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96 free Slasher Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free slasher movie trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true slasher film fanatic? This trivia quiz puts your knowledge of horror's most iconic movies and killers to the test. From masked murderers to supernatural terror, we've crafted 5 challenging questions that will separate casual fans from true horror aficionados. Take the quiz now and discover your slasher movie expertise!
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Q 01Bob Clark, director of the 1974 sorority-house slasher, made which 1983 family comedy?
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story came nine years after Bob Clark's slasher Black Christmas, and he could only get it made once his raunchy hit Porky's had given him the clout.
Q 02Who wrote, directed and composed the score for Halloween (1978), the film that kicked off the slasher's golden age?
John Carpenter
John Carpenter co-wrote the script with producer Debra Hill and, with no room in the budget for a composer, wrote and recorded the whole score himself in three days.
Q 03What do critics call the lone woman left standing to face the killer, a term coined by scholar Carol J. Clover?
Final girl
Final girl, usually the most chaste and watchful of the group, while her friends are picked off for their sins. Clover's 1992 book Men, Women, and Chain Saws made the term standard.
Q 04In Friday the 13th (1980), what nickname do the locals give the supposedly jinxed Camp Crystal Lake?
Camp Blood
Camp Blood is what Crazy Ralph calls it when he warns a newcomer that she will never come back; the script itself was first titled A Long Night at Camp Blood.
Q 05Which future star made his big-screen debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), as a teenager sucked into his own bed?
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, then a musician with no acting credits, got the part after the director's teenage daughter picked him out; his death scene, a geyser of fake blood, was shot in a rotating room.
Q 06Which well-known star plays Casey Becker, killed minutes into Scream (1996)?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore was signed to play the lead, Sidney, but asked for the small part of Casey instead, the girl home alone who answers the phone in the first scene.
Q 07Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) was partly inspired by which real murderer?
Ed Gein
Ed Gein, the Wisconsin killer arrested in 1957 whose farmhouse held masks and furniture made of human skin; Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel borrowed the skin-wearing idea, while the plot itself is invented.
Q 08Sidney Prescott and her friends are stalked by a costumed killer in which fictional California town?
Woodsboro
Woodsboro was filmed around Santa Rosa, California, where the school board refused to let Scream (1996) shoot at its high school; the end credits offer the board 'no thanks whatsoever'.
Q 09Alfred Hitchcock shot Psycho (1960) in black and white partly so which sequence would not look too gory?
The shower murder
The shower murder of Marion Crane: Hitchcock thought its blood would look too gory in colour, and filming in monochrome with his TV crew kept the budget near $800,000 after Paramount refused his usual one.
Q 10Bernard Herrmann's shrieking score for Psycho (1960) was written for what kind of ensemble?
Strings only
Strings only: Herrmann wanted a 'black-and-white' sound to match the photography, and his players take their mutes off only for the film's most famous shrieks.
Q 11In the British proto-slasher Peeping Tom (1960), killer Mark Lewis hides a blade in what?
A leg of his camera tripod
A leg of his camera tripod conceals the spike; Mark Lewis films each victim as she dies, and a mirror on the rig makes her watch her own death, an early meditation on the audience's voyeurism.
Q 12Peeping Tom (1960) was so savaged by critics that it nearly ended the British career of which director?
Michael Powell
Michael Powell had made The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; the film that wrecked his standing was later reappraised as a masterpiece, with Martin Scorsese among its champions.
Q 13In the original Friday the 13th (1980), who turns out to be the killer?
Q 21Candyman (1992) is set largely in which Chicago public housing project?
Cabrini-Green
Cabrini-Green was a real Chicago project, and part of the film was shot there; by the time the 2021 sequel went back, its towers had been torn down and the area was gentrifying.
Q 22Who has voiced Ghostface on the phone in every Scream film?
Roger L. Jackson
Roger L. Jackson was hired to perform the calls live to the cast and was due to be dubbed over later, but the director liked his voice so much that it stayed.
Q 23The Ghostface mask began as a Halloween novelty mask sold by which company?
