Horror movies have transformed fears, folklore, and filmmaking experiments into some of cinema’s most memorable stories. That range makes horror movie trivia useful for Halloween parties, film-club meetings, team activities, and movie nights with friends.
This collection includes 200 horror movie trivia questions and answers covering major franchises, Halloween favorites, influential classics, 1980s and 1990s releases, and difficult production details. The questions avoid graphic descriptions, so hosts can focus on film knowledge while choosing categories that suit their audience.
Test your horror knowledge with 200 movie trivia questions
The six rounds below move across eras and difficulty levels. Each category begins at number one, making it easy to use one section as a quick quiz or combine several sections for a longer competition.
Horror movie trivia questions and answers
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In The Ring, how many days does a viewer supposedly have after watching the cursed videotape?
Answer: Seven days
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What is the real name of the Jigsaw Killer in the Saw series?
Answer: John Kramer
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Who directed Get Out?
Answer: Jordan Peele
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What do the creatures in A Quiet Place use to hunt their victims?
Answer: Sound
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What are the first names of the paranormal investigators in The Conjuring films?
Answer: Ed and Lorraine
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What is the dark spirit realm called in Insidious?
Answer: The Further
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Which town is terrorized by Pennywise in It?
Answer: Derry, Maine
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What is the name of the hotel in The Shining?
Answer: The Overlook Hotel
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Which actress plays Rachel Keller in the 2002 film The Ring?
Answer: Naomi Watts
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What kind of recordings does Ellison discover in Sinister?
Answer: Home movies
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What psychological prison does Chris fall into in Get Out?
Answer: The Sunken Place
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What are the doppelgängers called in Us?
Answer: The Tethered
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In which country does most of Midsommar take place?
Answer: Sweden
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Who directed Hereditary?
Answer: Ari Aster
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What object contains the title creature in The Babadook?
Answer: A pop-up book
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What nickname is given to the masked abductor in The Black Phone?
Answer: The Grabber
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What expression appears on victims’ faces in Smile?
Answer: An unnatural smile
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What object allows characters to contact spirits in Talk to Me?
Answer: An embalmed hand
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What type of performers are Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy in Five Nights at Freddy’s?
Answer: Animatronics
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In which country was Train to Busan produced?
Answer: South Korea
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What is the name of the vengeful spirit in the American version of The Grudge?
Answer: Kayako Saeki
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Which actress plays Grace in The Others?
Answer: Nicole Kidman
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Where are the friends trapped in The Descent?
Answer: An underground cave system
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In which city is the apartment building in [REC] located?
Answer: Barcelona
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What is the English title of the Spanish film El orfanato?
Answer: The Orphanage
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In which country is Let the Right One In set?
Answer: Sweden
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What causes the outbreak in 28 Days Later?
Answer: The Rage virus
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Who directed the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead?
Answer: Zack Snyder
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What must the organization in The Cabin in the Woods arrange to protect the world?
Answer: A ritual sacrifice
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Which childhood game must Grace play on her wedding night in Ready or Not?
Answer: Hide-and-seek
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What keeps repeating for Tree in Happy Death Day?
Answer: The day of her death
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Which two characters exchange bodies in Freaky?
Answer: Millie and the Blissfield Butcher
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How long does the annual event last in The Purge?
Answer: 12 hours
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Which actress plays Cecilia Kass in The Invisible Man from 2020?
Answer: Elisabeth Moss
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Which character from The Shining returns as an adult in Doctor Sleep?
Answer: Danny Torrance
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In what type of building is Evil Dead Rise primarily set?
Answer: A Los Angeles apartment building
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What has Tess unknowingly booked in Barbarian?
Answer: A rental house that is already occupied
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What name do OJ and Emerald give the creature in Nope?
Answer: Jean Jacket
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What is the name of the FBI agent played by Maika Monroe in Longlegs?
