Can You Score 20/20? Identify These Horror Films from Their Climaxes Trivia Quiz

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Are you a true horror aficionado who can recognise iconic endings at a glance? Challenge yourself with these 20 questions describing the climactic scenes of legendary horror films, from bone-chilling classics to modern terrors. Ranging from easy to devilishly hard – grab a pen and see how many you can nail!

20 Trivia Questions: Identify the Horror Film from Its Climax

Question 1: The final girl escapes in a pickup truck as the chainsaw-wielding killer dances wildly in frustration on a rural highway?

A. Friday the 13th (1980)
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
C. Hills Have Eyes (1977)
D. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Question 2: The police chief rams an oxygen tank into the great white shark’s mouth and shoots it, causing a massive underwater explosion?

A. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
B. Orca (1977)
C. The Meg (2018)
D. Jaws (1975)

Question 3: Ripley ejects the grown xenomorph from the Nostromo’s escape shuttle airlock into the vacuum of space?

A. Prometheus (2012)
B. Leviathan (1989)
C. Alien (1979)
D. Event Horizon (1997)

Question 4: Dr. Loomis empties his revolver into the masked killer from a balcony, only for the Shape to vanish into the night?

A. Halloween (1978)
B. Halloween II (1981)
C. Black Christmas (1974)
D. When a Stranger Calls (1979)

Question 5: Jack Torrance chases his son through a snow-covered hedge maze before freezing to death with a maniacal grin?

A. Misery (1990)
B. Doctor Sleep (2019)
C. The Shining (1980)
D. 1408 (2007)

Question 6: The telekinetic teen destroys her prom and half the town in a bloody rampage before collapsing in her mother’s arms?

A. Firestarter (1984)
B. The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
C. Carrie (1976)
D. Telekinesis (1988)

Question 7: The survivor is shot in the head by a posse who mistake him for one of the undead at dawn?

A. 28 Days Later (2002)
B. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
C. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
D. Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Question 8: Father Karras exorcises the demon by jumping out a second-story window after it possesses him?

A. The Rite (2011)
B. Constantine (2005)
C. The Exorcist (1973)
D. The Last Exorcism (2010)

Question 9: Freddy Krueger is dragged into the real world and burned alive in a sudden boiler room explosion?

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

Question 10: MacReady detonates the Antarctic research station with thermite to destroy the shape-shifting alien?

A. The Faculty (1998)
B. Antarctica (1983)
C. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
D. Outpost (2008)

Question 11: The family rescues the little girl from another dimension as their haunted house implodes into the swimming pool?

A. Insidious (2010)
B. The Amityville Horror (1979)
C. Poltergeist (1982)
D. The Others (2001)

Question 12: The camp counsellor decapitates the killer mother with a machete during a fight on a boat dock?

A. Summer of Sam (1999)
B. Maniac (1980)
C. Friday the 13th (1980)
D. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Question 13: The killer reveals himself as the dead body in the room and stands up before the lights go out?

A. Saw II (2005)
B. Se7en (1995)
C. The Usual Suspects (1995)
D. Saw (2004)

Question 14: Norman Bates, dressed as his mother, attacks in the cellar as the car is dredged from the swamp?

A. Peeping Tom (1960)
B. Psycho (1960)
C. Dressed to Kill (1980)
D. Sisters (1972)

Question 15: Sidney Prescott shoots one killer in the head at point-blank range after he sits up pretending to be dead?

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

Question 16: Clarice Starling shoots the serial killer wearing night-vision goggles in his basement lair?

A. Red Dragon (2002)
B. Manhunter (1986)
C. The Bone Collector (1999)
D. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Question 17: Chris Armitage kills the hypnotist by stuffing her mouth with cotton and escapes as help arrives?

A. Us (2019)
B. The Visit (2015)
C. Get Out (2017)
D. Barbarian (2022)

Question 18: The possessed teen jumps headfirst from an attic window, decapitating himself on a tree branch?

A. Midsommar (2019)
B. Hereditary (2018)
C. Relic (2020)
D. The Babadook (2014)

Question 19: Ed Warren stabs the witch-possessed woman to free her during an intense basement exorcism?

A. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
B. The Nun (2018)
C. Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
D. The Conjuring (2013)

Question 20: The survivors lure the relentless entity into a swimming pool and pummel it with deck chairs until it drowns?

A. Under the Skin (2013)
B. The Endless (2017)
C. It Follows (2014)
D. Resolution (2012)

Answers

  1. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Sally S. flees Leatherface in a passing truck while he swings his chainsaw in impotent rage; the others feature different family cannibals or mutants.
  2. D. Jaws (1975) – Brody’s improvised explosive ends the shark terror on Amity Island; the distractors involve other shark attacks without the tank shot.
  3. C. Alien (1979) – Ripley hits the emergency launch to expel the creature; other sci-fi horrors have airlocks but not this exact escape.
  4. A. Halloween (1978) – Six shots from Loomis fail to kill the seemingly unstoppable Michael Myers; later sequels alter the ending.
  5. C. The Shining (1980) – Jack freezes in the maze after losing Danny’s trail; the others lack the iconic snowy labyrinth.
  6. C. Carrie (1976) – Prom queen Carrie White unleashes carnage via telekinesis; sequels and adaptations change the finale.
  7. C. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Ben’s tragic misidentification by rednecks underscores zombie apocalypse irony; other undead films have helicopter escapes.
  8. C. The Exorcist (1973) – Karras’ sacrificial leap expels Pazuzu from Regan; modern exorcism films use different rituals.
  9. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Nancy’s victory pulls Freddy into reality for fiery demise; sequels revisit but don’t replicate this boiler end.
  10. C. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) – Base destruction ensures no assimilation; other invasion films lack the remote station thermite blast.
  11. C. Poltergeist (1982) – Mud pit rescue precedes the house’s supernatural collapse; similar hauntings don’t implode identically.
  12. C. Friday the 13th (1980) – Alice beheads Pamela Voorhees, revealing Jason later; other slashers have boat scenes but not this decapitation.
  13. D. Saw (2004) – Jigsaw (John Kramer) rises from the trap as Adam loses consciousness; sequels build on but diverge from this reveal.
  14. B. Psycho (1960) – Bates’ mother-suited attack coincides with the car’s swamp recovery; imitators copy the shower but not the cellar twist.
  15. C. Scream (1996) – Billy’s “one last time” fake-out ends with Sidney’s fatal shot; other 90s slashers lack this meta double-killer headshot.
  16. D. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Starling wounds Bill in his thermal-goggle ambush; Lecter-related films have different hunts.
  17. C. Get Out (2017) – Armitage family matriarch dies by her own trigger hypnosis reversed; social horror peers don’t match the cotton kill.
  18. B. Hereditary (2018) – Paimon fully possesses Peter for the gruesome attic suicide; family horrors like Midsommar have cliffs, not branches.
  19. D. The Conjuring (2013) – Ed’s ritual stabbing exorcises Bathsheba from Carolyn; Conjuring universe spin-offs feature nuns or dolls instead.
  20. C. It Follows (2014) – Pool shootout overwhelms the pursuing force; loop horrors like The Endless lack the aquatic barrage.

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