Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 37 Trivia Quiz

Answer: 3-D

"House of Wax" was the first major motion picture filmed in colour to be released in 3-D. The first black-and-white 3-D major motion picture was Columbia Pictures' "Man in the Dark" (also 1953). "House of Wax" was re-released several times to ride the crest of 3-D popularity with theatregoers. Warner Brothers owned the rights to "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933) and remade it as "House of Wax" using Julian and Milton Gunzburg's Natural Vision 3-D system.

The irony in all of this was that director André de Toth had only one eye and therefore could not "see" the 3-D effect.

Answer: Attack of the Night Creatures

"Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (1958), as well as its sequels "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (1993, HBO), "Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold" (1995), and "Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader" (2011, Roger Corman) concern a woman of unusual size. "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957) concerns two crabs of unusual size who have human minds because they ate people and thereby acquired their meals' intellect. "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959) concerns leeches of unusual size who capture people and drain their blood.

Nick Lake wrote a juvenile novel named "Lily and the Night Creatures" in 2021. In 2009, a CD titled "Rob Zombie Presents Captain Clegg And The Night Creatures" was released. The "night creatures" were actually the band members. There are Night Creatures in the video game Castlevania. But there does not appear to have been a film titled "Attack of the Night Creatures."

Answer: shot with a normal lead bullet

Police Commissioner Taro and Dr. Viet follow Dina into the jungle and, when they hear her pistol discharge, rush to follow the sound. The gorilla-beast grabs her and carries her up a tree. Taro and Viet follow her screams and shoot at the monster which wounds both him and Dina.

The commissioner, a local who believes the native legends, said "the jungle had risen to punish Barney Chavez for his crime."

Answer: Journey to the Center of the Earth

James Mason (1909-1984) appeared as Captain Nemo in Walt Disney's 1954 adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Five years later, he starred in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" based on Verne's "Voyage au centre de la Terre" (1864). Mason played Sir Oliver Lindenbrook who leads an expedition down a hollow volcano in Iceland to discover an underground ocean and living dinosaurs.

Answer: the issue of whether the yeti is a "man"

A newspaper article, published before Dr. Parish and the yeti arrive in Los Angeles, calls the creature "an abominable snowman." The use of the word "man" causes U.S. Customs to question their own jurisdiction (against, for example, that of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service).

They insist on having the yeti examined by an anthropologist to determine whether or not it is a human. During this delay, the monster escapes.

Answer: True

The script for "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" was originally written as a straight "invisible man" movie about a boxer who takes an invisibility potion to disprove the accusation that he killed his manager. Given the huge financial success of "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer" (1949), the script was rewritten to include the comedy team. Universal then placed them in many more films of the same ilk: "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953), "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953), and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955).

Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The motion picture "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) was an adaptation of the stage musical "The Rocky Horror Show" (1973). The opening and closing song (reprise) is "Science Fiction/Double Feature." It includes the lines "Then at a deadly pace / It came from outer Space / And this is how the message ran." The lyrics also include references to "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Tarantula" (1955), "Forbidden Planet" (1956), "Night of the Demon" (1957), and "When Worlds Collide" (1951).

Answer: acting

Ross Martin (1920-1961) was a Polish-born American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Artemus Gordon in the TV series "The Wild, Wild West" (1965-1969). He spoke Polish, Yiddish and Russian before he learned English and went on to learn French, Spanish and Italian.

He had great success as a voice actor. His science-fiction and horror credentials began early in his acting career. His first motion picture role was in "Conquest of Space" (1955) followed by "The Colossus of New York (1958).

Answer: an 1880 town in the Southwestern United States

"Teenage Monster" is set in the Old West. Charlie Cannon is born into a family of gold prospectors in the Southwestern United States. His father is killed while prospecting. His mother strikes gold and can therefore afford to conceal her son, who has turned into a monster.

The motion picture was filmed at the Chatsworth Iverson Ranch in California, where so many other Westerns were also filmed.

Answer: False

Many of the creatures in both Japanese and American monster movies of the 1950s are the result of nuclear radiation: the creature in "Godzilla" (1954), the giant ants in "Them!" (1954), the giant octopus in "It Came From Beneath The Sea" (1955), the giant spiders in "World Without End" (1956), the giant crabs in "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (1957).

This was, however, not the case with Varan. That monster had existed in a lake in Japan since between 250 million and 66 million years ago -- long before atomic bombs.