Can You Score 20/20? Name These Horror Movies From Their Plots Trivia Quiz!

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Test your skills by identifying these iconic horror films from key plot descriptions alone. From timeless classics to modern nightmares, the questions ramp up from easy to devilishly tricky – dare to ace them all?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Movies From the Plot

Question 1: A struggling writer accepts a job as winter caretaker at an isolated Overlook Hotel with his wife and psychic son, where malevolent spirits drive him to madness?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. The Shining
C. 1408
D. Secret Window

Question 2: A secretary embezzles $40,000 and hides at a remote motel run by a shy owner who lives with his domineering mother, leading to a shocking shower murder?

A. Psycho
B. Misery
C. Frenzy
D. The Silence of the Lambs

Question 3: A 12-year-old girl becomes possessed by a demon, prompting her mother to seek help from two Catholic priests who perform a dangerous exorcism?

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

Question 4: On a quiet suburban Halloween night, a masked killer escapes from a sanitarium and relentlessly stalks a babysitter and her friends?

A. Friday the 13th
B. Scream
C. Halloween
D. Nightmare on Elm Street

Question 5: A group of friends driving through rural Texas stumble upon a cannibalistic family led by a chainsaw-wielding man in a human-skin mask?

A. Hills Have Eyes
B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
C. Wrong Turn
D. House of 1000 Corpses

Question 6: A great white shark terrorises a small beach resort town, forcing the sheriff, a marine biologist, and a shark hunter to hunt it down?

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

Question 7: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, bringing back a deadly parasitic creature that gestates inside a human host?

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

Question 8: A young woman newly pregnant suspects her elderly neighbours and husband are part of a satanic cult plotting to use her unborn child for their rituals?

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

Question 9: A group of strangers barricade themselves in a rural farmhouse to survive an onslaught of flesh-eating ghouls reanimated by radiation?

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

Question 10: A family moves into a new home plagued by malevolent spirits, calling in renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for help?

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

Question 11: After their secretive mother’s death, a family unravels amid grief, decapitations, and cultish rituals tied to their disturbing ancestry?

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

Question 12: A black photographer visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal family in the suburbs, only to uncover a horrifying conspiracy involving hypnosis and organ transplants?

A. Us
B. The Stepford Wives
C. Get Out
D. Candyman

Question 13: A band of misfit children in Derry, Maine, confront a shape-shifting entity that preys on their fears, most often appearing as a sinister clown?

A. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
B. It
C. Clown
D. Terrifier

Question 14: A small town is gripped by terror as a mysterious killer in a black robe and white mask taunts victims with horror movie trivia before striking?

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

Question 15: A journalist investigates a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after watching it, racing to break the cycle?

A. The Grudge
B. The Ring
C. Noroi: The Curse
D. Shutter

Question 16: Two men awaken chained in a dingy bathroom with a tape recorder revealing they must kill each other or bleed to death in a sadistic game?

A. Cube
B. Would You Rather
C. Saw
D. Escape Room

Question 17: A 17th-century Puritan family exiled to the woods faces crop failure, a missing baby, and witchcraft accusations amid woodland horrors?

A. The VVitch
B. Apostle
C. The Hallow
D. The Ritual

Question 18: A grieving woman joins her boyfriend and friends at a remote Swedish commune’s midsummer festival, which descends into ritualistic pagan madness?

A. The Wicker Man
B. Midsommar
C. Kill List
D. Calm Before

Question 19: Five college friends head to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway, unknowingly part of a global ritual controlled by shadowy organisations?

A. Evil Dead
B. The Cabin in the Woods
C. Tucker and Dale vs Evil
D. You’re Next

Question 20: A suburban family experiences poltergeist activity starting with TV static and children’s toys, as spirits abduct their youngest daughter into another dimension?

A. Poltergeist
B. The Others
C. What Lies Beneath
D. The Changeling

Answers

  1. B. The Shining – Directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, Jack Torrance’s isolation at the Overlook leads to axe-wielding insanity; Doctor Sleep is its sequel, 1408 is a haunted hotel room, and Secret Window involves a cabin writer’s paranoia.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Marion Crane’s fateful stay at Bates Motel; Misery traps a writer, Frenzy is a necktie killer, and Silence of the Lambs has no motel plot.
  3. A. The Exorcist – William Friedkin’s 1973 film depicts Regan MacNeil’s demonic possession and priests’ intervention; the others involve investigators but lack the child exorcism focus.
  4. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher introduces Michael Myers targeting Laurie Strode; Friday the 13th has Jason, Scream Ghostface, and Nightmare Freddy.
  5. B. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film unleashes Leatherface on youths; the distractors feature mutants or slashers but no chainsaw family in Texas.
  6. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody against the shark; others are shark attacks but lack the resort town trio hunt.
  7. C. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew facing the xenomorph; Prometheus is a prequel, Life similar but different creature, Event Horizon haunted ship.
  8. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 tale of satanic pregnancy; The Omen is Antichrist baby, others alien inseminations.
  9. C. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie origin in a farmhouse; Dawn is mall-based sequel, others faster zombies.
  10. D. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film based on Perron family hauntings by Warrens; Annabelle doll spin-off, others different houses.
  11. A. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 grief-cult horror with Pugh family; others maternal hauntings but no decapitation cult.
  12. C. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 social thriller on body-snatching; Us tethered doubles, Stepford robots, Candyman urban legend.
  13. B. It – 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s Losers’ Club vs Pennywise; others clowns but no shape-shifting fear-eater in Derry.
  14. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-slasher with trivia-calling Ghostface; others teen slashers without the phone taunts.
  15. B. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake of Japanese curse tape; Grudge is vengeful ghost, others Asian horrors differently.
  16. C. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 trap origin with Jigsaw’s bathroom game; others room traps but no chain/tape intro.
  17. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 folk tale of 1630s family vs Black Phillip; others woods cults but no Puritan era.
  18. B. Midsommar – Ari Aster’s 2019 daylight cult festival; Wicker Man island pagans, others British folk horrors.
  19. B. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2012 meta ritual satire; others cabin slashers without organisation control.
  20. A. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 Spielberg-produced ghost abduction via TV; others house haunts but no clown doll dimension grab.

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