Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 79 Trivia Quiz

Answer: none

In certain religions of Africa, Louisiana and the Caribbean, a corpse is reanimated by witchcraft and becomes a speechless person with neither a soul nor a will of its own. In both Louisiana Creole and Haitian creole, the word "zonbi" refers to such a creature. That term is of Bantu origin and may be related to the Kimbundu word "nzúmbe" which means ghost.

The use of the term "zombie" in a movie's title was thought to assure an audience, e.g. "Zombies of the Stratosphere" (1952), "Zombies of Mora Tau" (1957), and "Teenage Zombies" (1959).

The young people (and the gorilla) in "Teenage Zombies" are subjected to a gas which makes them obedient slaves... but not zombies.

Answer: The Vampire's Fortress

"The Black Castle" is a 1952 horror film starring Richard Greene and Boris Karloff. "The Castle of the Monsters" (1958) is a Mexican horror comedy picture released as "El Castillo de los monstruos". "Black Cat Mansion" (1958) is a Japanese horror movie, the Japanese title of which translates "Mansion of the Ghost Cat".

The idea of "kaibyo eiga" (ghost cat) is common in Japanese folklore. "Exiting the Vampire Castle" is a 2013 political essay written by Mark Fisher about solidifying left-wing organization and cooperation. "Vampire Fortress" is a 2020 novel by Epiphany Highley based on the video game "Team Fortress 2".

There does not appear to have been a motion picture named "The Vampire's Fortress".

Answer: They turn into dust and disappear.

Mrs. Peters throws the diamonds into the sea and all of the zombies turn to dust and disappear. The uniform of her husband, Captain Peters, falls to the ground empty. She says, "At last, Jeremy Peters, at long last."

Answer: Frank Gorshin

In "Invasion of the Saucer Men", Joe Gruen, played by a very young Frank Gorshin, is a drunken con man. He has a plan to make a million dollars by exhibiting one of the saucer men. The aliens have different ideas, capture him and inject him with alcohol through their retractable needle fingernails.

The amount of alcohol they give him would not kill a normal person but, because he was already highly intoxicated, his blood-alcohol level rose so high that he died of alcohol poisoning. "Invasion of the Saucer Men" was his first role in a horror or science fiction motion picture.

Answer: Conrad did all of these things.

Mikel Conrad (1919-1982) was an American involved in many parts of the motion picture industry. He acted in over two dozen movies, including "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff" (1949), "The Flying Saucer" (1950), "Untamed Women" (1952), and "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956).

He directed "The Flying Saucer" (1950) 'tho not particularly well, but the producer couldn't fire him because he was also the producer. He also wrote the story on which Howard Irving Young built a screenplay.

Answer: a novel by Raymond F. Jones

Raymond F. Jones wrote three related novelettes published in the pulp magazine "Thrilling Wonder Stories": "The Alien Machine" in June 1949, "The Shroud of Secrecy" in December 1949, and "The Greater Conflict" in February 1950. These were then edited into a single novel in 1952 entitled "This Island Earth".

The title was borrowed from a poem by Robert Graves: "It is a poet's privilege and fate / To fall enamoured of the one Muse / Who variously haunts this island earth." One of the Eucharistic Prayers in the "American Book of Common Prayer" (1979) recalls God creating "this fragile earth, our island home".

The novel, the ending of which differs radically from the motion picture, remains in print in both the US and the UK.

Answer: their base on Earth's moon

The alien in Dr. Noymann's dead body explains to Dr. Penner that his race visited Earth's moon 20,000 years ago, killed all life on it, and established a base from which they have been observing humans ever since. When Penner asks why human scientists haven't seen it, the alien explains that it, like them, is invisible.

They have had little interest in Earth until the military technology and bellicose nature of humans caused them alarm. Their origin, in another part of the galaxy, is undisclosed.

Answer: acting

American actor Craig Stevens (1918-2000) was probably best known as the understated sophisticated lead in television's "Peter Gunn" (1958-1961). The private detective series was broadcast on two television networks. He appeared in a few horror and science fiction films: as Bruce Adams in "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953), as the lead in "The Deadly Mantis" (1957), and in a supporting role in "Killer Bees" (1974).

Answer: Sweden and the US

The first version of this motion picture was made and released in Sweden as "Rymdinvasion i Lappland." The film was then handed over to Jerry Warren and Virgil W. Vogel in the US. They shortened the original (73 minutes to 55 minutes), added scenes and narration by John Carradine (who was not in the Swedish version), and renamed the film "Invasion of the Animal People".

Answer: none

Five crew members blast off for the Moon and end up on Mars: Dr. Karl Eckstrom, the physicist who designed the rocket, Dr. Lisa Van Horn, a chemist, Col. Floyd Graham, the pilot, Maj. William Corrigan, the flight engineer, and Harry Chamberlain, an astronomer acting as navigator.

A savage group of mutant Martians attacks them, killing Major Corrigan with a big rock and Dr. Eckstrom with a stone ax. The navigator is severely injured by another big rock. Colonel Graham, Dr. Van Horn, and Chamberlain escape on their rocket ship but do not have enough fuel to land on Earth.

They plummet into the wilderness of Nova Scotia and die. The working title of the film was "None Came Back" but Kurt Neumann, the writer-producer-director, changed it because it gave away the motion picture's ending.