Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 85 Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

The scenes showing dinosaurs were borrowed from "One Million B.C." (1940) and from "Lost Continent" (1951). The scenes of meteors were taken from Monogram Pictures' "Flight to Mars" (1951). The spaceship was first seen in "Rocketship X-M" (1950). The background matte of the City of New York in ruins was adopted from "Captive Women" (1952).

Answer: Last Night on Earth

"Night of the Demon" (1957) is about a satanic cult in England. "Night of the Ghouls" (1959) is an Ed Wood film which follows on from "Bride of the Monster" (1955). "The Night the World Exploded" (1957) is about a new atomic element which blows up if it dries out. "Last Night on Earth" (2007) is a survival horror board game with zombies. "Last Night on Earth" (2009) is a song by Green Day recorded live in Tokyo. "Last Night on Earth" (1997) is a memoir by dancer Bill T. Jones. There does not appear to have been a 1950s horror or science-fiction film called "Last Night on Earth."

Answer: a humanoid who can read minds and heal

In "Stranger From Venus," the Visitor first demonstrates his ability to heal human injuries by saving the life of Susan North after a car crash. He then demonstrates his ability to read minds while interacting with the people at the inn. The local doctor who examines him says "There is no pulse. There are two possible explanations for this; I am drunk, or you are dead." The Visitor is able to speak many human languages because his people have learned them from radio broadcasts from Earth.

Answer: Guy Williams

Guy Williams was cast as the dashing swordsman Zorro (1957-1959, 1960-1961) and as the father of the space family in "Lost in Space" (1965-1968). His role in "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" was as a police officer Chris Stanley. Officer Stanley was engaged in the investigation of the murder of a teenage gymnast Theresa (played by Playboy model Dawn Richard). Stanley shows the photographs of Frank's mutilated body to Pepe, the police department janitor who is from the Carpathian mountains, and he identifies the wounds as the work of a werewolf.

Answer: to avoid confusion with "Dracula" (1931)

The Bela Lugosi version of "Dracula" (1931) was so popular in the United States that it was shown in theatres on special occasions like Hallowe'en or a midnight "creature feature." In order to avoid any confusion, Universal Pictures (which distributed "Horror of Dracula" in America) insisted on the name change from the British title.

Answer: I Was a Teenage Ghoul

AI's success with "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957) spurred the company to produce two more films which were pretty much just like it: "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957) and "Blood of Dracula" (1957). In each film, the teenager is the victim of an evil design and is turned into the specified monster.

There was a recording of "I Was a Teenage Ghoul Scout" by The Frankenstein Drag Queens of Planet 13 in 2000. But no one ever made a movie titled "I Was a Teenage Ghoul."

Answer: skyscrapers as much as a half mile tall

The crew sees what appears to be an industrial city, with vertical architecture reaching about a half mile into the air. They launch a rubber raft to cross the lake and visit this city but the appearance of the melted-gummy-bear-ameboid monster surfacing in front of them causes them to reverse course and flee.

Answer: acting

American actor Rex Reason (1928-2015) was a handsome television and motion picture actor with a melodic baritone voice. Perhaps his best-known role was as engineer Dr. Cal Meacham in "This Island Earth" (1955) where he was romantically coupled with Faith Domergue.

He missed the first two in the three-part "Creature from the Black Lagoon" series but played Dr. Tom Morgan in the third: "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). He played opposite Jeff Morrow, who starred with him in "This Island Earth," in a 1962 television episode of Perry Mason titled "The Case of the Ancient Romeo."

Answer: under the New Mexico desert

The United States government constructed a facility at which to conduct all sorts of research having to do with manned space flight. It was put underground both to disguise it and protect it. It is located somewhere under the New Mexico desert. Dr. David Shepherd, played by Richard Egan, flies there in a helicopter which is radio-controlled by a computer to keep the exact location secret even from the pilot.

Answer: She hosted a late-night TV horror-film show.

Cassandra Peterson (b. 1951) developed the character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, as the host of a late-night horror movie show on Los Angeles television. The buxom host's show, "Elvira's Movie Macabre," was soon syndicated nationally. Her popularity led to two motion pictures: "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" (1988) and "Elvira's Haunted Hills" (2001). Peterson has taken her character to other venues, as well. Appearing in her cleavage-displaying black gown, she has been a guest commentator on "WrestleMania 2" and has judged both "RuPaul's Drag Race" and Food Network's "Halloween Wars."