Quiz: How Did They Die? Part 1 (easy)

While surfing the web as it seems I always do (I lead such an exciting life) I ran across a quiz that I excelled at (otherwise I'd be really embarrassed) and I thought it would be fun to see how you guys do.

Now this is not the same quiz I found. I changed up some answer options to make it more to my liking and added a few questions of my own, so I do not feel this is a true example of plagiarism (and anyone saying otherwise can kiss my lil' ass!) So there!

NOW - WordPress apparently does not have a quiz plugin compatible with the latest version of WordPress (trust me; I looked hard for one but to no avail) so I have the answers old school form, in an upside down list at the bottom of the post. Sorry. It's the best I can do.

So anyway - have fun, and let me know how you did in the comments, k?

How did each one of the following die:

Drew Barrymore in Scream?

1. Beat to death by a shovel
2. Stabbed to death
3. Burned alive in the kitchen
4. Drowned in the swimming pool

Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street?

1. Pulled through a bed
2. Hung over a bed
3. Burned in a bed
4. Squashed by a bed

Paris Hilton in House of Wax?

1. Drowned in a vat of hot wax
2. Skinned alive (think "filleted")
3. Had a pole shoved through her head
4. Had a pitchfork stabbed through her heart

Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13?

1. Columbian necktie
2. Decapitated
3. Stabbed through the neck
4. Stabbed through the eye

Tara Reid in Urban Legend?

1. Head split open with an ax
2. Pushed in the path of a truck
3. Pushed out of a window
4. Pushed off a balcony

Sarah Michelle Gellar in I know What you did last summer?

1. Pushed off a balcony
2. Decapitated
3. Columbian Necktie
4. Stabbed with a hook

Amanda Peet in identity?

1. Skinned alive
2. Drowned in a swimming pool
3. Pushed out of a window
4. Beat to death by a shovel

Sean William Scott in Final Destination?

1. Decapitated by an airplane propeller
2. Flattened by a train
3. Hit in the face by a piece of a train
4. Pushed out of an airplane

Jada Pinkett Smith in Scream 2

1. Gutted to death
2. Choked to death
3. Beath to death
4. Stabbed to death

John Travolta in Carrie?

1. Burned with all the other heathens at prom
2. Killed in a car
3. Killed in the school bathroom
4. Burned in the school boiler

Janet Leigh in Psycho?

1. Stabbed in the shower
2. Drowned in the tub
3. Strangled in the shower
4. Dismembered in the tub

Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween 8: Resurrection?

1. Stabbed to death
2. Fell off a roof
3. Got accidentally shot by the good guys
4. Electrocuted

Jack Nicholson in The Shining?

1. He is killed by the ghosts of the hotel
2. His wife runs him down w/a snowmobile
3. He freezes to death in a storm
4. His wife ends up "axing" him (literally)

Wasn't that fun???? I just know you guys can't wait til the next installment! It's only fair I warn you, it's gonna be a little tougher...... can you handle it??

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It’s Prom Night…

The original Prom Night, filmed from start to finish on one whooping month, stars Jamie Lee Curtis in another role that helped earn her status of being one of Hollywood's "scream queens." Only in this movie, Jamie doesn't play so much of a damsel in distress as she does a damsel who takes action.

Cause & Effect

All 10 year old Robin wanted to do was play with Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick. She didn't care that they were older than her. They did though and took a game that was innocent enough to a level that a scared 10 year wouldn't understand, resulting in poor Robin falling out of a broken window to her death.

Although it was an accident, the 4 kids left standing vowed never to tell a soul, convinced they would do jail time if anyone were to find out.

Flash forward six years and Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick are seniors having the time of their lives. Friends with most all 4 of them is Kim Hammond, older sister of dead Robin, only she doesn't know they had anything to do with her sisters death.

Someone does, though, and they are leaving calling cards in lockers and making anonymous phone calls. Too bad the seniors are too stupid to pick up on the hints.....

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Cheesy B Ripoffs………

….are my favorite kind (sadly Tremors is on my list of favs). My husband cringes whenever he sees me flip to Fearnet or the SciFi channel. My flavor for giant bug type movies make him wonder why he ever married me. I have tried to explain that the fact these movies exist and continue to be made is evidence that I am not alone; there are others out there just like me. He agrees…. but he doesn’t understand.

B-movie’s - defined as low budget movies that were shown in addition to the main feature (think double feature) or any movie that ran less than 80 minutes - date back as early as the 1920’s and featured A-list actors such as Vincent Price, Bella Lugosi, and Boris Karloff. Several A-list actors of today started out on B film - actors such as John Wayne and Jack Nicholson.

In the 40’s and 50’s, as the appeal of the Golden Age-style double feature began to wane, the “B movie” term was used to refer to any low-budget genre film featuring less known performers (i.e. B actors). The term retained its earlier suggestion that such movies relied on arranged plots, "stock" character types, and simplistic action or unsophisticated comedy. At the same time, the world of the B movie was becoming increasingly appealing territory for experimentation, both serious and outlandish.

In the 1950’s, science fiction, horror, and various hybrids of the two were the primary vein of the low-budget end of the B business. Then in the 60's, due to the loosening of industry censorship constraints, a major expansion in the commercial life of several B movie subgenres evolved that came to be known collectively as “exploitation films“ - films that featured vulgar subject matter and outrageous imagery, combined with intensive and gimmick laden publicity.

The Production Code standard was officially scrapped in 1968, to be replaced by the first version of the modern movie rating system. That year, with the code gone and the adult x-rating established, major studio A films like Midnight Cowboy could now show "adult" content, and the market for increasingly hardcore pornography exploded and nudity-filled sexploitation pictures found their place on the map.

Most of the B movie production houses founded during the exploitation era of the 60's and 70's collapsed or were absorbed by larger companies as the expense of production continued to rise in the early 1980s. Even a similarily cheap, efficiently made genre picture intended for theatrical release began to cost millions of dollars, as the major movie studios steadily moved into the production of expensive genre movies. Audiences desires and expectations for spectacular action sequences and realistic special effects began to rise, fueling the expense.

Despite the rising cost of production, difficulty in theatrical distribution, and overall risk in airing these films, a substantial number of genre movies from small studios and independent filmmakers were still reaching theaters. Horror was the strongest low-budget genre of the time, especially in the "slasher" mode (i.e. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown).

As well, the video rental market was becoming central to B film economics, and a number of B studios releases went this route, appearing only briefly in theaters if at all. The growth of the cable television industry also helped support the low-budget film industry, as many B movies quickly wound up as "filler" material for 24-hour cable channels or were made expressly for that purpose.

In the 1990’s, as the average cost of making a movie topped $25M, remaining B movie companies adapted by releasing movies straight to video. Now, in the 2000’s, there is rumor of the “impending extinction" of "the cheesy, campy, guilty pleasures" of the B picture, as "the schlock of the past has evolved into star-driven, heavily publicized, expensive mediocrities…” .....however many keep the faith alive.

....As do I. I for one believe the B movie will survive at all costs as so many of us love the cheesy campy unrealistic mindlessness of naked, stupid, airheads trying to survive bug/psycho slasher/zombie bloodlust. And I look forward to watching each and every one of them.

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