Can You Guess the Horror Movie from the Location Clue? Ultimate 20/20 Trivia Quiz

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Test your cinematic savvy with these 20 location-based clues from classic and modern horror films! From remote cabins to cursed hotels, questions ramp up from easy to expert level. Grab a pen and see if you can name the movie every time.

20 Trivia Questions: Guess the Horror Movie from the Location Clue

Question 1: Snowbound Overlook Hotel high in the Colorado Rockies?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. The Shining
C. 1408
D. Misery

Question 2: Camp Crystal Lake in New Jersey?

A. The Burning
B. Sleepaway Camp
C. Friday the 13th
D. Madman

Question 3: Seedy Bates Motel off a California highway?

A. Vacancy
B. Psycho
C. Motel Hell
D. Identity

Question 4: Cursed Dutch Colonial at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville?

A. The Conjuring 2
B. The Amityville Horror
C. The Haunting in Connecticut
D. Annabelle

Question 5: Decrepit cabin deep in Tennessee forest?

A. Cabin Fever
B. The Cabin in the Woods
C. The Evil Dead
D. Wrong Turn

Question 6: Isolated Outpost 31 in Antarctica?

A. 30 Days of Night
B. The Thing
C. Deep Rising
D. Leviathan

Question 7: Nightmarish homes on 1428 Elm Street, Springwood?

A. Halloween
B. A Nightmare on Elm Street
C. Scream
D. When a Stranger Calls

Question 8: Ominous Bramford apartment building in New York City?

A. The Sentinel
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. Suspiria
D. The Tenant

Question 9: Dense Black Hills Forest near Burkittsville, Maryland?

A. The Ritual
B. The Blair Witch Project
C. Exists
D. The Hallow

Question 10: Quiet suburbs of Haddonfield, Illinois?

A. Trick ‘r Treat
B. Halloween
C. Jeepers Creepers
D. Disturbia

Question 11: Haunted Perron farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island?

A. Sinister
B. The Conjuring
C. Insidious
D. The Woman in Black

Question 12: Remote Ashecliffe Hospital on Shutter Island?

A. Session 9
B. Gothika
C. Shutter Island
D. The Ward

Question 13: Small-town Woodsboro, California?

A. I Know What You Did Last Summer
B. Urban Legend
C. Scream
D. Final Destination

Question 14: Grimy abandoned bathroom in a meatpacking plant?

A. Cube
B. The Collector
C. Saw
D. Hostel

Question 15: Remote Sawyer family farmhouse in rural Texas?

A. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
B. X
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. House of 1000 Corpses

Question 16: Spooky tract house in Cuesta Verde, California?

A. Poltergeist
B. The Others
C. What Lies Beneath
D. The Skeleton Key

Question 17: Haunted room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, New York?

A. The Shining
B. 1408
C. Room 237
D. Bug

Question 18: Pagan island of Summerisle off Scotland’s coast?

A. Midsommar
B. Apostle
C. The Wicker Man
D. The Fog

Question 19: Desolate, infected streets of London?

A. World War Z
B. 28 Days Later
C. Train to Busan
D. REC

Question 20: Claustrophobic caves in the Appalachian Mountains?

A. The Descent
B. The Cave
C. As Above, So Below
D. The Pyramid

Answers

  1. B. The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel unfolds almost entirely at the remote Overlook Hotel. Others like Doctor Sleep and 1408 feature hotels but different ones; Misery is a remote house.
  2. C. Friday the 13th (1980) – Jason Voorhees’ origin story centres on the lakeside camp stalked by a killer. The Burning and Sleepaway Camp are other camp horrors but different sites.
  3. B. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece with the infamous Bates Motel where Marion Crane meets her end. Vacancy and Motel Hell use motels but lack the iconic house.
  4. B. The Amityville Horror (1979) – Based on the real Lutz hauntings at this exact address. Others draw from hauntings but different houses.
  5. C. The Evil Dead (1981) – Sam Raimi’s cabin unleashes Deadites on Ash and friends. Cabin Fever is disease-focused; others parody or differ.
  6. B. The Thing (1982) – John Carpenter’s shape-shifting alien invades the Antarctic base. Others are creature features in varied cold locales.
  7. B. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Freddy Krueger invades dreams from Elm Street homes. Halloween is Haddonfield; others suburb slashers.
  8. B. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Satanic cult in the Bramford (filmed at The Dakota). The Sentinel shares the building fictionally but different plot.
  9. B. The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Found-footage terror in these specific woods. Others are forest horrors without the witch legend tie.
  10. B. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers stalks Laurie in Haddonfield suburbs. Others use small towns but different slashers.
  11. B. The Conjuring (2013) – Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the real Perron farmhouse hauntings. Others are haunted houses elsewhere.
  12. C. Shutter Island (2010) – Leonardo DiCaprio’s Marshal unravels at this island asylum. Session 9 is Danvers; others asylums too.
  13. C. Scream (1996) – Ghostface slashes through Woodsboro high school and homes. Others teen slashers in beach/town settings.
  14. C. Saw (2004) – Jigsaw traps victims starting in this bathroom. Cube is a maze; others traps elsewhere.
  15. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Leatherface’s cannibal clan in their rural Texas home. Remake and others riff but original sets it there.
  16. A. Poltergeist (1982) – Freelings battle spirits in their new development home. Others ghostly houses in different styles.
  17. B. 1408 (2007) – Stephen King’s haunted hotel room drives Mike Enslin mad. The Shining is a whole hotel; others unrelated.
  18. C. The Wicker Man (1973) – Policeman lured to pagan rituals on this Scottish isle. Midsommar is Sweden; others islands differently.
  19. B. 28 Days Later (2002) – Rage virus empties London’s streets for survival horror. Others zombie apocalypses in cities abroad.
  20. A. The Descent (2005) – All-female caving trip turns deadly in US caves. Others cave horrors but The Descent defines Appalachian crawlers.

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