueled extremity has unique mutilations; others lack the horror focus.
  16. D. High Tension (2003) – Aja’s film ignited New French Extremity; later films built on its slasher style.
  17. D. Irreversible (2002) – Noé’s reverse structure and fire extinguisher scene; his later works experiment differently.
  18. C. Martyrs (2008) – Laugier’s philosophy of pain transcendence; others emphasise invasion/revenge.
  19. D. The Green Inferno (2013) – Roth’s direct Cannibal Holocaust tribute with activism gone wrong; others aren’t cannibal-focused.
  20. D. Nekromantik (1987) – Buttgereit’s necro-splatter debut; sequels/follow-ups expand but don’t define the core.

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