Can You Score 20/20? Guess the Horror Movie from Its Opening Setup Trivia Quiz!

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Test your cinematic savvy by identifying these iconic horror films from their unforgettable opening setups. Spanning slashers, supernatural scares, and psychological terrors, the questions ramp up from easy to expert level. Grab some popcorn and dive in – no pausing!

20 Trivia Questions on Guess the Horror Movie from Its Opening Setup

Question 1: On Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old boy slips on a clown mask and stabs his teenage sister to death after she ignores him while kissing her boyfriend. Which horror movie?

A. Scream (1996)
B. Halloween (1978)
C. Friday the 13th (1980)
D. Child’s Play (1988)

Question 2: An aerial shot glides over Phoenix, Arizona, before peering through a hotel window at a couple in bed post-coitus, plotting to steal money. Which horror movie?

A. Rear Window (1954)
B. Psycho (1960)
C. Vertigo (1958)
D. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Question 3: In northern Iraq, archaeologist Father Merrin unearths a statue of the demon Pazuzu amid warnings from a possessed boy on horseback. Which horror movie?

A. The Exorcist (1973)
B. The Omen (1976)
C. The Mummy (1999)
D. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Question 4: On a stormy 1958 night at Camp Crystal Lake, two counselors necking in a barn loft are killed with arrows and a machete by an unseen assailant. Which horror movie?

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

Question 5: A grainy Super 8 home movie shows a family on a swing set before a lawnmower rolls in from behind to decapitate them. Which horror movie?

A. V/H/S (2012)
B. REC (2007)
C. Sinister (2012)
D. The Ring (2002)

Question 6: A terrified young black man sprints through a quiet suburban street at night before being tackled from behind by an unseen force. Which horror movie?

A. Get Out (2017)
B. Us (2019)
C. Candyman (1992)
D. The Purge (2013)

Question 7: In 1630s New England, a Puritan father chops wood as his infant son vanishes near the woods, blamed on witchcraft. Which horror movie?

A. The Witch (2015)
B. The Village (2004)
C. Signs (2002)
D. The Mist (2007)

Question 8: During a rainstorm, little brother Georgie chases his paper sailboat into a storm drain where a clown lures him closer. Which horror movie?

A. It (2017)
B. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
C. Poltergeist (1982)
D. It Chapter Two (2019)

Question 9: Two college roommates bicker over a Raggedy Ann doll possessed by a demonic spirit that levitates and slashes. Which horror movie?

A. The Conjuring (2013)
B. Annabelle (2014)
C. The Possession (2012)
D. The Exorcist III (1990)

Question 10: A shy high school girl gets her first period in the locker room showers and is mocked with flying tampons by classmates. Which horror movie?

A. The Craft (1996)
B. Carrie (1976)
C. Jennifer’s Body (2009)
D. Ginger Snaps (2000)

Question 11: A burned man with a razor-gloved hand chases a girl through a boiler room into her bed-sprung lawn. Which horror movie?

A. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
B. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
C. Freddy’s Dead (1991)
D. Shocker (1989)

Question 12: Two teen girls gossip about a cursed videotape; later, one crawls backward up stairs with bulging eyes before dying. Which horror movie?

A. Ringu (1998)
B. Pulse (2001)
C. The Ring (2002)
D. The Grudge (2004)

Question 13: A young couple sets up bedroom cameras to film nightly disturbances like slamming doors and moving objects. Which horror movie?

A. Paranormal Activity (2007)
B. Grave Encounters (2011)
C. REC (2007)
D. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Question 14: Three filmmakers drive into Black Hills Forest to shoot a documentary on the Blair Witch legend. Which horror movie?

A. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
B. Lake Mungo (2008)
C. Trollhunter (2010)
D. The Woods (2006)

Question 15: A family dozes off in front of the TV after sign-off; static fills the screen as furniture slides toward it. Which horror movie?

A. Poltergeist (1982)
B. Videodrome (1983)
C. The Ring (2002)
D. Ringu (1998)

Question 16: Amid radio chatter, a SWAT team storms a tenement purging flesh-eating ghouls from apartments. Which horror movie?

A. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
B. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
C. 28 Days Later (2002)
D. Zombieland (2009)

Question 17: A slow zoom reveals a detailed miniature dollhouse model of a family home at the start. Which horror movie?

A. Hereditary (2018)
B. Midsommar (2019)
C. The Witch (2015)
D. It Follows (2014)

Question 18: A young couple tours the Bramford apartments in NYC, meeting oddball elderly neighbours next door. Which horror movie?

A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
B. Suspiria (1977)
C. Repulsion (1965)
D. The Tenant (1976)

Question 19: A mystery caller quizzes a teen girl on horror trivia before gutting her boyfriend and chasing her outside. Which horror movie?

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

Question 20: Voiceover reports grave robbings as five friends drive a van through rural Texas to visit family graves. Which horror movie?

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

Answers

  1. B. Halloween (1978) – Iconic POV opening shows young Michael Myers murdering sister Judith. Others feature different teen or doll killers.
  2. B. Psycho (1960) – Introduces Marion Crane in Phoenix hotel with lover Sam. Others are Hitchcock thrillers without the theft plot.
  3. A. The Exorcist (1973) – Father Merrin's dig yields Pazuzu statue. Others involve different ancient evils or adventures.
  4. C. Friday the 13th (1980) – 1958 prologue murders set Camp Crystal Lake curse. Others have summer camp but different openers.
  5. C. Sinister (2012) – First snuff film "Lawn Work '86' shocks writer Ellison Oswalt. Others use tapes differently.
  6. A. Get Out (2017) – Prefigures Chris's hypnosis terror. Others have chases but not this suburb jog.
  7. A. The Witch (2015) – William's family exiled, baby Samuel taken. Others are modern faux-historical scares.
  8. A. It (2017) – Georgie meets Pennywise, loses arm. Others feature clowns or kids differently.
  9. A. The Conjuring (2013) – Cold open recounts real Annabelle doll case. Others centre on dolls later.
  10. B. Carrie (1976) – Telekinetic Carrie White bullied mercilessly. Others have witchy teens sans period shock.
  11. A. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Tina Gray's boiler room dream slaughter. Others have Freddy sequels or electrocution.
  12. C. The Ring (2002) – Katie's seven-day death after tape. Others are Japanese originals or ghost films.
  13. A. Paranormal Activity (2007) – Micah films Katie's haunting. Others are found-footage but different haunts.
  14. A. The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Heather, Josh, Mike's doomed trek. Others mockumentaries lack witch lore.
  15. A. Poltergeist (1982) – Freeling family's TV portal opens. Others distort media differently.
  16. B. Dawn of the Dead (1978) – Romero's zombie purge in tenement. Others start post-outbreak.
  17. A. Hereditary (2018) – Miniature foreshadows Graham family doom. Others slow-burn without dollhouse.
  18. A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Woods couple meets Castevets. Others Polanski horrors lack coven setup.
  19. A. Scream (1996) – Casey Becker's trivia call to kill. Others meta-slasher but different first victim.
  20. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Larroquette narration as hippies head to graves. Others cannibal hills variants.

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