Which of the two horror classics is higher on your list of favourites: Halloween (1978) or A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)? For me it wasn’t as easy to crown a winner as I initially thought it would be. How about you? Take the quiz below to help you decide! It’s simple; for each of the 13 questions, whatever film is your answer gets a point. At the end of the quiz, the movie with the most points must be your favourite!
1/ THE COOLER MOVIE POSTER:
Halloween (1978)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
2/ THE MORE INTRIGUING MOVIE TAGLINE:
Halloween: The Night He Came Home!
A Nightmare on Elm Street: IF NANCY DOESN’T WAKE UP SCREAMING SHE WON’T WAKE UP AT ALL
3/ THE MORE EFFECTIVE OPENING CREDITS SEQUENCE:
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
4/ THE MORE HAUNTING MUSIC SCORE:
Halloween: John Carpenter in association with Allan Howarth
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Charles Bernstein
5/ THE SCARIER ORIGIN STORY:
Halloween
Dr. Sam Loomis on Michael Myers: “I met him 15 years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this 6 year old with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, The Devil’s eyes. I spent 8 years trying to reach him and another 7 trying to keep him locked up; because I realized what was lying behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street:
Marge Thompson on Freddy Krueger: “He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighbourhood; kids we all knew. It drove us crazy when we didn’t know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him. The lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign a search warrant in the right place and Krueger was free, just like that. A bunch of us parents tracked him down after they let him out. We found him in an old abandoned boiler room where he used to take his kids. Took gasoline, poured it all around the place and made a trail of it out the door. Then lit the whole thing up and watched it burn. But he can’t get you now. He’s dead, honey, because Mommy killed him. I even took his knives.”
6/ THE MORE TERRIFYING KILLER:
Halloween’s Michael Myers
A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger
7/ THE MORE CREATIVE KILLER:
Halloween’s Michael Myers
A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger
8/ THE MORE MEMORABLE KILLS:
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
9/THE BETTER SUSPENSE-BUILDER
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
10/ THE MORE LIKABLE FINAL GIRL:
Halloween’s Laurie Strode
A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Nancy Thompson
11/ THE MORE RESOURCEFUL FINAL GIRL:
Halloween’s Laurie Strode
A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Nancy Thompson
12/ THE MORE LIKABLE VICTIMS:
Halloween heroine Laurie along with not-so-lucky gal pals Lynda and Annie
A Nightmare on Elm Street’s heroine Nancy along with soon-to-be Freddy fatalities Glen, Tina and Rod
13/ THE MORE SATISFYING FINAL SCENE:
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
More from Stories
2024 RIR Award Winners
The horror community is known for its passion and dedication to the genre, and this year's RIR awards are no …
Scream 2 Opening Night (1997) – 90’s Grunge Dreams
Celebrate the release of Scream 2 and discover the ultimate blast from the past with 90's Grunge Dreams, a captivating …
The Trilogy Trend
The horror film industry has been abuzz with trends like reboots, requels and elevated horror, but the resurgence of the …
