TRICK OR TREAT EDITION

CORRIDOR OF HORROR

Ron Miller's  DARK CORRIDORS VOL. 6, No. 43

RON MILLER Ron gives your memories a Halloween tune-up with his first annual... TRICK OR TREAT HORROR MOVIE TEST   FAMOUS QUOTE #1 FROM DRACURON: (spoken as a realtor arrives to give him an estimate on his castle) "I bid you velcome! And don't scold me about all my cobwebs. The last realtor who did that is still being eaten by my pet tarantula." DRACURON*  FAMOUS QUOTE #2 FROM DRACURON: (spoken as wolves howl outside his castle) "Listen to them...children of the night! What a freakin' racket they make!" *Dracuron is the property of TheColumnists.com. He does not do personal appearances, but does personal materializations for a price.

Sweep those cobwebs
from your brains, dudes!

By RON MILLER
of TheColumnists.com

Halloween is the perfect occasion to find out how much you know about the rich old genre of the horror movie. So, here are some questions to determine if you're a wimp or a genius in the face of things horrific.

1. Who was Universal's first choice to play Count Dracula in the original 1931 "Dracula"? (Multiple Choice) A. Bela Lugosi; B. Boris Karloff; C. Lon Chaney, Sr.; D. John Carradine.

Bela Lugosi got the part, but did they really want another actor?

2. (Multiple Choice) Name the actor who was NOT in Universal's 1941 film "The Wolf Man." A. Boris Karloff; B. Bela Lugosi; C. Lon Chaney, Jr.; D. Claude Rains.

Was it Boris Karloff?

3. Warner Bros.' 1953 3-D classic "House of Wax" was a remake of the studio's 1933 "Mystery of the Wax Museum." In the original film, who played the role Vincent Price played in the 1953 film?

Who waxed the girls in the original?

4. Name the film in which this famous line first was spoken: "One never forgets, Herr Baron, an arm torn out by the roots!"

5. In 1972, director Michael Winner of Charles Bronson's "Death Wish" films directed a prequel to Henry James' immortal ghost story "The Turn of the Screw." What was it called?

6. Was there a movie sequel to "Rosemary's Baby"?

7. Name the actress who played a stark naked lady monster in "The Bride," the remake of "The Bride of Frankenstein."

8. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who acted under the name Nancy Davis, played the female lead in a 1954 horror movie based on a famous novel by Curt Siodmak. Name the movie.

Nancy Davis (Reagan) helps out in the mad doctor's lab.

9. President Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, played the female lead in a 1941 film about invisible people. Name that film.

10. The biggest of all movie monsters, Godzilla, goes by another name in its native Japan. What is it?

Tell me my name or I'll stomp Tokyo again!

11. Who played Lon Chaney Sr. in Universal's movie about his life, "Man of A Thousand Faces"?

12. Everybody knows Fay Wray and Jessica Lange played the Big Ape's obsession in the first two versions of "King Kong" and that Naomi Watts takes over in the 2005 remake, but who was "little" Kong's "leading lady" in the 1933 "Son of Kong"?

13. Who played the astronaut who was the first victim of the monster in the original 1979 "Alien"?

Who's under that alien?

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©2005 by Ron Miller. This column first posted Oct. 31, 2005

Ron Miller is a former nationally syndicated television columnist and the author of "Mystery! A Celebration," the official companion book to PBS' "Mystery!" series. He currently writes about television mysteries for MYSTERY SCENE magazine and teaches classes in mystery for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

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