100 Best Horror Movies Quiz (Part 1)

[C] The Exorcist | A 12-year-old’s body becomes a battleground for an ancient demon, turning a Georgetown townhouse into ground zero for pea-soup terror and faith-shattering screams.

[A] The Silence of the Lambs | FBI rookie Clarice Starling must decode the mind of imprisoned cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter to catch a new killer who sews a “woman suit.”

[D] The Shining | Winter caretaker Jack Torrance loses his sanity—and his family—to the ghosts of the Overlook Hotel, typing “All work and no play” while axes swing.

[C] Halloween | The night he came home: masked Shape Michael Myers stalks babysitters in quiet Haddonfield, proving evil can walk at a steady 2 mph.

[B] The Conjuring | Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren confront a malevolent witch spirit that turns a Rhode Island farmhouse into a clapboard hell.

[D] A Nightmare on Elm Street | Burned child-killer Freddy Krueger turns sleep into a lethal weapon, slashing teens where dreams and reality blur.

[A] Alien | A lone xenomorph boards the Nostromo, hunting the crew through dripping corridors in the ultimate “truckers in space” nightmare.

[C] The Thing | Antarctic researchers face a shape-shifting alien that can mimic anyone, sparking a frostbitten blood-test paranoia.

[B] Psycho | Marion Crane checks into the Bates Motel and meets mother-loving Norman, rewriting shower etiquette forever.

[A] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | A vanload of teens drives into rural Texas and winds up on the menu of chainsaw-wielding Leatherface and his cannibal clan.

[B] Jaws | A great white shark terrorizes Amity Island, turning summer beaches into blood-stained feeding grounds and launching the blockbuster era.

[C] Poltergeist | Suburban bliss implodes when a little girl’s TV starts talking—and her house is built on a very active graveyard.

[B] Stephen King's IT | Shape-shifting clown Pennywise resurfaces every 27 years to feed on children’s fears in the sewers of Derry.

[A] Carrie | Telekinetic teen takes pig-blood prom-night humiliation and turns the gym into a fiery crucible of revenge.

[D] The Ring | A cursed videotape kills viewers seven days after watching; one journalist races to decode the ghost girl crawling out of the well.

[B] Friday the 13th (1980) | Summer-camp counselors learn that Crystal Lake still has a “death curse” named Mrs. Voorhees—and later her hockey-masked son.

[C] Misery | Bestselling author is “rescued” by his No. 1 fan, who keeps him hostage with a sledgehammer and a typewriter.

[B] It (2017) | The Losers’ Club confronts sewer-dwelling Pennywise in neon-bright 1989, swapping bikes for silver bullets.

[C] Insidious | A comatose boy’s soul drifts into “The Further,” where red-faced demons wait to possess his body.

[D] The Omen | American diplomat adopts the Antichrist, discovering too late that every birthday brings another gruesome “accident.”

[C] Halloween | Return to Haddonfield: the Shape re-emerges on October 31, proving you can’t keep a good masked killer down.

[A] The Evil Dead (1981) | Five friends in a Tennessee cabin unwittingly read the Necronomicon, unleashing demonic possession and chainsaw mayhem.

[C] 28 Days Later | A bicycle courier wakes to find London deserted and rage-infected sprinters hunting the last survivors.

[B] Pet Sematary | A grieving father buries his son in cursed Micmac ground, learning that “sometimes dead is better.”

[D] Saw | Two strangers wake chained in a grimy bathroom, forced to play the Jigsaw killer’s razor-wire morality games.

[D] The Amityville Horror | Freshlywed couple buys a bargain Dutch Colonial, only to discover its basement still echoes with mass-murder ghosts.

[B] Aliens | Space Marines drop into LV-426 and find the xenomorph hive, trading claustrophobia for pulse-rifle carnage.

[B] Night of the Living Dead | Radiation-raised ghouls trap strangers in a Pennsylvania farmhouse, birthing the modern zombie myth.

[D] The Sixth Sense | A boy who sees dead people helps a child psychologist realize he’s already among them.

[B] Sinister | True-crime writer moves into a murder house, where snuff Super-8 reels summon a pagan deity with a bag-head smile.