Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 24 Trivia Quiz

Answer: She was decapitated.

Dr. Cortner rushes to get to his family's summer house where he has a secret laboratory because of a phone call from his assistant Kurt saying that there was trouble. He drives recklessly, crashes the car and retrieves Jan's head which has been severed from her body. He wraps it in his jacket and takes it to his laboratory where he keeps it alive in an enamel pan of experimental serum. Jan is displeased and wants to die.

Answer: The Eye of Evil

"The Beast with a Million Eyes" (1955) described a creature which could see through the eyes of every other creature which it possessed. "The Crawling Eye" (US title) and "The Trollenberg Terror" (UK title) (1958) is about a radioactive mist in the Swiss Alps. "The Cyclops" (1957) borrows its name from "The Odyssey." The modern cyclops is about a one-eyed man exposed to radium deposits who grows to immense size.

There was a silent film called "The Evil Eye" in 1917, and another in 1920. There were "talkie" films of this title in 1963, 1975, and 2022.

There does not appear to have been a film named "The Eye of Evil."

Answer: Their spaceship is destroyed.

The Martians kill the Earthling scientist conspiring with them and their robot kills the Earthling mobsters with whom they partnered. Then follows a fierce battle in the stratosphere between Larry Martin and the Martians. Their rocket ship is destroyed by the ray gun in Martin's Inter-Planetary Patrol spacecraft, which sends it in flames down to the Earth's surface.

Answer: Lon Chaney Jr.

When Joyce Webster/Jane Marvin travels to Bayou Landing, Louisiana, to find her husband, she is met by Manon, a handyman at the Cypresses Plantation, and given a ride to the mansion. Manon has a hook in place of one hand and explains that an alligator bit his hand off. He calls them "dirty, nasty, slimy 'gators." He is played to good effect by Lon Chaney Jr.

Answer: He explains the "hollow earth" theory.

Dr. Frank Baxter (1896-1982) was, at the time "The Mole People" was made, professor of English Literature at the University of Southern California. The Cambridge-educated scholar was an expert in Shakespearean literature. He narrated a short introduction to "The Mole People" in which he explained the "hollow earth" theories of Edmond Halley (late 17th century), John Cleves Symmes Jr. (mid-19th century), Cyrus Teed (1869). Professor Baxter calls the film a fictionalized depiction of such theories.

Answer: The film's distributor, AIP, insisted.

This motion picture was made by the independent Ludwig H. Gerber Productions. It was Gerber's hope to sell it to a major studio for distribution. That failing, American International Pictures picked it up for distribution but required that the name be changed to be more in keeping with other popular films of the day: "The She-Creature" (1957), "She Demons" (1958), "She Devil" (1957) and "The Astounding She-Monster" (1957).

Answer: Markalite FAHP (Flying Atomic Heat Projector)

The Markalite FAHP (Flying Atomic Heat Projector) is a sort of lens which is capable of reflecting the ray weapons used by the Mysterians back on them. It was deployed against the Mysterians by Markalite GYRO rockets which were successful in penetrating the dome and causing it to collapse and explode.

Answer: directing

Jack Arnold (1916-1992) was an American who began his career acting but soon became a film and television director with a specialization in science fiction and horror. He directed "It Came from Outer Space" (1953), "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954), "Tarantula" (1955), and "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957).

He also directed other sorts of motion pictures, for example Peter Sellers in "The Mouse That Roared" (1959).

Answer: during the American Civil War

Union Army Captain Cyrus Harding, played by Richard Crane, escapes from a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp by stealing an observation balloon. He is accompanied by a sailor, his nephew, a journalist, a soldier and a dog. The balloon is blown all the way to an unknown island where it crash lands, leading to great adventures.

The party names the island "Lincoln Island" to honour the President of the United States.

Answer: flat affect/two holes in the back of their neck

Once the creatures puncture the neck of a victim, their antennae connect to the spinal cord and take over its brain. They don't actually "eat" them. The punctures leave two holes in the back of the victim's neck. Once the parasite has taken over, the victim loses the humanity in their affect and speaks in a flat, even, emotionless tone.