Can You Name These 20 Horror Films from Their Main Plotlines? Ultimate Trivia Challenge!

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Think you’re a horror movie master? Test your knowledge with these 20 tricky plotline descriptions from iconic horror films, ranging from easy classics to modern mind-benders. How many can you identify correctly?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movie Plotlines

Question 1: A young priest and an experienced exorcist battle to save a 12-year-old girl possessed by a demonic force in her mother’s Georgetown apartment?

A. The Omen
B. The Exorcist
C. Rosemary’s Baby
D. The Conjuring

Question 2: A secretary steals $40,000 and checks into a remote motel run by a disturbed young man with a domineering mother?

A. Psycho
B. The Bates Motel
C. Friday the 13th
D. Scream

Question 3: An escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask terrorises his hometown on Halloween night, targeting his former classmate and her friends?

A. Halloween
B. Prom Night
C. My Bloody Valentine
D. Slumber Party Massacre

Question 4: A recovering alcoholic writer and his family become the winter caretakers of an isolated Overlook Hotel, where supernatural forces drive him insane?

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

Question 5: A young woman newly pregnant suspects her elderly neighbours and husband are part of a satanic cult plotting to use her unborn child for their rituals?

A. The Omen
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. Inseminoid
D. Devil’s Due

Question 6: A group of friends driving through rural Texas stumble upon a cannibalistic family led by a chainsaw-wielding patriarch at their decrepit farmhouse?

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

Question 7: During a sudden zombie outbreak, a group of strangers barricades themselves in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse to survive the night?

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

Question 8: A great white shark terrorises a New England beach resort, forcing the police chief, oceanographer, and shark hunter to hunt it down?

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

Question 9: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, bringing back a deadly extraterrestrial creature that begins picking them off one by one?

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

Question 10: A family moves into a new Rhode Island farmhouse plagued by malevolent spirits, calling in demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren for help?

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

Question 11: A black photographer visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal family in the suburbs, only to uncover a horrifying conspiracy involving hypnosis and organ transplants?

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

Question 12: After the death of their secretive grandmother, a family unravels amid grief, decapitations, and a cultish demonic inheritance?

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

Question 13: In 1630s New England, a Puritan family exiled into the woods faces crop failure, a missing infant, and suspicions of witchcraft among them?

A. The VVitch
B. Apostle
C. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
D. The Hallow

Question 14: A group of children in Derry, Maine, band together as the Losers’ Club to confront and battle a shape-shifting entity that preys on kids as a clown?

A. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
B. It
C. Clown
D. Terrifier

Question 15: A small town is gripped by fear as a masked killer known as Ghostface begins targeting high school students with taunting phone calls?

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

Question 16: Two men chained in an abandoned bathroom awaken to find themselves trapped by a sadistic puppeteer who forces them into deadly moral games?

A. Cube
B. Escape Room
C. The Belko Experiment
D. Saw

Question 17: A journalist investigates a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after watching it, racing to break the cycle?

A. The Grudge
B. One Missed Call
C. The Ring
D. Shutter

Question 18: A suburban family experiences poltergeist activity when their TV becomes a portal for ghosts who abduct the youngest daughter into another dimension?

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

Question 19: A group of teenagers plagued by nightmares discovers their dreams are invaded by a burned killer with a bladed glove who murders them in their sleep?

A. Dreamscape
B. Freddy’s Dead
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. The Dream Master

Question 20: Five college friends head to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway, unknowingly becoming pawns in an ancient underground organisation’s monstrous ritual?

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

Answers

  1. B. The Exorcist – The 1973 film directed by William Friedkin features Regan MacNeil’s possession and the exorcism by Fathers Karras and Merrin; others involve different demonic or satanic themes without this exact ritual.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic follows Marion Crane’s fateful stay at the Bates Motel; the others are later slashers inspired by it but not matching this theft-and-motel plot.
  3. A. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 film introduces Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode; the distractors are other masked-killer holiday horrors with different settings.
  4. C. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel centres on Jack Torrance’s descent in the Overlook; others feature hotels or writers but lack the family caretaker isolation.
  5. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 film depicts Mia Farrow’s character under cult influence; the rest involve demonic births but not this apartment-based pregnancy conspiracy.
  6. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 indie horror features Leatherface’s family; similar cannibal films exist but none match this exact Texas road-trip encounter.
  7. C. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 groundbreaking zombie film traps survivors in a farmhouse; sequels and remakes alter the specifics.
  8. C. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody, Hooper, and Quint against the shark; other shark films lack the resort town trio dynamic.
  9. C. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew facing the xenomorph; prequels and imitators diverge in crew or creature origins.
  10. D. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film is based on the Perron family haunting investigated by the Warrens; others are haunted-house tales without these investigators.
  11. C. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 social thriller reveals the Armitage family’s sinister auction; similar family-visit horrors lack the racial hypnosis twist.
  12. B. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film explores the Grahams’ Paimon cult legacy post-grandmother; grief horrors like Midsommar have different familial cults.
  13. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 film (styled The Witch) follows the 1630s family; other folk horrors are set later or differently.
  14. B. It – The 2017 adaptation (and 1986 miniseries source) features Pennywise vs. the Losers; clown films lack Derry’s childhood cycle.
  15. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher introduces Ghostface’s calls; copycats like I Know What You Did miss the phone taunting origin.
  16. D. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 torture porn debut traps Adam and Lawrence with Jigsaw; later games expand but this is the bathroom setup.
  17. C. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake has Rachel investigating Samara’s tape; Asian originals and similar curses differ in medium or timeline.
  18. C. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 Spielberg-produced film involves the Freelings’ TV spirits; remakes aside, others lack the suburban static portal.
  19. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven’s 1984 dream-invasion film introduces Freddy Krueger; sequels build on it but this is the glove-killer origin.
  20. C. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2012 deconstruction reveals the facility’s global ritual; cabin horrors like Evil Dead lack the organisation twist.

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