The fiendishly hard horror movie quiz

Including all the various sequels, reboots and reimaginings, how many Halloween films have there been to date?

11

12

13

What is the highest grossing horror movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation)?

It (2017)

Obsession (2026)

The Exorcist (1973)

Battle of the Scream Queens! Which of these slasher legends has appeared in the most horror movies?

Jamie Lee Curtis

Danielle Harris

Neve Campbell

Which of these characters has NOT been revealed to be a killer in the Scream movies?

Ethan Landry

Roman Bridger

Wes Hicks

Beware the moon! What is the name of the shady Yorkshire pub where David and Jack receive this warning in An American Werewolf in London (1981)?

The Green Man

The Slaughtered Lamb

The Winchester

In Event Horizon (1997), what's the name of the search-and-rescue vessel sent to investigate the eponymous ship after its seven-year disappearance?

The Lewis and Clark

The Elizabeth Dane

The Nostromo

Candyman (1992) famously takes place in Chicago’s Cabrini Green area, but which English city is the setting for Clive Barker’s original story, The Forbidden?

Liverpool

Manchester

London

Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) features, amongst other things, a bloody sitcom massacre at the hands of a crazed chimp. What’s the name of that sitcom?

Monkey Business

Gordy’s Home

Going Ape

Curry Barker’s Obsession (2026) quickly became, well, something of an obsession for movie fans this summer. But what was the young director’s first feature-length film, released online in 2024?

Milk & Serial

Iron Lung

Backrooms

In Weapons (2025), seventeen children - all from the same third-grade class - get out of bed, run into the night… and are never seen again. Well, for a while at least. At what time exactly do they disappear?

2:19am

2:17am

2:13am

In Evil Dead II (1987), hapless hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) is forced to remove his own hand with a chainsaw when it becomes possessed. Which appropriately titled book is on top of the stack he uses to trap the thing in place?

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Handmaid’s Tale

A Farewell to Arms

In The Exorcist (1973), young Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) speaks to the demon that eventually possesses her through a Ouija board. What does she call this entity?

Mr Whisper

Captain Howdy

Uncle Charlie

Which actor provides the iconic opening narration of grimy grindhouse masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)?

Lance Henriksen

John Larroquette

Stacy Keach

Where would you find this distinctive carpet pattern?

The Bates Motel

The Overlook Hotel

The Yankee Pedlar Inn

True or False: the story that became Final Destination (2000) was originally an unproduced script for The X-Files.

True

False

The fiendishly hard horror movie quiz