Halloween Movies Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

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Grab your popcorn, dim the lights, and get ready to test your knowledge with our spooktacular Halloween Movies Trivia Quiz! 

Whether you’re a horror aficionado or just love a good scare, this quiz is your ultimate ticket to a night of frightful fun.

From classic monsters to modern thrills, we’ve concocted a cauldron of questions that will challenge your expertise in all things spooky cinema. 

Get ready to relive iconic scenes, quote bone-chilling lines, and dive into the twisted plots that have kept us on the edge of our seats.

This movie quiz has five rounds with five questions in each, totaling 25 points.

To play, simply scroll down to the bottom of this guide to find instructions for our Halloween movie quiz- feel free to use this to build your own.

Plus, we’ve provided answers at the end for you to check how well you did as well as interesting facts you can share with your friends.  

For more Halloween horror quizzes, try our Halloween Trivia Quiz, Horror Movie Picture Quiz, Halloween Music Trivia Quiz and Horror Movies Trivia Quiz.

Or you may want to try our list of Halloween would you rather questions and Fall Trivia Quiz.

Free Halloween Movies Trivia Quiz Questions

Halloween Movies General Knowledge Quiz Questions Round

It’s time to flex those frightful facts in the first round of our Halloween movie trivia questions.

Let’s see if you’ve got the smarts to match the chills.

1.  Who directed many Halloween movie classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride?

• Tim Burton
• Clive Barker
• Art Spiegel
• Martin Scorsese

2.  Who played the title role character of young Frankenstein?

• Jack Nicholson
• Gene Wilder
• Gene Hackman
• Dustin Hoffman

3.  What year was the Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus released?

• 1990
• 1992
• 1993
• 1997

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4.  What newspaper comic strip was adapted for the animated 1966 classic, “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”?

• Peanuts
• Zits
• Pickles
• Blondie

5.  Who starred as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters?

• Gene Wilder
• Bill Murray
• Dustin Hoffman
• Emilio Estevez

Halloween Movies Characters Quiz Questions Round

Dust off your memory skills with the following questions, where spooky characters from the world of the supernatural await your recognition! 

Identify the spine-tingling stars that haunt our screens.

1.  What is the name of the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town?

• Freddy Krueger
• Michael Myers
• Jack Skellington
• Jack Dawson

2.  Which character lit the Black Flame Candle and brought the Sanderson Sisters back to life?

• Max Dennison
• Jack Skellington
• Zachary Binks
• Jack Dawson

3.  Who appears when you say their name three times in a row?

• The Pumpkin King
• Edward Scissorhands
• Michael Myers
• Beetlejuice

4.  What is the name of the Final Girl in the Halloween franchise?

• Laurie Strode
• Sydney Prescott
• Lilly Crane
• Same Loomis

5.  Which of the following characters is not a member of The Addams family?

• Fester
• Gomez
• Wednesday
• Beetlejuice

Halloween Movies Plot Quiz Questions Round

Ready for the third round of our Halloween movie quiz questions?

From ghostly mysteries to hair-raising horrors, show off your expertise in piecing together the scary plots of the following films.

1.  Which Halloween movie features the return of three witchy sisters as they attempt to come back to life by gathering the souls of children on Halloween night?

• Hocus Pocus
• The Addams Family
• Bewitched
• Halloweentown

2.  Which Halloween movie features four scientists who leave academia behind to start their spectral hunting business?

• Ghost
• Ghostbusters
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Reanimator

3.  This Adam Sandler Halloween movie features a man in the neighborhood watching and solving a real mystery on Halloween.

• Ghostbusters
• A Halloween Mystery
• Hubie Halloween
• Halloweentown

4.  Which movie features a perpetrator who has escaped and is looking to find his sister?

• ParaNorman
• Monster House
• Halloween
• Beetlejuice

5.  Which movie features a kid who can talk to ghosts trying to break his town’s curse that brings zombies back from the dead?

• Casper
• ParaNorman
• Hocus Pocus
• Halloweentown

Halloween Movies Best Scenes Quiz Questions Round

Alright, my spooky pals, get those popcorn-popping fingers ready because our round is about to take you on a ride! 

From heart-pounding jump scares to those hair-raising moments that still haunt your dreams, let’s see if you can bring back those unforgettable screen chills.

1.  Which movie’s iconic opening scene introduces Halloween town with the song, “This is Halloween”?

• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Hocus Pocus
• Halloweentown High
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

2.  Which Halloween movie features a scene where a brother and sister go out to the pumpkin patch, bring home a pumpkin, and carve it for Halloween?

• Halloween
• Halloweentown
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

3.  Which movie features a scene where a dinner party bursts into a musical number thanks to the help of a pesky and mischievous ghost?

• Casper
• ParaNorman
• Beetlejuice
• Ghostbusters

4.  Which movie features a scene with an iconic and mesmerizing performance of “I Put a Spell on You” by Bette Midler?

• Edward Scissorhands
• Hocus Pocus
• Beetlejuice
• Rocky Horror Picture Show

5. Although not a Halloween movie, The Karate Kid features an iconic Halloween scene where the members of Cobra Kai are dressed as which Halloween classic?

• Witches
• Zombies
• Skeletons
• Ghosts

Halloween Movie Quotes Quiz Questions Round

Let’s test your Halloween movie quote superpowers.

See if you can match the lines to the films that give you the spooks.

1.  “I don’t understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks.”

• Hocus Pocus
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
• Nightmare on Elm Street

2.  “This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.”

• The Addams Family
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Young Frankenstein
• Hocus Pocus

3.  “Sir, what you had there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm or a class-five full-roaming vapor. A real nasty one, too.”

