Do you like scary movies?

[yendi]

Edit: All questions have been answered correctly in comments now
This has been going through my head after a conversation or two over the past couple of weeks. Basically, for all the star power currently brought to horror movies (with pretty much every WB actor given a lead part in one nowadays), there are plenty of movies that launch the careers of many a young star. And since I watch horror movies obsessively, I figured I'd post a little quiz to help edumacate folks and test their knowledge. I omitted films like the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre flick (which was shelved and wasn't released until the leads hit the big time), as well as films that are star-powered from the beginning (like any of the Scream flicks, or the classic Alien).

I thought about doing this as a poll, but I like discussions better. That means, of course, that folks who see this first have a better chance at getting the answers (since once someone posts an answer, it's visible to anyone). If you use the IMDB, you suck. Seriously (I only used the IMDB for the supplemental material in questions #10 and 11). If you don't know it, don't look it up -- let someone else get the chance to show off. I don't expect anyone to know all of these, but I'm pretty sure that there are three or four of you who know most of 'em. If by some fluke they all haven't been answered by tomorrow, I'll post the answers.

And the first two are gimmes. If you watch horror movies at all, you'll know 'em.

1. Lying in bed in post-coital bliss in the first Friday the Thirteenth movie, this guy famously takes an arrow through the throat.

2. In the first Nightmare on Elm Street flick, this bad boy gets hung in prison with his own bedsheets.

3. The third Nightmare on Elm Street flick (Dream Warriors, as any Dokken fan knows) gave us two future stars. Kirsten, this movie's lead, was played by a member of a famous Hollywood family.

4. And Max, the nice orderly, was played by this big Hollywood star.

5. By the sixth movie in the Nightmare series, they were almost deliberately getting big names for the movie, but one of the pieces of cannon fodder was a stoner who gets sucked into a video game and zapped. What future member of Du Jour played him?

6. Back to the Friday the Thirteenth movies, part IV is perhaps best known for being the first hit for Corey Feldman. But it was also an early showpiece for another hot '80s actor, who played a geek who loses his virginity shortly before uttering his last words: "Where the hell is the corkscrew?" He found out, the hard way.

7. Friday the Thirteenth, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is by far the least watchable film in the series (even by horror standards). Even the appearance (and quick death on the disco floor) of an incredibly attractive starlet (who played a villain in a huge hit this year) can't save it.

8-10. The Sleepaway Camp movies are camp of the highest order. The second and third movies in this series, aside from a ton of in-jokes and the debut of Atlanta-area FX wiz Stan "Crash" Winston, also feature the stuntcasting of all three leads (the female heroes of the two movies, and the villain who menaces them), who are played by the sisters of famous stars. No one should remember who these people are (I can't even remember their first names), but you might know who they are related to. The heroine of the second Sleepaway Camp movie is played by the only female in a famous family of Hispanic actors. The heroine in the third flick is played by the sister of an actress who peaked in 1988 with an Oscar-nominated performance. And the psycho in both flicks is the sister of a very famous rock star. Name any of them, and I'll be impressed.

11. The Narrator in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is voiced by this man who went on to win Emmy awards from 1985-1988 for his comedic work.

12. The classic film Leprechaun featured a future TV star in one of the lead roles (along with Warwick Davis, of course).
Who is she?

13. The star (other than Doug "Pinhead" Bradley") of Hellraiser III would go on to have starring roles in two 1990s TV shows. Name her.

14. By the time The Hidden came out, Kyle MacLachlan had already made a name for himself. The same can't be said for his female lead, who would eventually star in the greatest sci-fi show of all time (making a brief stop in Maniac Cop 2 along the way).

15. The two young heroes of Fright Night would both go on to stardom on the Fox tv network. Name both tv shows.

16. What actress, most famous for starring in a movie with #6, got her big break in Jaws: 3-D

Bonus questions:

A. What father-son pairing appeared in Creepshow and Creepshow 2, respectively?

B. What Mother-daughter combo appeared in The Fog?

C. The two brothers, father, and uncle of #8 (the female heroine in Sleepaway Camp 2) have each done at least one horror flick. You get one point for naming any film by each of the first three, and two for naming any film by the uncle (five points possible on this bonus).

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

12. The classic film Leprechaun featured a future TV star in one of the lead roles (along with Warwick Davis, of course).
Who is she?

Jennifer Aniston.

[yendi]

Correct!

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I know one of these! #13 is Jadzia Dax -- Terry...Ferrell? I can't remember her last name.

At least, I think that's right; I saw an ad for it on TV once. Haven't actually seen the flick myself; I don't like horror movies.

[yendi]

Correct! It's a movie well worth missing, even if you like horror flicks.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Oh, I feel like such a slacker... I only know a couple of these. But then, I don't watch TV.

1. The inestimable Kevin Bacon! (applause)
2. Johnny Depp in his finest work!
and
4. Laurence Fishburne. Don't give `em the blue pill, Max!

