As all horror film fans know, making sex and getting slashed up by the masked bad guy often go together (generally it's sex then death, but occasionally the other way round - see Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantik).
So we've knocked up a quick game to test whether or not you can tell the difference between horror characters either doing the nasty or having nasty things done to them. Usually with knives.
Check the close-up shot, decide whether the person is being Boffed or getting Offed, then click to see the answer... (And keep score).
First up...
Offed or Boffed?
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Suicidally Offed in The Grim Reaper AKA Anthropophagus (Astride Massaccesi, 1980)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Shocked by a demonic jack-in-the-box and Offed in The House On Sorority Row (Mark Rosman, 1983)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Lesbo- Boffed in The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Offed in a cupboard in Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Distractedly Boffed in April Fool's Day (Fred Walton, 1986)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Sweatily Boffed in Le Foto Di Gioia , AKA Delirium (Lamberto Bava, 1987)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Inventively Offed in Theatre Of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Offed up against the wall in Night Of The Demons II (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1994)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Enthusiastically Boffed in Night Of The Demons III , AKA Demon House (Jim Kaufman, 1997)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Offed from behind in Friday The 13th (Sean Cunningham, 1980)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Unpleasantly Offed in The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)
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Offed or Boffed?
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Cosily Boffed in a nice bed, with clothes on, in Buio Omega AKA Beyond The Darkness (Joe D'Amato, 1979)
How did you do?
11/11
You are the 'Boff-master' - that is, someone who is very good at telling the difference between sexual ecstasy and the throes of death.
6-10
You are quite good at distinguishing between sex-frenzy and death-agony. More practice needed - perhaps by doing more murdering or having sex.
Less than 6
You either don't care about your bed-partner's pleasure or, to you, sex and death are so similar they're impossible to tell apart. Get some therapy.