Answer: Lee Harker
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What is the cat’s name in A Quiet Place: Day One?
Answer: Frodo
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Who plays Chef Slowik in The Menu?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes
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What is the name of the goat in The Witch?
Answer: Black Phillip
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What occupation do the two main characters share in The Lighthouse?
Answer: Lighthouse keepers
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What is the name of the antique mirror in Oculus?
Answer: The Lasser Glass
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Which demonic figure first introduced in The Conjuring 2 leads The Nun films?
Answer: Valak
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Halloween movie trivia questions and answers
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Who directed the original 1978 film Halloween?
Answer: John Carpenter
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Which actress first played Laurie Strode?
Answer: Jamie Lee Curtis
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What is the name of the masked killer in the Halloween franchise?
Answer: Michael Myers
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In which fictional Illinois town is Halloween set?
Answer: Haddonfield
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Michael Myers’s mask was adapted from a mask of which Star Trek captain?
Answer: Captain Kirk
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Who composed the original Halloween theme?
Answer: John Carpenter
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In what year does the opening scene of Halloween take place?
Answer: 1963
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Where does Laurie spend much of Halloween II?
Answer: Haddonfield Memorial Hospital
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Which Halloween sequel does not feature Michael Myers?
Answer: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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What company makes the masks in Halloween III: Season of the Witch?
Answer: Silver Shamrock Novelties
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What name is Laurie Strode using in Halloween H20?
Answer: Keri Tate
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The 2018 film Halloween takes place how many years after the original?
Answer: 40 years
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What is the name of the small costumed guardian in Trick ’r Treat?
Answer: Sam
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Who directed Trick ’r Treat?
Answer: Michael Dougherty
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In which fictional Ohio town does Trick ’r Treat take place?
Answer: Warren Valley
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What is the surname of the three witches in Hocus Pocus?
Answer: Sanderson
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Which actress plays Winifred Sanderson?
Answer: Bette Midler
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In which Massachusetts city is Hocus Pocus set?
Answer: Salem
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What animal does Thackery Binx become?
Answer: A black cat
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Who lights the Black Flame Candle in Hocus Pocus?
Answer: Max Dennison
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Who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Answer: Henry Selick
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What title does Jack Skellington hold in Halloween Town?
Answer: The Pumpkin King
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Who is Jack Skellington’s rag-doll friend?
Answer: Sally
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What shape glows at the end of Zero’s nose?
Answer: A jack-o’-lantern
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What fills Oogie Boogie’s body?
Answer: Bugs
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How many times must Beetlejuice’s name be said to summon him?
Answer: Three times
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Which actress plays Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice?
Answer: Winona Ryder
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What are the first names of the ghostly Maitlands?
Answer: Adam and Barbara
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What is the name of the mansion in the 1995 film Casper?
Answer: Whipstaff Manor
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Which actress plays Kat Harvey in Casper?
Answer: Christina Ricci
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What is the name of the young witch in Halloweentown?
Answer: Marnie Piper
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Which actress plays Grandmother Aggie in Halloweentown?
Answer: Debbie Reynolds
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Who waits for the Great Pumpkin in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
Answer: Linus van Pelt
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In what year did It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown first air?
Answer: 1966
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What is the name of the boy who discovers that Monster House is alive?
Answer: DJ
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90s horror movie trivia questions and answers
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Which actress plays Annie Wilkes in Misery?
Answer: Kathy Bates
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For which acting award did Kathy Bates win for Misery?
Answer: The Academy Award for Best Actress
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Who plays FBI trainee Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Jodie Foster
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Which actor plays Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins
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Who plays the title character in Candyman?
Answer: Tony Todd
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How many times is Candyman’s name said in front of a mirror to summon him?
Answer: Five times
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Who directed Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola
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Which actor plays Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
Answer: Gary Oldman
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Which actor returns as Ash Williams in Army of Darkness?
Answer: Bruce Campbell
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Which director made his feature-film debut with Cronos?
