Can You Guess These Horror Movies From Their Directors? Ultimate 20/20 Trivia Quiz Challenge!
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Think you’re a horror directing genius? This quiz challenges you to match legendary directors with their terrifying films, from golden-age classics to contemporary nightmares. With questions spanning easy warm-ups to devilish stumpers, see if you can ace all 20!
20 Trivia Questions on Can You Guess These Horror Movies From Directors
Question 1: Which iconic slasher film was directed by John Carpenter?
A. A Nightmare on Elm Street
B. The Exorcist
C. Halloween
D. Friday the 13th
Question 2: Which film introduced Freddy Krueger and was directed by Wes Craven?
A. Friday the 13th
B. Halloween
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Question 3: Which film kickstarted the modern zombie genre and was directed by George A. Romero?
A. Psycho
B. Night of the Living Dead
C. The Shining
D. Rosemary’s Baby
Question 4: Which gruelling 1970s horror was directed by Tobe Hooper?
A. Halloween
B. Friday the 13th
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. Scream
Question 5: Which groundbreaking possession film was directed by William Friedkin?
A. Poltergeist
B. The Omen
C. The Exorcist
D. Sinister
Question 6: Which Stephen King adaptation was directed by Stanley Kubrick?
A. The Exorcist
B. Carrie
C. Poltergeist
D. The Shining
Question 7: Which shower scene classic was directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
A. Dressed to Kill
B. Peeping Tom
C. Halloween
D. Psycho
Question 8: Which telekinetic teen horror was directed by Brian De Palma?
A. Suspiria
B. The Fly
C. Videodrome
D. Carrie
Question 9: Which satanic pregnancy chiller was directed by Roman Polanski?
A. The Omen
B. The Devil Rides Out
C. Rosemary’s Baby
D. The Ninth Gate
Question 10: Which low-budget cabin horror was directed by Sam Raimi?
A. Re-Animator
B. Phantasm
C. Braindead
D. The Evil Dead
Question 11: Which body horror classic about a disease was directed by David Cronenberg?
A. The Brood
B. Scanners
C. Videodrome
D. The Fly
Question 12: Which ballet school nightmare was directed by Dario Argento?
A. Deep Red
B. Inferno
C. Tenebrae
D. Suspiria
Question 13: Which Boris Karloff monster classic was directed by James Whale?
A. Dracula
B. The Mummy
C. Frankenstein
D. The Invisible Man
Question 14: Which Bela Lugosi vampire film was directed by Tod Browning?
A. Frankenstein
B. Dracula
C. The Wolf Man
D. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Question 15: Which Cenobite puzzle box film was directed by Clive Barker?
A. Candyman
B. Nightbreed
C. Hellraiser
D. Lord of Illusions
Question 16: Which haunted house franchise starter was directed by James Wan?
A. Paranormal Activity
B. The Ring
C. The Conjuring
D. Ouija
Question 17: Which social thriller horror was directed by Jordan Peele?
A. Midsommar
B. Get Out
C. Us
D. Nope
Question 18: Which grief-stricken family horror was directed by Ari Aster?
A. The Witch
B. Hereditary
C. Midsommar
D. The Babadook
Question 19: Which roadside killer debut was directed by Rob Zombie?
A. The Devil’s Rejects
B. House of 1000 Corpses
C. 31
D. 3 from Hell
Question 20: Which torture porn backpacker film was directed by Eli Roth?
A. Saw
B. Hostel
C. The Human Centipede
D. Martyrs
Answers
- C. Halloween (1978) – John Carpenter directed this Michael Myers slasher and composed its famous theme. Others by Wes Craven, William Friedkin, and Sean S. Cunningham.
- D. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Wes Craven directed this Freddy Krueger origin. Others by Cunningham, Carpenter, and Tobe Hooper.
- B. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – George A. Romero pioneered zombies here. Others by Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Polanski.
- C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Tobe Hooper unleashed Leatherface in this indie horror. Others by Carpenter, Cunningham, and Craven.
- C. The Exorcist (1973) – William Friedkin directed this Oscar-winning possession tale. Others by Hooper, Richard Donner, and Scott Derrickson.
- D. The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick adapted Stephen King’s hotel nightmare. Others by Friedkin, De Palma, and Hooper.
- D. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock shocked with Norman Bates. Others by De Palma, Michael Powell, and Carpenter.
- D. Carrie (1976) – Brian De Palma directed the Stephen King prom rage story. Others by Argento, Cronenberg (twice).
- C. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski crafted this paranoia classic. Others by Donner, Hammer Films’ Andrew Keir, and Polanski himself but different film.
- D. The Evil Dead (1981) – Sam Raimi launched Ash’s Necronomicon saga. Others by Stuart Gordon, Don Coscarelli, and Peter Jackson.
- D. The Fly (1986) – David Cronenberg remade this grotesque transformation tale. Others are also his early works, but this matches the disease body horror query precisely; wrongs differentiated by directors like Yuzna for Society alternatives.
- D. Suspiria (1977) – Dario Argento’s giallo masterpiece with Goblin score. Others also his, but this is the specified ballet coven film.
- C. Frankenstein (1931) – James Whale directed the Universal monster icon. Others by Browning, Karl Freund, and Whale (sequel).
- B. Dracula (1931) – Tod Browning helmed Bela Lugosi’s defining vampire. Others by Whale, George Waggner, and Charles Barton.
- C. Hellraiser (1987) – Clive Barker adapted his novella with Pinhead. Others by Bernard Rose, Barker (director on Nightbreed), and Barker-produced.
- C. The Conjuring (2013) – James Wan directed the Perron family haunt. Others by Oren Peli, Gore Verbinski, and Stiles White.
- B. Get Out (2017) – Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut. Others by Aster, Peele (sequels), and Peele.
- B. Hereditary (2018) – Ari Aster’s grief-to-occult debut. Others by Robert Eggers, Aster (Midsommar), and Jennifer Kent.
- B. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) – Rob Zombie’s Firefly family intro. Others sequels/prequels by Zombie.
- B. Hostel (2005) – Eli Roth coined torture porn with Elite Hunting. Others by Wan/Leigh Whannell, Tom Six, and Pascal Laugier.
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