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80 free 90s Horror Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
His spec script, originally titled Scary Movie, sparked a bidding war and revived the teen slasher for the rest of the decade.
Q 02Which actor provides the voice of Ghostface in Scream?
Roger L. Jackson
He was hired after his work on Mars Attacks! and stayed on the phone in every sequel that followed.
Q 03Casey Becker's death in the opening of Scream was inspired by a killing in which earlier film?
Psycho
Killing the biggest star in the cast within the first twelve minutes was the film's way of announcing that nobody was safe.
Q 04What was the production budget of Scream (1996)?
$14 million
It went on to earn roughly $173 million worldwide, an enormous return for a December horror release.
Q 05In The Silence of the Lambs, what is found lodged in a victim's throat?
A death's-head moth
The insect's skull-like thorax markings became the film's poster image, printed over Jodie Foster's mouth.
Q 06The Silence of the Lambs was adapted from a 1988 novel by which author?
Thomas Harris
His Hannibal Lecter had already appeared on screen in Manhunter, played by Brian Cox, five years earlier.
Q 07On which holiday was The Silence of the Lambs released in US cinemas in 1991?
Valentine's Day
A February release is usually a graveyard for awards hopes, yet the film swept Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay a year later.
Q 08The student filmmakers in The Blair Witch Project vanish in the woods near which town?
Burkittsville, Maryland
The real town was so overrun by fans after release that its welcome sign kept getting stolen.
Q 09What was the original shooting budget of The Blair Witch Project?
$35,000–$60,000
It grossed around $248 million worldwide, making it one of the most profitable films ever made relative to cost.
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
He spends the film convinced he is helping a troubled boy, and the audience is convinced right alongside him.
Q 12Which colour is deliberately kept out of most scenes in The Sixth Sense, appearing only at key moments?
Red
A doorknob, a balloon, a tent and a dress all use it to flag the moments when the living and the dead are about to collide.
Q 13Where did The Sixth Sense finish among the highest-grossing films of 1999?
Second
Only Star Wars: Episode I made more that year, and it did so with a fraction of the surprise factor.
Q 21Who directed Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)?
Francis Ford Coppola
He insisted every effect be done in-camera with old techniques such as double exposure and reverse projection, no digital work at all.
Q 22Which role does Keanu Reeves play in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Jonathan Harker
His English accent in the film has been mocked for three decades; Reeves himself later admitted he was exhausted from back-to-back shoots.
Q 23Eiko Ishioka won an Academy Award for Bram Stoker's Dracula in which category?
Best Costume Design
She was given free rein to design not just Dracula's clothes but his entire shifting persona, from the armoured red suit to the old-man kimono.
Q 14Candyman (1992) is set in which real housing project?
Cabrini-Green
The production actually filmed inside the towers, and residents were hired as extras and consultants.
Q 15Candyman is based on a Clive Barker short story with what title?
The Forbidden
Barker's original was set on a Liverpool council estate; the film moved the legend to America and rewired it 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 17How many times must you say Candyman's name into a mirror to summon him?
Five
The production used more than 200,000 real honeybees, and Tony Todd negotiated a bonus for every sting he took.
Q 18Who directed Misery (1990)?
Rob Reiner
He had already adapted Stephen King once with Stand by Me, and his production company Castle Rock is named after King's fictional town.
Q 19In Misery, what does Kathy Bates's character use to break Paul Sheldon's ankles?
A sledgehammer
In the novel she uses an axe; the screenplay softened it, and it is still the scene everyone remembers.
Q 20Kathy Bates won the Best Actress Oscar for playing which character?
Annie Wilkes
It remains the only Academy Award ever won by a film based on a Stephen King novel.
Q 24Who replaced River Phoenix as the interviewer Daniel Molloy in Interview with the Vampire?
Christian Slater
He donated his entire salary to Phoenix's favourite charities after stepping into the part four weeks before shooting.
Q 25Which actor's casting as Lestat did Anne Rice publicly object to before praising the finished film?
Tom Cruise
After seeing the finished film she reversed herself completely and took out ads praising the performance.
Q 26How old was Kirsten Dunst when talent scouts spotted her for the role of Claudia?
Ten
She was the first girl tested for the part and picked up a Golden Globe nomination for it.
Q 27Which actor asked to be left out of Seven's opening credits so the killer's identity stayed secret?
Kevin Spacey
He was instead billed first in the closing credits, which roll top-to-bottom, the reverse of the usual direction.
Q 28Seven received exactly one Academy Award nomination. In which category?
Best Film Editing
The rain-soaked, deliberately grimy look also spawned a wave of imitators, but the Academy noticed only the cutting.
Q 29The 1998 Japanese film Ring was adapted from a 1991 novel by which writer?
Koji Suzuki
It became the highest-grossing horror film ever released in Japan and launched a wave of pale, long-haired ghosts worldwide.
Q 30In Ring, where was the psychic Sadako Yamamura left to die?
In a well
The cursed videotape and its climbing ghost were remade in Hollywood as The Ring in 2002.