Horror Films and Other Scary Things

SECTION ONE: CLASSICS AND THEIR PERFORMERS

1. What was the only Oscar performance in a classic horror film?
   Frederic March, "Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde."

2. What film featured the following actors: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and Jack Nicholson?
   "The Raven."

3. Who plays Elvira, Mistress of Darkness?
   Cassandra Peterson.

4. Name the film with two performers of the opposite sex playing the same thing or monster.
   "Dr. Jeckyl and Sister Hyde."

5. In Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s "Plan Nine From Outer Space," what two people played the vampire, and why?
   Bela Lugosi and the producer's orthodontist.... Lugosi died after filming about 4 minutes, and Wood replaced him with a blonde man about 8 inches taller than Bela, who kept his cape in front of his own face so no one would notice. It didn't work.

SECTION TWO: QUOTES

6. "MORE BRAINS!!!"
   Any zombie, in "Return of the Living Dead."

7. "Have you checked the children?"
   The killer, in "When a Stranger Calls."

8. "To die, to truly be dead. That must be glorious."
   Dracula, in "Dracula."

9. Leave her alone, you bitch!"
   Ripley, in "Aliens."

10. "It was Beauty killed the beast."
    Carl Denham, in "King Kong." ("The promoter" was acceptable.)

11. "We're going to need a bigger boat."
    Police Chief Brody in "Jaws."

12. "I meddled in things that man must leave alone."
    Jack Griffin in "The Invisible Man."

13. "Danny's not here, Mrs. Torrence."
    Danny (as Tony), in "The Shining."

14. "I took a gorilla, and working with infinite care, I made my first man."
    Dr. Moreau, in "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (AKA "Island of Lost Souls").

SECTION THREE: THE MEDICAL WORLD

15. What delivery room shocker concludes "Humanoids From The Deep"?
    A self-performed cesarian by a fetal humanoid, who then bursts out.

16. What happens to the doctor who visits Megan in "The Exorcist"?
    She squeezes his testicles until he blacks out.

17. Describe the climactic operation in "Forbidden World."
    The doctor directs the space-wanderer hero into removing his own cancerous organ, in order to throw it into the maw of the deadly beast and thereby kill it.

18. Why is Damien's mother in the hospital, and how does she leave?
    Damien pushes her off the 2nd floor in a "tricycle accident"; she's then thrown out the window by Damien's devilish nanny.

19. How does the headless but reanimated doctor disguise himself (and his head) in order to sneak unobtrusively into the morgue? (From "Reanimator," of course.)
    He puts his real head into a medical bag, places an anatomical head model on his nek (with surgical mask for realism), and bumps his way along the corridor.

SECTION FOUR: DECAPITATION

20. Where do severed heads occur or appear in the following films?

    1. "Dawn of the Dead"
       The zombie is decapitated by a helicopter. (The zombie whose head is blasted into pieces by a shotgun is not acceptable.)

    2. "The Omen"
       The photographer's head is sliced off by a pane of glass.

    3. "Apocalypse Now"
       Kurtz casually tosses Chef's head into Martin Sheen's lap.

    4. "Alien"
       The alien's head is knocked off by Parker, one of the crew members.

    5. "Jaws"
       A head floats by and scares Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) while he's scuba-diving in the wreck.