Can You Score 20/20? Identify These Iconic Horror Movies from Their Story Depths Trivia Quiz!

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Test your film knowledge with these 20 tricky questions, each featuring a detailed plot description from classic and modern horror movies. Ranging from easy warm-ups to brain-melting stumpers, how many can you identify correctly?

20 Trivia Questions on Identifying Horror Movies from Their Story Depth

Question 1: A desperate mother turns to two Catholic priests for help when her 12-year-old daughter, Regan, begins exhibiting unnatural strength, levitating, and speaking in a deep, demonic voice while desecrating religious objects?

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

Question 2: A secretary embezzles $40,000 and flees to a remote motel run by a shy man named Norman Bates, where she encounters a domineering mother figure and a shocking discovery in the fruit cellar?

A. Psycho
B. The Bates Motel
C. Shadow of a Doubt
D. Silence of the Lambs

Question 3: A police chief, oceanographer, and grizzled shark hunter team up to track a massive great white shark terrorising a summer resort beach town after a series of deadly attacks?

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

Question 4: The commercial towing spaceship Nostromo investigates a distress beacon on a desolate planet, unwittingly bringing aboard a deadly parasitic organism that gestates inside a crew member?

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

Question 5: On Halloween night in the quiet suburb of Haddonfield, Illinois, a masked killer named Michael Myers escapes from a sanitarium and relentlessly stalks his teenage babysitter survivor from 15 years prior?

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

Question 6: A group of strangers barricade themselves in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as reanimated corpses swarm outside, devouring the living and spreading their contagion through bites?

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

Question 7: A recovering alcoholic writer accepts a job as winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel with his wife and psychic son, where malevolent supernatural forces drive him towards insanity?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. The Shining
C. Misery
D. 1408

Question 8: A young woman newly pregnant in a New York apartment building befriends eccentric neighbours who seem overly interested in her unborn child, leading to suspicions of a sinister coven?

A. The Omen
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. Inseminoid
D. Devil’s Due

Question 9: A group of friends on a road trip in rural Texas stumble upon a cannibalistic family led by the hulking Leatherface, who wields a chainsaw in brutal home invasions?

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

Question 10: A suburban family’s home becomes a portal to another dimension when malevolent spirits abduct their youngest daughter, prompting desperate paranormal intervention?

A. Insidious
B. The Amityville Horror
C. Poltergeist
D. The Others

Question 11: A family moves into a remote farmhouse plagued by slamming doors, levitating objects, and demonic apparitions, calling in renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren?

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

Question 12: A young Black man visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly idyllic family estate for the first time, only to uncover a horrifying auction and hypnosis-based conspiracy targeting his body?

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

Question 13: After their reclusive grandmother’s death, a family grapples with grief, decapitations, and cult rituals as hidden occult secrets unravel their lives in a miniature house model?

A. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
B. Hereditary
C. The Ritual
D. Relic

Question 14: In 1630s New England, a Puritan family exiled into the woods faces crop failure, a missing infant, and accusations of witchcraft amid encounters with a horned goat entity?

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

Question 15: A high school student and her friends in Woodsboro become targets of a masked killer known as Ghostface, who taunts them with horror movie trivia during savage phone calls?

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

Question 16: Two men chained in a dingy bathroom awaken to find a severed foot and a microcassette recorder with instructions from a puppet-wielding sadist forcing deadly moral games?

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

Question 17: A TV reporter investigates a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days later, racing to uncover the vengeful spirit of Sadako and break the chain before her deadline?

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

Question 18: A young woman relentlessly pursued by a slow-walking, shape-shifting entity that only she can see must pass the curse to another through sex to survive?

A. The Relic
B. It Follows
C. Slender Man
D. The Bye Bye Man

Question 19: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family survives sound-hunting blind aliens by living in silence, facing heightened peril when the pregnant mother goes into labour?

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

Question 20: A tech CEO’s abused girlfriend fakes her death to expose him, only to realise her stalker ex has developed optical invisibility technology for revenge?

A. Invisible Man
B. Hollow Man
C. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
D. The Invisible Man

Answers

  1. C. The Exorcist (1973) – The film depicts the real-life-inspired exorcism of Regan MacNeil possessed by Pazuzu; The Omen features the Antichrist child, Rosemary’s Baby satanic pregnancy, and The Possession a dybbuk box.
  2. A. Psycho (1960) – Marion Crane steals money and checks into Bates Motel, discovering Norman’s split personality and mother obsession; others involve different killers or settings.
  3. D. Jaws (1975) – Brody, Hooper, and Quint hunt the shark off Amity Island; distractors are later shark films with different premises.
  4. B. Alien (1979) – The Nostromo crew faces the xenomorph after Kane’s facehugger infection; prequels/imitations like Prometheus and Life vary the origin.
  5. B. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers targets Laurie Strode on October 31st in Haddonfield; Friday the 13th centres on Jason at Camp Crystal Lake.
  6. C. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Romero’s zombie apocalypse begins with Barbara and Ben in the farmhouse; later films expand the universe differently.
  7. B. The Shining (1980) – Jack Torrance succumbs to the Overlook’s ghosts; Doctor Sleep is its sequel focusing on Danny.
  8. B. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Rosemary suspects the Bramford coven wants her baby for Satan; The Omen involves adoption of Damien.
  9. D. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Sally and friends meet the Sawyer family cannibals; The Hills Have Eyes features mutants in the desert.
  10. C. Poltergeist (1982) – The Freelings battle poltergeists kidnapping Carol Anne; Insidious involves astral projection.
  11. B. The Conjuring (2013) – The Perrons’ Rhode Island farmhouse haunting draws the Warrens; part of their shared universe but distinct case.
  12. D. Get Out (2017) – Chris uncovers the Armitage family’s body-snatching via ‘Coagula’; Us is its thematic follow-up with doppelgangers.
  13. B. Hereditary (2018) – The Grahams face Paimon cult via Annie’s miniatures; Relic explores dementia horror.
  14. A. The VVitch (2015) – The family encounters Black Phillip in 1630s woods; Apostle is set later on an island.
  15. C. Scream (1996) – Ghostface quizzes victims on horror rules; I Know What You Did involves a hook-handed killer.
  16. C. Saw (2004) – Adam and Dr. Gordon play Jigsaw’s bathroom trap; Cube is a room maze.
  17. C. The Ring (2002) – Rachel copies Samara’s tape to evade death; Japanese Ringu remake.
  18. B. It Follows (2014) – Jay inherits the entity after intimacy; urban legend-style pursuit.
  19. B. A Quiet Place (2018) – The Abbotts navigate alien invasion silently; Bird Box uses sighted monsters.
  20. D. The Invisible Man (2020) – Cecilia evades Adrian’s invisible stalking via optogenetic suit; remake of 1933 classic.

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