Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 75 Trivia Quiz

Answer: a female teenage vampire

Nancy Perkins, played by Sandra Harrison, is a sixteen year old girl sent to a private school by her parents. Miss Branding, played by Louise Lewis, the school's chemistry teacher, obtains her trust and turns her into a vampire. Harrison's make-up was done by Phillip Scheer (1904-1968), a Russian who did the make-up in "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957), "The Life of Riley" (1948), and "Invisible Invaders" (1959).

When Harrison turns into the monster, she looks like a bat, or "Nosferatu" in the classic movie, or the movie host Svengoolie on television. Rather than being scary, it is laughable.

Answer: Victory in the Galaxy

"Battle Beyond the Sun" (1959) was made in the USSR in the Russian language and then edited and dubbed into an English-language version. "Battle in Outer Space" (1959) was made in Japan and directed by Ishirō Honda. "Conquest of Space" (1955) was made in the US, depicting the first journey to Mars.

It was produced by George Pal. Samsung manufactured a cell phone called the "Galaxy Victory." Jack Kirby wrote a novel called "In Defense of Our Galaxy: Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers" (1981).

It does not appear that anybody made a movie named "Victory in the Galaxy."

Answer: live shrunken people in suspended animation

Mister Franz has a scientific device in his workshop at Dolls, Inc., which shrinks living people to the size of dolls. Since his wife left him for another man, he has a great fear of abandonment. He uses his shrinking machine on anyone who threatens to leave him.

His special collection of dolls is of living people, placed in suspended animation, which he keeps as an odd sort of friends.

Answer: Whit Bissell

White Bissell's lengthy film career began in 1940 with "The Sea Hawk." He played military officers, policemen and mad scientists, particularly. He was the latter in both "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957) and in "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957). He was the attending psychiatrist who attended Dr. Miles Bennell in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).

He was one of the scientists in "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954). He played in all thirty episodes of "The Time Tunnel." A particularly memorable role was as Lurry, the station manager of Deep Space Station K7 on the "Star Trek" episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" (29 December 1967).

Answer: a green amphibious humanoid

After several mysterious and unexplained deaths on the beach, scientist Dr. Ted Stevens and government special agent William Grant determine to investigate. Dr. Stephens dives in the cove where the deaths occurred and sees both a glowing underwater light and the monster.

It is humanoid, with arms and legs, and has spikes up its back. Although the movie was shot in black and white, the movie poster/lobby card shows the phantom to be green. The rubber monster suit made for stunt woman Norma Hanson did not fit well, bunched and sagged when she moved, and had a mouth which flapped open and closed randomly.

Answer: Yes, eight.

Hammer wanted to capitalize on the remarkable popularity of "Horror of Dracula" in both the U.K. and the U.S.A. The production house made eight sequels, only six of which starred Christopher Lee as the vampire. These were "The Brides of Dracula" (1960), "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" (1966), "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" (1968), "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970), "Scars of Dracula" (1970), "Dracula A.D. 1972" (1972), "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" (1973) and "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974).

Answer: his ultrasonic freeze-ray rifle

Chief Jacobs calls his weapon "Cleo" after Cleopatra, because "she" is both beautiful and powerful. When he first test fires it on a plant growing on the Martian surface, the leaves freeze and shatter like broken glass. He shoots the Venus-fly-trap-with-octopus-arms monster which attacks Dr. Ryan and kills it.

He is less successful using Cleo on the crab-rat-spider-bat monster but he is able to blind it. The weapon has no effect on the melted-gummy-bear-ameboid monster. When Sammy tries to use it, the creature absorbs him, gun and all, into itself where he dissolves.

Answer: directing

Almost all of John Sherwood's movie-making credits are as an assistant director. He was one of several assistant directors on "Gone With The Wind" (1939). When finally in the director's chair, he directed some sci-fi and horror classics: "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956), which was the second sequel to "Creature From The Black Lagoon" (1954), and "The Monolith Monsters" (1957). He died, at only 56 years of age, of pneumonia, in New York, where he was shooting B-roll for "Pillow Talk" (1959).

Answer: 1997

The film "Battle Beyond the Sun" begins by setting the time as November, 1997. This date is described as the "the "fear-ridden years following the great atomic war." The survivors of the world have been divided by hemisphere into just two nations: North Hemis and South Hemis. The hemis compete.

Answer: a flare gun

In the culminating battle, Gill leaves Gypsy behind to shoot the monster. His bullets have no apparent effect. Gypsy throws rocks at it, also to no effect. The remaining gang members show up and the monster attacks them. One of them shoots it with a flare gun and it bursts into flames. Gill and Gyspy are left to watch it die.