[yendi]

Correct on all counts (although he was still calling himself "Larry" back then). :-)

[shawnj.livejournal.com]

I bow to whomever can answer all of these off the top of their head, cause I only was able to get four off the top of my head. shadesong got one of them, and #14 is Claudia Christenson(sp). And #11 is one of my favorites, John Laroquette. And #5 was Breckin Meyer.

I didn't even get the gimmies.

[yendi]

Damn! You couldn't get the gimmies, but you got some of the hardest ones!

[crackerbob.livejournal.com]

On #15, One of them is Married:With Children, I think. The other I can't place.

And this is just with a mental picture of them in my head.

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I knew the Johnny Depp one, but that was all. Slacker.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I didn't know the Hellraiser one. And I KNEW that John Larroquette narrated Texas Chainsaw Massacre. *slaps forehead* I am a bad, bad horror fan.

[yendi]

You obviously need some remedial viewing. :-)

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

#3: Patricia Arquette. (Did I spell that right? I dunno.) She didn't come back for the fourth movie. Someone else played Kristen, and did a much better job. The other future star? Gosh, I dunno. What constitutes a star?

[yendi]

I'd say Larry Fishburne does. :-)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

15. The two young heroes of Fright Night would both go on to stardom on the Fox tv network. Name both tv shows.

Herman's Head and Married: With Children.

And just to make it plain I didn't crib my second response from crackerbob above, the actress involved is Amanda Bearse.

That's the only answer from your whole list that I knew. I didn't even know the gimmes. I don't like horror movies, although I think the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was brilliant.

However, knowing your biases ("greatest sci-fi show of all time," indeed) I did call Claudia Christian correctly.

Oh wait! Is one of the answers to A. "Kirk Douglas and Eric Douglas?" Because I know they made a creepy short together, set on the front in World War I, but I don't recall where it was anthologized.

[yendi]

Correct on #15, not on the father/son one (each was in a separate Creepshow movie).

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

#16: Lea Thompson.

[yendi]

Yup. Which should help folks get one of the other questions now.

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to tell you...the very first Friday the 13th was set in camp, right? Well, the people who filmed it wanted to use the YMCA camp I went to in Davis, Oklahoma...Camp Classen. But since YMCA is a Christian organization, they turned them down. How funny is it that the camp you see in the movie looks just</> like the one in Davis?

[shawnj.livejournal.com]

An intereting addition to your story. The camp where it was actually filmed was in New Jersey. It was called Camp NoBeBoSco, which stands for North Bergen Boy Scouts. I've stayed there on numerous occasions (since I lived less than a half an hour from there and was a boy scout), and I got to say, that place was creepy looking for a boy scout camp. It was dark and overwooded, and had very little light pollution.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Sadly, filmtrivia seems pretty moribund. So it seems prudent to ask in advance: if I start a movie trivia community, would anyone here chime in?

[yendi]

I would!

[olliesmama.livejournal.com]

Bonus A: George and George A. Romano?
I think I remember hearing about them in an interview.

[yendi]

Nope (and I think you meant Romero).

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

6) Crispin Glover

[yendi]

Yup, but olliesmama beat you by a few minutes. The other F13 question is still open, though.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I have never seen a Friday the 13th movie past the first one, so I'm useless for those.

8. Estevez. I don't remember her first name either. :P[1]
9. Tracy Griffith - Melanie Griffith's sister.
10. Erm, Springsteen's sister. Um... Pamela?

A. Hal and David Holbrook.

B. Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis.

C. I know who we're referring to, Emilio Estevez (brother), Charlie Sheen (brother), Martin Sheen (father) and Joe Estevez (uncle). Movies? Hrm... I suppose Emilio in Maximum Overdrive counts as horror (it was a horror to watch. :p) as well as an early eighties anthology horror movie that I can't remember the name of right now. Charlie was in The Wraith. I know that Martin's done more than one, but I'm drawing a blank. As for Joe, hasn't most of oeuvre been A horror, even when it wasn't Horror? ;) Dark Universe works, I guess. You also forgot the other brother, Ramon, who I believe had a very small part in The Dead Zone. It's odd that you brought up this one, as I was just looking the family up out of curiousity not all that long ago. And of course, I could be remembering which family member is in which wrongly. :P

[1] I had to look it up. It's Renee.

[yendi]

Correct on all counts! Well, aside from missing the Martin film, even though you named it later in the same comment! :-)

I was thinking Soul Catcher for Joe, just because it's an excuse to picture Vivian Schilling.

[zerbie.livejournal.com]

I know absolutely nothing about horror flicks, so I didn't even read all the way through these. My boyfriend would do excellently on your quiz, though.

Really I just wanted to comment on your choice of music. Awesome. I realized this weekend that my music collection had no Talking Heads in it, and went a bit overboard. Now it has all the Talking Heads in it.

[yendi]

Talking Heads are wonderful. And I couldn't think of a more appropriate song to play while typing the quiz up. :-)

[digriz.livejournal.com]

I think I know the answer to #7 (the last one remaining). Kelly Hu. At least, I'm fairly sure there was a Friday the 13th movie listed in her bio last time I read it.

[yendi]

Woohoo! The quiz is complete! Although I'm shocked Kelly would admit to that role on her resume.