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177 free Horror Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
89 free horror movie trivia questions with answers. Fifty-one horror movie trivia questions in one place, starting easy and getting genuinely nasty. The warm-ups cover the icons everyone knows: Michael Myers, Pennywise, Freddy, Jason, Chucky and Ghostface. The hard horror movie trivia is where it gets fun: the TV character Michael Myers' mask was made from, why Night of the Living Dead has no copyright, which actor was cast as Freddy before Robert Englund, what magistrates suspected the director of Cannibal Holocaust of, and how John Larroquette was paid for narrating The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Good for a Halloween party, a horror-fan group chat, or a pub quiz round that needs teeth. Every question has a short explanation with one extra thing worth knowing. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's articles on the individual films, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Which iconic horror movie character first appeared in John Carpenter's 1978 film 'Halloween'?
Michael Myers
Michael Myers, credited as 'The Shape', first appears as a six-year-old who murders his sister Judith, then returns to Haddonfield fifteen years later.
Q 02Which legendary director helmed the groundbreaking 1960 psychological horror film 'Psycho'?
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock paid for Psycho himself when Paramount balked, shooting it cheaply in black and white with the crew of his TV series. Instead of a fee he took 60% of the film.
Q 03What name does the shapeshifting clown in Stephen King's 'It' go by?
Pennywise
Pennywise began with a walk over a wooden bridge in Colorado: King pictured the troll from 'Three Billy Goats Gruff', moved it into a city's sewers and gave it a clown's face to lure children.
Q 04The 1992 horror film 'Candyman' is primarily set in which infamous Chicago housing project?
Cabrini-Green
Cabrini-Green was a real Chicago housing project. Clive Barker's original story was set in his native Liverpool; director Bernard Rose moved it to Chicago to make it about race instead of British class.
Q 05Whose widow had the 1922 film Nosferatu ordered destroyed?
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker's widow Florence sued because Nosferatu was Dracula filmed without permission, with the Count renamed Orlok. A court ordered every copy destroyed, but a few prints survived.
Q 06Who wrote and directed the 1968 film 'Rosemary's Baby'?
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski got the job because Paramount's Robert Evans insisted on him. William Castle, who had bought the novel's rights hoping to direct it himself, had to settle for producing.
Q 07Which actor plays Ash Williams, the hero of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead films?
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell met Sam Raimi at high school in Michigan, where the two shot Super 8 films together. He played Ash in the first three films and again in the series Ash vs Evil Dead.
Q 08At which haunted Colorado hotel is Jack Torrance the caretaker in 'The Shining'?
The Overlook
Jack Torrance becomes winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies; King was inspired by a stay at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park.
Q 09Which Australian filmmaker wrote and directed the 2014 psychological horror film 'The Babadook'?
Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent was an actor who wrote to Lars von Trier asking to learn directing from him instead of going to film school. He let her assist on Dogville, and The Babadook was her first feature.
Q 10Which masked killer wields the saw in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)?
Leatherface
Leatherface wears masks made from his victims' skin and barely speaks. Gunnar Hansen prepared for the part by visiting a special-needs school in Austin to study how the pupils moved.
Q 11Who played Freddy Krueger in the original 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' series?
Robert Englund
Robert Englund was known as Willie, the alien who joins the human resistance in the TV miniseries V, when he was cast as the dream killer. He went on to play Freddy in eight films in a row.
Q 12What is the original Japanese title of the horror film series known internationally as 'The Grudge'?
Ju-On
Ju-On means 'curse grudge': a curse born when someone dies in a rage. Takashi Shimizu began it with two TV shorts in 1998 and two direct-to-video films, whose success earned the cinema versions.
Q 13What is Pinhead's signature weapon in the 'Hellraiser' franchise?
Hooks and chains
Q 21Which horror actor called turning down Dr. Loomis in Halloween the biggest mistake of his career?
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee later told Carpenter that refusing Loomis was his worst career mistake; Peter Cushing's agent had already rejected the low offer, and Donald Pleasence took the part.
