Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 198 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Two movies yoked for a single showing

The song "Science Fiction/Double Feature" opens both the 1973 musical stage production, "The Rocky Horror Show," and its movie adaptation "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975). The exhibitors' premise in coupling two B movies for showing based on a single admission was that two films unlikely to draw a large audience independently would attract more impecunious viewers. See Ulf Jonas Bjork, "Double Features and B Movies," Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 34-49. Double bills, second-run movie theatres, and schlocky motion pictures became commonplace during the American Depression and survived well into the movie houses and drive-in theatres of the 1950s.

Answer: Space Demons

The feature-length movies "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1957), "The Space Children" (1958), and "Space Invasion of Lapland" (1959) are all actual, not-made-up, existent, and authentic motion pictures. In "Plan 9 From Outer Space," Earth's enemy is aliens who resurrect dead humans. In "The Space Children," Earth's enemy is aliens who take over the minds and wills of children. In "Space Invasion of Lapland," Earth's enemy is aliens who bring with them a giant hairy gorilla-like creature.

Gillian Rubinstein's YA novel "Space Demons" was published in Australia in 1986. Void Commander released the song "Space Demons" in 2018. "The Demon Monster from Outer Space" is a 2005 movie written and directed by David "The Rock" Nelson. "Space Demon" is a video game released by Nintendo in 1981. Diligent research has not revealed a 1950s feature-length science fiction or horror movie named "Space Demons."

Answer: Klaris

Popoca was the mummy in a series of three Mexican horror-adventure films beginning with "The Aztec Mummy" (1957). Murray was the mummy in "Hotel Transylvania" (2012). Imhotep was the mummy played by Boris Karloff in "The Mummy" (1932). Kharis was the mummy in "The Mummy's Hand" (1940), "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), and "The Mummy's Curse" (1944). Stuntman Eddie Parker, who doubled Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis, played Klaris in "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy." Why Universal changed the cinematic mummy's name from Kharis to Klaris is unknown.

Answer: Faith Domergue

Faith Marie Domergue (1924-1999) was an American film and television actress. Her name appears on most lists of "scream queens" in Anglo-American cinema. Her role in "It Came From Beneath the Sea" (1955) is that of a scientist and the love interest of actor Kenneth Tobey's character. Other movies in her horror and science-fiction filmography include "Cult of the Cobra" (1955), "This Island Earth" (1955), "Timeslip" (UK) "The Atomic Man" (USA) (1955), "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965), "Blood Legacy" (1971), "So Evil, My Sister" (1974), and "The House of Seven Corpses" (1974).

Answer: Looking at the stars

Jack Putnam is an amateur astronomer (called a "stargazer" by Sheriff Matt Warren played by Charles Drake). The sheriff is jealous of Putnam's relationship with Ellen Fields, a school teacher. The couple drive out beyond the effect of the lights of Sand Rock to look at the night sky. It is at this moment that an alien spacecraft streaks fire across the sky, causing them to think that it was a meteor. It crashes and they (foolishly) go to investigate.

Answer: False

The nom de plume Kenneth Langtry was used pseudonymously by American B-movie producer Herman Cohen and Romanian novelist and boxer Aben Kandel. The pair not only wrote the screenplay for "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" but also teamed to write the scripts for "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957), "How to Make a Monster" (1958), and "The Headless Ghost" (1959). Ray Bradbury has been in some wise connected with "It Came from Outer Space" (1953), "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), "Fahrenheit 451" (1966), "The Illustrated Man" (1969), and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1972; 1983). Bradbury did not contribute to the making of "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein."

Answer: None whatsoever

"The Maze" (1953) involves a handsome Scotsman who abruptly breaks his engagement and retires to a misty castle in the Scottish Highlands. There is a maze on the castle's grounds which harbours a sort of monstrous creature. "The Maze" (2010) involves five teenagers who break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night to play tag. Unbeknownst to them, a psychopathic killer has joined their game, intent on murdering them all. There is no connection between the two films ... except maybe mazes.

Answer: Acting

Leif Erickson (1911-1986) acted both on American television and in motion pictures. His career began as a singer, musician and comedian but quickly turned to acting. He served in the US Navy during World War II, was shot down twice and received two Purple Heart awards. Erickson was well known for his portrayal of Big John Cannon in TV's "The High Chaparral" (1967-1971).

His television roles and many of his movie roles were in Westerns. Erickson's filmography of science-fiction and horror films includes "Night Monster" (1942), "Invaders from Mars" (1953), "Strait-Jacket" (1964), and "Night Gallery" (1973).

Answer: No

Millionaire megalomaniac W.H. Donovan is in critical condition from the injuries he sustained in an airplane accident. He is rushed to the mountain cabin/medical laboratory of Dr. Patrick Cory. Despite efforts to save his life (his legs were severed and his chest crushed), Donovan's heart stops beating. Cory, who has been working to preserve a living monkey brain outside the body of a deceased monkey, decides to remove Donovan's brain. Both his assistant, Dr Frank Schratt and his wife, Janice, counsel against this experiment because it is a criminal act and could lead to the loss of Cory's medical license.

The newspaper reporter, Yocum, blackmails Cory to keep his crime a secret. When Cory is finally arrested by Treasury agents, one of them, Brooke, tells Janice that her husband's future depends on the medical board's decision and on the prosecutor's determination to indict.

Answer: A tribe of amazon women

The typical jungle-adventure film of the 1950s included an overgrown gorilla, a prehistoric dinosaur or, at least, a puddle of quicksand into which an unfortunate fell, sunk up to his neck, and then was either rescued or disappeared. The scary bit in "Wild Women" is an amazon tribe which has a long history of lethal violence, especially toward males.