House of Horrors II Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nancy Reagan

Before becoming Mrs. Ronald Reagan, she was Nancy Davis, who appeared in the movie "Donovan's Brain" as the wife of a scientist who kept the brain of a dead gangster alive, until the brain without a body telepathically controlled the doctor who kept the brain alive. Of course, Ronald Reagan had also been an actor before becoming governor of California and President of the United States. Ronald and Nancy Reagan continued to be active in politics and various causes all their lives after leaving the White House.

Answer: Calling Dr. Death

In the movie "Calling Dr. Death" which was one of the series of "Inner Sanctum" movies, Dr. Steele (Lon Chaney Jr) commonly hypnotized people to find out the cause of their mental problems. This time he was faced with being accused of killing his unfaithful wife when he couldn't remember what he was doing the weekend she was killed. He tried hypnotizing himself to try to remember.

Answer: Son of Dracula

Dr. Brewster (Frank Craven) was told by someone that new arrival Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr) might be a vampire. He figured out that "Alucard" is "Dracula" spelled backwards. He was shown reading the book "Dracula" in order to find out more about Dracula. Dracula had moved into the area to marry an heiress and take over her property. Lon Chaney Jr, and the character of Dracula, were in all four movies, but Lon Chaney Jr only played as Dracula in "Son of Dracula".

Answer: Charles Lee Ray

In the movie "Child's Play" criminal Charles Lee Ray was running from police when he ended up in a toy store. He was shot by police and grabbed a Good Guy doll. He said a magic incantation which put his soul into the body of the talking doll. Eventually, the doll became a present for a little boy.

When the boy said the doll was telling him evil things, his mother didn't think much of it, because the doll was made to speak. However, she became suspicious when she discovered the doll didn't have any batteries.

Answer: Dr. Lorenz was an orchid expert.

A few brides disappeared after receiving orchids at their wedding and "dying". A female reporter figured out those "deaths" had something to do with the orchids. She went to the house of the orchid expert, Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi). When she got there, she almost became a victim of the doctor, who injected fluid from the brides into his old wife to keep her young.

Answer: Tree

The TV reporters were following the progress of King Kong, the giant gorilla, as it traveled from the jungle to Japan. They also followed the progress of Godzilla, the giant T-Rex/lizard, as it tore up buildings. Eventually, King Kong and Godzilla met each other at various times and fought. One time King Kong shoved a tree into Godzilla's mouth.

Answer: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

In "Dracula" (1931) Van Helsing discovered Dracula was a vampire because he cast no reflection in the mirror. However, when Bela Lugosi finally played Dracula again in "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", Dracula bit Dr. Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert) in the neck to get her to obey him, and they were standing in front of a mirror at the time. We could plainly see Dracula and the woman in the mirror. Of course, the story involved Dracula (Bela Lugosi) acting like a mad scientist, planning to put Lou Costello's character's brain into the Frankenstein monster (Glenn Strange).

Answer: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

At the beginning of "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" Tommy Jarvis, who had killed Jason at the end of "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter", went to Jason's grave. He dug up the grave, exposing the body of Jason Voorhees. Tommy went nuts and stabbed the body with a metal rod. Tommy's friend asked him what he was doing.

A thunderstorm began and lightning struck the metal rod stuck in Jason's body. This brought Jason back to life. Jason climbed out of the grave and killed Tommy's friend. Tommy poured gasoline on Jason and lit a match, but it began to rain , which put out the match. Later, Tommy warned the police that Jason was alive again, but they thought he was crazy. Jason walked through the woods killing various people until he ended up at a summer camp full of children. Eventually, police arrived as children were hiding under their beds listening to the screams of Jason's victims. One boy said to the other boy, "What were you gonna be when you grew up?"

Answer: Glenn Strange

Glenn Strange played as Frankenstein's monster in "House of Frankenstein", appearing with Lon Chaney Jr (the monster in "Ghost of Frankenstein") and Boris Karloff (the monster in "Frankenstein", "Bride of Frankenstein", and "Son of Frankenstein"). If only Bela Lugosi had played Dracula in that movie, all four actors who had played the classic Frankenstein monster would've been together. (Bela played the Frankenstein monster in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man".) Glenn Strange was famous for playing as the bartender on the TV show "Gunsmoke".

Answer: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The more famous movie "Lincoln" (with Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln) came out the same year as "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" (with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Mary Todd Lincoln). The vampire movie told the life story of Lincoln, but added scenes of Lincoln and his wife killing vampires.

The movie goes on to speculate that the Civil War was really an excuse for the Northern Army to kill Southern vampires. Mary Elizabeth Winstead has starred in the TV series "Brain Dead", a prequel to the Kurt Russell movie "The Thing", also called "The Thing", and "Final Destination III".