Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 146 Trivia Quiz

Answer: to become the dictator of the United States

The Phantom Ruler, played by Stanley Price, is a scientist and inventor. He has discovered a technology whereby, when clothes are soaked in a certain chemical and then a certain light is shone upon them, they and their contents disappear. The Phantom Ruler uses this technology to rob banks. His scheme is to create an army of invisible soldiers by which he can take over and rule the USA.

Answer: The Devil Woman

"Voodoo Woman" (1957) stars Mike Conners who later played detective Joe Mannix on television. "The Wasp Woman" (1959) stars Anthony Eisley who played police detective Tracy Steele on TV's "Hawaiian Eye". "The Woman Eater" (1958) stars George Coulouris who played Doctor Constantine in the movie "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974).

Frank Montgomery made an early silent black-and-white short about American Indians called "Owana, the Devil Woman" (1913). Marlene Dietrich starred with Lionel Atwill and Edward Everett Horton in the romantic comedy "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935). A film in Tagalog, Mandarin, and Filipino was made in Hong Kong and the Philippines called "She Yao Jing" (1973) which was released in the US as "Devil Woman" (1976). A six-minute short in which Lauren Branam plays a vampire was titled "The Devil Woman" (2013). Samuel Brower wrote the novel "Devil Woman" (2022). No one seems to have made a theatrical movie called "The Devil Woman" in the 1950s.

Answer: a piscine amphibious humanoid

Scientists searching for fossil evidence of a prehistoric creature with both humanoid and piscine characteristics find, instead, a living example of the species. A sort of half-man half-fish, the organism has fangs and webbed claws with which to defend itself.

It is photophobic (probably due to the reduced light in the waters of the Black Lagoon) and breathes through pulsing gills. Their belief is that this "Gill Man" evolved in prehistory, undiscovered in the Amazonian jungle's waters. There is reason to believe that he is the last of his species.

Answer: Marvin Miller

William Bryant, who played the lead, Dr. Ralph Martin, in "King Dinosaur" (1955), went on to become both a voice-over artist and narrator in the motion pictures of the 1970s and 1980s. The narrator of "King Dinosaur" was Marvin Miller. Miller was well known as the voice of Robby the Robot in "Forbidden Planet" (1956), the voice of Gerald McBoing-Boing in the 1950 TV cartoon, and the narrator of numerous science fiction and horror motion pictures.

Answer: asphyxiation

The Moon is occupied by beautiful women with blue-green skin, much of which is exposed by their costumes. They have eyebrows which look rather like those of Mister Spock on "Star Trek". There is no oxygen on the Moon's surface; there is diminishing oxygen in the sublunar caves occupied by the Moon maidens. Alpha wants to kill all the Earth people; one of the maidens opposes her and decides to sacrifice herself to save Lon.

She throws a bomb inside the throne room, which tears a hole in the palace wall, allowing all of the air to escape.

The evacuated oxygen causes the death of all the moon women by asphyxia.

Answer: a 1906 horror story by F.M. Crawford

John Kneubuhl based his screenplay for "The Screaming Skull" on a story written in 1906 by Francis Marion Crawford. Crawford's story was drawn from an even earlier folk tale. According to it, a black slave died at Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset, England.

His request to be buried in his homeland in Africa was denied. His skull was encased in a wooden box from which strange noises would emit in the night. It became known as "the screaming skull".

Answer: very short phosphorescent bald people

At night, two luminous figures emerge from the hole in the ground created by the oil drilling. They are about three feet tall, have bulbous bald heads, and glow in the dark. Everything they touch becomes luminous, as well. Frightened townspeople call them "monsters" and form a mob to kill them. Superman intervenes saying, "You're not going to shoot those little creatures.

In the first place, they haven't done you any harm. In the second place, they may be radioactive." The Mole Men return to their subterranean caverns and seal the well behind them to keep Mole Men and humans apart.

Answer: acting

Richard Miller (1928-2019) appeared in over 180 motion pictures. He was a regular in films made by directors Roger Corman and Joe Dante. Among the horror and science fiction motion pictures in which Miller has appeared are "It Conquered the World" (1956), "Not of This Earth" (1957), "The Undead" (1957), "War of the Satellites" (1958), "A Bucket of Blood" (1959), "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960), "The Premature Burial" (1962), "The Terror" (1963), "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" (1963), "Piranha" (1978), "The Howling" (1981), "Space Raiders" (1983), "Gremlins" (1984), "Chopping Mall" (1986), "Night of the Creeps" (1986), "Project X" (1987), "Amazon Women on the Moon" (1987), "Dead Heat" (1987), "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (1990), "Demon Knight" (1995), "Route 666" (2001), "Trail of the Screaming Forehead" (2007), "The Hole" (2009), and "Burying the Ex" (2014).

Answer: New Orleans

The protagonist Stan Grayson plays clarinet in a big band in New Orleans, Louisiana. Grayson's brother-in-law Rene Bressard is a detective in the New Orleans Police Department. The film was shot on location in New Orleans. The theme song of the movie is titled "Nightmare in New Orleans" and is performed by Billy May and His Orchestra (who appear as themselves in the motion picture).

Answer: Drew controlled her hypnotically/telepathically.

One of the powers which Gideon Drew obtained from the Devil was the ability to control others with his mind. When his head is exhumed, he is able to hypnotize others and command them to do his will. Once Jessica is no longer protected by the talisman, Drew compels her to both find the rest of his body and reattach his head to it.