The Halloween Shadowplay Impossible Film Quiz
1) FATAL SHOTS
Four opening shots from four classic films. Name the films.
2) WHOO-OO-OO SAID THAT?
[a] “She does not come peeping with messages from beyond the fucking grave!”
[b] “I’ve not had any macaroni since Wednesday.”
[c] “You don’t have any secrets from the Department of Health, Henri.”
[d] “You put me right off my fresh fried lobster, do you realize that?”
3) SOMETHING HAIRY THIS WAY COMES
[a] What was Lon Chaney Jnr’s wolfman face-fuzz made from?
[b] What did Ray Harryhausen use to coat his woolly mammoth?
[c] Later, how did he solve the problem of fur showing the animator’s finger-indentations?
4) TWO-FACED
Each of the following pairs of JEKYLL/HYDE-inspired movies have something that makes them the exception to usual practice in these sort of things. What’s the exception? (Example: DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE and DR JEKYLL AND MS HYDE both use the sex change idea.)
[a] ALTERED STATES and DR JEKYLL ET LES FEMMES
[b] THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL and THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
[c] THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and VAN HELSING
[d] THE UGLY DUCKLING and DER JANUSKOPF
5) MAD SCIENCE!
Name the films and explain what you’re looking at.
6) IT’S MONUMENTAL!
Here are some monuments — which monster movies used them?
[a] Westminster Abbey
[b] The Colisseum
[c] Jardine House
[d] Big Ben
7) CAST ASUNDER
Which films feature all of the following cast members?
[a] Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger, John Carradine, Richard Dreyfuss?
[b] Christopher Lee, Roman Polanski, Yul Brunner?
[c] Ringo Starr, Dennis Price, Shakira Caine?
[d] Bernard Bresslaw, Catriona MacColl, Patricia Quinn?
8) WHERE WOLF?
Here are four representative types of wolfman. From which movies do they originate?
9) CONJOINED!
What slightly abstract things connect the following groups of films ~
[a] MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS, THE KNACK… AND HOW TO GET IT, SATAN’S BED.
[b] PRETTY POISON, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, ARTHUR 2: ON THE ROCKS
[c] EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, THE RETURN OF DR X, THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (1941)
[d] DRAG ME TO HELL, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (remake), GIALLO, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (remake)
10) THE MANY DEATHS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE
Here are the deaths, what are the films?
[a] Set on fire and dropped into an acid bath.
[b] Skewered onto a church lectern.
[c] Falls through hole in ice.
[d] Dymanited in castle.
And which is the odd one out?
BONUS QUESTION
October 31, 2010 at 1:45 pm
4 (a): The process of becoming Hyde requires full-body immersion.
4 (b): Jekyll is ugly, Hyde attractive.
8 (c): Abbott & Costello Meet the Monster.
9 (d): In each of these films, Levi Stubbs out of the Four Tops voices a different carnivorous non-human monster.
October 31, 2010 at 1:52 pm
4a, NOT the answer I was looking for, but a damned good one. Bonus point!
4b, correct,
8c INcorrect, alas.
9d Beautiful! Wrong, but more beautiful than wrong. Bonus point!
October 31, 2010 at 2:03 pm
2d) Altman movie, I know that. MASH?
October 31, 2010 at 2:15 pm
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October 31, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Yes to 2d, Mark. M*A*S*H it is. Hawkeye to Hotlips.
October 31, 2010 at 2:20 pm
1 (d) is killing me, because I know it really well but can’t place it. See also 5 (c).
October 31, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Oh yeah, it’ll kill ya alright.
October 31, 2010 at 2:57 pm
2c) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
4a) Jekyll and Hyde played by 2 different people
4c) Hyde is considerably taller and larger than Jekyll
6d) Konga
7b) Magic Christian
10a) The Curse of Frankenstein
10c) Dracula, Prince of Darkness
October 31, 2010 at 3:04 pm
10d) The Virgin of Nuremberg?
October 31, 2010 at 3:07 pm
2a) Donald Sutherland in Don’t Look Now
2c) Is also the Don
October 31, 2010 at 3:08 pm
3a) yak hair
October 31, 2010 at 3:16 pm
5c) Curse of the Fly – Yet another teleporter mishap
October 31, 2010 at 3:17 pm
1b) M!
2a) Donald Sutherland in Don’t Look Now (Such a wonderful movie)
3a) Yak hair
3b) His mother’s fur coat
6a) The Quatermass Xperiment
6b)20 Million Miles to Earth.
6d) Konga
October 31, 2010 at 3:19 pm
3c) He didn’t exactly. He just decided to pass it off as the wind rustling the fur.
October 31, 2010 at 3:28 pm
7c) Son of Dracula (the one from the 70’s)
October 31, 2010 at 3:38 pm
8c) Face of the Screaming Werewolf
October 31, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Question 1: all produced by Val Lewton.
