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Horror Movie Bingo: Free Printable Trope Cards

You know exactly what happens next. Now it counts.

Horror Movie Bingo is a free game you play while watching a horror film: mark each trope on your card as it happens, and a full line wins. Choose from six themed cards built from 141 horror tropes, play on your phone or print one, or take Tonight’s Card, a new card with a film to watch every day.

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How to play
Tonight’s Card: ZombiesBITES-4514
BITES
FreeIt started with a bite

Tap a square the moment it happens on screen. Tap it again to take it back.

Goals on this card

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  1. BITES!Any full row, column or diagonal

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  2. Boarded UpBonus goal: every square around the edge

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  3. Full cardAll 24 squares

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Re-Animator1985 · Legendary

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Your bingo record

Every card you’ve marked on this device.

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How to play Horror Movie Bingo

  1. Pick a card. Take Tonight’s Card or choose a theme. The five letters across the top change with it: SLASH, GHOST, FOUND, DEMON, BITES or plain BINGO.
  2. Press play. Tap a square the moment its trope happens. A close call is yours to argue about, which is half the fun.
  3. Shout it. A full row, column or diagonal is a line, and the free square in the middle counts. Shout your card’s word.
  4. Keep going. Every card has a bonus goal in its own shape, like Cornered or Tombstone, and then the full card.
  5. Print it for a group. Print one card, or four different cards from the same theme so nobody has the same squares.
  6. Come back. Every trope you mark joins your collection below, and a new Tonight’s Card arrives every day with its own film.

The 141 horror tropes on our bingo cards

These are all the squares a card can deal. Every trope you mark joins your collection and gets a check mark here.For the background, read our guide to horror movie tropes.

On every card

42 tropes

Slashersthe SLASH card

19 tropes

  • The killer just keeps walking
  • A silent killer in a mask
  • We see through the killer’s eyes
  • The body is gone when they look
  • Same date as the old murders
  • An old prank comes back to bite
  • A menacing phone call
  • A party nobody should throw
  • “It’s over. He’s dead.”
  • A household tool as a weapon
  • A body falls out of nowhere
  • Finds all the bodies at once
  • An obvious red herring
  • The sheriff has no clue
  • Runs upstairs, not outside
  • Drops the keys while fleeing
  • Hiding under the bed
  • A kill you’ll talk about later
  • The big unmasking

Haunted Housesthe GHOST card

19 tropes

  • This house has a bad history
  • A hidden room turns up
  • Someone feels a cold spot
  • A kid’s new imaginary friend
  • Furniture moves on its own
  • A door slams by itself
  • The agent left out a detail
  • A medium or priest visits
  • A figure stands in the back
  • Dragged away by the ankles
  • A pet won’t enter the room
  • Why don’t they just leave?
  • A portrait seems to watch
  • Something lives in the attic
  • Noises inside the walls
  • A family secret comes out
  • A music box plays itself
  • A séance or Ouija board
  • Every clock stops at once

Found Footagethe FOUND card

20 tropes

  • “Why are you still filming?”
  • The dropped camera keeps rolling
  • Green night vision
  • Locals talk to the camera
  • “We need this on tape.”
  • Text says they were never found
  • The picture glitches out
  • A worn VHS tape plays
  • Filming themselves asleep
  • The battery is about to die
  • They’re lost. Blame the map.
  • Back where they started
  • Strange symbols left outside
  • A tearful talk into the lens
  • The monster, for one frame
  • One of them is gone by morning
  • Shaky running, nothing to see
  • It ends the second it gets bad
  • The replay shows something
  • A video call goes wrong

Demons & Possessionthe DEMON card

20 tropes

  • A voice that isn’t theirs
  • A priest with doubts
  • Someone floats off the bed
  • Scratches no one can explain
  • Doctors find nothing wrong
  • Speaks in a dead language
  • A neck bends the wrong way
  • A crucifix flips or falls
  • Latin gets chanted
  • Holy water burns
  • An old book nobody should open
  • “That’s not my child.”
  • The church won’t get involved
  • The eyes go black or roll back
  • The first exorcism fails
  • It jumps to someone else
  • The whole bed shakes
  • Sweet kid says something vile
  • The demon gives its name
  • Flies, and too many of them

Zombiesthe BITES card

21 tropes

  • Someone hides a bite
  • The news says stay indoors
  • “Aim for the head!”
  • A zombie in a uniform
  • A supply run goes wrong
  • Boarding up the windows
  • They must kill someone they love
  • Humans are the real monsters
  • The military can’t help
  • Nobody says the word zombie
  • Two leaders fight for control
  • A noise draws the horde
  • The safe place gets overrun
  • These ones can run
  • Rumor of a cure or safe zone
  • Out of ammo at the worst time
  • Eerily empty city streets
  • Abandoned cars block the road
  • A bitten hero stays behind
  • A zombie missing its legs
  • Patient zero gets a mention
Before you press play

Frequently Asked Questions About Horror Movie Bingo

What is horror movie bingo?

Horror movie bingo is a game you play while watching a horror film. Each player has a card of horror tropes, like “Let’s split up” or a car that won’t start, and marks them as they happen on screen. The first to finish a row, column or diagonal wins.

How do you play horror movie bingo with friends?

Give everyone a different card. Use Print 4 different cards, or have each person pick the same theme on their own phone, since every new card is dealt at random. To play the very same card, send it with Copy link. The first to a full line shouts the word across the top of the card.

Can I print horror movie bingo cards?

Yes, for free and with no sign-up. Print this card gives you a clean black and white sheet without any of the site around it. Print 4 different cards prints four cards from the same theme, one per page, for a group.

What is Tonight’s Card?

One card that everyone gets for the day, with a theme that changes every night and a well-rated film from that shelf to watch with it. It changes once a day, at 10:00 UTC, early in the morning in the US, so it won’t change in the middle of your movie.

Which horror movie should I watch for bingo?

Any film works. Anything Goes cards fit any horror film, and themed cards fit their own subgenre. Every card suggests a film from our archive rated Recommended or better, with a link to our review, and a film you already love is fine too, since you’ll see the tropes coming.

Is Horror Movie Bingo free, and is my card saved?

It’s free, with no account or sign-up. Your marks, your record and your trope collection are saved in your own browser, on the device you play on, so clearing your browser data also clears them.

A new Tonight’s Card every day, the same for everyone.
Your marks and collection are saved on this device. No account needed.

Next: play today’s horror movie trivia

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Horror Movie Bingo: Zombies

BITES-4514

BITES
“Let’s split up.”It was only the catBacks right into dangerThe safe place gets overrunEerily empty city streets
It isn’t dead after all“Aim for the head!”A scare in the mirrorNobody says the word zombieA zombie missing its legs
A door creaks open aloneA creepy nursery rhymeFreeIt started with a biteA zombie in a uniformOut of ammo at the worst time
Someone hides a biteWakes up at 3 a.m.Patient zero gets a mentionA jump scare with a loud sting“There’s a logical reason.”
The news says stay indoorsA bitten hero stays behindThe monster has rulesThey must kill someone they loveA supply run goes wrong

Goals: any full row, column or diagonal, then Boarded Up (every square around the edge), then the full card. Shout BITES when you get a line.

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