Movie Quiz 53

[bobsyeruncle]

It's that time, again. Movie Quiz!

Caff said he was swamped this weekend, so here's my first attempt at keeping the quiz going. Most of the text was shamelessly copied from last week's quiz (as was the picture template). The theme is old horror films.

There are eight screenshots below. Most of them should be fairly recognizable if you've seen the films. So, which of these movies can you identify?

Please answer with movie numbers only, not titles..

Good luck!

The answers will be posted Sunday, as usual.



Too easy?

 

[technovapir]

Great selection Bobs! Thank you for helping Caff out & keeping my weekly movie quiz fix satisfied!!!
All of them look slightly familiar, but 3 is the only one that I know off the top of my head.
I'll be pondering them all weekend.

 

[caffeinated]

Thanks a ton for covering for me, bob! Nice theme, too!

I'm pretty sure I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7.





Edit: An extremely late spelling fix... Yes, I would have lost sleep if I didn't fix it!

 

[evilfrog]

You can get 6 if you can name the creature on the right I'm not too sure on a few of these... have to think about it.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

A few hints in the form of dumb captions:

1. "Son, I'm so old, I still owe Moses a dollar."
2. "No, I don't know him, but his face sure rings a bell."
3. "You're going to feel a little ......"
4. "Actually, he's the level-headed one in the family. Want me to get him up?"
5. "No, no. What else floats in water?" "Bread." "Apples." "Very small rocks." ... "Burn her!"
6. "Nice to meet you, Miriam. I'm Clay."
7. "Ok, finger warm-up exercises. Thumb, forefinger... keep those fingers curled ...middle finger... Good. Ok, let's try it over here on the organ. Do you like Bach?"
8. "What the hell is in this drink? When you said it would put a little hair on my chest, boy was that an understatement!"

 

[technovapir]

Those captions are great bobs...probably better than the original dialogs...LOL

 

[evilfrog]

huh... Do you really think of 2 as a horror movie? Maybe I view it differently because I read the book before seeing it... I guess it does have some classic horror tropes: Deformed creature carrying away defenseless maiden, etc...

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Well, if you read the book, you might feel some sympathy for #4, too.

 

[bobsyeruncle]

More hints if you need 'em. It's been really quiet this weekend. Don't scroll down if you're coming in late to the thread.



#2, #3, #4 and #8 were all literary classics. #7 was also based on a book that only became somewhat popular after the various films and plays.

1. Bubba Ho-Tep's brother, Boris Karloff, was an ancient priest prepped and buried alive and accidentally revived by a magic spell to cause mayhem in this Universal horror.
2. Charles Laughton in his most famous role, is a lowly, deformed character living in a cathedral and works ringing the bells for mass. He lusts after a pretty gypsy who proves to be his undoing.
3. The novel was inspired by a blood-thirsty Romanian prince who was alternately called Vlad The Impaler and a name that means son of the dragon (which gave the novel its name).
4. The novel's alternate title was The Modern Prometheus and the creature was called Adam. Usually, however, people remember the mad scientist's name when referring to the monster. In the sequel, Elsa Lanchester played both the 18-year-old author of the book and the wife of the monster.
5. A Swedish documentary about the history of witches and the church up to the early 1900's. A series of dramatic sequences show witches cavorting and kissing demon .... and monks trying and torturing suspected witches. It's also the original 1 girl 1 cup where a maiden attempts to seduce a monk with a love potion made from cat feces.
6. In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay and brings the creature to life to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
7. A hideous organ player secretly living under the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to force management to make the woman he loves a star. Perfect fodder for the more recent musical, right?
8. John Barrymore is a mild-mannered doctor, but his drinking turns him completely evil to commit murder and mayhem in the seediest sections of London.

 

[Elphaba13]

My fave genre! Thanks Bob!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

And here are the answers:

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1. The Mummy
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
3. Dracula
4. Frankenstein
5. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
6. The Golem
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Did you get them all? Thanks for playing, everybody.

 

[technovapir]

I have never heard of Haxan or Golem! I'll add them to my list...
Thanks Bobs, good job! This was a fun one, these old ones are some of my favs!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Cool. Haxan and The Golem are available on YouTube as full movies with no splitting.

 

[caffeinated]

So, it turns out I didn't actually know #5, and I should definitely have known #8.

I'll probably be checking out Haxan and The Golem on YouTube starting tonight.

Good quiz, bob. Thanks again for filling in!

 

[bobsyeruncle]

Ah, well, there are way too many interesting movies to keep up with. It was kind of fun after I spent way too much making up lists, narrowing down the pics and then figuring out how to format them. I've got a quiz or two left over from horror movie pics I didn't use, but they would be more obscure.

 

[evilfrog]

I've never seen Haxan either. The Golem is a decent expressionist film, but other examples of the genre (Caligari, Nosferatu, any early Fritz Lang film, etc..) are more interesting.
I don't really remember Barrymore's Jekyll/Hyde (maybe I never saw it??!)... but I loved his Svengali role.

 

[vaporgalinfla]

bobsyeruncle - Thanks for filling in for Caff! Horroer movies aren't my thing (they used to be though). Regardless, I must admit that I haven't seen any of these movies.