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50 free Modern Horror Movie trivia questions with answers. Horror has had a remarkable quarter century, from Saw and Paranormal Activity kicking off the micro-budget boom to Get Out winning an Oscar and Sinners breaking nomination records. This quiz sticks strictly to films released from 2000 onward: the Conjuring and Insidious universes, Jordan Peele's Get Out, Us and Nope, Ari Aster's Hereditary and Midsommar, Robert Eggers' The Witch, The Lighthouse and Nosferatu, plus It, A Quiet Place, The Babadook, It Follows, Talk to Me, M3GAN, Smile, Barbarian, Terrifier 2, Longlegs, The Substance, Weapons and 28 Years Later. Easy questions ask who played Pennywise and what the doppelgängers in Us are called; the hard ones want The Lighthouse's aspect ratio, where Midsommar was really shot and which show Final Destination was first pitched to. Studios and directors get their turn too, from Blumhouse and A24 to Zach Cregger's sketch-comedy roots. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the individual films, franchises and filmmakers, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. If you want the classics, our classic horror and 90s horror quizzes cover everything before 2000.
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Q 01Which director made his feature debut with Saw (2004) and later created The Conjuring Universe?
James Wan
The film was shot in just 18 days after a low-budget short version of the bathroom scene helped attract producers.
Q 02Paranormal Activity (2007) was originally shot for roughly how much money?
$15,000
DreamWorks later spent an additional $200,000 on a new ending, and the film is often cited as the most profitable movie ever made on return on investment.
Q 03In The Conjuring (2013), the Warrens help which family in a Rhode Island farmhouse?
The Perrons
The haunting was said to have begun in 1971, and the real Perron family's story was the basis of the film that started the franchise.
Q 04Roughly how much has The Conjuring Universe grossed, making it the highest-grossing horror franchise?
$2.7 billion
The combined budget of the whole franchise was around $263 million, a tiny fraction of its worldwide gross.
Q 05The demon nun of The Conjuring 2 and The Nun is an incarnation of which entity?
Valak
Bonnie Aarons played the character in both films, with The Nun set in 1952 Romania.
Q 06In Insidious (2010), what is the name of the spirit realm where Dalton is trapped?
The Further
Dalton was born with the ability to astral project and had been doing so unknowingly in his sleep.
Q 07Which Academy Award did Get Out win at the 2018 ceremony?
Best Original Screenplay
The film was nominated for four Oscars in total and grossed nearly $260 million on a $4.5 million budget.
Q 08What sound does Missy Armitage use as a hypnotic trigger in Get Out?
A spoon stirring a teacup
The hypnosis sends Chris to a paralysed void that Missy calls the sunken place.
Q 09What are the doppelgängers called in Jordan Peele's Us (2019)?
The Tethered
The film opened to $71.1 million, then the best debut ever for a horror film not based on existing property.
Q 10In Us, young Adelaide first meets her double in 1986 at a funhouse on which beach boardwalk?
Santa Cruz
Thirty-three years later she returns to the same coast on a family vacation with disastrous results.
Q 11In Nope (2022), Jupe's childhood sitcom starred a chimpanzee with what name?
Gordy
In the film's backstory, the chimp snapped at popping balloons on set in 1998 and mauled most of the cast.
Q 12Which company greenlit Hereditary after seeing Ari Aster's short The Strange Thing About the Johnsons?
A24
The film went on to gross $90 million against a $10 million budget, with Toni Collette's performance widely praised.
Q 13Although set in rural Sweden, Midsommar was mostly filmed in which country?
Hungary
Shooting ran from July to October 2018 in and around Budapest, and Aster was originally pitched the film as a straightforward slasher among Swedish cultists.
Q 21A 2020 Broadband Choices study measured heart rates and named which film the scariest ever made?
Sinister
The film's snuff-movie segments were shot on real Super 8 cameras and film stock to look authentic.
Q 22Who wrote Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2002)?
Alex Garland
He drew on George A. Romero's zombie films and John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids.
Q 23The Spanish found-footage hit REC (2007) was remade in America the following year under what title?
Quarantine
The Spanish film follows a TV reporter and her cameraman trapped in a sealed Barcelona apartment block.
Q 14It (2017) became the highest-grossing horror film of all time with a worldwide gross of roughly what?
$700 million
It also set the record for the biggest single-day opening for an R-rated film, dethroning Deadpool.
Q 15Who played Pennywise in It (2017)?
Bill Skarsgård
He returned to the role for the 2025 HBO prequel series It: Welcome to Derry.
Q 16Who directed A Quiet Place (2018), also co-starring alongside Emily Blunt?
John Krasinski
The script came from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and the film went on to gross more than $340 million worldwide.
Q 17The Babadook (2014) was made in which country?
Australia
Jennifer Kent shot it in Adelaide, and the film initially flopped at home before becoming a hit abroad.
Q 18In It Follows (2014), how is the pursuing entity passed from one person to the next?
By sexual intercourse
The film cost just $1.3 million and grossed $23.3 million worldwide.
Q 19What is the name of the family's billy goat in The Witch (2015)?
Black Phillip
The twins insist the goat talks to them, and Anya Taylor-Joy made her feature debut as Thomasin.
Q 20The Lighthouse (2019) was shot in black-and-white using which nearly square aspect ratio?
1.19:1
Robert Eggers chose the format to emphasise the lighthouse's vertical shape and the keepers' isolation.
Q 24Who directed The Cabin in the Woods (2011), co-writing it with Joss Whedon in his own directorial debut?
Drew Goddard
The pair wrote the script in three days, and MGM's financial troubles kept the finished film shelved until Lionsgate released it in 2012.
Q 25In Talk to Me (2022), what object do the teenagers use to contact spirits?
An embalmed severed hand
The Philippou brothers' debut cost $4.5 million and grossed $92 million worldwide.
Q 26What is the killer doll's name in M3GAN short for?
Model 3 Generative Android
A clip of the doll dancing became a TikTok meme before release and helped the $12 million film gross over $181 million.
Q 27Smile (2022) was promoted with a stunt placing grinning actors behind home plate at what kind of events?
Major League Baseball games
The film was originally meant to stream on Paramount+ until strong test screenings earned it a theatrical release.
Q 28In Barbarian (2022), Tess discovers a dark secret in a Detroit house she booked through which service?
Airbnb
Zach Cregger's solo debut cost about $4 million and grossed $46 million worldwide.
Q 29Which filmmaking collective's duo directed the fifth Scream film (2022), the first without Wes Craven?
Radio Silence
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett had previously made the wedding-night thriller Ready or Not.
Q 30What is the name of the silent killer in Terrifier 2 (2022)?
Art the Clown
Damien Leone ran a $50,000 Indiegogo campaign for a single gore scene and raised $250,000.