Identify the Horror Movie from Its Gruesome Opening Kill – Ultimate Trivia Quiz!

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Think you’re a horror movie master? Test your knowledge with these 20 questions based on iconic opening kills from classic slashers and modern terrors. From easy favorites to tricky gems, how many can you get right?

Questions

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. 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. Freddy’s Dead (1991)
B. Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
D. A 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. 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. 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. Jennifer’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.
  2. A. Halloween (1978) — Michael Myers knifes his sister Judith.
  3. C. Friday the 13th (1980) — Barry is hanged and throat-slit in the barn.
  4. B. Black Christmas (1974) — Clare Harrison is killed with a unicorn and bag by Billy Lenz.
  5. C. Maniac (1980) — Frank Zito shoots prostitute Rita.
  6. B. The Prowler (1980) — Rosemary is stabbed at prom by the masked killer.
  7. A. My Bloody Valentine (1981) — Hollis is pickaxed by Harry Warden.
  8. A. Terror Train (1980) — Kenny is impaled during the mummy prank.
  9. B. Happy Birthday to Me (1981) — Ann’s head is severed in the car crash.
  10. A. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) — The girl is drilled through the bathroom door.
  11. A. Sleepaway Camp (1983) — Kenny is impaled by the tree branch.
  12. A. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) — Alice’s head is macheted in the canoe.
  13. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Tina is slashed and dragged across the ceiling by Freddy.
  14. A. Child’s Play (1988) — Maggie is thrown out the window by Chucky.
  15. A. Urban Legend (1998) — Michelle is axed in the car after telling the legend.
  16. B. Wrong Turn (2003) — The climbers are speared by the falling rigged tree.
  17. B. Hatchet (2006) — Doug is hacked by Victor Crowley.
  18. A. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) — Dylan and Chloe are pushed from the balcony.
  19. C. You’re Next (2011) — Paul is shot at dinner by the animal-masked killers.
  20. B. The Collector (2009) — Larry is sliced by the descending razor blades.

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