Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 19 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Curse of Frankenstein

"Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943) was filmed and shown in black-and-white, as were "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "Frankenstein 1970" (1958). "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) was Hammer's first colour horror film, the first of their "Frankenstein" series of six films, and the first colour "Frankenstein" movie in cinema history.

Answer: Not From This Planet

The 1959 motion picture "The Angry Red Planet" was also called "Invasion of Mars" and "Journey to Planet Four." "The Brain from Planet Arous" (1957) featured a criminal space alien named Gor. "Forbidden Planet" (1956) was critically received as one of the best science fiction films made in its era.

The British clothing maker Majo Medicine released a line of styles called Not From This Planet. A band called Acid Fractal released a song titled "Not From This Planet" on their album "Brazil Psy 2014." The Polish brewery Deer Beer released a brew called "Not From This Planet." But nobody made a sci-fi/horror film by that name in the 1950s.

Answer: It was eaten by an eagle.

The Kelly Family -- Alan, Carol and Sandra -- figure out that the beast can be defeated by love: it cannot occupy and take over people bound together in love. They go, as a family, to the crater where the beast's spaceship lies, and confront it. The beast is, at that moment, inside a sort of gremlin which then dies. The beast enters the mind of a mouse but an eagle swoops down, picks up the mouse, carries it away and eats it.

Answer: Lola Albright

Lola Albright (1924-2017) was a jazz singer and actress, especially well known as Peter Gunn's girlfriend in the 1958-1961 TV series "Peter Gunn." She played an elementary school teacher in "The Monolith Monsters" -- her only role in a horror or science fiction film.

She and her boyfriend Dave Miller are together when they find the Simpsons turned to stone at their farm and their daughter in a catatonic state. They rush the little girl, Ginny, to a specialist at the California Medical Research Center.

Answer: a sort of flying umbrella monster

Officer Sherbourne tries to interrogate Dr. Rochelle but the doctor is under a hypnotic spell which keeps him silent. Johnson decides to eliminate him and reanimates a creature which has been compared to a cross between an umbrella and a crab. Another description is that it is a jellyfish monster.

A third is that it is like a flying tea cozy. This umbrella monster flies in the window to Dr. Rochelle's laboratory, settles on his head, and kills him. Oddly, it makes noises like a guinea pig.

Answer: a short story

The producer-director of "The Fly" read a short story by George Langelaan in "Playboy Magazine" in 1957 and decided it would work well on film. James Clavell was hired to write a screenplay based on the short story. It was Clavell's first screenplay to be filmed. He changed the setting from France to Canada but otherwise remained quite faithful to the original short story.

Answer: UK, US, USSR, China, Germany

Five seemingly random people are transported up to the Alien's spacecraft where they are each given capsules capable of killing all human life on Earth. These people include Evelyn Wingate, an Englishwoman, Jonathan Clark, a Los Angeles reporter, Ivan Godofsky, a Russian soldier, Su Tan, a peasant from a Chinese village, and Professor Klaus Bechner, a German scientist.

Answer: acting

Lester Tremayne (1913-2003) was an English actor whose distinctive and mellifluous voice led him into numerous roles in radio drama. His appearances in over thirty motion pictures were overshadowed by his radio work. He was the narrator in "Forbidden Planet" (1956). Among his other film credits were "Tarzan and the She-Devil" (1953), "The War of the Worlds" (1953), "The Monolith Monsters" (1957), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958), "The Monster of Piedras Blancas" (1959), "The Angry Red Planet" (1959), "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1963), "The Slime People" (1963), "War of the Planets" (1966), "Fangs" (1974), and "The Naked Monster" (2005).

Answer: Nevada

The picture begins and ends in the Nevada desert, the location of atomic bomb tests. The middle of the motion picture is spent mostly in Las Vegas, which is also in Nevada. The interiors were shot in Los Angeles.

Answer: a hairy psychopathic man-beast

Exposed to mysterious rays emanating from a meteorite, a boy ages rapidly and turns into an ugly, hairy, evil, aggressive, psychopathic monster with really bad teeth. He is truly hideous, thanks to the expert make-up work of Jack Pierce.