• Beetlejuice
• Ghostbusters
• Hocus Pocus
• The Addams Family

4.  “I’m the ghost with the most, babe.”

• Beetlejuice
• Hocus Pocus
• Ghostbusters
• Halloweentown

5.  “Couldn’t you forget about being a cool teenager just for one night?”

• Hocus Pocus
• Halloween
• Halloweentown
• ParaNorman

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Halloween Movies Trivia Quiz Answers

Highlighted in bold are the correct answers to our Halloween movies questions, sprinkled with a few intriguing fun facts you may want to know about.

Halloween Movies General Knowledge Quiz Answers

1.  Who directed many Halloween movie classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride?

• Tim Burton
• Clive Barker
• Art Spiegel
• Martin Scorsese

Halloween Movie Trivia: Tim Burton has directed nine Halloween movies including Beetlejuice, Frankenweenie, Edward Scissorhands, and Sleepy Hollow.

2.  Who played the title role character of Young Frankenstein?

• Jack Nicholson
• Gene Wilder
• Gene Hackman
• Dustin Hoffman

3.  What year was the Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus released?

• 1990
• 1992
• 1993
• 1997

Halloween Movie Trivia: The cult classic Hocus Pocus was released in 1993 but its long-awaited sequel was not released until almost thirty years later in 2022.

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4.  What newspaper comic strip was adapted for the animated 1966 classic, “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”?

• Peanuts
• Zits
• Pickles
• Blondie

5.  Who starred as Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters?

• Gene Wilder
• Bill Murray
• Dustin Hoffman
• Emilio Estevez

Halloween Movies Characters Quiz Answers

1.  What is the name of the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town?

• Freddy Krueger
• Michael Myers
• Jack Skellington
• Jack Dawson

2.  Which character lit the Black Flame Candle and brought the Sanderson Sisters back to life?

• Max Dennison
• Jack Skellington
• Zachary Binks
• Jack Dawson

3.  Who appears when you say their name three times in a row?

• The Pumpkin King
• Edward Scissorhands
• Michael Myers
• Beetlejuice

Halloween Movie Trivia: After the success of the film, Beetlejuice became a hit Broadway musical.

4.  What is the name of the Final Girl in the Halloween franchise?

• Laurie Strode
• Sydney Prescott
• Lilly Crane
• Same Loomis

Halloween Movie Trivia: Jamie Lee Curtis has portrayed Laurie Strode in seven of the Halloween movies.

The character has been portrayed by Scout Taylor-Compton in the two sequels directed by Rob Zombie.

5.  Which of the following characters is not a member of The Addams family?

• Fester
• Gomez
• Wednesday
• Beetlejuice

Halloween Movies Plot Quiz Answers

1.  Which Halloween movie features the return of three witchy sisters as they attempt to come back to life by gathering the souls of children on Halloween night?

• Hocus Pocus
• The Addams Family
• Bewitched
• Halloweentown

2.  Which Halloween movie features four scientists who leave academia behind to start their spectral hunting business?

• Ghost
• Ghostbusters
• An American Werewolf in London
• The Reanimator

3.  This Adam Sandler Halloween movie features a man in the neighborhood watching and solving a real mystery on Halloween.

• Ghostbusters
• A Halloween Mystery
• Hubie Halloween
• Halloweentown

Halloween Movie Trivia: Hubie Halloween was released in 2020 and was exclusively released on Netflix.

4.  Which movie features a perpetrator who has escaped and is looking to find his sister?

• ParaNorman
• Monster House
• Halloween
• Beetlejuice

Halloween Movie Trivia: The Halloween franchise released 13 films between 1978 and 2022.

5.  Which movie features a kid who can talk to ghosts trying to break his town’s curse that brings zombies back from the dead?

• Casper
• ParaNorman
• Hocus Pocus
• Halloweentown

Halloween Movies Best Scenes Quiz Answers

1.  Which movie’s iconic opening scene introduces Halloween town with the song, “This is Halloween”?

• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Hocus Pocus
• Halloweentown High
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

2.  Which Halloween movie features a scene where a brother and sister go out to the pumpkin patch, bring home a pumpkin, and carve it for Halloween?

• Halloween
• Halloweentown
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

3.  Which movie features a scene where a dinner party bursts into a musical number thanks to the help of a pesky and mischievous ghost?

• Casper
• ParaNorman
• Beetlejuice
• Ghostbusters

4.  Which movie features a scene with an iconic and mesmerizing performance of “I Put a Spell on You” by Bette Midler?

• Edward Scissorhands
• Hocus Pocus
• Beetlejuice
• Rocky Horror Picture Show

5.  Although not a Halloween movie, The Karate Kid features an iconic Halloween scene where the members of Cobra Kai are dressed as which Halloween classic?

• Witches
• Zombies
• Skeletons
• Ghosts

Halloween Movie Quotes Quiz Answers

In this section choose the movie that the featured quote is from.

1.  “I don’t understand it. I went trick-or-treating and all I got was a bag full of rocks.”

• Hocus Pocus
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
• Nightmare on Elm Street

2.  “This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.”

• The Addams Family
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Young Frankenstein
• Hocus Pocus

3.  “Sir, what you had there is what we refer to as a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm or a class-five full-roaming vapor. A real nasty one, too.”

• Beetlejuice
• Ghostbusters
• Hocus Pocus
• The Addams Family

4.  “I’m the ghost with the most, babe.”

• Beetlejuice
• Hocus Pocus
• Ghostbusters
• Halloweentown

5.  “Couldn’t you forget about being a cool teenager just for one night?”

• Hocus Pocus
• Halloween
• Halloweentown
• ParaNorman

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