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Vol XIII: Scary Movies

This was originally supposed to be for Friday, July 13th then for Halloween but got stuck in Development Hell… 13 questions and 31 possible points, good luck!

1) This Movie Series features a nigh-invincible homicidal maniac best known for his signature hockey mask and machete.
Name of the Movie Series?
Name of the aforementioned character?
Name of the place he likes to hang out?

2) This 1953 movie starring Vincent Price was remade in 2005, which included the acting debut of Paris Hilton. Even though she was horribly murdered, the 2005 film couldn’t hold a candle to the original… which was actually a remake itself.
Name of the 1953 and 2005 films? (same)

3) The first film in this series, directed by Wes Craven, also was the first acting role for a more skilled actor than Paris Hilton, though he is little associated to the series and end’s up murdered in his bed… literally dragged into it by a guy with knives on his fingers.
Name of that film series?
Name of the actor?
Name of the bad guy who killed him?

4) The actor in the last question went on to appear in many movies, including 2 horror movies in 1999 alone. One of them, directed by Roman Polanski, has the actor playing the role of a rare book dealer who gets drawn into a quest to find a book allegedly able to summon the Devil. The other, set in 1799 and directed by Tim Burton and co-starring Christina Ricci, has the actor playing the role of a young officer sent to investigate a series of murders in a Sleepy little hamlet.
Name of the actor? (same as last question)
Name of the film directed by Polanski?
Name of the film directed by Burton?
Name of the character the actor played in the Burton film?

5) Christina Ricci, no stranger to horror movies, starred in this 1991 movie version of a TV show known for featuring classic scary monsters in a non-scary, family friendly setting.
Name of the film and show?
Character she played?

6) This 1995 film, featuring the Archangel Gabriel as the main antagonist, also has a brief appearance by Lucifer himself. The hero of the film is Thomas Dagget, a former priest turned detective who eventually discovers Gabriel is after the soul of a War Criminal from the Korean War who has been hidden in the body of a little girl. The sequels feature Gabriel, but only a brief Return of the King of Hell at the beginning of the second film.
Name of the film?
Actor who played Gabriel?
Actor who played Lucifer?

7) The actor who played Gabriel in the previous question has starred in many scary movies, including the 1999 film by Tim Burton a few questions back. One of his earliest roles had him co-starring alongside Robert Deniro, Meryl Streep, and John Savage in this 1978 film rather well-known for its Russian Roulette scene.
Name of the film?

8) Streep later co-starred as a narcissistic actress alongside Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn in this 1992 Dark Comedy film about a potion that gives eternal youth.
Name of the film?

9) Bruce Willis is best known for his action films but numbers a few scary movies on his own filmography, including a 1999 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and co-starring Haley Joel Osment, and a 1995 film co-starring Brad Pitt. Name of the 1999 Film?
Name of the 1995 film?
Name of the 1999 film?
What was the famous line, delivered by Osment, in the 1999 film?

10) Brad Pitt numbers a few horror movies himself, including another scary movie he starred in during 1995 in which he and his older partner investigate a number of vicious crimes. This film is also well known for a particular line delivered near the end of the film by Pitt.
Name of the film?
Name of the actor who played his partner?
What was that line?

11) Pitt also co-starred with Tom Cruise and Christian Slater the year before in this 1994 film adaptation of a 1976 book by Anne Rice.
Name of the film?

12) The actor who co-starred alongside Brad Pitt in #10 movie went on to play another detective and forensic psychologist in the movie versions of two books written by James Patterson, though they were made backwards, the 1997 film being the second of the book series and the 2001 film being the first. In the 1997 film he pursues a criminal called Cassanova who kidnaps attractive young women, in the 2001 film he teams up with a Secret Service agent to solve the kidnapping of a young girl, though she eventually Double-Crosses him.
Name of the actor? (same as in #10)
Name of the character he played?
Name of the 1997 film?
Name of the 2001 film?

13) 2001 also saw the seventh installment of this increasingly corny horror film franchise, though the original 1984 film, based on a 1977 book by Stephen King, is considered one of the best of the genre. Set in a rural town in Nebraska, this film’s two major bad guys, Malachai and a guy with an even cooler name you’ve seen before in these quizzes, lead children on a murderous rampage.
Name of that Film?
Name of the other bad guy?

Previous Quizzes
Vol I: Quotes
Vol II: The Sequel
Vol III: Openers
Vol IV: Name That Toon
Vol V: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Vol VI: Big Dumb Objects
Vol VII: Apocalypse How
Vol VIII: Time Loop
Vol IX: You Bet Your Life
Vol X: Parodies
Vol XI: Zombie Apocalypse
Vol XII: Humanitarians
... and the Scif-FI Circle Quiz