Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 80 Trivia Quiz

Answer: They think no one there is alive.

The fallout from the many nuclear explosions in the Northern Hemisphere appears to have killed everyone north of the Equator. That fallout is moving slowly but progressively south, dooming the people in Australia to certain death. The garbled, undeciphered radio signal is thought by some people to be an indication that someone is alive in California.

Answer: The Deathless Creature

"Curse of the Undead" (1959) is a Western as well as a vampire movie. "The Undead" (1957) is about a woman regressed through hypnosis to a former life as a witch. In "The Thing That Couldn't Die" (1958), a man beheaded in the 16th century comes to life in the 20th. "The Undying Monster" (1942) is an American film about a British werewolf. "The Undying" is a 2009 movie about a Civil War ghost in the 21st century. "The Deathless Devil" was made in 1973 in Turkey.

There does not appear to have been a feature-length motion picture with the title "The Deathless Creature."

Answer: asphyxiation/suffocation

The monster on board the spaceship is resistant to most of the attempted forms of its destruction. The crew shoot it with bullets from pistols and rifles and even with a bazooka but to no effect. Hand grenades fail as do poison-gas bombs. Carruthers and Calder rig a stairway to electrocute it but that doesn't work.

While It is in the reactor room, they unshield the atomic pile but it does not harm the creature. As the monster moves closer to them, the crew dons their space suits and opens an airlock, causing all of the oxygen in the ship to vent into space and killing the beast by suffocation.

Answer: Margaret Sheridan

Dr. Carrington's assistant, Nikki Nicholson, played by Margaret Sheridan, has some history with Captain Patrick Hendry. Their relationship is rekindled by the events at the polar research station. It is Nikki who suggests that, if the creature is really a vegetable, they should cook it like one. By the end of the film, they are contemplating what it would mean to settle down with one another.

Answer: A priest was beheaded in his stead.

Baron Victor Frankenstein is sentenced to death by the guillotine in 1860 "for the brutal murders committed by the monster he had created." The blade falls at the end of the first film. With the help of his hunchbacked servant Karl, the priest attending the execution is killed instead and his body is buried in a grave marked as Frankenstein's.

In 1863, the mad doctor appears in Carlsbrück with his head firmly in place, practicing medicine.

Answer: a cartoon strip by Philip Francis Nowlan

The character Buck Rogers was created by Philip Francis Nowlan. It began as a comic strip which ran in newspapers and magazines from 1928. The syndicated strip prompted other syndicates to create series such as "Flash Gordon" (1934-2003), "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" (1935-1941), and "Speed Spaulding" (1940-1941).

Answer: His mind is taken over by aliens.

Dr. Ahmed, played by Malcolm Pearce, is the delegate from Iran to the international conference. During the meeting, he suffers a painful headache and withdraws. Ahmed attempts to sabotage the heat-ray experiment but is prevented. Ahmed says that Earth is about to become a colony of the planet Natal.

He attempts to flee but is fixed by a red light emitted from a flying saucer which reduces him to a small pile of red powder. In the powder, a miniature radio transmitter is found, which was implanted in his brain, and connected him to the aliens on the Moon.

Answer: directing/producing

Ivan Tors (1916-1983) was a remarkably-talented multi-faceted artist who wrote stage plays and screenplays, who directed motion pictures, who produced both motion pictures and television, and who owned and operated a music company. He was born in Hungary but his Jewish family moved to the United States just before the start of World War II. Tors enjoyed fact-based science fiction, underwater motion pictures, and projects that involved animal actors.

He both wrote and produced the "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy which included "The Magnetic Monster" (1953), "Riders to the Stars" (1954) and "Gog" (1954).

The next year, his syndicated television series "Science Fiction Theater" (1955-1957) dropped. He was also a close personal friend of Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion.

Answer: a manor house in England

Mad Doctor Moran transports the carnivorous tree from the Amazon to his home in England and plants it in the basement. [How he got that thing through British customs is not explained in the movie.] "The Woman Eater" was filmed at Twickenham Studios in Sussex with exteriors in the neighbourhood.

Answer: introduced alien eggs into his body

Major Corcoran's spaceship mission was aborted by the alien and it appeared that the astronaut died in the crash. His life functions were partially suspended but he came back to life. A mysterious fourth type of blood cell (beside erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) was found in his bloodstream. These disappeared and then the doctors used fluoroscopy to find alien fetuses in his body. They were shaped like shrimp, or lizards, or seahorses. He explains that the alien told him that, if the fetuses are destroyed, he will die.