Can You Score 20/20? Guess These Iconic Horror Movies From Their Chilling Settings Trivia Quiz!

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Are you a true horror aficionado? Challenge yourself to identify 20 legendary horror movies based purely on their unforgettable settings, from remote cabins to haunted suburbs. This quiz mixes easy classics with tougher deep cuts – how many can you name before peeking?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movie Settings

Question 1: A remote hotel in the snowy Colorado Rockies where a family is trapped during a blizzard and faces ghostly apparitions?

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

Question 2: A seedy roadside motel run by a shy owner who lives with his domineering mother in a Gothic house on a hill?

A. Psycho
B. Vacancy
C. Motel Hell
D. Identity

Question 3: A lakeside summer camp in New Jersey haunted by drownings and a vengeful killer targeting counsellors?

A. Sleepaway Camp
B. Friday the 13th
C. The Burning
D. Madman

Question 4: A 14-room colonial farmhouse in rural Rhode Island bought by the Perron family in 1970, plagued by a witch’s curse?

A. The Conjuring
B. Annabelle
C. The Nun
D. Insidious

Question 5: A rickety cabin in the remote Michigan woods, reached via a rickety suspension bridge, where a taped incantation awakens demons?

A. Cabin Fever
B. The Cabin in the Woods
C. The Evil Dead
D. Wrong Turn

Question 6: Quiet suburban streets of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night, stalked by an escaped boogeyman in a boiler suit?

A. Halloween
B. Trick ‘r Treat
C. Scream
D. Jeepers Creepers

Question 7: Elm Street suburb where burned dream stalker Freddy Krueger pulls victims into boiler room nightmares?

A. Dreamscape
B. Freddy’s Dead
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. New Nightmare

Question 8: Eerie Hill House mansion in the English countryside, site of a scientific investigation into the paranormal?

A. The Legend of Hell House
B. The Haunting
C. House on Haunted Hill
D. The Changeling

Question 9: Swanky Dakota-like apartment building in Manhattan where a pregnant woman fears her neighbours’ occult practices?

A. Rosemary’s Baby
B. The Sentinel
C. Suspiria
D. Apartment 1303

Question 10: Isolated U.S. research outpost in Antarctica invaded by a parasitic alien that assimilates life forms?

A. The Thing from Another World
B. Antarctica
C. Deep Freeze
D. The Thing

Question 11: Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, where a family flees demonic forces after murders?

A. The Amityville Horror
B. Amityville II
C. The Haunted
D. 13 Ghosts

Question 12: Bleak Texas farmhouse home to a cannibal family armed with chainsaws and meat hooks?

A. House of 1000 Corpses
B. X
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. Leatherface

Question 13: Elegant row house at 3600 Prospect Street in Georgetown, D.C., site of a girl’s demonic possession and exorcism?

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

Question 14: Small-town supermarket in Bridgton, Maine, barricaded against otherworldly mist teeming with Lovecraftian creatures?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. The Mist
C. 30 Days of Night
D. Quarantine

Question 15: Fog-shrouded Jersey manor house in 1945 where a mother and children live in fear of intruders and strange noises?

A. The Others
B. The Woman in Black
C. Crimson Peak
D. The Awakening

Question 16: Pagan Hebridean island of Summerisle where a policeman investigates disappearances amid harvest rituals?

A. The Wicker Man
B. Midsommar
C. Kill List

D. Apostle

Question 17: Claustrophobic cave system in the Appalachian Mountains, UK cavers trapped with blind, cannibalistic troglodytes?

A. The Cave
B. As Above, So Below
C. The Descent
D. Catacombs

Question 18: Isolated 1630s New England plantation farm where a Puritan family unravels amid witchcraft accusations?

A. The VVitch
B. Salem’s Lot
C. In the Earth
D. The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Question 19: Planned suburban development in Cuesta Verde, California, where poltergeists abduct a child through the TV?

A. Poltergeist
B. Suburbicon
C. The Stepford Wives
D. Disturbia

Question 20: Seaside resort town of Amity Island, Massachusetts, gripped by panic over great white shark attacks?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. Open Water
C. 47 Meters Down
D. Jaws

Answers

  1. B. The Shining – Stephen King’s 1980 adaptation is set at the fictional Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, snowed in; Misery is a remote house, 1408 a single room, Doctor Sleep revisits it briefly but mainly elsewhere.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Norman Bates’ motel and house; others involve motels but lack the iconic mother setup.
  3. B. Friday the 13th – 1980 slasher set at Camp Crystal Lake; others are camps but not this specific lake-haunted locale.
  4. A. The Conjuring – 2013 film depicts the real Perron farmhouse in Rhode Island; sequels/spin-offs are connected but not the original setting.
  5. C. The Evil Dead – Sam Raimi’s 1981 film in a Michigan forest cabin with the bridge; Cabin in the Woods parodies it, others differ.
  6. A. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 film in Haddonfield suburbs; others have suburbia but not this Halloween night stalk.
  7. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven’s 1984 original on Elm Street; sequels expand but this is the core suburb.
  8. B. The Haunting – Robert Wise’s 1963 adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel at Hill House; others are haunted houses but not this one.
  9. A. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 film in the Bramford (inspired by Dakota); others urban apartments lack the coven focus.
  10. D. The Thing – John Carpenter’s 1982 remake at Outpost 31; 1951 original is Arctic, others not Antarctic.
  11. A. The Amityville Horror – 1979 film based on real 112 Ocean Avenue events; sequels follow but this is primary.
  12. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film at the Sawyer ranch; others have cannibal farms but not this Texas original.
  13. C. The Exorcist – William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece at the Georgetown rowhouse; others exorcism films lack this address.
  14. B. The Mist – Frank Darabont’s 2007 adaptation barricaded in Bridgton market; others sieges but not mist monsters here.
  15. A. The Others – Alejandro Amenábar’s 2001 film in Jersey post-WWII manor; others gothic estates differ.
  16. A. The Wicker Man – 1973 cult classic on Summerisle; modern folk horrors inspired it but not this island.
  17. C. The Descent – Neil Marshall’s 2005 film in Appalachian caves; others underground but lack crawlers.
  18. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 film on 1630s plantation; others New England but not this era/setting.
  19. A. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 haunted Cuesta Verde suburb; others suburbs lack TV ghosts.
  20. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster in Amity resort; others shark films but not this beach town.

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