Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Guess the Horror Movie From the Storyline Expert Quiz!

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Think you’re a horror movie master? This expert-level quiz challenges you to identify 20 chilling films purely from their gripping storylines. From subtle supernatural dread to gory slashers, test your knowledge with questions that ramp up the difficulty!

20 Trivia Questions on Guess the Movie From the Storyline

Question 1: A 12-year-old girl in Georgetown starts exhibiting strange behaviour, leading her mother to seek help from medical professionals before two Catholic priests perform a dangerous exorcism?

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

Question 2: A secretary embezzles $40,000 and flees to a remote motel run by a shy man with an unsettling mother, only for her story to end in a shocking shower scene?

A. Psycho
B. Peeping Tom
C. Dressed to Kill
D. Frenzy

Question 3: A recovering alcoholic writer and his family spend the winter as caretakers of the isolated Overlook Hotel, where ghostly apparitions drive him to murderous rage?

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

Question 4: On Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois, a masked figure escapes from a sanitarium and begins stalking and slashing teenage babysitters?

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

Question 5: A group of friends driving through rural Texas stumble upon a cannibalistic family led by a chainsaw-wielding patriarch in a house of horrors?

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

Question 6: During a cemetery riot, the recently deceased rise as flesh-eating ghouls, forcing a group of strangers to barricade themselves in a rural farmhouse?

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

Question 7: A young woman in a New York apartment block suspects her neighbours and obstetrician are part of a satanic cult plotting to claim her unborn child?

A. The Sentinel
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. Devil’s Advocate
D. Angel Heart

Question 8: The Nostromo spaceship crew investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, awakening a deadly parasitic creature that hunts them one by one?

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

Question 9: A man-eating great white shark terrorises a New England beach resort during the summer, forcing the police chief, oceanographer, and shark hunter to hunt it?

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

Question 10: Researchers at an Antarctic outpost discover a crashed UFO containing a shape-shifting alien that assimilates and imitates its victims?

A. The Thing from Another World
B. Antivirus
C. Slither
D. The Thing

Question 11: A suburban family experiences poltergeist activity starting with static on their television, as malevolent spirits abduct their youngest daughter into another dimension?

A. Insidious
B. The Amityville Horror
C. Poltergeist
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 12: In 1971 Rhode Island, a family tormented by a demonic presence enlists married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren for help?

A. The Conjuring
B. The Haunting in Connecticut
C. Anabelle
D. The Nun

Question 13: After their reclusive grandmother’s death, a family grapples with grief as increasingly disturbing events reveal a sinister hereditary cult legacy?

A. Hereditary
B. The Lodge
C. Relic
D. You Should Have Left

Question 14: A young black man visits his white girlfriend’s seemingly liberal family estate, uncovering a horrifying conspiracy involving hypnosis and organ transplants?

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

Question 15: In the town of Derry, Maine, a group of children known as the Losers’ Club battle a malevolent entity that manifests as Pennywise the Dancing Clown?

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

Question 16: An American student joins a prestigious German ballet academy, only to discover it’s a coven of witches using dance to fuel their dark rituals?

A. Suspiria
B. Black Swan
C. The Perfection
D. Red Shoes

Question 17: In 1630s New England, a Puritan family exiled into the woods faces crop failure, accusations of witchcraft, and a sinister presence in the nearby forest?

A. The Witch
B. The Village
C. The VVitch
D. Apostle

Question 18: A grieving woman joins her boyfriend and friends on a trip to a remote Swedish commune for a midsummer festival that descends into ritualistic pagan horror?

A. The Ritual
B. Apostle
C. Midsommar
D. Pyewacket

Question 19: Five college friends head to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway, unwittingly becoming pawns in a secret organisation’s ancient monster ritual?

A. The Cabin in the Woods
B. Evil Dead
C. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
D. Cabin Fever

Question 20: In the quiet town of Woodsboro, a high school student receives terrifying phone calls from a masked killer obsessed with horror movie rules?

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

Answers

  1. B. The Exorcist – Directed by William Friedkin in 1973, it depicts Regan MacNeil’s demonic possession and the exorcism by Fathers Karras and Merrin; others involve different child possessions or satanic births without priests.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic follows Marion Crane’s theft and her fate at the Bates Motel; the others are later slashers inspired by it but lack the exact embezzlement plot.
  3. A. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel features Jack Torrance’s descent at the Overlook; others involve hotels or writers but not this family dynamic.
  4. B. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 film introduces Michael Myers targeting Laurie Strode; others are similar slashers but set on different dates or locations.
  5. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 grindhouse hit has Leatherface’s family; others feature mutants or cannibals but not the iconic Texas chainsaw clan.
  6. C. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie blueprint starts at a cemetery; later films expand the universe but this is the original barricade scenario.
  7. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 film centres on Mia Farrow’s pregnancy paranoia; others have Satanism but not the apartment cult baby plot.
  8. D. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew vs. xenomorph; prequels/sequels differ in origin or setting.
  9. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody, Hooper, and Quint against the shark; others are modern shark attacks without the trio hunt.
  10. D. The Thing – John Carpenter’s 1982 remake involves Norwegian camp remnants and assimilation; the 1951 original lacks the shape-shifting tests.
  11. C. Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper’s 1982 haunted suburbia film uses TV static as entry; others have possessions but not the Freelings’ static ghosts.
  12. A. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 hit is based on the Perron family case with the Warrens; spin-offs focus on objects/demons separately.
  13. A. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film reveals the Graham family’s Paimon cult ties; others explore family grief but lack the decapitation cult.
  14. D. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 social thriller exposes the Armitage family’s body-snatching; others are family visit horrors without racial hypnosis.
  15. B. It – The 2017 adaptation (Chapter One) has the Losers fighting Pennywise; others feature clowns but not Derry’s cyclical evil.
  16. A. Suspiria – Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo has Suzy Bannon uncovering the Mater Suspiriorum coven; remake/others differ in dance-witch mechanics.
  17. A. The Witch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 folk horror (styled The VVitch) follows the 1630s Black Phillip curse; others are modern woods cults.
  18. C. Midsommar – Ari Aster’s 2019 film details Dani’s Hårga festival nightmare; others have rituals but not the bright daylight Swedish cult.
  19. A. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2012 meta-film reveals the facility’s sacrifices; others are cabin slashers without the global ritual twist.
  20. C. Scream – Wes Craven’s 1996 postmodern slasher has Ghostface’s meta-kills; others copy the phone taunts but lack Woodsboro origins.

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