Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Horror Stories Involving Curses?
6 questions to test your knowledge of curses in horror stories
Curses and horror stories go hand in hand. They make great bedfellows.
Would you like to be held responsible for something one of your ancestors did?
Try this short quiz and see if you know as much as you think you know about curses in horror stories.
Contents
1. Book: Thinner (1984) by Richard Bachman
What was the policeman cursed with?
Losing weight
Nope. Try again. Billy, the lawyer and main character, was cursed to lose weight.
Severe acne
Yes. Hopley, Billy’s cop friend, gets severe acne, and I mean severe acne.
Skin turning to scales
Nope. Try again. Rossington, Billy’s judge buddy, was cursed so his skin turned to scales.
What’s this book about?
Billy, an obese lawyer, hits an elderly woman with his car and kills her but is acquitted of the charge. The even older father of the woman puts a curse on him which causes him to start to lose weight. He desperately needs to get the curse broken or removed before he wastes away to nothing.
Note: Thinner was also adapted into a movie in 1996 with a slightly different ending to the book.
2. Movie: The Ring (2002)
Why is it specifically 7 days after watching the videotape that you die?
It took 7 days for Samara to die
Yes. Anna suffocated Samara and dumped her in the well but she survived for 7 days.
A week gives you enough time to pass the tape on to the next victim
Nope. Try again.
The adoption of Samara by Anna and Richard took 7 days
Nope. Try again.
What’s this movie about?
3. Movie: Drag Me To Hell (2009)
What does the fortune teller say Christine has to do to break the curse?
Destroy the button
Nope. Try again.
Sew the button back onto her coat
Nope. Try again.
Give the button to someone else
Yes. The fortune teller puts the button in an envelope and tells Christine the only way to remove the curse is to give it to someone else. Does she give it to her slimy co-worker Stu?
What’s this movie about?
4. Book: Hex (2016) by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
What does the curse do to residents if they leave the town?
Causes them to kill themselves
Yes. If you’re a town resident and you leave, after a few hours you start to get overwhelmed by despair and end up killing yourself.
Causes them severe pain
Nope. Try again.
Causes them to not be able to breath
Nope. Try again.
What’s this book about?
See: 9 Horror Novels and 2 Anthologies About Curses: Hex (2016)
5. Book: The Lords of Salem (2013) by Rob Zombie and BK Evenson
Which witch puts the curse on Salem?
Elizabeth Jacobs
Nope. Try again. Elizabeth Jacobs was one of the coven who was burned to death but she wasn’t the leader.
Mary Goodwin
Nope. Try again. Mary Goodwin was one of the coven who was burned to death but she wasn’t the leader.
Margaret Morgan
Yes. Margaret Morgan cursed Salem and Reverend Hawthorne’s lineage specifically before she died.
What’s this book about?
See: 9 Horror Novels and 2 Anthologies About Curses: The Lords of Salem (2013)
6. Movie: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
What’s the name of the Druid curse Michael is thought to be inflicted with?
Blade
Nope. Try again.
Rose
Nope. Try again.
Thorn
Yes. Tommy believes the leader of a Druid-like cult has put the Curse of Thorn on Michael which causes him to kill his bloodline on Halloween night.
What’s this movie about?
See: 9 Horror Movies About Curses: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Published: 7 October 2022
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