Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Horror Films from Key Plot Details Trivia Quiz

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Think you’re a horror aficionado? Test your knowledge by identifying these 20 chilling horror films from their key plot details alone. We’ve mixed easy classics with tricky modern gems – how many can you name correctly?

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Films from Plot Details

Question 1: A desperate mother seeks help from two priests to perform an exorcism on her young daughter who levitates, speaks in multiple voices, and desecrates a church?

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

Question 2: A secretary steals $40,000 and checks into a remote motel run by a shy taxidermist who has a shocking secret involving his domineering mother?

A. Psycho
B. Bates Motel
C. Hush
D. Vacancy

Question 3: A family takes a job as winter caretakers at an isolated hotel where the father descends into madness, haunted by visions and ghostly bartenders?

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

Question 4: An escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask stalks and murders teenagers on Halloween night in the suburban town of Haddonfield?

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

Question 5: A group of strangers barricades themselves in a rural farmhouse as the recently deceased rise to devour the living in a sudden zombie outbreak?

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

Question 6: A pregnant woman in a New York apartment building suspects her neighbours of drugging her to conceive Satan’s child amid sinister coven rituals?

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

Question 7: A group of friends driving through rural Texas encounters a cannibalistic family led by a chainsaw-wielding giant wearing a mask made of human skin?

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

Question 8: A massive great white shark terrorises a summer resort beach town, forcing the police chief, oceanographer, and shark hunter to hunt it down?

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

Question 9: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress signal on a derelict alien vessel, awakening a deadly parasitic creature that impregnates a crew member?

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

Question 10: A family moves into a colonial farmhouse haunted by the vengeful spirit of a witch who drowned her children centuries ago?

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

Question 11: After their matriarch’s death, a family uncovers disturbing occult secrets and headless corpses tied to a sinister hereditary cult?

A. Hereditary
B. The Inheritance
C. Ready or Not
D. Relic

Question 12: A black man visiting his white girlfriend’s family estate is hypnotised into a ‘sunken place’ as part of a horrifying body-snatching scheme?

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

Question 13: A 17th-century Puritan family exiled in the woods faces crop failure, a missing baby, and accusations of witchcraft against the eldest daughter?

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

Question 14: A young woman is relentlessly pursued by a slow-walking supernatural entity that can only be passed on through sexual encounters?

A. Happy Death Day
B. It Follows
C. The Endless
D. Smile

Question 15: A true-crime writer moves his family into a house where he discovers Super 8 snuff films depicting child murders by a pagan entity?

A. The Ritual
B. Sinister
C. Longlegs
D. Drag Me to Hell

Question 16: A journalist investigates a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after watching unless the curse is passed to someone else?

A. The Grudge
B. Noroi: The Curse
C. V/H/S
D. The Ring

Question 17: A photographer awakens in a bathroom chained to a man, both trapped in deadly games designed by a killer who tests their will to live?

A. Hostel
B. Cube
C. Escape Room
D. Saw

Question 18: Five college friends on a cabin getaway are manipulated by shadowy technicians as unwitting sacrifices in a ritual to appease ancient underground gods?

A. The Ritual
B. You’re Next
C. Evil Dead
D. The Cabin in the Woods

Question 19: A grieving woman joins her boyfriend’s friends on a trip to a remote Swedish commune where a bizarre midsummer festival hides gruesome pagan rites?

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

Question 20: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family survives blind, sound-hunting creatures by living in total silence and communicating through sign language?

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

Answers

  1. C. The Exorcist – Directed by William Friedkin in 1973, it depicts Regan MacNeil’s demonic possession and exorcism by Fathers Karras and Merrin; others involve exorcisms but lack the levitation and church desecration specifics.
  2. A. Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic features Marion Crane’s theft and Norman Bates’ motel horrors; the others are motel-themed but lack the mother-taxidermy twist.
  3. C. The Shining – Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel centres on Jack Torrance’s breakdown at the Overlook; Doctor Sleep is its sequel.
  4. C. Halloween – John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher introduces Michael Myers’ Haddonfield rampage; others have masked killers but different settings.
  5. C. Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero’s 1968 groundbreaking zombie film traps survivors in a farmhouse; it defined the modern zombie genre.
  6. B. Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski’s 1968 film stars Mia Farrow as the unwitting mother of the Antichrist; others involve devilish births but not the coven plot.
  7. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film features Leatherface’s Sawyer family; others have hillbilly cannibals but no chainsaw mask icon.
  8. D. Jaws – Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster pits Brody, Hooper, and Quint against the shark; others are shark horrors but lack the trio’s boat hunt.
  9. C. Alien – Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror has the Nostromo crew face the xenomorph; Prometheus is a prequel with different origins.
  10. D. The Conjuring – James Wan’s 2013 film is based on Ed and Lorraine Warren investigating the Perron haunting by Bathsheba; others have haunted houses but different spirits.
  11. A. Hereditary – Ari Aster’s 2018 film reveals the Graham family’s Paimon cult ties via decapitations; others explore family grief but lack the cult specifics.
  12. C. Get Out – Jordan Peele’s 2017 Oscar-winner exposes the Armitage family’s neurosurgical racism; others have family visit twists but not hypnosis.
  13. A. The VVitch – Robert Eggers’ 2015 folk horror follows the 1630s New England family’s Black Phillip ordeal; others are witchcraft-themed but period-specific.
  14. B. It Follows – David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 film features the transferable entity; others have pursuit curses but not the sex-passing mechanic.
  15. B. Sinister – Scott Derrickson’s 2012 film has Ellison Oswalt find Bughuul’s films; others involve entities but not Super 8 child murders.
  16. D. The Ring – Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake stars Naomi Watts racing the tape’s curse; others are found-footage curses without the 7-day tape.
  17. D. Saw – James Wan’s 2004 film launches Jigsaw’s bathroom trap; others have traps but not the iconic Adam/Dr. Gordon setup.
  18. D. The Cabin in the Woods – Drew Goddard’s 2011 meta-horror unveils the facility-controlled sacrifices; others are cabin slashers without the gods twist.
  19. A. Midsommar – Ari Aster’s 2019 film depicts Dani’s Harga cult trauma; The Wicker Man is similar but 1970s British.
  20. B. A Quiet Place – John Krasinski’s 2018 film follows the Abbotts’ silent survival; others have sensory monsters but emphasise sound uniquely.

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