Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 04 Trivia Quiz

Answer: The theatre seats began to vibrate.

The film's producer-director William Castle invented a gimmick which he called "Percepto!". US Army surplus vibrators were attached to the bottoms of some of the theatre seats and were turned on during the scary bits. As if this weren't enough, actors were planted in the audience to scream and even appear to faint.

Answer: Eye of the Black Cat

"Cat-Women of the Moon" was a 1953 science-fiction motion picture. "Cat Girl" was produced in 1957. "Black Cat Mansion" was released in 1958. "Eye of the Cat" was a 1969 horror film (NOT a 1950s movie) about a little old lady who kept a lot of very protective cats in her San Francisco mansion. "Eye of the Black Cat" is a 2015 painting by David Lee Thompson.

There does not appear to have been a motion picture named "Eye of the Black Cat".

Answer: none, as the "haunting" was a ruse

There were no ghosts nor any other supernatural entities in "Spook Chasers" (1957): no gargoyles, no poltergeists, no ghouls. The Bowery Boys were told that the house in which they were staying was haunted. Gangsters wanted to scare the boys out of the house so they posed as phantoms to frighten them.

Answer: Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1899-1962) played the evil Sire Alain de Maletroit in "The Strange Door" (1951). His character had lost his love to this younger brother twenty years before, only to have her die in childbirth. He was motivated by revenge. Laughton was better known for his non-horror roles: King Henry VIII in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933), Captain William Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), King Herod in "Salome" (1953) and Sir Wilfrid Robarts in "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957).

Answer: western

Because of its setting (1880 in the Southwestern United States) and the lifestyle it depicts, "Teen Monster" is certainly a western movie. There have not been many western-horror films made. Some of the more memorable are "The Burrowers" (2008), "Dead Birds" (2004), "Bone Tomahawk" (2015), and "Near Dark" (1987).

Answer: Japan

The Toho Company of Tokyo, Japan, made "The Mysterians" (1957). Toho is a major producer and distributor of Japanese motion pictures, theater productions and television programmes. "The Mysterians" was produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, based on a story by Jojiro Okami, and directed by Ishiro Honda.

The film was shot in anamorphic TohoScope and Perspecta Stereophonic Sound. A literal translation of the name of the film from the Japanese is "Earth Defense Force" with reference to the multi-nationality of the military forces brought together to combat the Mysterians in the end.

The film was shot in Japanese and dubbed into English by RKO.

Answer: soap suds and cotton balls

Among the heaviest criticisms of "The Unknown Terror" (1957) were those ridiculing its special effects. The surface of the interior of the cave was created with soap bubbles which, responsive to gravity, tended to slide down the walls. The appearance of the monsters was created by attaching cotton balls to the actors using liquid adhesives and spirit gum.

Answer: acting

Patricia Owens (1925-2000) was born in British Columbia, Canada, and had a modest career as a Hollywood actress. She played in over forty films including "Island in the Sun" (1957) and "Sayonara" (1957). Perhaps her best remembered scene was the one in "The Fly" (1958) in which she, in her role as Hélène Delambre, the scientist's wife, is seen through the compound, many-lensed eye of insects.

She retired from television and film in 1968.

Answer: a Scottish inn in the Highlands

A spaceship, destined for London, collides with a passenger plane somewhere over Scotland. The ship crash lands near the Bonnie Charlie, a remote inn located in the Scottish Highlands. The residents of the inn are trapped by the commander of the spaceship, Nyah, a woman from Mars.

Answer: cartoon animation

In order to depict Superman flying, several techniques were used. He would be filmed "jumping off" in the sense of leaping from a standing position into the air. This was followed by a quick cut to a film of him made by turning the camera on its side while Alyn stood with his arms raised in front of a cyclorama.

A wind machine and smoke generator out of the camera's view completed the effect. This did not work for wider, longer shots which were accomplished in cartoon animation.