Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 138 Trivia Quiz

Answer: none

Despite the Italian title "I vampiri" (literally the plural "the vampires" as contrasted with "il vampiro" the singular "the vampire"), there are no vampires in this motion picture. Its English distributors retitled it "Lust of the Vampire" and its American distributors retitled it "The Devil's Commandment".

When four young women, all with the same blood type, are found murdered with the blood in their bodies completely drained, the Parisian press promptly calls the unknown killer "The Vampire" ("le vampire").

A deranged professor, Julian du Grand, discovers an imperfect method to restore the youth and beauty of an older woman. He connects her bloodstream to a machine which replaces it with the blood of a young woman. The effect is only temporary, and she reverts to her old and ugly looks without warning.

Answer: The Hungry Thing

"The Thing From Another World" (1951) is about a sentient vegetable flying-saucer pilot who craves blood. "The Thing That Couldn't Die" (1958) is about a conquistador beheaded for sorcery 400 years ago who is revived in modern California. "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" (1958) is about a Martian creature who stows away on a spaceship bound for Earth and sucks all the fluid from his human victims.

Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler wrote and illustrated "The Hungry Thing" (1967) -- a rhyming book for grades 1-2 about things a monster wants to eat: shmancakes, tickles, hookies, and gollipops. The Hungry I was a nightclub in North Beach in San Francisco, California (1949-1970). "Hungry Hungry Hippos" is a tabletop children's game introduced in 1978. It does not appear that there was a 1950s movie named "The Hungry Thing".

Answer: He reverts to his former sick self and dies.

The monster with Karl's brain begins to deteriorate. It develops the same lust for blood and flesh experienced by the chimpanzee in the laboratory. It kills a young girl and then confronts the baron. His hunched back and other disfiguration have fully returned. He begs for help but dies at Frankenstein's feet.

Answer: Hayden Rorke

General "Pappy" Greene is played by William Henry Rorke (1910-1987), whose stage name was Hayden Rorke. Rorke later became well known for playing Colonel Alfred E. Bellows on the NBC television programme "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965-1970). In "Project Moonbase", he is the commander of the United States Space Force and sends a crew of three to circle the Moon to survey possible sites for building a Moon base.

When the two survivors of the mission are going to remain on the Moon for an extended period, he suggests marriage. Colonel Briteis and Major Moore are then married by videoconference.

Answer: all of them appear in the movie

The Lockheed Super Constellation four-engine prop plane, which takes off from Los Alamos, New Mexico, at the very beginning of the film, is plainly marked as a TransWorld Airlines (TWA) flight. Both the astronauts' wristwatches and the clocks on the wall of their spaceship's compartment are marked as made by Longines.

The astronauts all appear to smoke Chesterfield Kings cigarettes. There is also a Coca-Cola dispensing machine seen in the motion picture.

Answer: England

"The Man Who Could Cheat Death" was made by Hammer Films in England. It was shot at Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK. Shooting scenes which are supposed to be in Paris while the camera is in England presents challenges, but these were cinematically overcome.

Answer: False

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) wrote a short story called "The Body Snatcher" which was published in "The Pall Mall Gazette" in December 1884. It was based on the sixteen murders committed by William Burke and William Hare in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Burke and Hare sold the corpses of their freshly murdered victims to Robert Knox (1791-1862) for dissection by his medical students. Stevenson's story was made into Val Lewton's 1945 RKO motion picture "The Body Snatcher" starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

The working title for the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was "The Body Snatchers" but that sounded too similar to Lewton's film. The studio preferred "They Come from Another World". Director Don Siegel preferred "Sleep No More". Other titles considered were "Better Off Dead", "Evil in the Night" and "World in Danger". The film was finally released as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" which displeased lead actress Dana Wynter, who said, "How can I admit to my parents that I'm doing a picture called 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', for God's sake? They'll think I'm demented!"

Answer: acting

John Hoyt (1905-1991) acted on Broadway, on television, and in numerous motion pictures. He was awarded both bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University. His science fiction and horror filmography includes "Lost Continent" (1951), "When Worlds Collide" (1951), "The Black Castle" (1952), "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958), "Curse of the Undead" (1959), "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" (1963), "The Time Travelers" (1964), and "Flesh Gordon" (1974).

Answer: Los Angeles, California

The setting of "Frankenstein's Daughter" is mid-20th century Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Police Department investigates both the assaults and the burglaries at Rockwell Laboratories and the theft of the chemical Digenerol from those L.A. premises.

Answer: a new form of energy

Professor Roch is working on "the secret of matter". Count Artigas wants to use a new form of energy to provide the propellant/explosive for a new kind of super cannon and to fuel a new type of airplane. The Count's ultimate goal is to rule the world.