Can You Score 20/20? Ultimate Horror Films From Plot Summaries Trivia Quiz!

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Are you a true horror aficionado? Challenge yourself with these 20 plot summaries from legendary horror films, spanning classics to modern nightmares. From straightforward scares to twisty teasers, see if you can identify every one correctly!

20 Trivia Questions on Horror Films From Plot Summaries

Question 1: A desperate secretary embezzles $40,000 and hides out at a secluded motel managed by a shy young man with an overbearing mother?

A. The Birds
B. Rear Window
C. Psycho
D. Vertigo

Question 2: A mother seeks medical help for her possessed 12-year-old daughter, leading to a battle against a demonic force aided by two priests?

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

Question 3: A family isolated as winter caretakers in a vast, haunted hotel descends into madness as the father is possessed by malevolent spirits?

A. Doctor Sleep
B. Kubrick’s The Shining
C. Misery
D. 1408

Question 4: An escaped mental patient in a William Shatner mask returns to his hometown on Halloween night to stalk and murder babysitters?

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

Question 5: A New England beach town faces panic when a massive great white shark begins targeting swimmers, forcing the sheriff to hunt it down?

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

Question 6: The crew of a commercial spaceship investigates a distress signal on a desolate planet, awakening a deadly parasitic alien organism?

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

Question 7: A group of friends driving through rural Texas stumbles upon a cannibalistic family led by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface?

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

Question 8: A young woman in a New York apartment block suspects her neighbours of being part of a satanic cult plotting against her unborn child?

A. The Sentinel
B. Rosemary’s Baby
C. Suspiria
D. Hereditary

Question 9: Survivors barricade themselves in a rural farmhouse as the recently deceased rise to devour the living in a zombie apocalypse?

A. Dawn of the Dead
B. 28 Days Later
C. Night of the Living Dead
D. World War Z

Question 10: A family tormented by malevolent spirits in their Rhode Island farmhouse calls in renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren?

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

Question 11: A black man visiting his white girlfriend’s family estate uncovers a sinister hypnosis-based conspiracy targeting his mind and body?

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

Question 12: After the death of their secretive matriarch, a family grapples with grief that unleashes horrifying supernatural forces and cultish secrets?

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

Question 13: A group of children in Derry, Maine band together as the Losers’ Club to combat a shape-shifting entity that preys on children’s fears as a clown?

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

Question 14: High school students in Woodsboro are terrorised by a masked killer known as Ghostface making taunting phone calls before attacking?

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

Question 15: A journalist investigates a cursed videotape that kills viewers exactly seven days after watching unless the curse is passed on?

A. The Grudge
B. Ju-On
C. The Ring
D. Noroi: The Curse

Question 16: Two men awaken chained in a filthy bathroom with a dying man and instructions from a sadistic puppeteer to play deadly games for survival?

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

Question 17: A 17th-century Puritan family exiled to the New England woods faces crop failure, infant disappearance, and witchcraft accusations?

A. The VVitch
B. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
C. Apostle
D. The Lodge

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

A. The Ritual
B. Midsommar
C. Wicker Man
D. Ready or Not

Question 19: In a post-apocalyptic world, a family survives by remaining completely silent to avoid attracting blind, sound-hunting monsters?

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

Question 20: Five college friends head to a remote cabin for a weekend getaway, unwittingly becoming pawns in an ancient underground organisation’s monstrous ritual?

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

Answers

  1. C. Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller features Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) stealing money and encountering Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) at the Bates Motel; others are different Hitchcock films without the motel/embezzlement plot.
  2. B. The Exorcist (1973) – Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) enlists Fathers Karras and Merrin to exorcise Pazuzu from her daughter Regan; The Omen involves Antichrist Damien, not possession exorcism.
  3. B. The Shining (1980) – Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) and family caretaking the Overlook Hotel succumb to its ghosts; Doctor Sleep is its sequel, not the origin.
  4. C. Halloween (1978) – Michael Myers (masked, voiced by Nick Castle) targets Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis); Friday the 13th features Jason Voorhees hockey mask.
  5. C. Jaws (1975) – Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) hunts the shark terrorising Amity Island; Deep Blue Sea involves genetically altered sharks.
  6. C. Alien (1979) – Nostromo crew, including Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), faces xenomorph from LV-426; Prometheus is a prequel exploring origins.
  7. C. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – Friends encounter Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) and Sawyer family cannibals; Hills Have Eyes is desert mutants.
  8. B. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) suspects neighbours’ plot via tainted pregnancy; Suspiria is ballet academy witches.
  9. C. Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and Ben (Duane Jones) fight ghouls; George Romero’s zombie blueprint.
  10. D. The Conjuring (2013) – Perron family enlists Warrens (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga) against Bathsheba witch; Insidious involves astral projection.
  11. C. Get Out (2017) – Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) faces the Armitage family’s “sunken place” scheme; Jordan Peele’s social horror satire.
  12. C. Hereditary (2018) – Graham family (Toni Collette) battles Paimon cult after Ellen’s death; Midsommar is daylight cult abroad.
  13. B. It (2017) – Losers’ Club fights Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) in sewers; Stephen King adaptation.
  14. D. Scream (1996) – Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) survives Ghostface (Roger L. Jackson voice); Wes Craven’s meta-slasher.
  15. C. The Ring (2002) – Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) races to break Sadako’s videotape curse; US remake of Ringu.
  16. C. Saw (2004) – Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr Gordon (Cary Elwes) trapped by Jigsaw (Tobin Bell tapes); torture porn origin.
  17. A. The VVitch (2015) – Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) family faces Black Phillip and woodland witch; Robert Eggers’ folk horror.
  18. B. Midsommar (2019) – Dani (Florence Pugh) endures Hårga cult’s rituals post-trauma; Ari Aster’s daylight dread.
  19. B. A Quiet Place (2018) – Abbott family (Emily Blunt, John Krasinski) evades creatures; sound-based survival horror.
  20. B. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – Curt, Jules et al. trigger Facility’s archetypes; meta-horror by Drew Goddard/Joss Whedon.

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