Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 117 Trivia Quiz

Answer: a hairy homicidal hominid with bad teeth

Robert Shayne, playing the scientist who turned himself into "The Neanderthal Man", did not play the part of the creature once transformed. A stuntman, Wally Rose, did these honours. The transformation scenes built on Shane's face; once he became the Neanderthal, Wally Rose wore a rubber mask to depict the creature.

This mask did not flex to reflect any facial movements or expressions. The change includes his hands which become hairy and clawed. Of the transformation, Professor Groves wrote, "I gloried in my strength and ferocity" and was overcome by the "hungry urge to kill."

Answer: Frankenstein's Castle

"The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) was a Hammer Film Production starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Hazel Court. "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957) was quickly released by American International Pictures, just five months after its release of "I Was a Teenage Werewolf". "The Revenge of Frankenstein" (1958) was also a Hammer Films production, also starring Peter Cushing.

In 2010, PlayFirst published a video game called "Escape from Frankenstein's Castle". There was an American magazine devoted to horror, science fiction, and fantasy called "Castle of Frankenstein" (1962-1975). "Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks" (1974) was an Italian production. Janno Juguilon painted "Frankenstein's Castle" in acrylics on canvas, which work was then marketed as prints. Paula Cappa wrote the short story "Beyond Castle Frankenstein" in 2020.

There does not appear to have been a commercial motion picture called "Frankenstein's Castle" in the 1950s.

Answer: Lightning prompted a nuclear explosion.

Dr. Eric Vornoff is turned into the superman he has been trying to create by his own machine. Trying to escape the police, he is struck by a boulder rolled onto him by Lt. Craig. The rock knocks Vornoff into the water where the octopus is. They struggle. A bolt of lightning strikes them as they fight which detonates a nuclear explosion... somehow... seriously.

Answer: Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret played the unlikely role of Nicole Horner, a woman teacher in a boys' school, having an affair with the married headmaster Michel Delassalle. She is connected to his wife, Christina, by their mutual loathing of the abusive Michel. The two women use the second-person familiar pronoun "tu" with each other, indicating their close relationship.

Answer: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

The motion picture "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (2003) was based on a comic book by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Its cast includes the British adventurer Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, a vampiress, an invisible man, an American secret service agent named Tom Sawyer, and others.

The Nautilus figures significantly in the outcome of this film. This Nemo is of East Indian descent and is played by Naseeruddin Shah.

Answer: Great Britain

"Cat Girl" was a joint endeavour of British and American filmmakers. It was shot in Great Britain. Insignia Films (dissolved in 2003) and Anglo-Amalgamated Productions (1945-1971) were involved in making the movie. Anglo Amalgamated distributed the film in Britain; American International Pictures (AIP) distributed it in the United States. AIP paid $25,000 and offered their scriptwriter in return for Western Hemisphere distribution rights.

Answer: "Duval" is "Lavud" spelt backwards.

An anadrome is a word spelt by reversing the letter order of another word. For example, the sorcerer in Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1940) is named "Yen Sid" which is "Disney" spelt backwards. In "El vampiro," the fellow who holds himself out to be Mister Duval is, in fact, Conde (Count) Karol de Lavud. By reversing the letters in his name, he fools them all.

In the 1943 American horror film "Son of Dracula", Count Dracula conceals his identity by using the name Count Alucard to fool the people in Louisiana where he visits. (REHTAF EVETS would be unlikely to fool anyone as to the identity of the author of this quiz.)

Answer: acting

Arch Oboler came to motion-picture making from success as a writer and producer in radio, e.g. "Lights Out". He formed his own movie production company and independently produced five films in the early 1950s, e.g. "Five" (1951) and "Bwana Devil" (1952) in 3-D.

His third independent film was "The Twonky" (1953) which was a science-fiction satire. He produced it, wrote the screenplay, and directed the movie.

Answer: in the Florida Everglades

The local people in "Attack of the Giant Leeches" live in or around a community in the Florida Everglades. There are so few folks living in the swamps that, when a number of them begin to disappear, there is immediate concern. Two of the missing are alligator poachers which is a typical bayou occupation. Exteriors were shot mainly in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, which doubled for the swamps of southern Florida.

Answer: tiny holes in the back of their necks

David sees the puncture wound on the back of his father's neck. He sees similar wounds on the back of the police officers' necks. To make certain that she has not been taken over by the aliens, David checks the back of Dr. Patricia Blake's neck. In one scene, on board the flying saucer, the surgical table on which the mind-control devices are implanted is shown.

The Intelligence is apparently able to detonate these devices should the controlled human no longer be necessary to its plans.