Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 88 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Frank is Baron Frankenstein's grandson.

Oliver Frankenstein has changed his name to Oliver Frank and moved to America to disguise his relationship with his grandfather, Baron Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the original monster.

Answer: Plague of the Killer Hornets

"The Fly" (1958) stars Vincent Price as François Delambre but it is his brother, André Delambre, played by David Hedison, who turns into a half-man/half-fly creature. In "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959), the giant gila monster is actually a little bitty Mexican beaded lizard made to look huge and fearsome by camera tricks. "The Killer Shrews" (1959) involves scientific experiments to make humans smaller which results (somehow) in making shrews larger.

The Murder Hornet is the common name for the Vespa mandarinia, variously known as the Asian giant hornet, the northern giant hornet, and the Japanese giant hornet. As these critters have reached the US, two documentaries about them have been made: "Killer Hornets" (2016) and "Attack of the Murder Hornets" (2021). Not to be left behind, a horror film was made called "Ebola Rex Versus Murder Hornets" (2021). The IMDB describes it, "The diseased Dinosaur battles to the death with the Murder Hornets during a zombie outbreak that is hit by several 'firenados' containing flaming spiders." There does not appear to have been a film titled "Plague of the Killer Hornets" in the 1950s.

Answer: He and his creator are blown up with dynamite.

The monster in "The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues" is the creation of Professor King. When the scientist finally realizes that his creation is responsible for many deaths and must be stopped, he takes action. He destroys the laboratory in which the creature was made and then sets up to kill the monster with dynamite. The phantom struggles with Dr. King underwater and the explosives detonate, killing both the creator and the created.

Answer: Richard Boone

Richard Boone was an A-list actor. His work in television: "Medic" (1954-1956) and "Have Gun, Will Travel" (1957-1963), and in films: "The Robe" (1953) and "The Alamo" (1960) made him an unlikely pick for the lead in "I Bury the Living." Writer Garfinkle and director Band sought to add some "gravitas" to the "dramatis personae" of their film by hiring Boone and Theodore Bikel.

Answer: True

Dr. Georges Bonnet is portrayed as a successful surgeon but also as a highly-accomplished sculptor. He is working on a sculpture of Janine Dubois for which Hazel Court poses topless. The unfinished sculpture seen in the film was made from a body cast of her torso.

The release of the film in the US and UK showed only her naked back while the European release showed her bare breasts. This was the only movie in which Court appeared unclothed. She said that she did the scene nude because it was warranted by the script and was shot, in her words, "beautifully."

Answer: both of these are correct

"Fire Maidens from Outer Space" is a British film released in Great Britain with the preposition "from" in its title. When the film was distributed in the United States, it was released as "Fire Maidens of Outer Space" with the preposition "of" in its title. The reason for this difference remains a great cinematic mystery.

Answer: The serum revives a body but not its mind.

Moran strangles Margaret, his housekeeper and former lover. He then injects the serum produced by the tree into her vein. She revives and sits up but is unresponsive to speech. Moran muses "Only a body; no mind." He shouts at Tanga 'Your people cheated me! They gave me only half the secret!" Tanga defiantly replies, "Our secret not for you; the brain for us only."

Answer: directing

Jewish-Moravian director Edgar Ulmer (1904-1972) was born in present-day Czech Republic. He acted on stage there and learned set design, then assisted film directors such as F. W. Murnau, Robert Siodmak, and Billy Wilder. He came to Hollywood in 1926 and went on to become "The King of PRC" (Producers Releasing Corporation -- a low-budget film studio well-known for horror films). Among the notable titles in this genre were "The Black Cat" (1934), "The Man from Planet X" (1951), "The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" (1957), "The Amazing Transparent Man" (1960), and "Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960).

Answer: the Pacific coast of Mexico

American artist and illustrator Julie Blair, played by Anne Kimbell, is vacationing in a small Mexican village on the Pacific Coast. There are rumors of a sea monster living in the cove where she draws pictures and swims. The film was shot at Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu, California, at Paradise Cove in Malibu, California, and on Santa Catalina Island, in the Channel Islands of California. All of these locations stand in for Mexico.

Answer: beautiful tribal dancers/monstrous mutants

The survivors of the shipwreck hear jungle drums as soon as they look around the island. Further investigation discloses a wild ceremony with bongo drums and orgiastic dancing. The beautiful women performing this dance are members of The Diane Nellis Dancers.

The ladies were such good sports that they doubled as the She Demons: still scantily clad, still well proportioned, but with horribly disfigured faces. Their willingness to wear the ugly make-up held down personnel costs for the film.