In order: THE LEOPARD MAN; THE GHOST SHIP; CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE; ISLE OF THE DEAD.
October 31, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Chuck:
2c correct, and a pattern emerges…
4a and 4c correct
6d, correct according to the famed still, but does BB appear in the film? There’s another possible answer here, but I give you one + bonus for surprising me.
7b correct
10a & 10c correct
3a Yak hair is right
5c correct Return of the Fly. Should’ve made the whole film about this guy.
1b INcorrect, not M.
2a Correct, Donald Sutherland, and the pattern deepens.
3b correct
6a & b correct
3c INcorrect — O’Brien passed it off as windswept look, but Harryhausen later SOLVED it…
7c correct
8c correctimundo, as they say down Mexico way.
October 31, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Re: 6a) Is my memory so bad? I’d swear (on someone else’s life) that BB isn’t just in the still. What about Gorgo? I haven’t seen it for such a long time, but I’m sure that BB made an appearance (or was that only on a poster or a comic cover?)
October 31, 2010 at 4:15 pm
David B, correct on 1a, 1b, 1c & 1d, WIPEOUT!
Howlin’, correct on Gorgo. I seem to remember Konga’s rampage is mostly on a modest London shopping street, but I wouldn’t put it past them to defy geography and shoehorn Big Ben in somewhere. I think there might be a third answer to this one too…
October 31, 2010 at 4:18 pm
What about my guess on 10d) Virgin of Nuremberg?
I’m getting pushy in my old age.
October 31, 2010 at 4:44 pm
10d — INcorrectimundo — unless I’m wrong and you’re right… Lee has died so many times… can you confirm, by ocular proof, that this is how he meets his fate? I do recollect that he’s killed at the start of the film, and in a non-explosive manner, but then I guess he comes back… don’t recall any explosions, just a shameless swiping of Corman’s Pit and the Pendulum climax.
October 31, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Now that you say that, I think you’re right, there is no explosion. However, Lee isn’t killed at the beginning of VoN, the real bad guy is (apparently killed anyway). Lee actually plays a good guy, although since he’s hideously scarred (and Christopher Lee) he’s pretty suspicious throughout most of the flick.
Hmmm… The Satanic Rites of Dracula is precisely the sort of film that should have ended in an explosion but I don’t think he hangs out in a castle in that one.
Hmmm…
October 31, 2010 at 5:12 pm
1d) Le Corbeau
October 31, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Re: 6a) Okay, I guess you’re fishing for Queen Kong? Please don’t tell me there might be a fourth answer. What kinda fiendish quiz is this?
October 31, 2010 at 5:53 pm
6a, yes, the film Robin Askwith feared would end his career, Queen Kong.
Sorry, nd, David B got the right answer.
Satanic Rites ends with the Count falling out of a limo and getting wrapped in hawthorns, as I recall.
October 31, 2010 at 8:14 pm
8d – THE UNDYING MONSTER.
October 31, 2010 at 8:21 pm
8b – THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON.
October 31, 2010 at 8:22 pm
8a – WEREWOLF IN A GIRL’S DORMITORY.
October 31, 2010 at 8:41 pm
5d – what’s left of the FIRST MAN INTO SPACE.
October 31, 2010 at 8:47 pm
5b – THE NEANDERTHAL MAN.
October 31, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Would 10d be ‘The Vengeance of Fu Manchu’? I’m guessing it’s the odd one out because he’s not playing a supernatural character.
October 31, 2010 at 9:07 pm
10b – THE FOUR MUSKETEERS.
October 31, 2010 at 9:20 pm
10d – THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU.
October 31, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Experimento —
8a, 8b, 8d — correct!
5b, 5d — correct!
10b — correct!
JHendrie — You’re very close, but I’m not sure the detonated building in Vengeance is a castle. And no, the reason for there being an odd one out is not that.
October 31, 2010 at 9:31 pm
10a is the odd one out ‘cos Chris only played the Frankenstein monster once but played Fu, Drac and Rochefort multiple times!!
October 31, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Yes! I was thinking in terms of, “He rose from the dead as all those other characters.”
October 31, 2010 at 9:46 pm
2b – FELLINI’S CASANOVA?
October 31, 2010 at 10:14 pm
1
2)The Ghost Ship
3)Curse of the Cat People
4)Isle of the Dead
3
a)yak hair
5
2) The Neandrethal Man
8
1)Werewolf in a girls Dormitory
2)Werewolf of Washington
3)Lon Chaney…but not sure..Route 66?
4)The Undying Monster
October 31, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Yay!
October 31, 2010 at 10:31 pm
bonus question – the Chris Lee-featuring HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (aka HERCULES IN THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH). The lighting screams “Bava!”
October 31, 2010 at 10:45 pm
is 1 a THe Leopard Man?
October 31, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Yes, Christopher, but I’m afraid David B got there first.
Experimento, yes, that’s Procrustes on the right.
