Final Exam (1981)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #15 · April 1, 2026 · Horror

Six plot descriptions for Final Exam (1981). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A college professor administering a philosophy exam realizes one student is writing confessions to unsolved murders while the rest of the class silently watches him without intervening.
2. A small group of students remain at a college campus to take their midterm examinations, but a killer begins murdering people, threatening the lives of everyone who stayed behind.
3. An insomniac takes experimental medication to sleep through his bar exam but the drug traps him in a recursive nightmare where he relives his abusive father's funeral endlessly.
4. A medical student discovers that cadavers in the anatomy lab retain memories of their deaths and she begins experiencing their final moments during dissection exercises.
5. Three teenagers break into their high school on graduation night to steal exam answers but find their principal's body hanging in the gymnasium with cryptic symbols carved nearby.
6. A woman returns to her childhood boarding school to teach but discovers the headmaster still conducts psychological experiments on students to test their breaking points under duress.