Can You Score 20/20? Guess the Horror Movie from Its Story Progression Trivia Quiz

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Think you know your horror films inside out? This quiz challenges you to identify 20 iconic horror movies based solely on their key story progressions, from chilling openings to terrifying climaxes. Questions range from classics to modern nightmares — grab a pen and test your knowledge!

Questions

Question 1: A young girl exhibits disturbing behaviour like levitating and speaking in demonic voices, leading her mother to seek medical help before two priests perform a harrowing exorcism?

A. The Conjuring
B. The Exorcist
C. Annabelle
D. The Rite

Question 2: A babysitter and her friend are terrorised on Halloween night by an escaped masked killer who has been stalking her since childhood, surviving multiple brutal attacks?

A. Friday the 13th
B. Scream
C. Halloween
D. Nightmare on Elm Street

Question 3: A family caretaking an isolated Overlook Hotel during winter sees the father descend into madness influenced by ghostly apparitions, while his wife and son uncover the hotel’s dark secrets?

A. The Shining
B. Doctor Sleep
C. 1408
D. The Haunting of Hill House

Question 4: A secretary steals money and checks into a remote motel run by a disturbed owner, only to face a shocking shower murder and discoveries about his mother’s corpse?

A. Psycho
B. Bates Motel
C. The Silence of the Lambs
D. Peeping Tom

Question 5: A young woman suspects her neighbours of being Satanists after becoming pregnant amid hallucinatory nightmares and strange occurrences in her apartment building?

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

Question 6: A group of friends seeking an old family home encounter a cannibalistic family led by a chainsaw-wielding giant in a Texas slaughterhouse?

A. The Hills Have Eyes
B. Wrong Turn
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. House of 1000 Corpses

Question 7: Strangers barricade themselves in a rural farmhouse as reanimated corpses rise to devour the living, leading to paranoia and desperate survival attempts?

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

Question 8: A New England beach town panics over a massive great white shark attacking swimmers, prompting a police chief, scientist, and old salt to hunt it at sea?

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

Question 9: A spaceship crew investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, bringing back a deadly alien organism that gestates inside a crew member and hunts the survivors?

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

Question 10: A family moves into a rural farmhouse haunted by a malevolent witch entity, calling in paranormal investigators who document possessions and exorcisms?

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

Question 11: After their secretive artist’s mother dies, a family unravels through grief, decapitations, and a cultish demonic inheritance revealed in a miniature house model?

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

Question 12: A black man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, undergoes hypnosis via a teacup, and uncovers a sinister auction and body-swapping conspiracy?

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

Question 13: A group of children in a small town band together as Losers’ Club to battle a shape-shifting entity that preys on their fears, manifesting as a clown in the sewers?

A. It
B. Stranger Things
C. The Monster
D. Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Question 14: High school students in Woodsboro are stalked and murdered by killers in ghost masks making taunting phone calls, revealing connections to past tragedies?

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

Question 15: A journalist watches a mysterious videotape that curses viewers to die in seven days unless they copy and share it, racing to solve the riddle behind Sadako?

A. The Grudge
B. Dark Water
C. Pulse
D. The Ring

Question 16: Two men awaken chained in a filthy bathroom with a dying man and a microcassette urging them to play a deadly game or their loved ones will suffer?

A. Hostel
B. Cube
C. Saw
D. Escape Room

Question 17: A 17th-century Puritan family exiled to the woods faces crop failure, a missing baby, and their young daughter accused of witchcraft amid encounters with a devilish black goat?

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

Question 18: A grieving woman joins her boyfriend’s friends on a trip to a remote Swedish commune for a midsummer festival that descends into ritualistic pagan horrors?

A. The Ritual
B. Apostle
C. Midsommar
D. Pyewacket

Question 19: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family survives sound-hunting blind creatures by living silently, facing new threats after the birth of their vulnerable baby?

A. Bird Box
B. A Quiet Place
C. The Silence
D. Light Out

Question 20: Five college friends arrive at a remote cabin, unleashing zombies, monsters, and other horrors through a basement diary and lake artifacts, all part of a larger sacrificial ritual?

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

Answers

  1. B. The Exorcist — William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece follows Regan MacNeil’s possession and the exorcism by Fathers Karras and Merrin.
  2. C. Halloween — John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher centres on Laurie Strode evading Michael Myers on Halloween.
  3. A. The Shining — Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation sees Jack Torrance descend into madness at the Overlook Hotel.
  4. A. Psycho — Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Marion Crane’s theft, the Bates Motel stay, and Norman’s mother twist.
  5. A. Rosemary’s Baby — Roman Polanski’s 1968 film depicts Rosemary’s cult-surrounded pregnancy paranoia in her apartment building.
  6. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film traps youths with Leatherface’s Sawyer clan in rural Texas.
  7. C. Night of the Living Dead — George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie blueprint has ghouls sieging a farmhouse amid infighting.
  8. D. Jaws — Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster tracks Brody, Hooper, and Quint’s shark hunt off Amity Island.
  9. D. Alien — Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew infected by a xenomorph facehugger.
  10. D. The Conjuring — James Wan’s 2013 film follows the Perron family and the Warrens versus the witch Bathsheba.
  11. C. Hereditary — Ari Aster’s 2018 grief horror reveals the Paimon cult via Annie Graham’s family and miniatures.
  12. C. Get Out — Jordan Peele’s 2017 satire uncovers the Armitage family’s racist body-swapping conspiracy.
  13. A. It — Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation pits the Losers’ Club against Pennywise in Derry’s sewers.
  14. C. Scream — Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher has Ghostface killings tied to the Cotton Weary case in Woodsboro.
  15. D. The Ring — Gore Verbinski’s 2002 US remake curses viewers via the mysterious videotape and Samara.
  16. C. Saw — James Wan’s 2004 trap origin wakes Adam and Dr. Gordon with Jigsaw’s deadly game.
  17. A. The VVitch — Robert Eggers’ 2015 folk horror follows a 1630s Puritan family and the devilish Black Phillip.
  18. C. Midsommar — Ari Aster’s 2019 daylight cult film follows Dani’s unraveling amid the Hårga midsummer rituals.
  19. B. A Quiet Place — John Krasinski’s 2018 creature feature follows a family surviving sound-hunting aliens in silence.
  20. A. The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard’s 2012 meta-film reveals a secret organisation controlling the sacrificial ritual.

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