Horror Films from Story Arcs Trivia Quiz: Can You Score 20/20?

Answers at the bottom — no peeking!

Test your horror knowledge with this spine-tingling challenge! Match each iconic story arc to its famous film, from classic slashers to modern supernatural terrors. How many can you get right?

Questions

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. 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. The 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 Witch
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 — Roman Polanski’s 1968 film follows Mia Farrow’s character impregnated by Satan via a coven.
  2. A. Psycho — Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Marion Crane and Norman Bates at the Bates Motel.
  3. B. The Shining — Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation stars Jack Nicholson as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel.
  4. C. Halloween — John Carpenter’s 1978 film introduces Michael Myers stalking Laurie Strode on Halloween.
  5. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film centres on Leatherface’s cannibal family in rural Texas.
  6. D. Jaws — Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster follows Brody, Hooper and Quint hunting the great white.
  7. D. Alien — Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror introduces the xenomorph aboard the Nostromo.
  8. D. The Exorcist — William Friedkin’s 1973 film depicts Regan MacNeil’s possession and the ensuing exorcism.
  9. C. Get Out — Jordan Peele’s 2017 film exposes a sinister body-snatching plot at a white family estate.
  10. B. Hereditary — Ari Aster’s 2018 film follows a family’s descent after their grandmother’s death.
  11. A. The Witch — Robert Eggers’ 2015 film follows a Puritan family plagued by witchcraft in 1630s New England.
  12. B. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 film features a supernatural entity transmitted through sex.
  13. B. Midsommar — Ari Aster’s 2019 film depicts a daylight pagan ritual at a Swedish midsummer festival.
  14. C. Saw — James Wan’s 2004 film introduces Jigsaw’s deadly bathroom trap and the puppet Billy.
  15. C. Scream — Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher features Ghostface taunting victims with horror rules.
  16. C. Poltergeist — Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film shows spirits abducting a child through the television.
  17. D. The Ring — Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake follows the seven-day curse of the mysterious videotape.
  18. A. The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard’s 2012 film reveals a secret facility controlling ancient monsters.
  19. C. The Conjuring — James Wan’s 2013 film depicts the Warrens battling the witch Bathsheba.
  20. D. Night of the Living Dead — George A. Romero’s 1968 classic traps survivors in a Pennsylvania farmhouse.

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