Horror Movies Quiz

1. Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film features a famous shower scene?

1. Psycho
2. Rear Window
3. The Birds
4. Vertigo

2. What is the name of the demonic child in The Omen (1976)?

1. Chucky
2. Damien
3. Jason
4. Reagan

3. Which 1973 horror film features a rotating head and projectile vomit?

1. Carrie
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. The Amityville Horror
4. The Exorcist

4. In the Halloween franchise, what is the name of the masked killer?

1. Freddy Krueger
2. Ghostface
3. Jason Voorhees
4. Michael Myers

5. Which horror film franchise is set at Camp Crystal Lake?

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Friday the 13th
3. Halloween
4. Sleepaway Camp

6. What is 'found footage' in horror film terminology?

1. A film presented as amateur video footage discovered after an event
2. Documentary-style interviews
3. Old reels discovered in a studio vault
4. Scenes cut from the original release

7. Which Stephen King novel was adapted into a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick?

1. Carrie
2. It
3. Misery
4. The Shining

8. In which film does Freddy Krueger appear?

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Friday the 13th
3. Halloween
4. Hellraiser

9. What does the 'Get Out' (2017) film's villain use to take over victims' bodies?

1. A cursed artefact
2. A mind-controlling drug
3. Demonic possession
4. Hypnosis and a surgical procedure

10. Which 1922 silent German film is considered the first vampire movie?

1. Dracula
2. Nosferatu
3. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
4. The Phantom of the Opera

11. In which film does a character say: 'We all float down here'?

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. It
3. Poltergeist
4. Sinister

12. What was the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars?

1. Jaws
2. Rosemary's Baby
3. The Exorcist
4. The Silence of the Lambs

13. What horror subgenre is characterised by violence and gore as central elements?

1. Psychological horror
2. Slasher
3. Splatter/Gore horror
4. Supernatural horror

14. Which 2018 horror film involves a family being terrorised by creatures that hunt by sound?

1. Bird Box
2. Hereditary
3. Quiet Place
4. Us

15. In Scream (1996), what is the name of the masked killer?

1. Ghostface
2. Leatherface
3. Pinhead
4. Scarecrow

16. Which body horror film by David Cronenberg (1986) features a scientist slowly transforming?

1. Naked Lunch
2. Scanners
3. The Fly
4. Videodrome

17. What year was The Blair Witch Project released, popularising found footage horror?

1. 1996
2. 1999
3. 2001
4. 2003

18. In Hereditary (2018), what cult deity is central to the film's horror?

1. Asmodeus
2. Baal
3. Moloch
4. Paimon

19. Which horror film is set in the Overlook Hotel?

1. 1408
2. Rose Red
3. The Haunting
4. The Shining

20. What is the name of the doll in the Child's Play horror franchise?

1. Annabelle
2. Billy
3. Brahms
4. Chucky