Answer: Guillermo del Toro
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Who plays the vampire Lestat in Interview with the Vampire?
Answer: Tom Cruise
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Which actress plays a fictionalized version of herself in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare?
Answer: Heather Langenkamp
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What are the surnames of the two detectives in Se7en?
Answer: Somerset and Mills
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What is the name of the alien-human hybrid in Species?
Answer: Sil
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What are the first names of the four central teenage witches in The Craft?
Answer: Sarah, Nancy, Bonnie, and Rochelle
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Who directed Scream?
Answer: Wes Craven
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Which actress plays Sidney Prescott in Scream?
Answer: Neve Campbell
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What is the name of the fictional town in Scream?
Answer: Woodsboro
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Who provides Ghostface’s telephone voice in Scream?
Answer: Roger L. Jackson
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In which country was Cube produced?
Answer: Canada
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What is the name of the lost spacecraft in Event Horizon?
Answer: Event Horizon
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What weapon is associated with the killer in I Know What You Did Last Summer?
Answer: A hook
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In which North Carolina town is I Know What You Did Last Summer set?
Answer: Southport
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What is the name of the insect species created in Mimic?
Answer: The Judas breed
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On which river does most of Anaconda take place?
Answer: The Amazon River
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What is the name of the school in The Faculty?
Answer: Herrington High School
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Which actress plays Tiffany in Bride of Chucky?
Answer: Jennifer Tilly
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What is the name of the vengeful spirit in Ringu?
Answer: Sadako Yamamura
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At which fictional college is Urban Legend set?
Answer: Pendleton University
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Which Maryland town do the filmmakers visit in The Blair Witch Project?
Answer: Burkittsville
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Which actor plays Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense?
Answer: Haley Joel Osment
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Who plays Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow?
Answer: Johnny Depp
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Who directed the Japanese horror film Audition?
Answer: Takashi Miike
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What are the underground creatures in Tremors called?
Answer: Graboids
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What profession does Ross Jennings have in Arachnophobia?
Answer: He is a doctor
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Classic horror movie trivia and answers
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What is the vampire’s name in Nosferatu?
Answer: Count Orlok
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Who directed the 1922 film Nosferatu?
Answer: F. W. Murnau
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What is the name of the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Answer: Cesare
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Which actor plays Count Dracula in the 1931 film Dracula?
Answer: Bela Lugosi
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Who plays Frankenstein’s monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein?
Answer: Boris Karloff
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Which actress plays the Bride in Bride of Frankenstein?
Answer: Elsa Lanchester
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What is the name of the resurrected priest in The Mummy from 1932?
Answer: Imhotep
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Which actor stars in The Invisible Man from 1933?
Answer: Claude Rains
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Who plays Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man?
Answer: Lon Chaney Jr.
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Who directed the 1942 film Cat People?
Answer: Jacques Tourneur
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Which actor plays Professor Henry Jarrod in House of Wax from 1953?
Answer: Vincent Price
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What is the common name of the creature in Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Answer: The Gill-man
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What replaces humans in Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Answer: Pod duplicates
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Who plays Baron Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein?
Answer: Peter Cushing
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Which actor plays Dracula in Hammer’s 1958 film Horror of Dracula?
Answer: Christopher Lee
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Who plays millionaire Frederick Loren in House on Haunted Hill?
Answer: Vincent Price
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What is the name of the motel in Psycho?
Answer: The Bates Motel
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Who directed Psycho?
Answer: Alfred Hitchcock
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Which actress plays Marion Crane in Psycho?
Answer: Janet Leigh
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In which California town is The Birds set?
Answer: Bodega Bay
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Who directed Night of the Living Dead?
Answer: George A. Romero
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Which actor plays Ben in Night of the Living Dead?
Answer: Duane Jones
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Who plays Rosemary Woodhouse in Rosemary’s Baby?
