Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Haunted Location Horror Films Trivia Quiz: Name Them from the Clues!

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Are you a master of horror’s creepiest corners? Dive into this 20-question quiz with clues describing iconic haunted locations from chilling films. From easy starters to brain-bending stumpers, see if you can name them all!

20 Trivia Questions on Haunted Location Films

Question 1: Which film features a blocked writer, his psychic wife, and telepathic son snowed in at the isolated Overlook Hotel, where ghosts drive the father to murder?

A. Poltergeist
B. The Shining
C. Insidious
D. The Conjuring

Question 2: In which movie does a suburban family’s home become a gateway to hell after disturbing an ancient burial ground, with carnivorous trees and a killer clown doll?

A. The Amityville Horror
B. Sinister
C. Poltergeist
D. The Grudge

Question 3: A family buys a dreamy house in Long Island only to face demonic voices, bleeding walls, and swarms of flies in this “true story” based film?

A. The Amityville Horror
B. The Changeling
C. 1408
D. Crimson Peak

Question 4: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren aid the Perron family against a malevolent witch in their old Rhode Island farmhouse?

A. The Others
B. Session 9
C. The Orphanage
D. The Conjuring

Question 5: Parapsychologists led by Dr. Markway study Hill House, where shy Eleanor succumbs to the mansion’s deadly supernatural influence?

A. The Legend of Hell House
B. The Haunting
C. House on Haunted Hill
D. The Woman in Black

Question 6: Millionaire Vincent Price hosts strangers in a gothic mansion for a night, promising cash but delivering poisoned darts and acid baths?

A. The Changeling
B. House on Haunted Hill
C. Grave Encounters
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 7: Physicist Lionel Barrett, medium Florence Tanner, and survivor Ben Fischer tackle the Belasco House, dubbed the “Mt. Everest of haunted houses”?

A. The Haunting
B. Crimson Peak
C. The Legend of Hell House
D. Insidious

Question 8: Grieving composer John Russell rents a historic Seattle mansion haunted by a wheelchair-bound boy who drowned in its basement?

A. The Changeling
B. The Grudge
C. Sinister
D. Poltergeist

Question 9: Grace and her light-sensitive children live in a foggy English manor, terrorising their housekeeper who discovers a shocking twist?

A. The Woman in Black
B. The Others
C. The Orphanage
D. 1408

Question 10: Spanish film where Laura returns to her orphanage, encountering ghostly children and searching for her autistic son Simón?

A. Session 9
B. The Orphanage
C. Grave Encounters
D. The Conjuring

Question 11: Arthur Kipps visits storm-lashed Eel Marsh House, pursued by a vengeful black-clad widow and her drowned son’s ghost?

A. Crimson Peak
B. The Woman in Black
C. The Shining
D. The Amityville Horror

Question 12: Skeptical author Mike Enslin enters the Dolphin Hotel’s room 1408, facing time loops, floods, and endless torment?

A. 1408
B. House on Haunted Hill
C. The Legend of Hell House
D. What Lies Beneath

Question 13: The Lamberts’ new home traps their son in “The Further,” requiring psychic Elise Raines to astral project for rescue?

A. Sinister
B. Insidious
C. The Grudge
D. Poltergeist

Question 14: Writer Ellison Oswalt uncovers snuff films in his attic showing Bughuul claiming children via hanging projector?

A. The Conjuring
B. The Shining
C. Sinister
D. The Changeling

Question 15: Edith marries baronet Thomas Sharpe, moving to decaying Allerdale Hall where red clay bleeds and ghosts whisper?

A. The Haunting
B. Crimson Peak
C. The Others
D. Session 9

Question 16: Karen enters a Tokyo house where Kayako’s grudge curse causes victims to contort unnaturally before dying?

A. The Woman in Black
B. The Grudge
C. 1408
D. Grave Encounters

Question 17: A crew decontaminating Danvers State Hospital uncovers tapes revealing patient Mary’s murderous multiple personalities?

A. Session 9
B. The Orphanage
C. Insidious
D. The Amityville Horror

Question 18: Reality TV ghost hunters spend the night in Collingwood Asylum, capturing real demonic entities on camera?

A. Grave Encounters
B. House on Haunted Hill
C. The Legend of Hell House
D. Sinister

Question 19: Claire Spencer believes her Vermont lake house is haunted by drowned babysitter Madison Elizabeth, possessing her husband?

A. What Lies Beneath
B. Poltergeist
C. The Conjuring
D. Crimson Peak

Question 20: After hospitalisation, Anna returns to her mother’s seaside house, haunted by visions revealing her sister Millie’s dark secret?

