Can You Score 20/20? Identify These Iconic Horror Films From Plot Clues Trivia Quiz!

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Are you a true horror aficionado? Challenge yourself with these 20 plot clue questions, from timeless classics to chilling modern gems, ranging from easy warm-ups to devilishly tricky ones. Grab a pen, no Googling, and see if you can name the films!

20 Trivia Questions on Identifying Horror Films from Plot Clues

Question 1: A 12-year-old girl undergoes disturbing medical tests after exhibiting strange behaviour, revealing demonic possession that requires priests to perform a harrowing exorcism?

A. The Conjuring
B. Poltergeist
C. The Exorcist
D. Insidious

Question 2: A secretary steals $40,000 and checks into a remote motel run by a shy taxidermist, leading to a infamous shower murder and shocking family secrets?

A. Psycho
B. The Shining
C. Vacancy
D. Motel Hell

Question 3: A recovering alcoholic caretakes an isolated Overlook Hotel with his family during a snowy winter, gradually succumbing to cabin fever and axe-wielding rage?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. 1408
C. The Shining
D. The Haunting of Hill House

Question 4: On Halloween night in Haddonfield, an escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask silently stalks and slashes babysitters with a kitchen knife?

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

Question 5: Survivors hole up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as radiation-raised ghouls besiege them, leading to desperate defence and tragic infighting?

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

Question 6: A young woman in a New York apartment block suspects her sophisticated neighbours of belonging to a satanic cult that covets her unborn child?

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

Question 7: A massive great white shark terrorises swimmers off a New England resort island, prompting the police chief, a marine biologist, and an old salt to hunt it with a boat?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Shallows
C. 47 Metres Down
D. Jaws

Question 8: The Nostromo spaceship crew investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, awakening a lethal acid-blooded creature that stalks them one by one?

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

Question 9: Antarctic researchers unearth a buried alien spacecraft containing a parasitic organism that shapeshifts by assimilating cells from dogs and humans alike?

A. The Faculty
B. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
C. Slither
D. The Thing

Question 10: Ghosts haunt a new suburban home, pulling the family’s five-year-old daughter into another dimension via the glowing television screen in their living room?

A. The Amityville Horror
B. Sinister
C. Poltergeist
D. Paranormal Activity

Question 11: Elm Street teenagers suffer fatal injuries in their nightmares inflicted by a razor-gloved child killer who was burned alive by angry parents?

A. Candyman
B. Freddy vs. Jason
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. Dreamscape

Question 12: In Derry, Maine, a band of misfit kids called the Losers’ Club confronts an interdimensional clown entity that feeds on children’s deepest fears every 27 years?

A. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
B. It
C. The Clown at Midnight
D. Stitches

Question 13: A black photographer visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal parents at their estate, only to face hypnosis, brain transplants, and underground horrors?

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

Question 14: Hippie youths seeking a roadside tomb stumble into a cannibalistic family’s slaughterhouse domain ruled by a chainsaw-swinging giant?

A. Wrong Turn
B. Hills Have Eyes
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. Cabin Fever

Question 15: In 1971 Rhode Island, a family tormented by slamming doors, levitating beds, and a witch apparition enlists demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren for aid?

A. The Nun
B. The Conjuring
C. Annabelle
D. Oculus

Question 16: Watching a mysterious videotape curses viewers to die exactly seven days later unless they copy and pass it to someone else?

A. Ringu
B. Pulse
C. The Grudge
D. The Ring

Question 17: Two strangers chain themselves awake in a dingy bathroom booby-trapped by a moralistic killer who tests their will to live through gruesome puzzles?

A. Hostel
B. Cube
C. Saw
D. Escape Plan

Question 18: A 1630s Puritan family exiled to the woods faces crop failure, a missing baby, and witchcraft accusations amid a sinister goat-named familiar?

A. Suspiria
B. Salem’s Lot
C. The Witch
D. Black Death

Question 19: High schooler Sidney Prescott dodges taunting phone calls and Ghostface stabbings from killers obsessed with horror movie tropes and her mother’s murder?

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

Question 20: After their secretive matriarch’s death, a family unravels through decapitations, miniatures, and cult rituals tied to hereditary demon worship?

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

Answers

  1. C. The Exorcist – In William Friedkin’s 1973 film, Regan MacNeil’s possession by Pazuzu leads to Father Karras and Merrin performing the rite; others involve hauntings or investigators but no priestly exorcism of a child.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Marion Crane’s theft, Norman Bates’ motel, and the shower scene; others lack the specific motel taxidermy twist.
  3. C. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation has Jack Torrance’s madness at the Overlook; Doctor Sleep is its sequel, others are different haunted settings.
  4. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher introduces Michael Myers’ babysitter hunt; others have camp or meta killers, not the masked silent stalker origin.
  5. B. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie film barricades Ben and others in a farmhouse; sequels/remakes shift malls or locations.
  6. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 thriller involves Mia Farrow’s cult suspicions; others feature Antichrist babies or family demons without the pregnancy plot.
  7. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody, Hooper, and Quint against the shark; others are modern shark flicks without the trio’s boat hunt.
  8. B. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew vs. xenomorph; prequels/sequels add more aliens or androids.
  9. D. The Thing – John Carpenter’s 1982 remake shows McReady’s team fighting assimilation; others have pod people or high school invasions.
  10. C. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film features the Freelings’ TV static abduction; others have houses or attics but no static portal snatch.
  11. C. A Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven’s 1984 dream-killer origin stars Freddy Krueger; others involve hooks, hooks, or mirrors.
  12. B. It – The 2017 adaptation (and 1986 miniseries) has the Losers vs. Pennywise; others are comedic or unrelated clowns.
  13. D. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 satire reveals the Armitage family’s auction and surgery; others are family visits without racial hypnosis horror.
  14. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 grindhouse has Leatherface’s family; others feature mutants or viruses, not Texas cannibals.
  15. B. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film bases on the Perron haunting; spin-offs focus on dolls/nuns, not the initial farmhouse case.
  16. D. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake curses Samara’s tape viewers; originals/imports lack the US investigative reporter angle.
  17. C. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 trap origin chains Adam and Lawrence with Jigsaw’s Billy puppet; others are gore tourism or cubes sans bathroom setup.
  18. C. The Witch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 folktale strands the Rogersons with Black Phillip; others are ballets or vampire tales.
  19. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher kills with phone rules; others copy but lack Woodsboro’s trivia-obsessed killers.
  20. B. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 grief horror unveils the Grahams’ Paimon cult via Annie’s miniatures; others are daylight cults or motherhood monsters.

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