Answer: Mia Farrow
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What is the first name of the possessed child in The Exorcist?
Answer: Regan
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Who directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
Answer: Tobe Hooper
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What is the name of the island community in Jaws?
Answer: Amity Island
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What is the name of the child at the center of The Omen?
Answer: Damien Thorn
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Which actress plays the title character in Carrie?
Answer: Sissy Spacek
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At what type of institution is Suspiria primarily set?
Answer: A dance academy
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What is the name of the spaceship in Alien?
Answer: Nostromo
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80s horror movie trivia questions and answers
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Who is revealed as the killer in the original Friday the 13th?
Answer: Pamela Voorhees
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Which actor plays Jack Torrance in The Shining?
Answer: Jack Nicholson
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What is the name of the coastal town in The Fog?
Answer: Antonio Bay
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What is the first name of the American student who becomes a werewolf in An American Werewolf in London?
Answer: David
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What is the name of the hero played by Bruce Campbell in The Evil Dead?
Answer: Ash Williams
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Where is the research station located in The Thing?
Answer: Antarctica
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What phrase does Carol Anne say to the television in Poltergeist?
Answer: They’re here
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How many main stories appear in the 1982 anthology Creepshow?
Answer: Five
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What is the name of the dream-stalking villain in A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Answer: Freddy Krueger
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Which actress plays Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Answer: Heather Langenkamp
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What should never be done to a Mogwai after midnight in Gremlins?
Answer: Feed it
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What is the Ghostbusters’ vehicle called?
Answer: Ecto-1
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What is the name of the scientist in Re-Animator?
Answer: Herbert West
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What is the name of Charley’s vampire neighbor in Fright Night?
Answer: Jerry Dandridge
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Who plays scientist Seth Brundle in The Fly?
Answer: Jeff Goldblum
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What military group accompanies Ripley in Aliens?
Answer: The Colonial Marines
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What is the name of the carnivorous plant in Little Shop of Horrors?
Answer: Audrey II
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What nickname is commonly used for the lead Cenobite in Hellraiser?
Answer: Pinhead
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In which fictional California town is The Lost Boys set?
Answer: Santa Carla
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What is the nickname of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in Predator?
Answer: Dutch
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Who directed Near Dark?
Answer: Kathryn Bigelow
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Who directed Beetlejuice?
Answer: Tim Burton
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What is the human name of the spirit possessing the Chucky doll in Child’s Play?
Answer: Charles Lee Ray
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What reveals the disguised aliens in They Live?
Answer: Special sunglasses
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What is the Maine family’s surname in Pet Sematary?
Answer: Creed
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Hard horror movie trivia and answers
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What 1896 Georges Méliès short is often cited as one of the earliest horror films?
Answer: Le Manoir du Diable
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Which film movement is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari closely associated with?
Answer: German Expressionism
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Who directed Bride of Frankenstein?
Answer: James Whale
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Which producer oversaw a celebrated series of atmospheric horror films at RKO in the 1940s?
Answer: Val Lewton
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Which 1957 film launched Hammer’s cycle of color Gothic horror movies?
Answer: The Curse of Frankenstein
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Who composed the string-heavy score for Psycho?
Answer: Bernard Herrmann
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What was Night of the Living Dead called before its final title was chosen?
Answer: Night of the Flesh Eaters
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Who directed The Exorcist?
Answer: William Friedkin
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Which Italian filmmaker directed Suspiria?
Answer: Dario Argento
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Who provides the opening narration in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
Answer: John Larroquette
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Which artist designed the title creature in Alien?
Answer: H. R. Giger
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Who created the practical creature effects for The Thing?
Answer: Rob Bottin
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Who directed A Nightmare on Elm Street?
Answer: Wes Craven
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Which Clive Barker novella was adapted into Hellraiser?
Answer: The Hellbound Heart
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Which Clive Barker story inspired Candyman?
