Matching Horror Movie Subtitles Quiz

Answer: Resident Evil

Would you believe 'The Final Chapter' also appeared as a subtitle for the fourth "Friday the 13th" film, the fifth in the "Puppet Master" series, and the seventh in the "Saw" series? It's a popular choice as far as horror subtitles go, but more often than naught, it ends up just being another in the canon, to be proceeded by even more in a franchise.

In the case of "Resident Evil", it was the sixth in Paul W. S. Anderson's series based on the Capcom horror video game series of the same name. All six starred Milla Jovovich as she fought her way through bioterrorist-created zombies spawned by a pharmaceutical corporation known as Umbrella.

Other subtitles in the series included "Apocalypse", "Extinction", "Afterlife", and "Retribution", perhaps indicating a lack of prioritization.

Answer: Hellraiser

The fifth in the "Hellraiser" series (and far from the worst, weirdly), "Hellraiser: Inferno" involves another person who opens the Lament Configuration, releasing the Cenobites from Hell and spreading sadomasochistic terror out from themselves. The catch? This is where the series started getting released without hitting the theater...and it was back in 2000.

It was followed by "Hellseeker", "Deader", "Hellworld", and "Revelations", the last of which was only made to ensure Dimension Films kept the rights to the franchise. Weirdly, "Revelation" was also the subtitle of the second "Silent Hill" film (in 3D!) and the third in the "Butterfly Effect" series.

Answer: Paranormal Activity

"The Ghost Dimension" (2015), the sixth in the long-running handicam horror series about unseen spectres from dimensions unknown, featured a new cast of characters coming to terms with the fact that they may be haunted by a spirit from 'the other side'. Like the rest of the movies in the highly-profitable series, it built on the idea of cult influence, but also strung in an alternate dimension trope seen in the series' fifth installment, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones".

Answer: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Another 'final' film, eh? Actually, this one was followed by "New Nightmare" in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" saga, so it was far from final. "The Final Nightmare", the sixth in the series, was released in 1991, and while it was meant to wrap up Wes Craven's popular, surreal slasher saga, he returned to the helm in 1994 with Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund in a self-reflexive sequel.

This meta story would lead him much more easily into "Scream" in 1996, which parodied the slasher genre with gusto. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" also saw subtitles like "The Dream Warriors" and "The Dream Child".

Answer: Halloween

While John Carpenter's "Halloween" series found its greatest success with Michael Myers stabbing his way through victims as far back as 1978, he never envisioned it as a slasher series through and through. The only hint of this nowadays is "Halloween III: Season of the Witch", which never actually featured Michael Myers.

Instead, it involved killer Halloween masks created by the nefarious Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its (witch? warlock?) leader. Public outcry and movie executives called for an end to the anthology and, thus, "Halloween" retooled in 1988 with "The Return of Michael Myers". Other subtitles in the series included "20 Years Later" and "Resurrection"...much like "Alien".

Answer: Friday the 13th

The fifth in the long-running franchise featuring Jason Voorhees, "A New Beginning" was one of the only ones not to have Jason be the actual killer (oh yeah, spoilers, but you should avoid this one anyways). After the series was planned to end with the fourth installment, "The Final Chapter", this fifth movie, released a meager year later, saw Tommy Jarvis (a kid in the previous movie) haunted by the killer he stopped. Jason returned in "Friday the 13th: Jason Lives!" only one more year later.

Answer: Wrong Turn

While "Bloodlines" (well...'Bloodline') is also the subtitle for the fourth "Hellraiser" movie, it was also the fifth in the "Wrong Turn" series following "Bloody Beginnings" but preceding "Last Resort". All of the films in this franchise, spawned from the 2003 Desmond Harrington/Eliza Dushku cannibal horror flick, involved backwoods shenanigans involving depraved, psychotic rednecks.

This was more of the same, but the killers as seen in the previous movies included a serial killer never seen in the previous four.

Besides the first movie in the series, all of the rest were on limited release or went straight-to-DVD.

Answer: Leprechaun

The sixth in the "Leprechaun" series, and not even the first one set in 'da hood', "Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood" was released in 2003 and featured series star Warwick Davis as the titular bad guy, a leprechaun simply out to reclaim his gold and wreak havoc.

While the series' early days introduced actress Jennifer Aniston to the film world and brought the series to space in its fourth iteration, ten years grounded the film back in an urban environment. "In Da Hood", the fifth in the series, actually starred Ice-T.

Answer: Alien

...and yeah, "Resurrection" was also a film in the "Halloween" franchise, as noted. "Resurrection" was the fourth in the "Alien" series and the last to feature Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, this time brought back from the dead (spoilers-- she died in "Alien 3") as a clone. Released in 1997, "Alien: Resurrection" was written by Joss Whedon and was not too well-received, especially since the first two in the series were so beloved in the horror and action genres. Ridley Scott, who created the original, wouldn't return to the concept until "Prometheus", a prequel film, in 2012.

Answer: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

In all honesty, it's hard to explain where "The Beginning" fits into the long-running "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" series, but I can try. The movies began with Tobe Hooper's original in 1974 and continued with three more films in the twenty years following (the last of which starred Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey).

The series was rebooted by Platinum Dunes in 2003, and "The Beginning" is the prequel to that reboot (released in 2006), effectively going further back in the Leatherface story than all preceding movies. People get chainsawed; that's just how it goes. "The Beginning" was also the subtitle of the "Psycho" prequel (the fourth in the series), the "Exorcist" prequel (also the fourth), and the third movie in the "Ginger Snaps" trilogy.