Can You Score 20/20? Name These Horror Films from Their Story Resolutions Trivia Quiz!

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Test your ultimate horror knowledge by identifying these chilling films based solely on their unforgettable story resolutions. From slashers to supernatural shocks, questions ramp up from easy warm-ups to nightmare-level stumpers. Grab a pen and dive in – how many can you name?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Films from Their Story Resolutions

Question 1: Which horror film ends with the survivor laughing maniacally on the back of a pickup truck while Leatherface dances with his chainsaw in the background?

A. Halloween
B. Friday the 13th
C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
D. A Nightmare on Elm Street

Question 2: In which movie do the two final survivors share a bottle in the snow, waiting to freeze as their only fiery test revealed no assimilation?

A. Alien
B. Predator
C. The Fly
D. The Thing

Question 3: Which film concludes with the masked killer shot multiple times, falling off a balcony into the night, only to vanish?

A. Halloween
B. Scream
C. Friday the 13th
D. Psycho

Question 4: Which horror movie ends with the final girl pulled underwater by a young boy wearing his dead mother’s sweater?

A. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
B. Halloween
C. A Nightmare on Elm Street
D. Friday the 13th

Question 5: In which film does Ripley eject the xenomorph into space from the Narcissus shuttle before entering hypersleep with Jones the cat?

A. Prometheus
B. Aliens
C. The Thing
D. Alien

Question 6: Which movie sees Jack Torrance freeze to death in the Overlook Hotel’s hedge maze as his wife and son escape in a Snowcat?

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

Question 7: Which film ends with the family driving away as the haunted house implodes into a massive sinkhole?

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

Question 8: In which classic does Norman Bates push the victim’s car into the swamp, later donning his mother’s dress in custody?

A. Peeping Tom
B. Psycho
C. Shadow of a Doubt
D. Repulsion

Question 9: Which film concludes with a nightmare sequence where a hand bursts from Carrie’s grave to grab Sue Deale?

A. The Rage: Carrie 2
B. Carrie
C. Firestarter
D. Christine

Question 10: In which modern horror does the protagonist escape a mind-controlled family, strangle the hypnotist with her own hands, and get picked up by his TSA friend?

A. Us
B. Midsommar
C. Get Out
D. The Invisible Man

Question 11: Which film reveals the corpse in the bathroom as the mastermind killer who rises to deliver a final tape-recorded message?

A. Saw II
B. Saw 3D
C. Saw
D. Jigsaw

Question 12: Which movie ends with the psychologist realising he has been a ghost the entire story after helping the boy?

A. The Sixth Sense
B. The Others
C. Stir of Echoes
D. Ghost

Question 13: In which film does the mother realise she and her children are the ghosts, having killed them during a panic-induced shooting?

A. The Sixth Sense
B. The Conjuring
C. The Others
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 14: Which horror ends with the blind girl discovering the modern world beyond her village’s woods, revealing the elders’ lies?

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

Question 15: In which film does the father use water – revealed via crop circles – as the key weakness to defeat the invading aliens?

A. Signs
B. War of the Worlds
C. Independence Day
D. Arrival

Question 16: Which movie concludes with the possessed teen’s decapitated father kneeling before him in a fiery ritual?

A. The Exorcist
B. Hereditary
C. The Possession
D. The Rite

Question 17: In which found-footage horror does the director stand frozen in a corner overnight as per the witch’s curse, ending abruptly?

A. Paranormal Activity
B. Gone
C. The Blair Witch Project
D. REC

Question 18: Which film sees the final girl defeat masked family killers with household weapons, revealing her survivalist training?

A. Ready or Not
B. You’re Next
C. The Strangers
D. Hush

Question 19: In which zombie apocalypse tale does the father sacrifice himself on a train platform so his daughter and a boy can escape safely?

A. World War Z
B. 28 Days Later
C. Train to Busan
D. Zombieland

Question 20: Which film ends with the young woman joining Black Phillip after her family succumbs to witchcraft, flying nude into the woods?

A. The Witch
B. The VVitch wait, it’s The Witch
C. Suspiria
D. Salem’s Lot

Answers

  1. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Sally escapes Leatherface and is rescued by a truck, laughing hysterically as he dances; Friday the 13th ends with a drowning, Halloween with a disappearance, and A Nightmare on Elm Street with Freddy pulled back.
  2. D. The Thing (1982) – MacReady and Childs share a drink, suspecting each other, as confirmed by director John Carpenter; others involve different creatures or hunts.
  3. A. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers falls after six shots and a fall but vanishes; Scream has killers explicitly killed, unlike this ambiguous escape.
  4. D. Friday the 13th (1980) – Alice is dragged under by young Jason; others have different killer pursuits or no child reveal.
  5. D. Alien (1979) – Ripley blasts the creature out the airlock, per script; sequels expand the universe differently.
  6. A. The Shining (1980) – Jack pursues Danny into the maze and succumbs to hypothermia; Doctor Sleep is a sequel with new events.
  7. A. Poltergeist (1982) – The Freelings flee as the poltergeist activity causes total implosion; other hauntings resolve differently.
  8. B. Psycho (1960) – Bates’ dual personality is exposed in custody; others lack the cross-dressing mother twist.
  9. B. Carrie (1976) – The dream sequence underscores lingering terror; sequels alter the legacy.
  10. C. Get Out (2017) – Chris breaks the hypnosis and is saved by Rod, as directed by Jordan Peele; others have group cult dynamics.
  11. C. Saw (2004) – Jigsaw (John Kramer) stands as the dead body; later films flashback to this reveal.
  12. A. The Sixth Sense (1999) – Dr. Malcolm Crowe sees his bullet wound; The Others has living realise ghosts.
  13. C. The Others (2001) – Grace killed her fog-shrouded children; inverse of The Sixth Sense‘s ghost twist.
  14. A. The Village (2004) – Ivy crosses the boundary to find civilisation; others involve sightless survival differently.
  15. A. Signs (2002) – Aliens drown from water allergy, hinted by glasses and circles; sci-fi invasions lack this biblical cue.
  16. B. Hereditary (2018) – Peter becomes Paimon host in the treehouse climax; other exorcisms expel demons.
  17. C. The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Mike stands in corner, Heather weeps; no resolution shown, per found-footage style.
  18. B. You’re Next (2011) – Erin bludgeons the intruders; unlike home invasions where victims lose.
  19. C. Train to Busan (2016) – Seok-woo holds zombies back for the kids’ train escape; other zombie films have broader survivals.
  20. A. The Witch (2015) – Thomasin signs the devil’s book and flies away; emphasises Puritan isolation unlike remake Suspiria.

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