Q 22How was John Larroquette paid for narrating the opening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
In marijuana
In marijuana: Larroquette recorded the narration as a favour to director Tobe Hooper. It was his first Hollywood job, a decade before Night Court made him a sitcom star.
Q 23Gunnar Hansen admitted secretly doing what during Grandpa's finger-sucking scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?
Pinhead's hooks and chains tear victims apart; the chains answer his will and erupt from any surface, first seen shredding Frank in the 1987 original.
Q 14Which 1999 sleeper hit revived 'found footage' and paved the way for Paranormal Activity?
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project had no script, only a 35-page outline. Its three actors improvised the dialogue and shot the footage themselves during eight days in the Maryland woods.
Q 15In 'The Exorcist', what is the name of the demon that possesses young Regan MacNeil?
Pazuzu
Pazuzu comes from ancient Near Eastern belief, where he was as much guardian as menace: mothers wore amulets of his head to protect themselves and their babies from the demoness Lamashtu.
Q 16Who directed the seminal 1968 zombie horror film 'Night of the Living Dead'?
George A. Romero
George A. Romero's film fell into the public domain on release: when the distributor changed its title from Night of the Flesh Eaters, the copyright notice was left off the prints.
Q 17What is the name of the fictional town where most of the 'Scream' film series takes place?
Woodsboro
The 'Scream' franchise is primarily set in the fictional Californian town of Woodsboro, where high school student Sidney Prescott and her friends are repeatedly targeted by the Ghostface killer.
Q 18Which horror character says 'We all go a little mad sometimes'?
Norman Bates
Norman Bates says it to Marion Crane over supper in his parlour, insisting his mother is no 'raving thing'. The talk persuades Marion to drive home and give back the money she stole.
Q 19What is the name of the infamous killer doll in the 'Child's Play' franchise?
Chucky
Chucky is short for Charles Lee Ray, the 'Lakeshore Strangler'. Shot by a detective in a toy store, the dying killer uses a voodoo spell to move his soul into a Good Guy doll.
Q 20The killer's mask in Halloween (1978) was a cheap store mask of which TV character, sprayed white?
Captain Kirk
Production designer Tommy Lee Wallace bought a cheap William Shatner Captain Kirk mask, widened the eye holes and spray-painted it a bluish white.
Cut Marilyn Burns for real
In his memoir Chain Saw Confidential, Hansen admitted the fake-blood tube failed, so he really cut Marilyn Burns's finger for Grandpa to suck.
Q 24What object, almost never shown in American films then, appears in Psycho when Marion tears up a note?
A toilet flushing
A toilet flushing was all but unseen in American films of 1960. Marion flushes her torn-up sums, and the one scrap that stays behind later shows her sister she was there.
Q 25Why did Kubrick's The Shining change the novel's Room 217 to Room 237?
The real hotel asked
The real hotel asked: the mountain inn used for exterior shots feared guests would shun its own Room 217, so Kubrick chose a number it didn't have. Room 217 became its most requested room.
Q 26Which real Oregon building supplied the hotel exteriors in Kubrick's The Shining?
Timberline Lodge
Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood is seen only from outside. The cast worked on sets at Elstree Studios in England, with a lounge modelled on Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel.
Q 27The Exorcist's opening prologue was filmed at an archaeological site in which country?
Iraq
Iraq hosted the prologue at the ruins of Hatra, where Father Merrin faces a statue of the demon. The same statue flashes up again in Regan's bedroom during the exorcism.
Q 28The Exorcist was the first horror film ever nominated for which Oscar?
Best Picture
Best Picture was one of its ten nominations, level with The Sting for the most that year. The Sting took the top prize; The Exorcist won two Oscars, for its screenplay and its sound.
Q 29How does Ben die in Night of the Living Dead?
Shot by a posse
Shot by a posse that takes him for a ghoul, Ben dies after outlasting the night. Duane Jones won the part on merit: the director said he was simply the best actor they met.
Q 30Where is the American research station in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)?
Antarctica
Antarctica is the setting, as in the 1938 novella the film adapts. The crew never went there: they shot on refrigerated sets in Los Angeles and on location in Alaska and British Columbia.