Can You Score 20/20? Horror Trivia Quiz: Name These Movies from Their Secret Motives!

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Challenge yourself with these 20 trivia questions uncovering the devious secret motives of villains and plots from iconic horror films. Ranging from slasher classics to modern mind-benders, how many can you identify correctly?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movies’ Secret Motives

Question 1: Which horror movie’s killer secretly dresses as his deceased mother to murder women who remind him of her promiscuity?

A. Dressed to Kill (1980)
B. Psycho (1960)
C. Peeping Tom (1960)
D. Magic (1978)

Question 2: Which film features a cannibalistic family whose secret motive is survival through consuming human flesh and wearing their skins as masks?

A. Motel Hell (1980)
B. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
C. Wrong Turn (2003)
D. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Question 3: In which movie do two teenage killers murder their peers primarily to gain fame and notoriety like horror movie villains?

A. Scream (1996)
B. Urban Legend (1998)
C. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
D. Scream 2 (1997)

Question 4: Which slasher’s antagonist has the secret motive of avenging the death of his son, caused by a group’s hit-and-run accident?

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

Question 5: In which film’s killer secretly seeks revenge for her son’s drowning death at a summer camp years earlier?

A. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
B. Friday the 13th (1980)
C. Madman (1981)
D. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Question 6: Which dream-invading murderer’s secret motive is revenge on the teenagers whose parents burned him alive as a child killer?

A. Shocker (1989)
B. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
C. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
D. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Question 7: Which haunted house movie reveals a witch’s secret motive to possess mothers and sacrifice their babies to the devil?

A. The Conjuring (2013)
B. The Witch (2015)
C. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
D. The Devil’s Candy (2015)

Question 8: In which film does a grandmother and her cult have the secret motive of decapitating family members to summon the demon Paimon?

A. Midsommar (2019)
B. The Ritual (2017)
C. Hereditary (2018)
D. Relic (2020)

Question 9: Which cult classic features pagans whose secret motive is sacrificing a virgin male representative to ensure bountiful harvests?

A. Midsommar (2019)
B. The Wicker Man (1973)
C. Apostle (2018)
D. Kill List (2011)

Question 10: Which movie’s coven of Satanists secretly drugs a woman to conceive and birth Satan’s child?

A. The Omen (1976)
B. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
C. Race with the Devil (1975)
D. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Question 11: Which film features ghosts driving a caretaker whose secret motive is to murder his family to preserve the hotel’s bloody legacy?

A. The Shining (1980)
B. The Haunting (1963)
C. 1408 (2007)
D. Doctor Sleep (2019)

Question 12: Which Stephen King adaptation has a nurse’s secret motive to hold her favourite author captive and dictate his writing?

A. Single White Female (1992)
B. The Fan (1981)
C. Misery (1990)
D. Black Christmas (1974)

Question 13: In which thriller does a killer’s secret motive involve murdering to represent the seven deadly sins as a moral indictment?

A. The Bone Collector (1999)
B. Se7en (1995)
C. Kiss the Girls (1997)
D. Copycat (1995)

Question 14: Which gorefest’s mastermind has the secret motive of forcing victims into traps to teach them the value of life?

A. Cube (1997)
B. Escape Room (2019)
C. Circle (2015)
D. Saw (2004)

Question 15: Which Oscar-winning horror’s serial killer secretly skins women to make a suit that will make him feel like a woman?

A. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
B. Manhunter (1986)
C. Red Dragon (2002)
D. Hannibal (2001)

Question 16: In which modern horror do a couple’s parents secretly auction black guests’ bodies for brain transplants to extend their lives?

A. The Stepford Wives (1975)
B. The Purge (2013)
C. Get Out (2017)
D. Us (2019)

Question 17: Which meta-horror reveals a global organisation’s secret motive to sacrifice five archetypes of youth to ancient gods yearly?

A. The Ritual (2017)
B. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
C. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
D. Evil Dead (2013)

Question 18: Which remake’s vengeful spirit’s secret motive is to spread her cursed video, killing viewers seven days later unless passed on?

