Horrifying Vacation Locales Trivia Quiz

Answer: Blake and friends have decided to visit town for the anniversary party

The film is "The Fog". Blake is the leader of a leper colony which the town's ancestors killed off in order to steal their money. Adrienne Barbeau plays Stevie Wayne, the KAB radio station owner and disc jockey in Antonio Bay. Ms. Barbeau appears in another John Carpenter movie - "Escape From New York".

She also has a "revealing" role in "Swamp Thing" (make sure to catch the cable version).

Answer: Birds are chasing them

The film is Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". In the film, Tippi Hedren brings a couple of lovebirds as a birthday present to the little sister of the man she is romantically pursuing. Eventually, the town is filled with killer birds and they don't just make a mess on your car windshield.

Many people know that Tippi Hedren is the mother of Melanie Griffith, but few know about child actress Veronica Cartwright. She played Cathy Brenner. Veronica later grew up to be an adult scream queen as well. She has appeared in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy, where her main role was screaming and crying.

She was also Lambert, the navigator, in "Alien", where she mixed it up a bit by crying and then screaming.

Answer: Delbert Grady at the hotel bar

"The Shining" is Stanley Kubrick's vision of Stephen King's novel about a family who agrees to be the caretakers of an isolated hotel. The hotel turns out to have quite a frightening history, which seems to negatively affect the current occupants. Obviously, you want to avoid Jack Nicholson and his axe, but Delbert Grady is the former caretaker who SUCCESSFULLY chopped up his family into little pieces with an axe and piled them in a corner of the hotel.

His famous line was: "They needed ... correcting." The next time you are planning to get in a little trouble, you might want to make sure that your parents don't have cabin fever first.

Answer: Michael Myers escaped from the loony bin

"Halloween" is an independent film where a guy wearing a William Shatner mask kills all of babysitter Jamie Lee Curtis' friends. Dr. Loomis, Michael Myers' shrink, is played by veteran actor Donald Pleasance in the film. Speaking of shrinking, Mr. Pleasance and Raquel Welch are among the people shrunk down, stuck in a miniaturized submarine, and implanted into some poor shmoe's body in "Fantastic Voyage". Luckily, Raquel never noticed Donald's "shrinkage".

Answer: There are zombies down there

"Dawn of the Dead" is George Romero's classic sequel to "Night of the Living Dead", where four people find refuge from zombie hordes in a shopping mall. Flyboy is the nickname of Steven, the helicopter pilot who gets them there; although, by the end of the movie, his nickname should probably be changed to "Leg Dragging Pistol Finger Boy".

Answer: "Don't play with Captain Howdy"

Sorry if you guessed the Anti-Christ when you saw Damien, but there was a famous Damien who appeared in a horror movie several years before "The Omen" was filmed. Jason Miller played Father Damien Karras, one of the priests who tried to keep Linda Blair from floating in her sleep, in the film "The Exorcist". Jason reprises his role as Karras in "The Exorcist 3" starring George C. Scott.

By the way, Captain Howdy is the entity who Regan McNeil (Linda Blair) contacts with her ouija board; eventually, she becomes possessed. (Oh, by the way, the other Damien's last name is Thorn, not Karras).

Answer: Indrid Cold will predict the future and it probably won't be good

"The Mothman Prophecies" is the movie where Richard Gere does his best truck driver impression, by driving to another state while sleeping the entire time. When he gets there, some people are seeing and hearing a bizarre being who has a penchant for making deadly predictions. Listen carefully during the credits after this movie. You can hear Indrid Cold whispering behind the song that is playing during the credits. Check the musical credits as well. I've heard of The Beatles, but who knew moths had musical talent?

Answer: Sharks are swimming in the kitchen

If you guessed anacondas, then you've picked the wrong rapper - that's Ice Cube, starring with JLo. Nope, it's not Snoop Dog either. In this case, it's the classic rapper, LL Cool J who plays Aquatica's resident chef, Preacher. In the film "Deep Blue Sea", LL cooks for a bunch of scientists whose shark experiments go terribly wrong. Even though his coolness once sang "Mama Said Knock You Out", he doesn't seem too tough when one of the super-intelligent sharks prepares his own meal ... Preacher's pet bird.

Answer: The Thing

U.S. National Science Institute Station 4 is an Antarctic research station in John Carpenter's remake of the classic, "The Thing". Unlike the original, where James Arness (better known as Marshall Dillon) is a vegetable man, the thing in the modern film absorbs and immitates its victims.

The star of the movie is Kurt Russell, but winning the award for "Best Performance in Getting Your Head Eaten When You Can't Get Your Flamethrower To Work" is Windows, the radio operator. While it is never directly explained, it is likely that his nickname stems from the dark glasses he wears...either that, or he is a big Bill Gates fan.

Answer: Masochistic miners are doing face piercings

Well, if you've been paying attention, you would realize it is probably another John Carpenter movie. This time, it is Ice Cube in who plays "Desolation" Williams. In "Ghosts of Mars", the original residents of Mars try to evict a group of miners by taking over their human bodies and ravaging everybody in sight with sharp objects, including themselves. Carpenter had a habit of coming up with some bizarre character names such as Napoleon Wilson, Snake Plisskin, and Fresno Bob.

It's ironic that his most famous character has the fairly boring name of "Michael Myers".