Can You Score 20/20? Guess These Iconic Horror Movies From Their Plots Alone!

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Test your horror knowledge with these 20 plot-based trivia questions! From classic slashers to modern chills, we’ve mixed easy warm-ups with devilishly tricky ones to challenge even die-hard fans. Grab a pen and see how many you can nail without peeking.

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movie Plots

Question 1: A struggling writer accepts a winter caretaking job at an isolated Overlook Hotel with his wife and psychic son, only for cabin fever and malevolent supernatural forces to drive him to murderous insanity?

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

Question 2: A secretary steals $40,000 and checks into a remote motel run by a disturbed owner with an unhealthy attachment to his late mother, leading to a infamous shower murder?

A. Psycho
B. Bates Motel
C. Friday the 13th
D. The Silence of the Lambs

Question 3: A 12-year-old girl exhibits bizarre behaviour and levitation after playing with a Ouija board, prompting two Catholic priests to perform a dangerous exorcism ritual?

A. The Exorcist
B. The Conjuring
C. Insidious
D. The Possession

Question 4: On Halloween night in 1978, a masked killer escapes from a sanitarium and returns to his quiet hometown to relentlessly stalk and slash a final girl and her friends?

A. Halloween
B. Scream
C. Prom Night
D. My Bloody Valentine

Question 5: In 1973, a group of friends seeking an old family graveyard in rural Texas stumbles upon a depraved cannibalistic family led by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface?

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

Question 6: A massive great white shark terrorises a New England beach resort community during the busy July 4th weekend, forcing the sheriff, a marine biologist, and a shark hunter to hunt it down?

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

Question 7: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress beacon on a desolate planet, bringing back a deadly parasitic organism that gestates inside a crew member before bursting out?

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

Question 8: Fleeing a car crash, survivors barricade themselves in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as the recently deceased rise as flesh-eating ghouls, leading to paranoia and tragedy inside?

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

Question 9: A young woman newly pregnant suspects her eccentric elderly neighbours and coven are plotting to use her unborn child in a satanic ritual orchestrated by her own husband?

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

Question 10: In 1971 Rhode Island, a family tormented by slamming doors, levitating beds, and a witch apparition seeks help from renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren?

A. The Conjuring
B. Annabelle
C. The Amityville Horror
D. Paranormal Activity

Question 11: A young Black man visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal parents in a secluded estate, only to uncover a horrifying conspiracy involving hypnosis and body-swapping?

A. Get Out
B. Us
C. The Stepford Wives
D. They Cloned Tyrone

Question 12: After their secretive grandmother dies, a family grapples with grief, decapitations, and a sinister cult legacy tied to hereditary dementia and demonic possession?

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

Question 13: In 1630s New England, a Puritan family exiled into the woods faces crop failure, a missing baby, and witchcraft accusations amid encounters with a malevolent goat-horned entity?

A. The Witch
B. The Village
C. The VVitch
D. Apostle

Question 14: After a sexual encounter, a young woman is relentlessly pursued by a slow-walking supernatural entity that can only be passed on to another through sex, haunting her in various disguises?

A. It Follows
B. Happy Death Day
C. The Endless
D. Resolution

Question 15: A grieving woman joins her Swedish boyfriend at a remote midsummer festival after a family tragedy, discovering the pagan community’s horrifying rituals and sacrificial customs?

A. Midsommar
B. The Ritual
C. Apache Junction
D. Wicker Man

Question 16: A cursed videotape circulates that kills viewers exactly seven days later unless they copy and share it, prompting a journalist to race against time after watching it herself?

A. The Ring
B. Ringu
C. V/H/S
D. Noroi: The Curse

Question 17: Two men chained to pipes in a filthy bathroom awaken to find themselves trapped in a sadistic game by a puppet-controlling serial killer who tests their will to live?

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

Question 18: High school students in Woodsboro are terrorised by a killer in a black ghost mask making meta horror movie references while stabbing victims over the phone?

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

Question 19: Five college friends head to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway, unwittingly becoming pawns in an ancient underground organisation’s ritual to appease eldritch monsters?

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

Question 20: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family survives blind sound-hunting creatures by living in total silence, facing new dangers when the pregnant mother goes into labour?

A. A Quiet Place
B. Bird Box
C. Hush
D. The Silence

Answers

  1. A. The Shining (1980) – Jack Torrance descends into madness at the haunted Overlook Hotel; Doctor Sleep is its sequel, 1408 involves a haunted room, and The Haunting is a different ghostly tale.
  2. A. Psycho (1960) – Marion Crane’s theft leads to Norman Bates’ motel horrors; the others are TV spin-offs or unrelated slashers.
  3. A. The Exorcist (1973) – Regan MacNeil’s demonic possession requires priests Karras and Merrin; The Conjuring is investigators vs. witches, not exorcism-focused.
  4. A. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers targets Laurie Strode; Scream uses Ghostface, not a sanitarium escapee.
  5. A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Marilyn Burns’ group meets Leatherface’s Sawyer clan; Wrong Turn features mutants, not chainsaws.
  6. A. Jaws (1975) – Brody, Hooper, and Quint battle the shark; Deep Blue Sea involves smart sharks in a lab.
  7. A. Alien (1979) – Nostromo crew faces the xenomorph; Prometheus is a prequel with Engineers.
  8. A. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Barbara and Ben fight zombies in a farmhouse; Dawn of the Dead is set in a mall.
  9. A. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Mia Farrow suspects the Castevets’ plot; The Omen involves Damien, not pregnancy.
  10. A. The Conjuring (2013) – Perron family vs. Bathsheba; Amityville Horror is demonic house, not Warrens’ first case.
  11. A. Get Out (2017) – Chris uncovers the Armitage family’s auction; Us is doppelgangers, not hypnosis.
  12. A. Hereditary (2018) – Graham family faces Paimon cult; Midsommar is festival cult, daylight horrors.
  13. A. The Witch (2015) – Thomasin family battles Black Phillip; The Village is modern twist on isolation.
  14. A. It Follows (2014) – Jay passes the curse; Happy Death Day is time-loop slasher.
  15. A. Midsommar (2019) – Dani witnesses Härga rituals; The Ritual is forest creature in Sweden.
  16. A. The Ring (2002) – Rachel copies the tape; Ringu is the Japanese original.
  17. A. Saw (2004) – Adam and Lawrence in Jigsaw’s trap; Cube is geometric puzzles.
  18. A. Scream (1996) – Sidney vs. Billy and Stu; I Know What You Did lacks meta calls.
  19. A. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – Ritual sacrifices for ancient ones; Evil Dead is demons from Necronomicon.
  20. A. A Quiet Place (2018) – Abbott family mutes for survival; Bird Box avoids sighted entities.

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