Can You Score 20/20? How Many Horror Movies Can You Actually Name – Ultimate Trivia Challenge!

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Test your knowledge with this ultimate quiz on iconic and chilling horror movies from across the decades. From classics to modern terrors, these 20 questions range from easy warm-ups to fiendishly tough brain-teasers – how many can you name correctly?

20 Trivia Questions on How Many Horror Movies Can You Actually Name

Question 1: Which 1973 film, directed by William Friedkin, depicts a young girl possessed by a demon and her subsequent exorcism?

A. The Devil’s Doorway
B. The Possession
C. Dominion
D. The Exorcist

Question 2: What is the title of John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher film featuring the masked killer Michael Myers stalking babysitters in Haddonfield?

A. The Boogeyman
B. Halloween Night
C. Halloween
D. Season of the Witch

Question 3: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 low-budget horror classic about a cannibalistic family led by Leatherface is called?

A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
B. Texas Massacre
C. Chainsaw Killers
D. Family of Flesh

Question 4: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 psychological horror film, famous for its shocking shower scene, is titled?

A. The Psycho Killer
B. Motel Madness
C. Psycho
D. Bates Motel

Question 5: George A. Romero’s 1968 groundbreaking zombie film, shot in black-and-white, is known as?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. Zombie Apocalypse
C. Night of the Living Dead
D. The Graveyard Shift

Question 6: Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a haunted hotel is?

A. The Overlook
B. Hotel of Horrors
C. The Shining
D. Room 237

Question 7: Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror film featuring the xenomorph creature aboard the Nostromo is titled?

A. Prometheus
B. Alien
C. The Thing
D. Predator

Question 8: Roman Polanski’s 1968 film about a woman impregnated by Satan is?

A. The Omen
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. The Devil’s Seed
D. Satan’s Child

Question 9: Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher film that revitalised the genre with Ghostface is called?

A. Scream
B. Stab
C. Woodsboro Murders
D. The Scream

Question 10: What 1980 slasher film introduced the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake?

A. Friday the 13th Part 2
B. Friday the 13th
C. Camp Blood
D. The Lake Killer

Question 11: Gore Verbinski’s 2002 American remake of a Japanese horror film centres on a cursed videotape in?

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

Question 12: James Wan’s 2004 horror film that launched a torture-porn franchise with Jigsaw is titled?

A. The Collector
B. Saw II
C. Saw
D. Trap

Question 13: Oren Peli’s 2007 found-footage horror about demonic hauntings in a suburban home is?

A. The Blair Witch Project
B. Paranormal Activity
C. REC
D. The Haunting

Question 14: Ari Aster’s 2018 film about a family unraveling after their grandmother’s death, featuring Toni Collette, is called?

A. Midsommar
B. Hereditary
C. The Babadook
D. Mother!

Question 15: Jordan Peele’s 2017 horror film blending social commentary with a mind-control plot is?

A. Us
B. Nope
C. Get Out
D. Candyman

Question 16: John Krasinski’s 2018 post-apocalyptic horror where sound-attracted creatures hunt survivors is titled?

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

Question 17: Andy Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a shape-shifting clown terrorising children is?

A. The Losers’ Club
B. Pennywise
C. It Chapter Two
D. It

Question 18: Robert Eggers’ 2015 period horror film set in 1630s New England about a Puritan family and a witch in the woods is?

A. The Lighthouse
B. The Witch
C. Salem’s Lot
D. The VVitch

Question 19: James Wan’s 2013 supernatural horror based on real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren is called?

A. Annabelle
B. The Conjuring 2
C. Insidious
D. The Conjuring

Question 20: Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller about a man-eating great white shark terrorising a beach town is titled?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Shallows
C. 47 Meters Down
D. Jaws

Answers

  1. D. The Exorcist – Directed by William Friedkin in 1973, it stars Linda Blair as the possessed Regan; the others are later possession films (The Possession 2012, Dominion 2005 prequel).
  2. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and introduces Michael Myers; the others are fictional or unrelated titles.
  3. A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film features Leatherface; others are invented distractors.
  4. C. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic stars Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates; Bates Motel is a TV series spin-off.
  5. C. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie film stars Duane Jones; Dawn of the Dead is its 1978 sequel.
  6. C. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film stars Jack Nicholson; Room 237 is a documentary about it.
  7. B. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 film stars Sigourney Weaver; Prometheus is its 2012 prequel.
  8. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 film stars Mia Farrow; The Omen (1976) is about the Antichrist child.
  9. A. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 film stars Neve Campbell; Stab is a fictional film within the series.
  10. B. Friday the 13th – Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 film; Jason appears fully masked in the sequel.
  11. B. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake of Ringu stars Naomi Watts; The Grudge remade Ju-On.
  12. C. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 debut stars Cary Elwes; Saw II is the 2005 sequel.
  13. B. Paranormal Activity – Oren Peli’s 2007 found-footage film; REC is the 2007 Spanish equivalent.
  14. B. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film stars Toni Collette; Midsommar is his 2019 follow-up.
  15. C. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 Oscar-winning debut; Us is his 2019 film.
  16. C. A Quiet Place – John Krasinski’s 2018 film stars Emily Blunt; The Silence (2019) has a similar premise.
  17. D. It – Andy Muschietti’s 2017 film stars Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise; It Chapter Two is the 2019 sequel.
  18. B. The Witch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 film (styled as The VVitch on posters but titled The Witch on IMDb); The Lighthouse is his 2019 film.
  19. D. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson; Annabelle is its 2014 spin-off.
  20. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster stars Roy Scheider; widely classified as horror-thriller.

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