22 Horror Movie Trivia Questions and Answers
Horror movie trivia from Nosferatu and Psycho to Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream and Get Out: the directors, the killers and the films that started the great horror franchises. Answers are shown under each question.
There are 22 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.Who directed the 1960 film Psycho?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
Open this question2.What is the name of the motel in Psycho?
Answer: The Bates Motel
Open this question3.Which 1978 film directed by John Carpenter introduced the masked killer Michael Myers?
Answer: Halloween
Open this question4.Which author wrote the novel on which The Exorcist was based?
Answer: William Peter Blatty
Open this question5.What is the name of the killer played by Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)?
Answer: Freddy Krueger
Open this question6.Who directed A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)?
Answer: Wes Craven
Open this question7.Which fictional killer is the antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise?
Answer: Jason Voorhees
Open this question8.At which camp does the 1980 film Friday the 13th open, in 1958?
Answer: Camp Crystal Lake
Open this question9.Which Stanley Kubrick film of 1980 is set in the Overlook Hotel?
Answer: The Shining
Open this question10.Which author wrote the novel The Shining?
Answer: Stephen King
Open this question11.Which actor played Jack Torrance in The Shining?
Answer: Jack Nicholson
Open this question12.Which 1976 film, based on a Stephen King novel, is about a teenager with telekinetic powers?
Answer: Carrie
Open this question13.What is the name of the evil clown in Stephen King's It?
Answer: Pennywise
Open this question14.In which 1996 Wes Craven film is a killer seen wearing a "Ghostface" costume?
Answer: Scream
Open this question15.Which 1968 zombie horror film was directed by George A. Romero?
Answer: Night of the Living Dead
Open this question16.Which 1974 film by Tobe Hooper features the killer Leatherface?
Answer: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Open this question17.Which 1999 found-footage film follows three student filmmakers lost in the woods of Maryland?
Answer: The Blair Witch Project
Open this question18.Which 2017 horror film by Jordan Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay?
Answer: Get Out
Open this question19.Which 1991 film became the third film to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards, including Best Picture?
Answer: The Silence of the Lambs
Open this question20.Which 1922 German silent film was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula?
Answer: Nosferatu
Open this question21.Which 1968 horror film did Roman Polanski write and direct from Ira Levin's 1967 novel?
Answer: Rosemary's Baby
Open this question22.Which 2004 horror film revolves around the mystery of the Jigsaw Killer?
Answer: Saw
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