Can You Score 20/20? Identify Horror Films from Character Names Trivia Quiz!

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Test your ultimate horror knowledge by matching these iconic character names to their films. From slashers to supernatural chillers, the questions ramp up from easy classics to tougher modern picks. Grab a notebook and dive in – how many can you nail?

20 Trivia Questions: Horror Films from Character Names

Question 1: Which horror film features Leatherface, Nubbins Sawyer (the Hitchhiker), and Grandpa Sawyer?

A. The Hills Have Eyes
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
C. House of 1000 Corpses
D. The Last House on the Left

Question 2: Which horror film features Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, and Dr. Samuel Loomis?

A. Halloween
B. Black Christmas
C. Scream
D. When a Stranger Calls

Question 3: Which horror film features Freddy Krueger, Nancy Thompson, and Rod Lane?

A. Friday the 13th
B. The Burning
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. Sleepaway Camp

Question 4: Which horror film features Pamela Voorhees, Alice Hardy, and Steve Christy?

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

Question 5: Which horror film features Regan MacNeil, Father Damien Karras, and Father Lankester Merrin?

A. The Omen
B. The Exorcist
C. The Rite
D. Constantine

Question 6: Which horror film features Ash Williams, Scott, and Cheryl?

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

Question 7: Which horror film features Ellen Ripley, Captain Dallas, and Joan Lambert?

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

Question 8: Which horror film features Jack Torrance, Danny Torrance, and Wendy Torrance?

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

Question 9: Which horror film features Norman Bates, Marion Crane, and Sam Loomis?

A. Psycho
B. Dressed to Kill
C. Peeping Tom
D. Sisters

Question 10: Which horror film features Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling, and Buffalo Bill?

A. Red Dragon
B. Manhunter
C. The Silence of the Lambs
D. Hannibal

Question 11: Which horror film features Chucky (Charles Lee Ray), Andy Barclay, and Maggie Peterson?

A. Puppet Master
B. Demonic Toys
C. Child’s Play
D. Dolly Dearest

Question 12: Which horror film features Pinhead, Julia Cotton, and Frank Cotton?

A. Re-Animator
B. From Beyond
C. Hellraiser
D. Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Question 13: Which horror film features Samara Morgan, Rachel Keller, and Noah Clay?

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

Question 14: Which horror film features Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley, and Gale Weathers?

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

Question 15: Which horror film features Carrie White, Margaret White, and Sue Snell?

A. Firestarter
B. The Rage: Carrie 2
C. Carrie
D. Jennifer’s Body

Question 16: Which horror film features The Tall Man, Mike Pearson, and Reggie?

A. They Live
B. Prince of Darkness
C. Phantasm
D. The Fog

Question 17: Which horror film features Louis Creed, Gage Creed, and Victor Pascow?

A. Pet Sematary
B. Children of the Corn
C. The Uncanny
D. C.H.U.D.

Question 18: Which horror film features John Kramer (Jigsaw), Amanda Young, and Eric Matthews?

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

Question 19: Which horror film features Carol Anne Freeling, Diane Freeling, and Robbie Freeling?

A. Poltergeist
B. Insidious
C. Poltergeist II: The Other Side
D. The Amityville Horror

Question 20: Which horror film features Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren, and Carolyn Perron?

A. Insidious
B. Oculus
C. The Conjuring
D. The Devil Made Me Do It

Answers

  1. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Leatherface and his cannibal family, including Nubbins and Grandpa, terrorise victims in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film; the distractors have different mutant or killer families.
  2. A. Halloween – Michael Myers stalks babysitter Laurie under Dr. Loomis’s watch in John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher; others feature different masked or calling killers.
  3. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street – Freddy kills teens in dreams, targeting Nancy and Rod in Wes Craven’s 1984 classic; distractors are camp slashers without the dream element.
  4. D. Friday the 13th – Pamela Voorhees murders camp counsellors, sparing Alice in Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 film; others are similar camp-set slashers.
  5. B. The Exorcist – Regan is possessed, exorcised by Fathers Karras and Merrin in William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece; others involve different demonic or antichrist plots.
  6. B. The Evil Dead – Ash battles Deadites with friends Scott and Cheryl in Sam Raimi’s 1981 cabin horror; distractors are modern cabin invasion tales.
  7. C. Alien – Ripley survives with crewmates Dallas and Lambert against the xenomorph in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror; others are later deep-space horrors.
  8. B. The Shining – Jack goes mad in the Overlook Hotel with psychic son Danny and wife Wendy in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation; distractors lack the hotel isolation.
  9. A. Psycho – Norman Bates murders Marion, investigated by her lover Sam in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller; others are psycho-stalker imitators.
  10. C. The Silence of the Lambs – Lecter helps Clarice hunt Buffalo Bill in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-winner; distractors are Lecter sequels/prequels.
  11. C. Child’s Play – Killer doll Chucky targets Andy and nanny Maggie in Tom Holland’s 1988 film; distractors feature other evil toys/puppets.
  12. C. Hellraiser – Pinhead punishes Julia and Frank for solving the Lament Configuration in Clive Barker’s 1987 film; distractors are related Cenobite or Barker works.
  13. D. The Ring – Cursed tape victim Samara haunts Rachel and Noah in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake; distractors are Japanese originals or J-horror peers.
  14. D. Scream – Sidney survives Ghostface attacks with Dewey and Gale in Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher; distractors are late-90s teen screamers.
  15. C. Carrie – Telekinetic teen Carrie is abused by mother Margaret and befriended by Sue in Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation; distractors are telekinetic follow-ups.
  16. C. Phantasm – The Tall Man and spheres hunt Mike and Reggie in Don Coscarelli’s 1979 cult horror; distractors are other Carpenter-produced 80s films.
  17. A. Pet Sematary – Grieving Louis resurrects son Gage after Pascow’s warning in Mary Lambert’s 1989 Stephen King adaptation; distractors involve kids or creatures differently.
  18. B. Saw – Jigsaw traps Amanda and Eric in his first game’s bathroom in James Wan’s 2004 torture porn originator; distractors are sequels or copycats.
  19. A. Poltergeist – Ghosts abduct young Carol Anne from her suburban home in Tobe Hooper’s 1982 haunted house classic; distractors are sequels or similar hauntings.
  20. C. The Conjuring – Warrens investigate Perron family hauntings in James Wan’s 2013 real-life-based horror; distractors are later Conjuring universe entries.

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