Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 118 Trivia Quiz

Answer: women with fangs, claws and bulging eyes

When the shipwrecked party first arrives on the uncharted island, they find the body of a woman. She has long snaggle teeth. Her fingernails are claws. Her eyes bulge out. Her face is disfigured and seems to be rotting away. Jerrie says of her, "Woman's body with the face of a demon." They soon learn that she is one of many island women on whom a mad Nazi scientist has performed experiments which leave them in this condition.

Answer: Dawn of the Giant Blood Beast

"Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959) was produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. "Giant from the Unknown" (1958) was also titled "Giant from Devil's Crag" and "The Diablo Giant" during production. The giant Gila monster in "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959) was neither giant nor a Gila monster.

It was a normally-sized Mexican beaded lizard shot in a miniature landscape. "Night of the Blood Beast" is a 1958 film produced by Roger Corman and his brother Gene. Peter Cushing starred in the British film "The Blood Beast Terror" (1968).

The movie "Dawn of the Dead" was made first in 1978 and then remade in 2004. The fifth novel in Darren Shan's "The Demonata" series was titled "Blood Beast" (2007). Carl John Lee wrote the short novel "The Blood Beast Mutations" (2020).

There does to appear to have been a feature-length movie in the 1950s called "Dawn of the Giant Blood Beast".

Answer: burnt in the sacrificial fire pit

The astronauts fire their conventional weapons at the creature but to no effect. They discharge a gas grenade near him and he merely runs off. When the monster finally breaks into the walled city, it kills Prasus and goes after Hestia, played by Susan Shaw, who is tied to the altar of sacrifice.

The Earthmen fire their guns at it, detonate another gas grenade, and tip it terminally into the sacred sacrificial fire.

Answer: Eunice Gayson

Margaret is a beautiful young nursing assistant at the hospital run by Baron Victor Frankenstein under the alias of Doctor Stein. Margaret is played by Eunice Gayson (1928-2018). She is known for her television appearances in "The Saint" and "The Avengers". She is much better known as the first Bond girl: Sylvia Trench in "Dr. No" (1962) and "From Russia with Love" (1963).

Answer: Andy McKee, the Scots groundskeeper

Theodore Bikel's Austrian accent did not prevent him from playing Andy McKee, the Scottish groundskeeper of the Immortal Hills cemetery in "I Bury the Living". He had mastered a Southern accent in "The Defiant Ones" (1958), a British accent in "My Fair Lady" (1964), and a Russian accent in "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966). Like Richard Boone, Bikel was an A-list actor cast in a B-movie in "I Bury the Living". Bikel was much younger than his role required, so make-up artist Jack P. Pierce heaped "old man" make-up on him to carry off the part.

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors

"The Woman Eater" involves a carnivorous tree. "The Brain Eaters" (1958) involves furry little creatures with antennae who burrow into people's heads. "Corpse Eaters" (1974) involves flesh-eating zombies. "Aliens Ate My Homework" (2018) is about friendly, helpful humanoid aliens who don't eat anybody. "Little Shop of Horrors" involves a plant from outer space with a taste for human blood.

Answer: Oliver Frank

Research scientist Carter Morgan's niece, Trudy Morton, lived with him. His research assistant was named Oliver Frank, but his true name was Oliver Frankenstein. He was the one who slipped a formula into her fruit punch which turned her into a homicidal monster. Peter Cushing, in the role of Victor Frankenstein, called himself Doctor Victor Stein in "The Revenge of Frankenstein" (1958).

At the end of that film, he reappeared in London calling himself Dr. Franck. The mad scientist in "House of Frankenstein" (1944) was Dr. Gustav Niemann.

Answer: acting

American actor Hans Conried (1917-1982) was well known for voice acting in cartoons, e.g. Captain Hook in "Peter Pan" (1953), Snidely Whiplash in the "Dudley Do-Right" cartoons, the host of "Fractured Flickers" on "Rocky and Bullwinkle". On the radio, he played Professor Kropotkin in "My Friend Irma". On television, he played Danny Thomas' Uncle Tonoose on "Make Room for Daddy" (1953-1957, 1957-1964).

He did very little work in horror or science fiction. His filmography includes "The Twonky" (1953), "The Monster That Challenged the World" (1957), and "The Cat from Outer Space" (1978).

Answer: Paris in 1890

Although there is mention of other locales -- Switzerland, San Francisco -- "The Man Who Could Cheat Death" is set firmly in the Paris of the 1890s. Ryan Harvey's critique of the film says, "The setting is a Hammerized version of Paris, which seems inhabited solely by Londoners and Germans."

Answer: All of these statements are true.

Swedish screenwriter and film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) celebrated his birthday (14 July) every year by screening "Creature From the Black Lagoon".

Cambridge paleontologist Jenny Clack (1947-2020) discovered the fossil remains of an extinct Scottish amphibian tetrapod which she named "Eucritta melanolimnetes". In English translation, this means "creature from the black lagoon".

Horror author Stephen King wrote an essay for the "Wake Tech English 111 Reader" (Raleigh, NC, 2014) titled "My Creature from the Black Lagoon". In it, he recalled that he saw "Creature From the Black Lagoon" as a seven-year-old and that it is the first movie he can remember watching.