Can You Score 20/20? Identify These Horror Films from Their Story Arcs Trivia Challenge

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Test your cinematic knowledge with this spine-tingling quiz! From demonic possessions to slashers and supernatural terrors, these 20 questions challenge you to match story arcs to their iconic horror films. Questions range from easy classics to modern masterpieces – how many can you name?

20 Trivia Questions on Identifying Horror Films from Story Arcs

Question 1: Which film follows a young mother who suspects her unborn child is the Antichrist after strange occurrences orchestrated by her neighbours?

A. The Omen
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. The Exorcist
D. Hereditary

Question 2: In which movie does a secretary steal $40,000 and check into a remote motel run by a disturbed owner with a split personality?

A. Psycho
B. The Bates Motel
C. Shadow of a Doubt
D. Peeping Tom

Question 3: Which horror classic depicts a family isolated in a haunted hotel where the father descends into madness during a long winter?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. Kubrick’s The Shining
C. Misery
D. 1408

Question 4: A masked killer escapes from a psychiatric hospital to stalk his former babysitter and her teenage friends on Halloween night – which film?

A. Friday the 13th
B. Scream
C. Halloween
D. My Bloody Valentine

Question 5: Which film sees a group of friends who encounter a family of cannibals armed with chainsaws in rural Texas?

A. Hills Have Eyes
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
C. Wrong Turn
D. Mother’s Day

Question 6: A massive great white shark terrorises a resort town, forcing the police chief, oceanographer, and shark hunter to go after it – name the film.

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Shallows
C. Open Water
D. Jaws

Question 7: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress signal and brings aboard a deadly extraterrestrial creature – which movie?

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

Question 8: A 12-year-old girl becomes possessed by an ancient demon, leading two Catholic priests to perform a dangerous exorcism – the film?

A. The Rite
B. Deliver Us from Evil
C. Constantine
D. The Exorcist

Question 9: Which film involves a black man visiting his white girlfriend’s family estate, where he uncovers a sinister auction and hypnosis plot?

A. Us
B. The Visit
C. Get Out
D. Candyman

Question 10: A grieving family experiences horrifying supernatural events after their secretive grandmother’s death – which recent horror?

A. The Babadook
B. Hereditary
C. Relic
D. The Lodge

Question 11: A Puritan family exiled in 1630s New England suspects witchcraft after their baby disappears and misfortunes plague them – the film?

A. The VVitch
B. Salem’s Lot
C. The Crucible
D. Black Death

Question 12: After a sexual encounter, a young woman is relentlessly pursued by a shape-shifting entity that only she can see – which film?

A. Smile
B. It Follows
C. The Invisible Man
D. Happy Death Day

Question 13: A group of friends attend a remote Swedish midsummer festival that descends into ritualistic pagan horrors – name it.

A. Apostle
B. Midsommar
C. The Ritual
D. Kill List

Question 14: Two men awaken chained in a filthy bathroom, forced to play a deadly game by a puppet-wielding serial killer – the film?

A. Hostel
B. Cube
C. Saw
D. Would You Rather

Question 15: High school students are murdered by a masked killer who taunts them with horror movie trivia and rules – which slasher?

A. I Know What You Did Last Summer
B. Urban Legend
C. Scream
D. Scary Movie

Question 16: A family moves into a suburban home haunted by restless spirits who abduct their youngest daughter through the television – the movie?

A. Insidious
B. The Others
C. Poltergeist
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 17: Viewers of a mysterious videotape have only seven days to live unless they copy and pass it on – which film?

A. The Grudge
B. Noroi: The Curse
C. V/H/S
D. The Ring

Question 18: Five college friends head to a cabin in the woods, unwittingly triggering ancient monsters in a secret facility’s experiment – the film?

A. The Cabin in the Woods
B. Evil Dead
C.
Cabin Fever
D. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Question 19: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren assist a family tormented by a vengeful witch in their farmhouse – which entry?

A. Annabelle
B. The Nun
C. The Conjuring
D. Insidious: The Last Key

Question 20: Survivors hole up in a rural farmhouse to fend off a relentless horde of flesh-eating ghouls during a zombie apocalypse – the classic?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. 28 Days Later
C. Return of the Living Dead
D. Night of the Living Dead

Answers

  1. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Directed by Roman Polanski in 1968, it centres on Mia Farrow’s character impregnated by Satan via a coven; The Omen involves a adopted Antichrist child, not pregnancy, while The Exorcist and Hereditary focus on possession and family grief.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece features Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins); the others are unrelated Hitchcock or similar thrillers without the motel theft plot.
  3. B. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance; Doctor Sleep is its sequel, others lack the hotel isolation.
  4. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 film introduces Michael Myers targeting Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis); Friday the 13th has Jason Voorhees, not an escaped patient.
  5. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 indie horror depicts Leatherface’s family; others involve mutants or hillbillies but not chainsaws in Texas.
  6. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody, Hooper, and Quint against the shark; later films copy but don’t originate the beach town hunt.
  7. D. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror with Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley; prequels/imitations like Prometheus differ in origin stories.
  8. D. The Exorcist – William Friedkin’s 1973 film based on Blatty’s novel features Regan MacNeil; others involve exorcisms but not the original child possession ritual.
  9. C. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 Oscar-winner exposes body-snatching racism; Us is its thematic follow-up with doppelgangers.
  10. B. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film stars Toni Collette in a grief-to-cult horror; The Babadook is maternal grief, not grandmother secrets.
  11. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 debut set in 1630 New England; others are vampire or historical dramas without the family witchcraft arc.
  12. B. It Follows – David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 film uses STD-like supernatural pursuit; others have invisible stalkers but not post-sex transmission.
  13. B. Midsommar – Ari Aster’s 2019 daylight horror at a Swedish cult festival; Apostle is island cult, not midsummer.
  14. C. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 torture porn origin with Jigsaw’s bathroom trap; others are escape rooms without the puppet.
  15. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher with Ghostface meta-commentary; parodies like Scary Movie riff on it.
  16. C. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 Spielberg-produced haunt where spirits use TV; Insidious involves astral projection.
  17. D. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 US remake of Ringu with the 7-day curse tape; Japanese originals differ in specifics.
  18. A. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2012 deconstruction reveals a global ritual; Evil Dead lacks the facility control.
  19. C. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film based on real Warrens vs. Bathsheba; spin-offs like Annabelle are doll-focused.
  20. D. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie blueprint in a Pennsylvania farmhouse; Dawn is mall-based.

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