Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 119 Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

While studying the Gill Man at Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, animal psychologist Clete Ferguson and graduate-student ichthyologist Helen Dobson determine that it/he is clearly intelligent. In an attempt to communicate with him, they teach him a few words of the English language.

In particular, they teach him to respond to the word "stop" by jabbing him with an electric bull prod. As a strategy to build a bridge of trust and friendship between species, this one is not outstandingly successful.

Answer: Mother of Horror

"Cat Girl" (1957) is about an heiress who turns into a leopard. "Devil Girl from Mars" (1954) describes the efforts of the women of Mars to import healthy virile Earth men to replace their own men who are impotent and dying. The title character of "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" (1957) is indeed the daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll but did she inherit the transformative propensity to become a homicidal monster?

Sadie Hartman, editor, writer, and publisher of "Dark Harts" books, has been called "Mother Horror" by her fans. She runs a horror subscription company called Night Worms. Terrence Rafferty wrote, in the 24 October 2008 "New York Times", that, "when [Mary Shelley] finished ["Frankenstein"], a few months short of her 20th birthday, [she] became the mother of horror." The Brazilian metal band AnkerkeriA released the song "Mother of Horrors" on its 2021 album "Matriarch". There does not seem to have been a 1950s horror or science fiction movie called "Mother of Horror".

Answer: a high-frequency audio rifle thingie

When several alarms go off inside the shelter, Dr. Penner notices that the sound agitates the alien they have confined in their pressure chamber. He produces a "gun" which will project very loud high-frequency sound and tries it out on their captured alien.

The alien becomes ghostly visible, leaves the corpse it occupies, and dies. Major Jay goes outside to find the alien ship. He uses the high-frequency sound-wave generating machine gun on several zombies he meets along the way and they all die.

He finds the mother ship, fires the sound gun at it, and it explodes.

Answer: Lloyd Bridges

Lloyd Bridges played roles in two motion pictures involving a spaceship traveling to the Moon: "Rocketship X-M" (1950) and "Stowaway to the Moon" (1975). In one episode of "Sea Hunt" titled "Underwater Ejection", Bridges' character worked with a rocket scientist on a top-secret project called "X-M". "Rocketship X-M" was not the only film in which Bridges and Hugh O'Brian worked together: they also appeared ensemble in "Little Big Horn" (1951).

Answer: a homicidal prehistoric aquatic beast

The evil carnival hypnotist Dr. Carlo Lombardi hypnotises the lovely Andrea Talbott. He has amorous designs upon her but also uses her as his subject for experiments in hypnotic regression. He takes her back to her former identity as Elizabeth Anne Weatherby in 1618. From there, he takes her back to her prehistoric form as an aquatic creature: fins, clawed webbed hands, fangs. Lombardi is able to command this sea beast to kill in the present.

At one point, he tells an audience that the creature is coming from the sea -- "a creature from out of the pond is coming to live among us" -- and they flee. Seaweed is strewn across the floor at the scene of one of the murders.

The She-Creature arises from and returns to the sea.

Answer: Yes

Universal studios produced a television series called "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". It was shown on American television by NBC 1979-1981. The pilot for the series was shot and released as a theatrical film to promote the upcoming TV series. Gil Gerard played Captain William "Buck" Rogers. He also appeared in two television series: "Sidekicks" (1986) and "E.A.R.T.H. Force" (1990).

Answer: They shared sets and costumes.

The two films were made at roughly the same time, using many of the same sets, and sharing uniform costumes. They were released within a day of each other (September 3 and 4), albeit by different distributors. The spacesuits were the ones originally used in "Destination Moon" (1950). Years later the US Environmental Protection Agency would urge citizens to "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle".

These films were obviously early adopters of this sagacious advice. "Project Moonbase" was produced by Jack Seaman and directed by Richard Talmadge; "Cat-Women of the Moon" was produced by Jack Rabin and Al Zimbalist and directed by Arthur Hilton.

Answer: acting

Dean Jagger (1903-1991) was an American actor whose performance in "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His acting career included vaudeville, the stage, radio, motion pictures and television. His performances in horror and science fiction films included "Revolt of the Zombies" (1936), "X the Unknown" (1956), "Evil Town" (1977), "End of the World" (1977), and "Alligator" (1980).

Answer: Hicksburg

Artie says that this motion picture takes place in and around the small town of Hicksburg. He continues to assure the audience that this is not a joke but the actual name of the town. "Hick" is an American slang term meaning an unsophisticated, awkward, provincial person (probably wearing overalls). American humourist Robert Quillen (1887-1948) wrote, "A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be." "Hick" is an American slang term meaning an unsophisticated, awkward, provincial person (probably wearing overalls). All of the action in this film takes place in and around Hicksburg in a single Saturday night.

Answer: The Blood Rust disabled the landing gear.

The Trans Orient Airways flight, with Pvt. Joe Rattigan and Laura Greeling on board, has an unauthorized passenger: Blood Rust. It began growing in Laura's luggage in the cargo bay, filled that space and is growing up vents toward the passenger compartment.

The space fungus has fouled the hydraulic equipment such that the landing gear cannot be deployed. It is also growing all over the outside of the plane. They cannot return to Los Angeles and the nearest airfield with decontamination equipment is Oxnard Air Force Base.

The aircraft makes a wheels-up landing on its belly. The plane and its passengers are decontaminated.