Fun World
Fun World sold it as 'The Peanut-Eyed Ghost' in its Fantastic Faces novelty line; producer Marianne Maddalena found one in a house while location scouting, and the studio licensed the design from the company.
Pamela Voorhees
Pamela Voorhees, the camp cook, is avenging her son Jason's drowning at the camp in 1957; Jason himself does not pick up a weapon until Part 2.
Q 14In which Friday the 13th film does Jason first put on his hockey mask?
Part III (1982)
Part III (1982): Jason hid under a burlap sack in Part 2, then takes the goalie mask from prankster Shelly in the third film, and it has been his trademark ever since.
Q 15Jason X (2001) wakes Jason Voorhees from cryogenic freezing aboard what?
A spaceship in the year 2455
A spaceship in the year 2455: students on a field trip to an abandoned Earth carry the frozen Jason aboard the Grendel, where a nanite rebuild turns him into the cyborg fans call Uber Jason.
Q 16Sleepaway Camp (1983) is notorious for its final-shot twist revealing what about camper Angela?
She is really her brother Peter
She is really her brother Peter: the real Angela died in the boating accident that opens the film, and the surviving boy was raised as a girl by his Aunt Martha, revealed in the final freeze-frame.
Q 17The killer in My Bloody Valentine (1981) stalks the town of Valentine Bluffs dressed as what?
A miner in a gas mask
A miner in a gas mask, the guise of legendary killer Harry Warden; censors demanded cuts to every death scene, and the gore stayed unseen until a 2009 release put some of it back.
Q 18Chucky's name Charles Lee Ray draws on Manson, James Earl Ray and which third killer?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald supplies the middle name of Charles Lee Ray, the killer whose soul ends up in the doll; Don Mancini's first script had no killer at all, only a doll brought to life by a boy's rage.
Q 19Who has voiced Chucky since the original Child's Play (1988)?
Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif also appears on screen as Charles Lee Ray, the dying killer who uses a voodoo spell to send his soul into a Good Guy doll in the first film's opening minutes.
Q 20Which minimalist composer wrote the score for Candyman (1992)?
Philip Glass
Philip Glass, better known for operas and concert works, said in 2014 that this slasher score had become a classic, so he still got cheques from it every year.
Q 24What colours are the stripes on Freddy Krueger's sweater?
Red and green
The director reportedly picked the pair after reading that red and green are the hardest colours for the human eye to see side by side.
Q 25Michael Myers' mask in Halloween (1978) was a two-dollar shop-bought mask of which actor, painted white?
William Shatner
William Shatner: the crew bought a Captain Kirk mask for about two dollars, painted it white, widened the eye holes and reworked the hair until it no longer looked like him.
Q 26Which comedy actor co-wrote Halloween (2018) with director David Gordon Green?
Danny McBride
Danny McBride wrote it with David Gordon Green and Jeff Fradley, and their script throws out every earlier sequel to pick up forty years after the 1978 original.
Q 27Art the Clown of the Terrifier films has been played since the 2016 feature by which actor?
David Howard Thornton
David Howard Thornton took over the silent role for Terrifier (2016) after Mike Giannelli, who played Art in the early shorts and All Hallows' Eve (2013), left acting; creator Damien Leone directs the films.
Q 28In the 2017 time-loop slasher starring Jessica Rothe, Tree Gelbman keeps being murdered on which day?
Her birthday
Her birthday, the joke in the title Happy Death Day: each time the killer in the baby mask gets her, Tree wakes up on the same morning and has to solve her own murder.
Q 29The home invaders in You're Next (2011) wear masks of which three animals?
Lamb, fox and tiger
Lamb, fox and tiger masks hide the hired attackers, who have not reckoned on one dinner guest having grown up in a survivalist compound.
Q 30The Cabin in the Woods, shot in 2009, was delayed until 2012 by trouble at which studio?
MGM
MGM's 2010 bankruptcy shelved the finished film; Lionsgate bought it and released it in April 2012, by which time co-star Chris Hemsworth had already become Thor.