Can You Identify These 20 Iconic Horror Films From Their Themes? Trivia Quiz

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Think you know horror inside out? Match these legendary films to their chilling premises, from classic slashers to modern nightmares. Twenty questions await — grab a pen and aim for a perfect score!

Questions

Question 1: Which film centres on a blocked writer and his family descending into madness while caretaking an isolated, haunted hotel?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. The Shining
C. 1408
D. The Overlook Hotel

Question 2: Which movie features an escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask stalking a babysitter on Halloween night?

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

Question 3: Which story revolves around a 12-year-old girl becoming possessed by an ancient demon, requiring priests to perform a harrowing exorcism?

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

Question 4: Which film is set in a remote motel where a shy owner with a domineering mother secretly murders guests?

A. Bates Motel
B. Psycho
C. Motel Hell
D. Vacancy

Question 5: Which blockbuster depicts a man-eating great white shark terrorising a small beach community over the Fourth of July weekend?

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

Question 6: Which sci-fi horror follows a spaceship crew awakening a deadly parasitic alien that impregnates and bursts from hosts?

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

Question 7: Which gritty film portrays a group of friends encountering a family of chainsaw-wielding cannibals in rural Texas?

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

Question 8: Which movie depicts the accidental start of a zombie apocalypse when radiation reanimates the dead in rural Pennsylvania?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. 28 Days Later
C. Night of the Living Dead
D. World War Z

Question 9: Which tale involves a pregnant woman manipulated by a satanic cult into bearing the Antichrist?

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

Question 10: Which film follows paranormal investigators aiding a family tormented by a witch’s spirit in a farmhouse?

A. Annabelle
B. The Conjuring
C. The Amityville Horror
D. The Others

Question 11: Which modern horror explores a family’s grief unravelling into demonic possession and cult rituals after their daughter’s death?

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

Question 12: Which satirical horror uncovers a family’s sinister plot using hypnosis to swap bodies with Black victims amid racial tensions?

A. Us
B. Candyman
C. Get Out
D. The People Under the Stairs

Question 13: Which indie film portrays a slow-walking entity that relentlessly pursues victims after sexual transmission of a curse?

A. The Descent
B. It Follows
C. The Ritual
D. The Invitation

Question 14: Which period piece follows a Puritan family exiled to the woods, where witchcraft and a demonic goat plague them?

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

Question 15: Which daylight horror depicts a grieving woman joining a Swedish cult’s bizarre midsummer festival that turns deadly?

A. The Wicker Man
B. Kill List
C. Midsommar
D. Lord of Illusions

Question 16: Which post-apocalyptic tale requires a family to live in total silence to avoid attracting sound-hunting monsters?

A. Bird Box
B. Hush
C. A Quiet Place
D. The Silence

Question 17: Which Australian film manifests a mother’s grief over her son’s death as a pop-up book monster that invades her home?

A. Relic
B. The Babadook
C. Lake Mungo
D. Talk to Me

Question 18: Which found-footage horror involves a true-crime writer discovering snuff films that curse anyone who views them?

A. Paranormal Activity
B. The Taking of Deborah Logan
C. Sinister
D. As Above, So Below

Question 19: Which J-horror remake centres on a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after watching unless the curse is passed on?

A. The Grudge
B. Ju-On
C. The Ring
D. Pulse

Question 20: Which torture-porn franchise traps victims in elaborate, moral-testing games orchestrated by a dying serial killer?

A. Hostel
B. Cube
C. Saw
D. The Collector

Answers

  1. B. The Shining — Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about the Torrance family at the Overlook Hotel.
  2. C. Halloween — John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher starring Michael Myers in the iconic mask.
  3. C. The Exorcist — William Friedkin’s 1973 classic featuring Linda Blair as the possessed Regan MacNeil.
  4. B. Psycho — Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece revealing Norman Bates’ crimes at the Bates Motel.
  5. C. Jaws — Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster about a great white shark off Amity Island.
  6. D. Alien — Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror introducing the xenomorph aboard the Nostromo.
  7. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film following Leatherface and his cannibal family.
  8. C. Night of the Living Dead — George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie classic sparked by mysterious radiation.
  9. B. Rosemary’s Baby — Roman Polanski’s 1968 film about a woman carrying the Antichrist.
  10. B. The Conjuring — James Wan’s 2013 film based on the Warrens’ investigation of the Perron farmhouse.
  11. C. Hereditary — Ari Aster’s 2018 film depicting the Graham family’s encounter with a demonic cult.
  12. C. Get Out — Jordan Peele’s 2017 satire on hypnosis and body-swapping in a wealthy white family.
  13. B. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 film about a curse passed through sexual contact.
  14. A. The VVitch — Robert Eggers’ 2015 Puritan-era film featuring witchcraft and Black Phillip.
  15. C. Midsommar — Ari Aster’s 2019 daylight horror set during a deadly Swedish midsummer festival.
  16. C. A Quiet Place — John Krasinski’s 2018 post-apocalyptic film about sound-sensitive creatures.
  17. B. The Babadook — Jennifer Kent’s 2014 Australian film about grief manifesting as a pop-up book monster.
  18. C. Sinister — Scott Derrickson’s 2012 film about a writer discovering cursed Super 8 films.
  19. C. The Ring — Gore Verbinski’s 2002 American remake of the cursed videotape story Ringu.
  20. C. Saw — James Wan’s 2004 franchise featuring Jigsaw’s deadly moral traps.

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