Plot Points
The film really goes for the connection to this Wallachian ruler at the start of the film.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
Hello, Clarice! This psychological thriller won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year.
What is The Silence of the Lambs?
Although there is no central protagonist, Bram Stoker’s novel opens with this character’s narrative.
Who is Jonathan Harker?
Stephen Sommers—his name sounds familiar?—directed this remake of Karl Freund’s original—and Oriental—monster movie.
What is The Mummy?
Keanu Reeves’ breakthrough role came in this 1989 sci-fi comedy, in which the titular characters travel in a phone booth.
What is Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure?
The film starts in this year, allegedly in the middle of a war between Christian Europe and Muslim Turks around the fall of Constantinople? Thirty years until Columbus sails the Ocean Blue!
What is 1462?
This animated staple of the Disney Renaissance topped the box office, grossing nearly $505 million globally.
What is Aladdin?
As in the film, Lucy Westenra is courted by three gentlemen—none of whom actually end up marrying her—Dr. John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and this American.
Who is Quincey Morris?
Expand your concept of the monster movie just a little, and you’ll get this 1975 seaside horror-thriller in which the denizens of Amity Island are terrorized by an oft-misunderstood carnivore.
What is Jaws?
You might recognize James Hart’s name atop the screenplay for this Robin Williams fantasy-adventure in which his character returns to Neverland as a full-grown adult.
What is Hook?
Van Helsing narrowly escapes fang to the neck by Mina by applying this bland, circular “body of Christ” to her forehead.
What is a communion wafer?
A sequel to a previous ASFC double entry, David Fincher directed Sigourney Weaver in this lesser-regarded sci-fi horror, fighting more Xenomorphs.
What is Alien 3?
One of Lucy’s first conditions upon her conversion to vampirism is somnambulism, or this disorder.
What is sleepwalking?
Dracula, meet Frankenstein’s monster. Or rather this actor most often associated with the classic creature.
Who is Boris Karloff?
From 1990-1992, ASFC darling Gary Oldman was married to this sword-wielding, jumpsuit-wearing bride in Tarantino’s Kill Bill series.
Who is Uma Thurman?
He tries to complete the paperwork before the story begins, but he’s more interested in the bugs and rats in his mania when he returns to England.
Who is Renfield?
Two Disney films had massive grossings in 1992, the aforementioned animated film and this Whoopi Goldberg vehicle in which she dons a habit.
What is Sister Act?
Dracula is best associated with Transylvania, but more specifically his castle is nestled in this Eastern European mountain range.
What are the Carpathian Mtns.?
H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man got his first shot on the big screen in Universal’s 1933 picture, starring this actor who’d also appear in The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Wolf Man, and Casablanca. It was the beginning a beautiful friendship between him and film.
Who is Claude Rains?
Anthony Hopkins’ most recent Academy Award came out of this 2020 drama about a demented (as in with dementia) elderly man.
What is The Father?
As Van Helsing and the gang have Dracula cornered, he recedes into the shadows and transforms into a mischief of these creatures.
What are rats?
This first entry to Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy starred Carlos Gallardo as the titular character. In later installments, Antonio Banderas would take on the role.
What is El Mariachi?
Bram Stoker’s novel fits in this genre of literature, characterized by the discrete forms that separate each part from the other—in this case, letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.
What is an epistolary novel?
Featuring later in Universal’s monster line-up, this marine monster debuted in 1954. Guillermo del Toro would adapt it into Shape of Water.
What is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Funny enough, Winona Ryder was born in this Midwestern city, with which she shares a name.
Answer: (City, State)
What is Winona, Minnesota?