Do you like scary movies?

[yendi]

Edit: All questions have been answered correctly in comments now
This has been going through my head after a conversation or two over the past couple of weeks. Basically, for all the star power currently brought to horror movies (with pretty much every WB actor given a lead part in one nowadays), there are plenty of movies that launch the careers of many a young star. And since I watch horror movies obsessively, I figured I'd post a little quiz to help edumacate folks and test their knowledge. I omitted films like the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre flick (which was shelved and wasn't released until the leads hit the big time), as well as films that are star-powered from the beginning (like any of the Scream flicks, or the classic Alien).

I thought about doing this as a poll, but I like discussions better. That means, of course, that folks who see this first have a better chance at getting the answers (since once someone posts an answer, it's visible to anyone). If you use the IMDB, you suck. Seriously (I only used the IMDB for the supplemental material in questions #10 and 11). If you don't know it, don't look it up -- let someone else get the chance to show off. I don't expect anyone to know all of these, but I'm pretty sure that there are three or four of you who know most of 'em. If by some fluke they all haven't been answered by tomorrow, I'll post the answers.

And the first two are gimmes. If you watch horror movies at all, you'll know 'em.

1. Lying in bed in post-coital bliss in the first Friday the Thirteenth movie, this guy famously takes an arrow through the throat.

2. In the first Nightmare on Elm Street flick, this bad boy gets hung in prison with his own bedsheets.

3. The third Nightmare on Elm Street flick (Dream Warriors, as any Dokken fan knows) gave us two future stars. Kirsten, this movie's lead, was played by a member of a famous Hollywood family.

4. And Max, the nice orderly, was played by this big Hollywood star.

5. By the sixth movie in the Nightmare series, they were almost deliberately getting big names for the movie, but one of the pieces of cannon fodder was a stoner who gets sucked into a video game and zapped. What future member of Du Jour played him?

6. Back to the Friday the Thirteenth movies, part IV is perhaps best known for being the first hit for Corey Feldman. But it was also an early showpiece for another hot '80s actor, who played a geek who loses his virginity shortly before uttering his last words: "Where the hell is the corkscrew?" He found out, the hard way.

7. Friday the Thirteenth, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is by far the least watchable film in the series (even by horror standards). Even the appearance (and quick death on the disco floor) of an incredibly attractive starlet (who played a villain in a huge hit this year) can't save it.

8-10. The Sleepaway Camp movies are camp of the highest order. The second and third movies in this series, aside from a ton of in-jokes and the debut of Atlanta-area FX wiz Stan "Crash" Winston, also feature the stuntcasting of all three leads (the female heroes of the two movies, and the villain who menaces them), who are played by the sisters of famous stars. No one should remember who these people are (I can't even remember their first names), but you might know who they are related to. The heroine of the second Sleepaway Camp movie is played by the only female in a famous family of Hispanic actors. The heroine in the third flick is played by the sister of an actress who peaked in 1988 with an Oscar-nominated performance. And the psycho in both flicks is the sister of a very famous rock star. Name any of them, and I'll be impressed.

11. The Narrator in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is voiced by this man who went on to win Emmy awards from 1985-1988 for his comedic work.

12. The classic film Leprechaun featured a future TV star in one of the lead roles (along with Warwick Davis, of course).
Who is she?

13. The star (other than Doug "Pinhead" Bradley") of Hellraiser III would go on to have starring roles in two 1990s TV shows. Name her.

14. By the time The Hidden came out, Kyle MacLachlan had already made a name for himself. The same can't be said for his female lead, who would eventually star in the greatest sci-fi show of all time (making a brief stop in Maniac Cop 2 along the way).

15. The two young heroes of Fright Night would both go on to stardom on the Fox tv network. Name both tv shows.

16. What actress, most famous for starring in a movie with #6, got her big break in Jaws: 3-D

Bonus questions:

A. What father-son pairing appeared in Creepshow and Creepshow 2, respectively?

B. What Mother-daughter combo appeared in The Fog?

C. The two brothers, father, and uncle of #8 (the female heroine in Sleepaway Camp 2) have each done at least one horror flick. You get one point for naming any film by each of the first three, and two for naming any film by the uncle (five points possible on this bonus).

Comments

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I know one of these! #13 is Jadzia Dax -- Terry...Ferrell? I can't remember her last name.

At least, I think that's right; I saw an ad for it on TV once. Haven't actually seen the flick myself; I don't like horror movies.

[yendi]

Correct! It's a movie well worth missing, even if you like horror flicks.