Test Your Knowledge: Guess the Horror Movie from Its Character Relationships – 20-Question Trivia Quiz

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Think you know horror inside out? Identify the film from its twisted character relationships in this ultimate 20-question challenge. The questions start accessible and grow devilishly difficult. Grab a notepad and aim for a perfect score!

Questions

Question 1: Which horror movie features a masked killer who is the older brother of the teenage final girl he relentlessly stalks?

A. Scream (1996)
B. Friday the 13th (1980)
C. Halloween (1978)
D. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Question 2: In which film does a young girl become possessed by a demon, leading her actress mother to enlist two Catholic priests for an exorcism?

A. The Conjuring (2013)
B. Insidious (2010)
C. The Exorcist (1973)
D. The Rite (2011)

Question 3: Which movie centres on a motel owner with a psychopathic split personality, embodying his domineering deceased mother?

A. American Psycho (2000)
B. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
C. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
D. Psycho (1960)

Question 4: In which horror film does a recovering alcoholic writer go mad in a remote hotel, turning against his loyal wife and telepathic young son?

A. The Shining (1980)
B. Doctor Sleep (2019)
C. 1408 (2007)
D. Misery (1990)

Question 5: Which film features a bullied telekinetic teenager tormented by her fanatical, Bible-thumping mother?

A. Carrie (1976)
B. Firestarter (1984)
C. The Craft (1996)
D. Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Question 6: In which movie is the shark’s main foe the local police chief whose own son is menaced by the beast during a beach frenzy?

A. Jaws (1975)
B. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
C. The Shallows (2016)
D. 47 Meters Down (2017)

Question 7: Which horror film depicts a suburban family whose little daughter is kidnapped by ghosts emerging from their TV static?

A. Poltergeist (1982)
B. The Amityville Horror (1979)
C. The Others (2001)
D. Sinister (2012)

Question 8: In which film does a pregnant woman grow suspicious of her actor husband and satanic neighbours coveting her baby?

A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
B. The Omen (1976)
C. Devil’s Due (2014)
D. Inseminoid (1981)

Question 9: Which slasher features teenagers pursued in dreams by a razor-gloved killer whose victim’s father is a police lieutenant?

A. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
B. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
C. New Nightmare (1994)
D. Dreamscape (1984)

Question 10: In which film does the final girl’s boyfriend team up with his best friend to murder her mother a year before donning Ghostface masks?

A. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
B. Urban Legend (1998)
C. Valentine (2001)
D. Scream (1996)

Question 11: Which film has a rampaging mother avenging her drowned son’s death by massacring oblivious camp counsellors?

A. Friday the 13th (1980)
B. The Burning (1981)
C. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
D. Mother’s Day (1980)

Question 12: In which movie does a Black photographer meet his white girlfriend’s parents, uncovering their hypnosis scheme to steal Black bodies?

A. Get Out (2017)
B. Us (2019)
C. The Stepford Wives (1975)
D. The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Question 13: Which film follows a grieving family where the miniature artist mother loses her daughter to decapitation and her son to demonic possession?

A. Relic (2020)
B. The Lodge (2019)
C. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
D. Hereditary (2018)

Question 14: In which film do married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren aid the terrorised Perron family in a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse?

A. The Conjuring (2013)
B. The Nun (2018)
C. Annabelle (2014)
D. The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Question 15: Which movie shows a boy in an inexplicable coma, drawing his medium mother and possessed father into the astral plane known as The Further?

A. Insidious (2010)
B. Ouija (2014)
C. Oculus (2013)
D. Don’t Breathe (2016)

Question 16: In which film does a journalist mother race to save her video-obsessed son from a deadly cursed videotape’s seven-day deadline?

A. The Ring (2002)
B. The Grudge (2004)
C. Shutter (2008)
D. One Missed Call (2008)

Question 17: Which film portrays a grieving widow and her hyperactive young son besieged by the pop-up book monster called the Babadook?

A. The Babadook (2014)
B. Mama (2013)
C. Case 39 (2009)
D. Orphan (2009)

Question 18: In which adaptation do childhood friends dubbed the Losers’ Club unite against a clown entity that devoured the leader’s little brother?

A. It (2017)
B. The Monster Squad (1987)
C. Goosebumps (2015)
D. Stand by Me (1986)

Question 19: Which film has a sole female survivor brutalised by a dysfunctional cannibal clan featuring a hulking chainsaw brother, scheming cook sibling, and decrepit grandpa?

A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
B. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
C. Wrong Turn (2003)
D. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Question 20: In which period piece does a devout 1630s family fracture amid witchcraft suspicions targeting their rebellious teenage daughter after their infant vanishes?

A. The Witch (2015)
B. In the Tall Grass (2019)
C. Salem’s Lot (1979)
D. The VVitch (2015)

Answers

  1. C. Halloween (1978) — Michael Myers is Laurie Strode’s older brother.
  2. C. The Exorcist (1973) — Regan MacNeil’s possession leads mother Chris to priests Karras and Merrin.
  3. D. Psycho (1960) — Norman Bates impersonates his mummified mother.
  4. A. The Shining (1980) — Jack Torrance turns on wife Wendy and son Danny.
  5. A. Carrie (1976) — Carrie White suffers abuse from zealot mother Margaret.
  6. A. Jaws (1975) — Chief Brody’s son Michael is attacked by the shark.
  7. A. Poltergeist (1982) — Carol Anne Freeling is taken by spirits through the TV.
  8. A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) — Rosemary suspects husband Guy and the Castevet cult.
  9. A. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Freddy targets Nancy, daughter of Lt. Thompson.
  10. D. Scream (1996) — Billy and Stu killed Sidney’s mother before Ghostface attacks.
  11. A. Friday the 13th (1980) — Pamela Voorhees avenges son Jason’s drowning.
  12. A. Get Out (2017) — Chris uncovers Rose’s family’s body-swapping hypnosis.
  13. D. Hereditary (2018) — Annie loses daughter Charlie and son Peter to Paimon.
  14. A. The Conjuring (2013) — The Warrens help the Perron family against Bathsheba.
  15. A. Insidious (2010) — Dalton’s coma draws his parents into The Further.
  16. A. The Ring (2002) — Rachel Keller saves son Aidan from Samara’s curse.
  17. A. The Babadook (2014) — Amelia and son Samuel face the pop-up monster.
  18. A. It (2017) — Bill leads the Losers’ Club after Pennywise kills Georgie.
  19. A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) — Sally escapes Leatherface and the Sawyer clan.
  20. A. The Witch (2015) — Thomasin faces accusations after infant Samuel vanishes.

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