So I’ve been wanting to throw some quizzes out there because I always enjoy when other blogs do that. But quote quizzes were overdone years ago, and everyone does screencap quizzes, so I decided to go the extra step: a video quiz. Which is more work than I originally intended, largely because I only have Windows MovieMaker – which is cool for clipping TV shows, but less than optimal for actually editing; actually, it’s a piece of crap. But it does accept Xvid-encoded .avi files, which a lot of higher-end editing programs don’t, so there’s that. Anyway.
Most of these are going to be REALLY easy for connoisseurs of horror movies, especially classic horror movies, because I didn’t want to get too obscure all at once, and because I’m still working on getting over my dislike of horror, so most of these are fairly well known. There might be a couple that’ll test you, though. And there’s at least one that anyone should get.
So here’s the deal. You get one point for each film in the montage you can name. I won’t tell you how many films there are total (but I will say there are multiple clips from each film, and they aren’t contiguous). And you get lots of points if you can name all the clips in order. Basically, if you do that, you win. :) There’s no prize, so it’s okay if multiple people win. Go ahead and guess in the comments, and I’ll edit the post with scores. And please, people, guess! I’d like to do things like this more often, but I probably won’t if no one cares.
Horror Montage from faithx5 on Vimeo.
Happy Halloween everybody!
Scoreboard:
Vonnie – 5
Kat – 4
Polter-Cow – 3
icubud – 3
logical extremes – 1 (got the other B&W film that no-one had guessed; I bet you knew some of the others, though, too)
Some music from here, released under an attribution Creative Commons license.
Edit: Also, I swear I hadn’t watched Jonathan Lapper’s latest Killfest video yet when I chose the last shot – it’s just the perfect ending shot to every murder/killing/horror movie montage, is all.
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Polter-Cow
Hrm. Here are some ones I think I saw? I'm sure of a few of them, but that's all:
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Nosferatu
Night of the Living Dead
The Sixth Sense
Bride of Frankenstein
Psycho
Vonnie
I Walked With a Zombie
Nosferatu
Night of the Living Dead
Psycho
Cat People
I'm pretty sure there are repeated clips from each of these movies — the only one I don't recognize, funnily enough, is the film in colour with the little boy.
Jandy
You're right on three of them! Three of them you're making up. :) Good guesses, though, even on those.
Jandy
Yep, all those are in there. Nicely done! And yeah, every film is there at least twice. There's another b&w one, too. The one in color with the little boy is one that might be a harder – it's not quite as mainstream as the others are/were.
Laga
Was The Black Cat in there too or just Curse of the Cat People?
Jandy
Just Cat People, actually. No Black Cat, though it's a good guess.
logicalextremes
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Nice montage, BTW. The accompaniment was very well done.
Jandy
Yep! Awesome! Gotta love some German Expressionism.
And thanks; there are a couple of transitions in the music I could've handled better, but I think it overall came out pretty good.
icubud
I think I only recognized four of the movies: Nosferatu, Night of the Dead, Salem's Lot, and Psycho. Fun post – keep 'em up :o)
Jandy
Right on Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead, and Psycho. There's no Salem's Lot, though. That color one's turning out to be the hardest to guess, apparently. Thanks! I'll try to keep posts like this coming. They're a lot of fun to do, just require more forethought than scribbling out a few paragraphs. :)
Kat
Well, I could only guess four, and they'd already all been guessed (I Walked with a Zombie, Nasferatu, Night of the Living Dead, and Psycho). At least they were there.
I'm dying to know what the color one is. Creeeeepy.
Jandy
That's pretty good! Although as the person who's probably most responsible for me trying to get over my dislike of horror (and largely succeeding), I expected no less from you. :)
I just posted the answers. The color one is Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, which we never got around to watching on Sunday Movie Night, did we?
BusbyTest
this video is so terrifying….
BusbyTest
this video is so terrifying….
pdfoxy
Hmmm..the video is temporarily unavailable.
pdfoxy
Hmmm..the video is temporarily unavailable.