Unanswered: 3c, 4d, 5a, 6c, 7a, 7d, 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 10d (although we’re basically there with that one).
October 31, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Oh, isn’t 10d CASTLE OF FM then?
October 31, 2010 at 11:44 pm
9b) The prominent use of shots through distorting glass. (There must be a more elegant way I could put that.)
October 31, 2010 at 11:47 pm
9a – innocents?
9b – ladders?
9c – hair?
9d – dental kit?
October 31, 2010 at 11:56 pm
9c) Shots from the viewpoint of non-humans
October 31, 2010 at 11:59 pm
9d) Things that emerge from the earth to clutch, grab and drag
November 1, 2010 at 12:20 am
7a) Terror in the Aisles???
November 1, 2010 at 2:45 am
Christopher: sorry, somehow missed this. All correct, but all previously guessed. Lon Chaney comes from Face of the Screaming Werewolf.
Chuck V and Experimento — alas, you’ve hit the wall now.
9 really is a tough one. Well, the first three sets are to do with cast members, and the last one is to do with the directors.
November 1, 2010 at 2:29 pm
9d) Each film contains a cast member from Casablanca. Respectively, Paul Henreid, Humphrey Bogart, Peter lorre, Ingrid Bergman.
November 1, 2010 at 2:38 pm
9d – directors who’ve all done cameos in John Landis movies?
November 1, 2010 at 2:38 pm
9 a) Beatles Wags! Jane Asher, Barbara, Pattie Boyd, Yoko Ono
November 1, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Barbara Bach, that is.
November 1, 2010 at 2:40 pm
9a – actresses who shagged a Beatle?
November 1, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Beat me to it, jhendrie!
November 1, 2010 at 2:43 pm
9b – actresses who shagged Dud?
November 1, 2010 at 2:48 pm
9b rephrased – Dud Wags?
November 1, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Experimento, 9d is correct, but you can get even MORE specific. Which Landis film contains them all?
9b, bang on!
Jhendrie, correct on 9a. And on 9c, Casablanca, although you called it 9d.
November 1, 2010 at 3:49 pm
I’ll plump for INNOCENT BLOOD. Franz Oz is very funny in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON though.
November 1, 2010 at 3:53 pm
5a) Die Nackte und der Satan??? And we’re looking at just another damned experiment.
November 1, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Shouldn’t that be DIE NACKTE… UND HOW TO GET IT?
November 1, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Oy.
OTOH, since DIE NACKTE means THE NUDE, how has that title never been used for a German sexploitation film?
November 1, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Experimento, correct re Innocent Blood, which makes good use of Dario Argento’s very particular screen presence. A real “What was THAT?” moment for those unfamiliar with the man.
The damned experiment isn’t from Die Nackte (AKA The Head, with Michel Simon playing a disembodied head nestling in his rolls of neck-fat), I’m afraid. If I’d gone with Nostradamus’s noggin you’d have all got it, I bet…
November 1, 2010 at 5:32 pm
5a – FRANKENSTEIN 1970?
November 1, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Oh my, no.
November 2, 2010 at 10:31 am
6c. Is it THE MIGHTY PEKING MAN?
November 2, 2010 at 10:59 am
Yes!
As for that eyeball: https://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/heres-your-head-wheres-your-hurry/
November 2, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Hmmm… so, my guess (THE HEAD) was actually relatively close.
November 2, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Yes, right sub-genre alright.
Last answers: 3c — Harryhausen solved the problem of animating furry characters without leaving fingermarks by coating them in UNBORN CALF SKIN.
4d The Ugly Duckling (Hammer, with Bernard Bresslaw) and Der Januskopf (Murnau, with Veidt) are both lost films.
7a is Michael Winner’s dire but star-studded The Sentinel.
7d is Hawk the Slayer.
Obviously no Bresslaw fans here!
November 2, 2010 at 5:37 pm
November 2, 2010 at 6:09 pm
I haven’t seen THE SENTINEL in more than 20 years and have apparently managed to block it out nearly completely. I vaguely recall Carradine in it though.
November 2, 2010 at 6:52 pm
The others are tiny walk-ons. Do yourself a favour and continue to forget the film!
Chuck V and Experimento deserve prizes of some kind. Thanks to everyone else who participated!
November 3, 2010 at 4:23 am
Wow, thanks.
I blame society.
November 3, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I fear that last comes off overly sarcastic. My apologies. I was going to thank the academy but decided that was too cheesy a joke.
November 3, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Both are perfectly good answers. Have a think about what you’d like as prize! Anything featured here on Shadowplay is probably available to you.
November 4, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Ooh, thanks!! Will email you in a sec, David C.
November 5, 2010 at 1:34 am
Bah. Completely missed this. Oh well, also 4c) Both swing around Paris in a nod to another work (Rue Morgue and Notre Dame {and by extension LOEG} respectively)
November 5, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Nice observation!
Next quiz will be around xmas time!