Answer: The Forbidden
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Who wrote the novel Ring, which inspired Ringu?
Answer: Koji Suzuki
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Who directed the 2002 American remake The Ring?
Answer: Gore Verbinski
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Which two filmmakers co-directed [REC]?
Answer: Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
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Who directed Let the Right One In?
Answer: Tomas Alfredson
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Who directed Train to Busan?
Answer: Yeon Sang-ho
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Who wrote and directed The Babadook?
Answer: Jennifer Kent
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For which Academy Award did Jordan Peele win for Get Out?
Answer: Best Original Screenplay
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What subtitle follows The Witch in the film’s full title?
Answer: A New-England Folktale
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Which film was Ari Aster’s feature directorial debut?
Answer: Hereditary
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Which brothers directed Talk to Me?
Answer: Danny and Michael Philippou
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Who wrote the original screenplay for A Quiet Place?
Answer: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
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What title did Kevin Williamson originally give the Scream screenplay?
Answer: Scary Movie
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Who directed 28 Days Later?
Answer: Danny Boyle
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Who wrote the screenplay for the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake?
Answer: James Gunn
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Who wrote and directed The Others?
Answer: Alejandro Amenábar
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How to host a horror movie trivia night
Choose two or three rounds that match your guests’ familiarity with the genre. A casual group might begin with the general and Halloween movie categories, while dedicated fans can finish with the classic and hard rounds. Ten to 15 questions usually take about 10 to 15 minutes, so three rounds create a focused 30- to 40-minute game.
For a larger gathering, form teams of three to six players and ask each group to choose a movie-inspired name. Read each question once, allow 20 to 30 seconds for discussion, and collect answers before revealing the result. Award one point per correct answer and reserve an especially difficult production question as a tiebreaker.
Set expectations before the game begins: decide whether phones are allowed, how precise titles and names must be, and whether partial credit is possible. Match the movie selection to the audience and avoid clips or imagery that may be too intense for the setting. You can find additional formats in Jotform’s trivia questions collection.
How to create a horror movie trivia quiz with Jotform
For this theme, the Halloween Quiz template offers a more relevant starting point than a generic blank quiz. Replace its seasonal questions with the movie rounds above, keep the Halloween styling for a screening-night atmosphere, and use image-choice or single-choice fields for recognizable props, characters, and locations. Only upload images you have permission to use.
Need extra questions for a bonus or tiebreaker round? Use Jotform’s AI Trivia Generator to create a first draft based on a specific horror era, franchise, or difficulty level. Review every generated question for accuracy, remove overlaps with the main rounds, and adjust any wording that may be too intense for the audience before adding the approved questions to the quiz.
Create quizzes with Jotform’s AI Trivia Generator
Make the decades feel like separate rounds by placing the classic, 1980s, and 1990s questions on different form pages. Add Jotform’s Auto Page Timer widget to create a timed lightning round, or use conditional logic to reveal an extra clue when a team struggles with a difficult question. Turning the form into a quiz lets Jotform compare responses with the correct answers and show results after submission.
If the event needs a mobile-friendly home for rules, rounds, and bonus content, customize Jotform’s Movie Quiz App and share it through a link or QR code. The app format also gives hosts space for original movie stills, short video introductions, or a schedule for multiple rounds, while the connected quiz keeps every team’s responses organized.
Turn your next movie night into a horror trivia challenge
These 200 horror movie trivia questions and answers can support a short icebreaker, a themed Halloween activity, or a full film-night tournament. Select the categories that fit your group, adjust the time limit, and mix recognizable titles with harder filmmaking details to keep every round balanced.
When the question set is ready, build it into a Jotform quiz, test the experience, and share it with your guests. Clear rules, varied difficulty, and carefully chosen films can turn a familiar movie night into an engaging trivia event.
This article is designed for horror fans, trivia hosts, film clubs, teachers, and event organizers looking for ready-to-use questions for movie-themed activities.
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