Can You Name All 20 Horror Movies from Their Story Highlights? Ultimate Trivia Challenge!

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Test your knowledge with these 20 tricky questions that challenge you to identify iconic horror films based solely on key story highlights. From spine-chilling classics to modern nightmares, questions range from easy warm-ups to devilishly hard brain-teasers – can you score a perfect 20/20?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movies from Story Highlights

Question 1: A reclusive writer accepts a job as winter caretaker at an isolated hotel with his wife and psychic son, where malevolent forces drive him to madness?

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

Question 2: A secretary embezzles $40,000 and hides at a remote motel run by a shy owner who has an unhealthy attachment to his late mother?

A. Shadow of a Doubt
B. Psycho
C. The Birds
D. Frenzy

Question 3: An escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask returns to his hometown to silently stalk and murder babysitters on Halloween night?

A. Friday the 13th
B. Scream
C. Halloween
D. Prom Night

Question 4: A 12-year-old girl exhibits strange behaviour and speaks in a demonic voice, prompting two priests to perform a dangerous exorcism ritual?

A. The Rite
B. The Exorcist
C. The Conjuring
D. Deliver Us from Evil

Question 5: A young woman in a New York apartment block suspects her neighbours and husband are part of a satanic cult plotting against her unborn child?

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

Question 6: A group of friends driving through rural Texas stumble upon a cannibalistic family led by a hulking chainsaw-wielding man?

A. The Hills Have Eyes
B. Motel Hell
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. Wrong Turn

Question 7: Strangers barricade themselves in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as the recently deceased rise to devour the living in a chaotic night?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. Night of the Living Dead
C. Return of the Living Dead
D. 28 Days Later

Question 8: A massive great white shark terrorises a small beach community during the summer tourist season, forcing the sheriff to hunt it down?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Meg
C. Open Water
D. Jaws

Question 9: A commercial spaceship crew investigates a distress signal on a barren planet, awakening a deadly parasitic organism that reproduces inside hosts?

A. Prometheus
B. Event Horizon
C. Pandorum
D. Alien

Question 10: A family moves into a Rhode Island farmhouse haunted by a malevolent witch, aided by real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren?

A. Annabelle
B. Insidious
C. The Conjuring
D. The Amityville Horror

Question 11: After their secretive artist mother’s death, a family unravels amid grief, decapitations, and a cultish demonic presence tied to hereditary dementia?

A. Midsommar
B. The Babadook
C. Relic
D. Hereditary

Question 12: A black photographer visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal family in suburbia, only to uncover a sinister hypnosis-based conspiracy?

A. Us
B. Candyman
C. The Visit
D. Get Out

Question 13: A 17th-century Puritan family exiled to the New England woods faces crop failure, accusations of witchcraft, and temptation from a sinister goat?

A. The VVitch
B. Salem’s Lot
C. The Crucible
D. Apostle

Question 14: A teenager is pursued by a slow-walking supernatural entity that can only be passed on through sexual encounters after witnessing a murder?

A. Happy Death Day
B. The Endless
C. It Follows
D. The Invitation

Question 15: A true-crime author moves his family into a house where he discovers Super 8 films depicting child murders by a pagan entity named Bughuul?

A. The Ritual
B. Sinister
C. Longlegs
D. Kill List

Question 16: A cursed videotape promises death exactly seven days after viewing unless the curse is passed to another unwitting victim?

A. The Grudge
B. Pulse
C. The Ring
D. Noroi: The Curse

Question 17: Two men awaken chained in a filthy bathroom with a dying man and a microcassette urging them to play a deadly game or let their families die?

A. Cube
B. Exam
C. Saw
D. Would You Rather

Question 18: High school students in Woodsboro are targeted by a masked killer phoning them with horror movie trivia before launching brutal attacks?

A. I Know What You Did Last Summer
B. Urban Legend
C. Scream
D. The Faculty

Question 19: A suburban family’s home is invaded by vengeful spirits emerging from their television set, kidnapping their youngest daughter into another dimension?

A. The Others
B. Stir of Echoes
C. Poltergeist
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 20: Five college friends head to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway, unwittingly activating ancient rituals that unleash facility-controlled monsters?

A. The Cabin in the Woods
B. Evil Dead
C. Tucker and Dale vs Evil
D. Cabin Fever

Answers

  1. B. The Shining – Stephen King adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980 features Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) succumbing to the haunted Overlook Hotel’s ghosts; others involve hotels or writers but lack the exact isolation and psychic elements.
  2. B. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece centres on Marion Crane at the Bates Motel with Norman Bates’ split personality; distractors are other Hitchcock thrillers without the motel/embezzlement plot.
  3. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher has Michael Myers in a Captain Kirk mask targeting Laurie Strode; others feature masked killers but different settings/motives.
  4. B. The Exorcist – William Friedkin’s 1973 film stars Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil possessed by Pazuzu; distractors are modern exorcism tales without the original’s specifics.
  5. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 chiller with Mia Farrow involves the Bramford building coven; others feature evil babies/cults but not the apartment pregnancy conspiracy.
  6. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film introduces Leatherface and his Sawyer family; similar cannibal films but none match the exact Texas road trip setup.
  7. B. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie origin barricades survivors in a farmhouse; sequels/remakes alter locations or add comedy/punk elements.
  8. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Amity Island against a rogue shark; others involve sea creatures but lack the beach town sheriff hunt.
  9. D. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has Nostromo crew face xenomorphs from LV-426; prequels/sequels diverge from the original derelict ship discovery.
  10. C. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 hit is based on the Perron family haunting by Bathsheba; distractors share haunted house tropes but different investigators/demons.
  11. D. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film follows the Grahams’ Paimon cult descent; others explore grief/monsters but without the miniature art or decapitation legacy.
  12. D. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 social thriller reveals the Armitage family’s body-snatching via the Sunken Place; similar found-footage/family horrors lack racial horror twist.
  13. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 folk horror (styled The Witch) features the Graham family and Black Phillip; others are witch hunts but modern/less period-specific.
  14. C. It Follows – David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 film passes a walking curse sexually; time-loop/party horrors don’t match the entity’s relentless pursuit.
  15. B. Sinister – Scott Derrickson’s 2012 supernatural film has Ellison Oswalt find Bughuul’s films; serial killer hunts lack the exact snuff footage demon.
  16. C. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 US remake of Ringu centres on Samara’s tape; J-horror imports differ in ghosts/technology curses.
  17. C. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 trap origin stars Adam and Dr Gordon with Jigsaw; puzzle-box films lack the bathroom chains and family threat intro.
  18. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher has Ghostface quiz victims; late-90s slashers miss the trivia-calling killer gimmick.
  19. C. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 Spielberg-produced film has the Freelings’ TV portal; ghost tales lack the suburban static abduction.
  20. A. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2012 deconstruction reveals The Organization; cabin horrors are unwitting victims without global ritual control.

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