Can You Name These 20 Horror Movies From Their Ending Descriptions? Ultimate Trivia Quiz Challenge!

Answers Below – No Peeking!

Are you a true horror aficionado who remembers every chilling finale? Put your film knowledge to the test with these 20 questions describing the iconic endings of classic and modern horror movies. Ranging from straightforward scares to twisty conclusions, can you name them all without peeking?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movies from Ending Descriptions

Question 1: A blood-soaked final girl swings onto the back of a pickup truck, laughing hysterically as the chainsaw killer dances wildly in the road behind her?

A. Halloween
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
C. Friday the 13th
D. Nightmare on Elm Street

Question 2: The killer sits calmly in a police car speaking in his dead mother’s voice as his face morphs into her mummified skull?

A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
B. Halloween
C. Psycho
D. The Shining

Question 3: In a nightmare, a hand bursts from the grave of the telekinetic teen and grabs the leg of the lone survivor?

A. Carrie
B. The Exorcist
C. Poltergeist
D. Rosemary’s Baby

Question 4: The great white shark explodes violently after a scuba tank is shot in its mouth, stranding the survivors on a sinking boat’s mast?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Shallows
C. Jaws
D. 47 Meters Down

Question 5: Ripley ejects the xenomorph alien into space via airlock and settles into hypersleep alone in her underwear?

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

Question 6: Jack freezes to death in the snowy hedge maze, followed by a 1921 photo revealing him at the Overlook Hotel party?

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

Question 7: The family flees their haunted home seconds before it violently implodes into a swirling vortex of spirits?

A. Insidious
B. Sinister
C. Poltergeist
D. The Others

Question 8: Rosemary peers into the cradle, rocks her demonic baby, and smiles while joining the satanic coven?

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

Question 9: The father figure clasps the hand of his Antichrist son and walks away from the graveyard?

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

Question 10: The black survivor is gunned down at dawn by a posse mistaking him for one of the undead?

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

Question 11: Survivors lift off in a helicopter from the mall as a zombie plunges down an elevator shaft?

A. Zombieland
B. Shaun of the Dead
C. Dawn of the Dead
D. World War Z

Question 12: Two men share a bottle in the snow, suspecting each other of being the shape-shifting alien as they freeze?

A. The Thing from Another World
B. Antichrist
C. The Thing
D. Slither

Question 13: The final girl drags Freddy Krueger into reality, exploding his dream world before driving away safely?

A. Dreamscape
B. Freddy’s Dead
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. In the Mouth of Madness

Question 14: The camp counselor is yanked underwater by a decomposing hand while drifting in a canoe on the lake?

A. Summer of 84
B. Scream
C. Friday the 13th
D. Sleepaway Camp

Question 15: The cured girl walks downstairs for the first time as the priest who took the demon into himself dies peacefully after jumping from a window?

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

Question 16: In the dingy bathroom trap, the supposed corpse of the mastermind suddenly stands up behind the survivor?

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

Question 17: The possessed teen’s brother kneels naked before the cult in the treehouse as they cheer the demon Paimon’s arrival?

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

Question 18: Dani smiles beatifically as her boyfriend is burned alive inside a bear effigy during the ritual?

A. The Ritual
B. Apostle
C. Midsommar
D. Killing of a Sacred Deer

Question 19: The two technicians sacrifice no one, unleashing the ancient evil monsters to destroy the world?

A. The Mist
B. 10 Cloverfield Lane
C. The Cabin in the Woods
D. You’re Next

Question 20: The invisible abuser is drowned in a pool by the heroine who escapes with evidence of his crimes?

A. Hollow Man
B. Glass
C. Unfriended
D. The Invisible Man

Answers

  1. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Sally escapes on the truck while Leatherface dances with his chainsaw; not Halloween (Michael vanishes), Friday the 13th (lake pull), or Nightmare (dream explosion).
  2. C. Psycho (1960) – Norman Bates’ mother’s voiceover with skull dissolve confirms his split personality; not Texas Chain Saw (dance), Halloween (disappearance), or Shining (maze photo).
  3. A. Carrie (1976) – Sue’s nightmare features Carrie’s hand from the grave; not Exorcist (stair walk), Poltergeist (implosion), or Rosemary’s (coven smile).
  4. C. Jaws (1975) – Brody’s tank shot causes the explosion on the mast; not Deep Blue Sea, Shallows, or 47 Meters (different shark demises).
  5. B. Alien (1979) – Ripley catapults the creature and enters stasis; not Prometheus (Engineer reveal), Life (Cal ejected), or Event Horizon (possessed escape).
  6. B. The Shining (1980) – Jack’s frozen corpse and 1921 photo tie him to the hotel; not Doctor Sleep (shining finale), Misery (arrest), or 1408 (room reset).
  7. C. Poltergeist (1982) – The Freelings watch their house implode; not Insidious (astral rescue), Sinister (hanging), or Others (reveal twist).
  8. C. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – She accepts and nurtures her devil child; not Omen (hand clasp), Conjuring (medals), or Hereditary (cult kneel).
  9. C. The Omen (1976) – Thorn unwittingly leads Damien away; not Rosemary’s (cradle), Exorcist (walk), or Witch (goat whisper).
  10. C. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Ben is killed by zombie hunters; not Dawn (helicopter), 28 Days (rage cure), or Return (zombies talk).
  11. C. Dawn of the Dead (1978) – Peter and Fran flee as Bub falls; not Zombieland (rules end), Shaun (Winchester), or World War Z (vaccine).
  12. C. The Thing (1982) – Ambiguous freeze-out between MacReady and Childs; not original Thing (fire defeat), Antichrist (axe), or Slither (assimilation).
  13. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Nancy’s victory pulls and burns Freddy; not Dreamscape (mind war), Freddy’s Dead (portal), or Mouth of Madness (book reality).
  14. C. Friday the 13th (1980) – Jason drags Alice under; not Summer of 84 (serial killer shoot), Scream (news), or Sleepaway (reveal).
  15. C. The Exorcist (1973) – Regan walks post-exorcism after Karras’ sacrifice; not Constantine (hell gate), Rite (possession fail), or Deliver Us (arrest).
  16. D. Saw (2004) – Jigsaw reveals himself as Zepp’s corpse animates; not sequels or Hostel/Collector (different traps).
  17. C. Hereditary (2018) – Paimon possesses Peter amid cult celebration; not Midsommar (burn), Babadook (basement), or Relic (merge).
  18. C. Midsommar (2019) – Dani’s choice sends Christian to fiery death; not Ritual (god hang), Apostle (wicker), or Sacred Deer (sacrifice).
  19. C. The Cabin in the Woods (2011) – Dana and Marty trigger apocalypse; not Mist (tentacles), Cloverfield (bomb), or You’re Next (family kill).
  20. D. The Invisible Man (2020) – Cecilia drowns Adrian and exposes his ruse; not Hollow Man (fire), Glass (grounds), or Unfriended (suicide).

How many did you get right? Drop your score in the comments and challenge fellow horror fans to try this ending quiz!