A. The Grudge (2004)
B. Pulse (2001)
C. One Missed Call (2008)
D. The Ring (2002)

Question 19: Which indie horror’s pursuing entity’s secret motive is to kill anyone passed the curse via sex, walking slowly but relentlessly?

A. It Follows (2014)
B. The Endless (2017)
C. Resolution (2012)
D. Spring (2014)

Question 20: Which folk horror’s devilish goat’s secret motive is to tempt a family with prosperity in exchange for joining his witch coven?

A. The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)
B. Pyewacket (2017)
C. The Witch (2015)
D. The Hole in the Ground (2019)

Answers

  1. B. Psycho (1960) – Norman Bates dresses as his mother to kill women he sees as immoral, driven by split personality. The others feature killers with voyeurism, hypnosis, or a possessed doll, not maternal impersonation.
  2. D. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – The Sawyer family butchers and eats humans, crafting masks from faces for survival. Others involve mutant cannibals or inbred hillbillies but lack the signature chainsaw and skin masks.
  3. A. Scream (1996) – Billy and Stu kill to emulate films and gain infamy, with twisted family motives revealed. The others have revenge or alien invasion drives, not meta-fame seeking.
  4. C. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) – Ben Willis hunts the group for killing his son in their crash cover-up. Others focus on legends, fame, or parasites, not direct vehicular revenge.
  5. B. Friday the 13th (1980) – Pamela Voorhees slaughters counsellors for neglecting her son Jason’s drowning. The others have child killers or escaped lunatics, but not maternal camp revenge.
  6. D. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Freddy Krueger haunts dreams to kill the offspring of his vigilante burners. Others involve TV electrocution, meta-Freddy, or sequel antics, not boiler room revenge.
  7. A. The Conjuring (2013) – Bathsheba Sherman possesses to force mothers to murder infants for Satan. Others feature goat devils, morgue mysteries, or demonic music, not historical witch infanticide.
  8. C. Hereditary (2018) – Ellen’s cult sacrifices kin to crown Paimon in a male body. Others emphasise grief cults, Norse monsters, or dementia, not precise demon-summoning decapitations.
  9. B. The Wicker Man (1973) – Lord Summerisle’s pagans burn the policeman as a fertility god offering. Others involve modern cults or hitmen, not 1970s folk harvest rituals.
  10. D. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Castevet’s coven rapes Rosemary via dream to bear Antichrist. Others swap babies or fight devils overtly, not via fertility plot deception.
  11. A. The Shining (1980) – Overlook ghosts corrupt Jack Torrance to slaughter his family eternally. Others haunt via books, hotels, or psychic links, not isolated Overlook overwriting.
  12. C. Misery (1990) – Annie Wilkes imprisons Paul Sheldon to resurrect her fave character. Others obsess over apartments, sports, or sibling rivalry, not author hobbling.
  13. B. Se7en (1995) – John Doe punishes sins with themed murders to expose apathy. Others hunt via clues, profiles, or mimics, not biblical sin tableaux.
  14. D. Saw (2004) – Jigsaw’s games punish the unappreciative, revealing his cancer diagnosis. Others trap randomly or philosophically, without life-affirmation tapes.
  15. A. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Buffalo Bill tans female skins for a transsexual garment. Others profile Tooth Fairy or Lecter feasts, not moth-cocooned suit-making.
  16. C. Get Out (2017) – Armitage family body-snatches via hypnosis for racial immortality. Others replace wives or purge criminally, not auctioning black bodies.
  17. B. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – Facility engineers sacrifices matching myths to sate world-ending giants. Others spoof hillbilly attacks or zombies, not global trope control.
  18. D. The Ring (2002) – Samara’s tape curses viewers to die unless copied, eternally spreading agony. Others curse via houses, internet, or phones, not videotape chains.
  19. A. It Follows (2014) – The entity stalks sexually transmitted curse-bearers at walking pace. Others loop time or cults, not STD-like supernatural pursuit.
  20. C. The Witch (2015) – Black Phillip offers the family freedom and riches for Satanic allegiance. Others haunt schools or summon spirits, not 1630s Puritan goat temptations.

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