Test Your Horror Knowledge: Identify the Movie From Its Gruesome First Kill – 20-Question Trivia Quiz

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Are you a true horror aficionado who recognizes every slash and scream? This quiz challenges you to name the film based solely on its shocking first kill. Questions range from iconic classics to cult favourites. Aim for a perfect 20/20!

Questions

Question 1: Which film features a hitchhiking camp counsellor picked up by a station wagon driver who slits her throat at a lakeside?

A. Halloween (1978)
B. Friday the 13th (1980)
C. The Burning (1981)
D. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Question 2: In which movie is a teenage girl strangled in her kitchen while wearing a ghost sheet after a Halloween party?

A. Scream (1996)
B. Prom Night (1980)
C. Halloween (1978)
D. Black Christmas (1974)

Question 3: Which horror classic has a young man bludgeoned in the face with a sledgehammer right after entering a remote family house?

A. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
C. Motel Hell (1980)
D. House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Question 4: In which film is the first victim a woman repeatedly stabbed in a motel shower to the accompaniment of screeching violins?

A. Dressed to Kill (1980)
B. Peeping Tom (1960)
C. Psycho (1960)
D. Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Question 5: Which slasher’s first kill sees a sleeping teenager slashed open across her bedroom ceiling before her body crashes down the wall?

A. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
B. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
C. The Dead Zone (1983)
D. Poltergeist (1982)

Question 6: Which movie opens with a girl gut-stabbed and strung up on a tree swing after taunting the killer on the phone?

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

Question 7: In which film is a sorority sister suffocated inside a plastic laundry bag and stowed away in the attic?

A. Sorority Row (2009)
B. Black Christmas (1974)
C. The House on Sorority Row (1983)
D. New Year’s Evil (1980)

Question 8: Which 1981 slasher starts with a miner impaling a woman upward through her chin with a pickaxe in a locker room?

A. Friday the 13th (1980)
B. Terror Train (1980)
C. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
D. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Question 9: In which film is a high school girl stabbed multiple times with scissors inside a bathroom stall?

A. Curtains (1983)
B. Prom Night (1980)
C. Graduation Day (1981)
D. Terror Train (1980)

Question 10: Which movie’s first kill hurls a nanny screaming out of a high-rise apartment window controlled by a doll?

A. Gremlins (1984)
B. Child’s Play (1988)
C. Troll (1986)
D. Dolly Dearest (1991)

Question 11: In which film is the first victim dragged into a mirror and hooked in the ribs after chanting a forbidden name five times?

A. Hellraiser (1987)
B. Phantasm (1979)
C. Wishmaster (1997)
D. Candyman (1992)

Question 12: Which movie’s first death is the family nanny hanging herself before the child while possessed and chanting “It’s all for you!”?

A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
B. The Exorcist (1973)
C. The Omen (1976)
D. Damien: Omen II (1978)

Question 13: In which blockbuster is the first human victim a nude night swimmer savagely devoured underwater by a shark?

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

Question 14: Which zombie classic has its first kill as a man clubbed with a tombstone by a ghoul in a rural cemetery?

A. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
B. Return of the Living Dead (1985)
C. 28 Days Later (2002)
D. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Question 15: In which summer camp slasher is the first counsellor dispatched with garden shears to the throat while urinating outdoors?

A. Madman (1981)
B. Friday the 13th (1980)
C. Just Before Dawn (1981)
D. The Burning (1981)

Question 16: Which 1980 exploitation horror begins by strangling and scalping a prostitute on a New York street?

A. Ms. 45 (1981)
B. Maniac (1980)
C. The New York Ripper (1982)
D. Don’t Answer the Phone (1980)

Question 17: In which film is the pizza delivery girl the first victim, drilled through the chest with a power drill?

A. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
B. Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
C. Curtains (1983)
D. Hard Rock Zombies (1985)

Question 18: Which early slasher has its first kill as a woman stabbed repeatedly inside a descending lift?

A. The Prowler (1981)
B. When a Stranger Calls (1979)
C. He Knows You’re Alone (1980)
D. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Question 19: In which holiday-themed horror is the first victim a nurse garrotted with intravenous tubing in a hospital?

A. Terror Train (1980)
B. Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
C. New Year’s Evil (1980)
D. Christmas Evil (1980)

Question 20: Which Italian slasher’s first kill stabs a woman through a toilet stall door with a knife during a rehearsal?

A. Tenebrae (1982)
B. Opera (1987)
C. Inferno (1980)
D. Stage Fright (1987)

Answers

  1. B. Friday the 13th (1980) — Pamela Voorhees slits hitchhiker Annie’s throat by the lake.
  2. C. Halloween (1978) — Michael Myers strangles Lynda under her sheet.
  3. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) — Leatherface smashes Kirk’s head with a sledgehammer.
  4. C. Psycho (1960) — Norman Bates (as “Mother”) knifes Marion Crane in the shower.
  5. B. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Freddy Krueger slashes Tina across the ceiling.
  6. D. Scream (1996) — Ghostface disembowels Casey Becker after phone terror.
  7. B. Black Christmas (1974) — Billy suffocates Clare Harrison inside a plastic bag.
  8. C. My Bloody Valentine (1981) — The miner impales Joycie upward through the chin with a pickaxe.
  9. B. Prom Night (1980) — The killer stabs Kelly multiple times with scissors in the bathroom.
  10. B. Child’s Play (1988) — Chucky hurls nanny Maggie out the apartment window.
  11. D. Candyman (1992) — The hook-handed spectre guts a woman after she summons him in the mirror.
  12. C. The Omen (1976) — The possessed nanny hangs herself while chanting “It’s all for you!”
  13. D. Jaws (1975) — The shark devours nude swimmer Chrissie underwater at night.
  14. D. Night of the Living Dead (1968) — A ghoul clubs Johnny with a tombstone in the cemetery.
  15. D. The Burning (1981) — Cropsy dispatches counsellor Larry with garden shears to the throat.
  16. B. Maniac (1980) — Frank Zito strangles and scalps a prostitute on a New York street.
  17. B. Slumber Party Massacre (1982) — The killer drills through the chest of the pizza delivery girl.
  18. C. He Knows You’re Alone (1980) — Jane is repeatedly stabbed inside a descending elevator.
  19. C. New Year’s Evil (1980) — Rogue garrottes nurse Denise with IV tubing at midnight.
  20. D. Stage Fright (1987) — The owl-masked killer stabs a woman through a toilet stall door.

How many did you get right? Drop your score in the comments and challenge your horror-loving friends to beat it — a perfect 20/20 means you’re legendary!