Here There Be Monsters Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lake Placid

When a man is eaten by an unknown monster, local Game Warden, played by Bill Pullman, and big city paleontologist, played by Bridget Fonda, team up to try and track down the beast. Oliver Platt plays Hector Cyr, an eccentric millionaire who risks life and limb to go for a swim with the crocodile, not really realizing just how big it is.

Answer: Monsters, Inc.

Dependent upon the screams of children to generate their power, these monsters also live in terror of being contaminated by actual contact with a child. It takes one little girl, who refuses to be frightened, to teach them that the energy that comes from laughter is far more powerful than the energy that comes from fear.

Answer: Little Shop of Horrors

Rick Moranis plays a geekish florist who dreams of romance with his co-worker Audrey. He discovers and nurtures this strange plant, enjoying the fame and respect it brings him, until its voracious appetite begins to cause problems. Steve Martin is a little over the top as a sadistic dentist. Directed by Frank Oz, of Miss Piggy and Yoda fame.

Answer: Jurassic Park

Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough star in this very frightening movie. Spielberg does a wonderful job of building suspense, using a simple glass of water on the dashboard. The water ripples in concentric circles with the impact tremors of the approaching dinosaur. This effect was created by attaching a guitar string underneath the dash, right below the glass.

Answer: Silence of the Lambs

The F.B.I. need to catch the serial killer 'Buffalo Bill'. Unfortunately the person that holds the key to Bill's real identity is himself a monster, the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins. Incarcerated for life, Lecter has all the time in the world to play games with Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, the fledgling F.B.I. agent desperate to save the life of the young girl that Bill has just kidnapped.

Answer: Beauty and the Beast

Paige O'Hara is the voice of Belle, the beautiful and intelligent young woman who is able to see that beauty is more than skin deep, and break the curse. Robby Benson. Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers and Angela Lansbury also lend their voice talents to this first, animated feature film to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

Answer: King Kong

Jessica Lange got her big break in this, her first movie, that also stars Jeff Bridges and Charles Grodin. Lange first enters the movie, floating along in a rubber dinghy. After she had shot the scene, she was told that a shark had been spotted near her dinghy.

Answer: Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder plays Dr. Frankenstein, a rather inept doctor who suddenly finds himself inheriting his grandfather's estate, after years of trying to live down the family reputation. Once he enters the castle, he becomes obsessed with replicating his grandfather's work. Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr and Cloris Leachman round out the cast, in this film that was shot with the same lab equipment, and in the same castle, as the original, 1931 version.

Answer: The Mummy

Stephen Sommers directs this comedy/horror that is set in 1923, and stars Brendan Frasier, Rachel Weisz and Arnold Vosloo. Weisz is brilliant as the brainy, but bumbling librarian, who is years ahead of her time in her approach to women's rights.

Answer: Rosemary's Baby

Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes play a young couple who move into a new apartment, and are befriended by their elderly neighbours. When Farrow becomes pregnant, the neighbours become a little too attentive, and she is plagued by strange dreams. She begins to suspect that some kind of horrible deal has been struck between her husband, who has become very successful at work, and her neighbours.

But she soon finds that anyone she tries to tell is in on the conspiracy.

Answer: Alien

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, and John Hurt starred in this horror film, under Ridley Scott's direction. Apparently Scott wanted to shoot a much darker ending, where the alien won, but 20th Century Fox wouldn't go for it.

Answer: Beetlejuice

Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis play a young couple who are surprised to find themselves dead, after a car accident. But being dead isn't the worst of their problems, they're really having a hard time accepting the loud and obnoxious new owners of their house. When their best efforts fail to scare the intruders away, they decide to hire Beetlejuice to do the job for them.

Answer: Dragonheart

When King Einon was young he was trained by Bowen, played by Dennis Quaid, who did his best to teach the young king about honour and responsibility. But when he came into power, Einon showed how evil he truly was, and Bowen left to hunt down the dragon who gave Einon his heart.

But instead of killing each other, they form an unlikely alliance, and come to realize together that the only way that Einon's cruelty can be stopped, is for Draco to die first.

Answer: An American Werewolf in London

David Naughton and Griffin Dunne star in this movie that was directed by John Landis. It was also written by Landis in 1969, when he was only 19 years old. The special effects used for Naughton's transformation into a werewolf are something to see, even 20 years later.

Answer: Cujo

Donna Trenton and her son Tad are trapped in a car by a rabid St. Bernard. The problem is that nobody knows they're there, and with her husband gone on a business trip, nobody is going to notice them missing. And if that isn't bad enough, they haven't got any food or drink, and it's getting very hot out there. Actually, five dogs, one mechanical head and a guy in a dog costume were used in the filming.