Can You Score 20/20? Identify the Horror Movie from Its Gruesome Opening Kill – Ultimate Trivia Quiz!

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Think you’re a horror movie master? Challenge yourself with 20 questions pinpointing iconic opening kills from slashers and terrors alike. Ranging from easy classics to tricky modern gems, how many can you nail?

20 Trivia Questions on Which Horror Movie Is This Based on Its Opening Kill

Question 1: A teenage girl receives creepy phone calls with movie trivia before being stabbed repeatedly, gutted, and hung from a backyard tree?

A. Halloween (1978)
B. Friday the 13th (1980)
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
D. Scream (1996)

Question 2: A 17-year-old girl is stabbed six times in the chest by her little brother dressed as a clown while necking with her boyfriend in the kitchen?

A. Halloween (1978)
B. Child’s Play (1988)
C. Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
D. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Question 3: A camp counsellor is strangled with wire and left hanging upside down in a barn, throat slit?

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

Question 4: A sorority house resident is stabbed in the neck with a glass unicorn, suffocated with a plastic bag, and shoved out her attic window into the snow?

A. Sorority Row (2009)
B. Black Christmas (1974)
C. The House on Sorority Row (1983)
D. New Year’s Evil (1980)

Question 5: A prostitute steps out of a taxi and is shot point-blank in the head by the driver?

A. Ms .45 (1981)
B. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
C. Maniac (1980)
D. Angel (1984)

Question 6: At a high school prom, a dancing girl is brutally stabbed repeatedly by a masked killer in military gear?

A. Prom Night (1980)
B. The Prowler (1980)
C. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
D. Curtains (1983)

Question 7: In a dark mine, a worker has his face smashed with a pickaxe by a miner in a gas mask?

A. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
B. The Boogens (1981)
C. Just Before Dawn (1981)
D. Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984)

Question 8: During a Halloween party prank, a boy dressed as a mummy is terrified into running and falling through a trapdoor onto sharp rail spikes?

A. Terror Train (1980)
B. April Fool’s Day (1986)
C. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
D. StageFright (1987)

Question 9: In a chaotic car pile-up outside a teen party, a girl’s head is sliced off by a surfboard from a crashing truck?

A. Christine (1983)
B. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
C. The Car (1977)
D. Dead End (2003)

Question 10: A girl taking a shower has a power drill shoved through the bathroom door, impaling her chest?

A. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
B. Blood Feast (1963)
C. Drillbit Taylor (2008)
D. Blood Diner (1987)

Question 11: A young camper is chased through the woods and impaled through the mouth by a low-hanging tree branch?

A. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
B. Madman (1981)
C. The Funhouse (1981)
D. Heavy Metal Horror wait, Friday the 13th (1980)

Question 12: A final girl from the previous film is resting in a canoe when her head is hacked off with a machete?

A. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
B. Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
C. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
D. Jason Lives (1986)

Question 13: A teenage girl is slashed by a razor-gloved killer in her dream, with her bloody body dragged upside down across the bedroom ceiling?

A. Freddys Dead (1991)
B. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
D. Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Question 14: A nanny is lifted by an invisible force and hurled out a high-rise apartment window to the street below?

A. Child’s Play (1988)
B. Dolly Dearest (1991)
C. Dead Silence (2007)
D. Annabelle (2014)

Question 15: A girl parked in a car with her boyfriend tells an urban legend about an escaped killer, then an axe crashes through the roof?

A. Urban Legend (1998)
B. Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
C. Legion of the Dead no, I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
D. Final Destination (2000)

Question 16: Four rock climbers dangling from a cliff face are suddenly pierced by dozens of arrows when a tree rigged with spears topples onto them?

A. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
B. Wrong Turn (2003)
C. The Descent (2005)
D. Abominable (2006)

Question 17: A swamp tour guide is hacked apart with a hatchet by a massive hook-handed monster?

A. Swamp Thing (1982)
B. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan no, Hatchet (2006)
C. Pumpkinhead (1988)
D. Victor Crowley (2017)

Question 18: Two teens making out on a rooftop balcony are stabbed and tossed over the edge by a third friend?

A. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
B. Valentine (2001)
C. Jenifer’s Body (2009)
D. The Loved Ones (2009)

Question 19: During a family dinner gathering, the father is shot in the head through a window by a masked intruder?

A. Funny Games (2007)
B. The Strangers (2008)
C. You’re Next (2011)
D. Hush (2016)

Question 20: A cat burglar triggers a house trap, getting vertically sliced by descending razor blades in a narrow hallway?

A. Saw (2004)
B. The Collector (2009)
C. Would You Rather (2012)
D. Escape Room (2019)

Answers

  1. D. Scream (1996) – Casey Becker is gutted by Ghostface after taunting calls; Halloween opens with a sibling stabbing, Friday the 13th with a hanging, and A Nightmare on Elm Street with a dream slashing.
  2. A. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers knifes his sister Judith; Child’s Play starts with a doll-possessed defenestration, Trick ‘r Treat with a bus crash, and Part 2 with a canoe decapitation.
  3. C. Friday the 13th (1980) – Barry is hanged and throat-slit in the barn; Sleepaway Camp has a branch impalement, The Burning shears, and Part 2 machete.
  4. B. Black Christmas (1974) – Clare Harrison killed with unicorn and bag by Billy Lenz; others open with sorority stabbings or New Year’s calls but different methods.
  5. C. Maniac (1980) – Frank Zito shoots prostitute Rita; Ms. 45 has rape-revenge, Henry bathtub kill, Angel streetwalker murders later.
  6. B. The Prowler (1980) – Rosemary stabbed at prom by BJ; Prom Night revenge later, Happy Birthday car crash, Curtains audition strangling.
  7. A. My Bloody Valentine (1981) – Hollis pickaxed by Harry Warden; others mine creatures or dawn slashings without the mask icon.
  8. A. Terror Train (1980) – Kenny impaled in prank; April Fool’s fakeouts, Mary Lou possession, StageFright crow scare.
  9. B. Happy Birthday to Me (1981) – Ann’s head severed in crash; Christine car rampage later, The Car pedestrian hit, Dead End ghost hitchhiker.
  10. A. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – Valerie drilled through door; others cannibal feasts or diner drills later.
  11. A. Sleepaway Camp (1983) – Kenny branch-skewered; Madman axe, Funhouse clown, Friday hanging.
  12. A. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) – Alice’s head macheted in canoe; sequels start with later camp kills.
  13. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Tina slashed, ceiling-crawled by Freddy; remakes/sequels alter sequences.
  14. A. Child’s Play (1988) – Maggie thrown by possessed doll Chucky; others doll hauntings without window toss.
  15. A. Urban Legend (1998) – Michelle axed in car post-legend; sequels campus, I Know hook impale, Final Destination plane blast.
  16. B. Wrong Turn (2003) – Climbers tree-speared by mutants; others cave crawlers or hill people without cliff arrows.
  17. B. Hatchet (2006) – Doug hacked by Victor Crowley; others swamp hero vs. monster later.
  18. A. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) – Dylan and Chloe balcony-pushed; others party stabs without rooftop.
  19. C. You’re Next (2011) – Paul shot at dinner by animal-masked killers; others home invasions with different entry kills.
  20. B. The Collector (2009) – Larry bladesliced in trap; Saw chains/bath, others game traps later.

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