90s Horror Movie Trivia
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78 free 90s Horror Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
67 free 90s Horror Movie trivia questions with answers. The 1990s took horror from the video-store shelf back to the multiplex. Early in the decade it was prestige thrillers and Stephen King adaptations winning Oscars; by the end it was self-aware slashers, a found-footage phenomenon shot for a few thousand dollars, and a twist ending nobody saw coming. This quiz covers the whole run: Misery, The Silence of the Lambs, Candyman, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Seven, Scream, The Craft, Event Horizon, Cube, Ring, Audition, The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense, plus cult favourites like Tremors, Braindead, Nightbreed and Army of Darkness. The easy questions ask what Bruce Willis does for a living and how many times you say Candyman's name. The hard ones want the composer behind Candyman's score, the novella Nightbreed came from, the year Event Horizon is set and what Asami chants in Audition. Built for Halloween parties, horror-fan pub quizzes and anyone who grew up renting these on VHS. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on each film, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who wrote the screenplay for Scream (1996)?
Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson wrote the spec script, then titled Scary Movie, in three days, and it set off a bidding war among Hollywood studios.
Q 02Which actor provides the voice of Ghostface in Scream?
Roger L. Jackson
Roger L. Jackson won the part at an open casting, where he decided the caller should not sound like a new Freddy Krueger, and he kept voicing Ghostface in the sequels.
Q 03Casey Becker's death in the opening of Scream was inspired by a killing in which earlier film?
Psycho
Psycho killed off its star Janet Leigh early, and Scream stretched Drew Barrymore's opening scene so viewers would believe she was the lead before she died.
Q 04Scream (1996) was expected to flop partly because it opened over which holiday?
Christmas
Christmas seemed the wrong time for a slasher, and Scream lost its opening weekend to holiday films, yet word of mouth carried it to about $173 million worldwide.
Q 05In The Silence of the Lambs, what is found lodged in a victim's throat?
A death's-head moth
A death's-head moth is the killer's signature, and customs papers for live caterpillars shipped from Suriname help the FBI put a name to him.
Q 06The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from a 1988 novel by which author?
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris has said Hannibal Lecter grew from a real encounter: a doctor he met in a Monterrey prison who turned out to be a murderer.
Q 07On which holiday was The Silence of the Lambs released in US cinemas in 1991?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day 1991 brought the film to cinemas, yet its studio, Orion Pictures, filed for bankruptcy that December.
Q 08The student filmmakers in The Blair Witch Project vanish in the woods near which town?
Burkittsville, Maryland
Burkittsville, Maryland is a real town, but the witch legend was invented by the filmmakers; the town's real past includes a Civil War battle fought nearby in 1862.
Q 09Which company bought The Blair Witch Project after its first Sundance screening?
Artisan Entertainment
Artisan Entertainment bought it at Sundance, and a film shot for tens of thousands of dollars went on to gross about $248 million worldwide.
Q 10How did The Blair Witch Project's marketing campaign describe its three lead actors?
As missing or deceased
The website and IMDb listings kept up the fiction so well that the actors' families reportedly received sympathy cards.
Q 11What is Bruce Willis's profession in The Sixth Sense?
Child psychologist
Child psychologist Malcolm Crowe was one of three Disney roles Bruce Willis agreed to take after Disney shut down his troubled film Broadway Brawler.
Q 12Which colour is deliberately kept out of most scenes in The Sixth Sense, appearing only at key moments?
Red
Red is saved for anything in the real world that the other world has tainted, and for the film's most explosively emotional moments.
Q 13Which 1999 film out-grossed The Sixth Sense?
The Phantom Menace
The Phantom Menace was 1999's only bigger hit, and The Sixth Sense exists because a Disney executive bought its script without asking his bosses.
Q 21Who directed Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)?
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola refused modern digital effects, so his son Roman created the film's tricks in-camera with techniques from the early days of cinema.
Q 22Which role does Keanu Reeves play in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Jonathan Harker
Jonathan Harker was Keanu Reeves's part, and the whole project began when his co-star Winona Ryder brought the script to the director.
Q 23Eiko Ishioka won an Academy Award for Bram Stoker's Dracula in which category?
Best Costume Design
Best Costume Design went to Eiko Ishioka, and partly to save money the production let her costumes, not costly sets, carry the film's look.
Q 14Candyman (1992) is set in which real housing project?
Cabrini-Green
Cabrini-Green was so feared that the filmmakers first went in with a police escort.
Q 15Candyman is based on a Clive Barker short story with what title?
The Forbidden
The Forbidden was set on a Liverpool housing estate, and the film relocated its legend to America and rebuilt the story around race.
Q 16Which minimalist composer wrote the score for Candyman?
Philip Glass
He reportedly expected an art film and was unhappy to find he had scored a slasher, though the organ-and-choir theme is now beloved.
Q 17Candyman (1992) appears when someone says his name five times into what?
A mirror
A mirror: Candyman is the ghost of a man whose hand a lynch mob sawed off before smearing him with honey so that bees stung him to death.
Q 18Who directed Misery (1990)?
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner saw Michael Douglas, Robert Redford and a string of other stars turn down Paul Sheldon before James Caan took the part.
Q 19In Misery, what does Kathy Bates's character use to break Paul Sheldon's ankles?
A sledgehammer
A sledgehammer replaced the novel's axe: in the book she cuts off Paul's foot, and the film softened it to broken ankles.
Q 20Kathy Bates won the Best Actress Oscar for playing which character?
Annie Wilkes
Annie Wilkes went to Kathy Bates, a stage actress little known to film audiences, because screenwriter William Goldman recommended her.
Q 24Who replaced River Phoenix as the interviewer Daniel Molloy in Interview with the Vampire?
Christian Slater
Christian Slater took the part after River Phoenix's death and gave his entire salary from the film to charities Phoenix had supported.
Q 25Which actor's casting as Lestat did Anne Rice publicly object to before praising the finished film?
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise won Anne Rice over once she saw the film, and she personally apologised to him for having doubted the casting.
Q 26Which actor was kept out of Seven's opening credits so the killer's identity stayed secret?
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey's name would have tipped off audiences, since a star unseen until the last reel must be the killer.
Q 27In Seven, what is in the box delivered to Mills in the desert?
His wife's head
His wife's head: Brad Pitt was so set on that bleak ending that he made keeping it a condition of joining the film.
Q 28The 1998 Japanese film Ring was adapted from a 1991 novel by which writer?
Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki's Ring missed out on the mystery prize it was entered for, then became the bestseller that made his name.
Q 29In Ring, where was the psychic Sadako Yamamura left to die?
In a well
In a well, where her father trapped her; finding her remains doesn't end the curse, and the heroine survives only because she copied the tape.
Q 30Who directed the 1999 Japanese horror film Audition?
Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike's Audition won the FIPRESCI critics' prize at Rotterdam and was among the festival hits that made him famous abroad.