A. The Changeling
B. The Others
C. The Uninvited
D. The Haunting

Answers

  1. B. The Shining (1980) – Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Jack Torrance descends into madness at the Overlook Hotel amid ghostly apparitions like Delbert Grady. Others involve suburban homes (Poltergeist, Insidious) or farmhouses (The Conjuring).
  2. C. Poltergeist (1982) – The Freeling house in Cuesta Verde summons spirits via a desecrated cemetery, iconic for “They’re here!” Others feature demons (The Amityville Horror), attics (Sinister), or curses (The Grudge).
  3. A. The Amityville Horror (1979) – The Lutz family endures 28 days of hauntings in the DeFeo murder house, based on claimed events. Others are mansions (The Changeling), hotel rooms (1408), or gothic estates (Crimson Peak).
  4. D. The Conjuring (2013) – The Perrons face Bathsheba’s witch spirit in 1971, aided by the Warrens. Others are mansions (The Others), asylums (Session 9), or orphanages (The Orphanage).
  5. B. The Haunting (1963) – Robert Wise’s adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel sees Hill House claim lives through psychological terror. Others are party pranks (House on Haunted Hill), team investigations (The Legend of Hell House), or marshes (The Woman in Black).
  6. B. House on Haunted Hill (1959) – Vincent Price’s Frederick Loren’s deadly game unfolds in a Los Angeles haunted house. Others feature composers (The Changeling), asylums (Grave Encounters), or lakes (What Lies Beneath).
  7. C. The Legend of Hell House (1973) – Based on Richard Matheson’s novel, the Belasco House destroys investigators with raw supernatural force. Others study Hill House (The Haunting), gothic mines (Crimson Peak), or astral realms (Insidious).
  8. A. The Changeling (1980) – George C. Scott’s John Russell communicates with boy Joseph through a bouncing ball in the Carbonell mansion. Others involve houses (The Grudge), attics (Sinister), or suburbs (Poltergeist).
  9. B. The Others (2001) – Nicole Kidman’s Grace learns her family are the ghosts in their Jersey mansion post-WWII. Others feature marshes (The Woman in Black), orphanages (The Orphanage), or hotels (1408).
  10. B. The Orphanage (2007) – J.A. Bayona’s film has Laura haunted by past residents at Santa Lucía orphanage. Others are asylums (Session 9, Grave Encounters) or farmhouses (The Conjuring).
  11. B. The Woman in Black (2012) – Daniel Radcliffe’s Arthur Kipps battles Jennet Humfrye at the causeway-isolated Eel Marsh. Others are gothic halls (Crimson Peak), hotels (The Shining), or suburbs (The Amityville Horror).
  12. A. 1408 (2007) – John Cusack’s Mike Enslin survives (barely) the numerically cursed Dolphin room. Others are party houses (House on Haunted Hill), Belasco (The Legend of Hell House), or lakes (What Lies Beneath).
  13. B. Insidious (2010) – James Wan’s film introduces “The Further” via Josh Lambert’s astral projection. Others feature films (Sinister), Tokyo curses (The Grudge), or spirits (Poltergeist).
  14. C. Sinister (2012) – Bughuul haunts via Super 8 reels in Oswalt’s Oklahoma house attic. Others are farmhouses (The Conjuring), hotels (The Shining), or mansions (The Changeling).
  15. B. Crimson Peak (2015) – Guillermo del Toro’s gothic tale unfolds at Sharpe’s sinking Allerdale Hall. Others study Hill House (The Haunting), Jersey (The Others), or asylums (Session 9).
  16. B. The Grudge (2004) – Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Karen falls to Kayako and Toshio’s house curse. Others are marshes (The Woman in Black), rooms (1408), or asylums (Grave Encounters).
  17. A. Session 9 (2001) – Brad Anderson’s film uses real Danvers Asylum for Mary’s dissociative identity horrors. Others are orphanages (The Orphanage), astral houses (Insidious), or suburbs (The Amityville Horror).
  18. A. Grave Encounters (2011) – Found-footage crew faces time-warped ghosts in fictional Collingwood. Others are party mansions (House on Haunted Hill), Belasco (The Legend of Hell House), or attics (Sinister).
  19. A. What Lies Beneath (2000) – Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer battle Samantha’s ghost at their Vermont lake house. Others are suburbs (Poltergeist), farms (The Conjuring), or gothic estates (Crimson Peak).
  20. C. The Uninvited (2009) – Emily Browning’s Anna unravels family trauma and impostor ghosts in the Iverglass house. Others feature mansions (The Changeling), Jersey (The Others), or Hill House (The Haunting).

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