There's a real art to coming up with sassy, smart taglines -- you know, those clever one liners attached to a movie's promotion. The best of them are little gems, and perfectly encapsulate a movie's essence. A tagline should be descriptive, yet subtle; tongue-in-cheek is always appreciated, bad puns are not. When a great film meets a memorable tagline, magic happens. I love these things, and in my next life I'm planning on coming back to write them!

How's your tagline trivia? Do you remember taglines better than the actual movie titles? Here are my favourite all-time horror taglines.
Can you name the movie?

Have fun!

1. To avoid fainting keep repeating: it's only a movie, it's only a movie ANSWER

2. When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth ANSWER

3. In space, no one can hear you scream ANSWER

4. Don’t give away the ending…it’s the only one we have ANSWER

5. This is the weekend they didn’t play golf ANSWER

6. Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders...and another one in a dish on his desk ANSWER

7. The night HE came home ANSWER

8. Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. ANSWER

9. Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair? ANSWER

10. Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven ANSWER

11. See it before you go swimming ANSWER

12. If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all ANSWER

13. To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a
madman ANSWER

14. ...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own ANSWER

15. Last year the lucky ones died first.
On March 23rd the lucky ones die fast ANSWER

The Cryptkeeper

So how well do you think you know the King? Bestselling author and cultural icon Stephen King, is the undisputed master of the macabre and a literary phenomenon who has sold 350 million books worldwide in over 30 languages.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he was the first non-Canadian to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Booksellers Association. King is also certified by the Guinness "Book of World Records" group as having the most number of motion picture adaptations by a living author.

Are you a Stephen King Novice, Constant Reader, or Grand Poobah?

Test your skill level now.

Identify the novel from the characters. Some novels may appear more than once.

1. Annie Wilkes and Paul Sheldon ANSWER

2. Jack Torrence ANSWER

3. Pennywise ANSWER

4. Roland Deschain and Eddie Dean ANSWER

5. Jessie Burlingame ANSWER

6. Randall Flag and Stu Redman ANSWER

7. Tommy Ross and Sue Snell ANSWER

8. Louis Creed and Judd Crandall ANSWER

9. Jack Sawyer and Speedy Parker ANSWER

10. Trisha McFarland ANSWER

Identify the novel from the quotation. Some novels may appear more than once.

1. The soil of a man's heart is stonier [...] A man grows what he can...and he tends it ANSWER

2. Get up, woman. Let's us get in and pray. Let's us pray to Jesus for our woman-weak, wicked, sinning souls ANSWER

3. She was a bad joke, and what Arnie saw in her that day I'll never know ANSWER

4. We all float down here. When you are down here, you'll float too ANSWER

5. They’re in those houses,” Mark said tightly. “Right now, in all those houses. Behind the shades. In beds and closets and cellars. Under the floors. Hiding. ANSWER

6. The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted ANSWER

7. In a small town, the opening of a new store is a big thing ANSWER

8. For the first time...the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon's mind: I am in trouble here. This woman is not right ANSWER

9. Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too ANSWER

10. Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house ANSWER

If you scored:

18 or higher = Grand Poobah

12-17 = Constant Reader

11 or less = Novice (your journey's just begun!)

The Cryptkeeper

So you think you know horror movies? Here are some of the most memorable lines, from some of the most unforgettable horror classics of all time. Some films may appear more than once.

Test your skill level. Can you name the movie?

1. Then let's head on down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch. ANSWER

2. Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. Now you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it. ANSWER

3. Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it. ANSWER

4. Red -- I might have known it would be red. ANSWER

5. I found some cigarettes. I found them all the way in the bottom of my pack. We're still alive 'cause we're smoking. ANSWER

6. She doesn't like it in the barn. The horses keep her up at night. ANSWER

7. Tony is the little boy that lives in my mouth. ANSWER

8. Let's not call him "the Captain," you illiterate TV people. It's "the Skipper." ANSWER

9. Redrum. ANSWER

10. Then when it's over, your phone rings, someone knows you watched the tape... and what they say is, "You will die in seven days". ANSWER

BONUS:
She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? ANSWER

If you scored 8 or higher out of 10, then congratulations you are a Horror Movie Maven!

See previous post: Are you a Trivia Maven?

The Cryptkeeper

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