Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 67 Trivia Quiz

Answer: the Abominable Snowman

The scientists are seeking a yeti. They not only find yeti but they find an even more evolved creature in Varga. He discloses that he is a fifth-generation descendant of a yeti, the result of kidnapping human women and forcing them to breed with yetis.

It is his intent to mate with Connie Hayward. The gorilla costume from "White Gorilla" (1945) and "White Pongo" (1945) were reworked a bit to portray the abominable snowman.

Answer: People of the Darkness

"The Gamma People" (1956) is about a European dictator who turns people into slaves using gamma rays. "Invasion of the Animal People" (1959) is a heavy re-editing of "Terror in the Midnight Sun" made in Sweden. "The Mole People" (1956) describes a race of Sumerian people living deep under the Earth's surface. Tony Hillerman wrote a novel in 1980 called "People of Darkness," the fourth in a series involving the Navajo Tribal Police.

There was never a 1950s horror film named "People of the Darkness".

Answer: columns of growing stone that kill people

A meteorite crashes in a Southern California desert and shatters into innumerable black shards. When water contacts these fragments, they grow very quickly into tall monoliths which break into more pieces when they topple. When humans touch these pieces, the people begin to stiffen and, ultimately, to petrify and die.

Answer: John Agar

John Agar (1921-2002) was an American actor who often played romantic leads. His films were frequently Westerns. He also played in many horror and science fiction films, e.g. "Tarantula!" (1955), "The Mole People" (1956), "The Brain from Planet Arous" (1957), and "Revenge of the Creature" (1955).

In "Attack of the Puppet People", he is paired with June Kenney with whose character he falls in love.

Answer: He hung himself.

Matthew Burke is found hanging at the end of a rope inside an elevator shaft. This scene was arranged by Professor Jarrod who actually murdered Burke. Burke's body is discovered, leading the police to conclude that his death was a suicide, but it mysteriously disappears from the city morgue.

The newly-opened wax museum emphasises acts of ghastly violence and includes a figure of Burke, dangling from the end of a rope, which looks remarkably like the actual business partner.

Answer: True

The first screen adaptation was a 1907 silent short made in France by Georges Méliès; he inflated Verne's title to "200,000 Leagues Under the Sea". A feature-length silent film was made in 1916. "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City" (1969) was not so much an adaptation as an expropriation of the ideas and premises in the novel.

Another very loose adaptation was "30,000 Leagues Under the Sea" made in 2007 starring Lorenzo Lamas.

Answer: The curse is hereditary/congenital.

According to Edmund, the Brandt Family curse descends hereditarily. By it, a family member is possessed by the spirit of a leopard (or perhaps becomes a leopard) and does terrible things as a leopard or in tandem with a leopard. This vagueness does not comfort Leonora.

Answer: acting

Peter Wilton Cushing OBE (1913-1994) had a extensive acting career outside of horror and science fiction films. Aside from his motion picture roles, he acted on stage, on television and on radio. Along with director Terence Fisher and fellow-actor Christopher Lee, he was the foundation on which Hammer Productions became the leading maker of horror movies. He played Baron Frankenstein in six films and Dr. Van Helsing in five.

He played the lead in "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965) and then stepped up to worldwide recognition as Grand Moff Tarkin in "Star Wars" (1977) and its sequels. Other relevant pictures included "The Abominable Snowman" (1957), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959), "The Flesh and the Fiends" (1960), "Dr. Phibes Rises Again" (1972), "The Creeping Flesh" (1973), and "The Ghoul" (1975). In 1989, Cushing was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his artistic services.

Answer: a South American jungle

"Bride of the Gorilla" is set on a rubber plantation in the jungles of South America. Barney Chavez is an employee of the owner of the rubber plantation, managing the local workers. A curse placed upon him calls him into the surrounding jungle where he becomes a gorilla and then commits crimes of violence.

Answer: The whole planet explodes.

In the exciting conclusion of "Forbidden Planet," Dr. Morbius rushes up to the monster to deny its existence. He is successful in causing it to disappear but is fatally wounded in the attempt. He directs Adams to throw a switch before leaving the planet with Morbius' daughter.

The button is part of a self-destruct system linked to the nuclear reactors under the surface. Once Adams, Altaira, Robby the Robot (now the ship's pilot) and the surviving crew are safely off the planet, they see it brighten in a flash of blue light and then snuff out of existence.