Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 59 Trivia Quiz

Answer: reports of a meteor crashing into Earth

Dr. Erik Engström and Dr. Frederick Wilson, geologists, go to northern Sweden to locate a meteorite which has crashed into the Earth. That "meteorite" turns out to be a spherical spaceship, shaped rather like a COVID virus, which is wedged into the ice.

Inside there are three aliens who peer out frosted windows and release a sort of giant sasquatch-like creature which they control psychically.

Answer: Attack of the Fire Monster

"Baran: Monster from the East" (1958) was also released as "Varan the Unbelievable". There is no "v" sound in Japanese; in loanwords, it is normally replaced by the "b" sound. "Gigantis the Fire Monster" (1959) is a heavily re-edited version of "Godzilla Raids Again" (1955) for American audiences.

In "Robot Monster" (1953), Ro-Man seeks to kill the last family on Earth with his "calcinator" death ray. "All Monsters Attack" (1969) is a Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda. There does not appear to have been a theatrical film called "Attack of the Fire Monster".

Answer: a sunken-ship's undead crew

The salvage team arrives to locate the sunken ship Susan B. The ship's crew were all drowned when the ship was cursed and sunk for their theft of diamonds from a local temple. The crew, including their captain, Jeremy Peters, are resurrected by the curse which requires them to guard the ship and its diamonds.

They sleep in the mausoleum until the diamonds are threatened by explorers/salvagers.

Answer: David Hedison

Both British actor Michael Rennie ("The Day the Earth Stood Still") and Rick Jason ("The Witch Who Came from the Sea") turned down the lead in "The Fly". The role went to David Hedison (who appears in the credits as Al Hedison), a much less well-known actor. Hedison is perhaps best remembered for his role as 2nd Lt. Gil Hanley on American television's "Combat" (1962-1967).

Answer: Paul Blaisdell

Paul Blaisdell, who called himself a "technician", worked his wonders in a shop he built onto his residence. He and his assistant Bob Burns constructed all four of the alien suits, the severed hand capable of self-movement, the device that made needles dripping alcohol come out of the aliens' fingernails, and the entire space ship, blown up by the US Army.

Inside the suits were four little-people actors: Angelo Rossito, Eddie Gibbons, Dean Neville and Lloyd Dixon.

Answer: False

Tom Sivak and Elizabeth Gelman created the musical stage play "The Brain That Wouldn't Die! In 3D!!!" It premiered in 2011 at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Pug Bujead created a second musical stage play called "The HEAD! That Wouldn't Die" produced by Theatre Artists Olympia in Olympia, Washington, in 2015.

A third musical comedy stage play was written by Bruce Bernhard and Chris Cassone. Called "The Brain That Wouldn't Die!... the Musical", it premiered at the Footlight Players Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2016.

In 2020, a theatrical film adaptation called "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (the original title) premiered in Portland, Oregon, at the Portland Horror Film Festival.

Answer: The person dies.

A limit to the use of Nind Andhera is that it must be countered by an antidote within 12 hours of its initial dose. Dr. Cadman does this for Dr. Ramsay and he revives. Odo does not do this for Curry's mistress, Carmona Daly, played by Claire Carleton, and she dies. He gave her the drug but discarded the antidote because he thought she might link him to murder.

Answer: acting

Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010) began his career in roles as a leading man/romantic lead. His part as Commander John J. Adams in "Forbidden Planet" (1956) is an example, as was his role in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972). His greatest success was as a comedic actor in such films as "Airplane!" (1980), "The Naked Gun" series, and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (1995).

Answer: Alaska Territory

An American scientist, Dr. Lawton, invented the flying saucer and contemplated its use as a means of delivery of an atomic bomb. He garaged his invention in a sub-basement under his rustic residence in remote Twin Lakes in the Alaska Territory. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959.

Answer: taking over human bodies; using Earth's own weapons

Perhaps this movie is where George Romero got his inspiration for "Night of the Living Dead" (1968). The aliens in "Invisible Invaders" can somehow enter the bodies of recently dead people and act through them. The first is when an alien takes over the body of Dr. Noymann and uses it to deliver his threat to Dr. Penner.

When the nations of the world decline to surrender, an army of walking dead march on cities and military installations, using weapons found on Earth to destroy them. Will the humans on Earth survive?