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This Stanley Kubrick film is famous for, among other things, its match cut of a human bone into a shot of an orbiting space satellite.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
This star played the iconic role of Robocop in 1987 and 1990.
Who is Peter Weller?
In Citizen Kane, this is the dying word of Charles Foster Kane.
What is Rosebud?
Most entries in the Friday the 13th franchise take place at this summer camp.
What is Camp Crystal Lake?
The Fountain, a 2006 science-fiction romance about a scientist trying to save his wife from cancer, was written and directed by this acclaimed filmmaker, also known for Black Swan and The Whale.
Who is Darren Aronofsky?
This writer/director/producer, most well-known for the Mad Max franchise, is also the creator behind the Babe and Happy Feet films.
Who is George Miller?
In the 1994 Keanu Reeves action-thriller Speed, the boobytrapped city bus must stay above this speed.
What is 50 mph?
This 1927 musical is consider the first "talkie" motion picture.
What is the Jazz Singer?
Dracula (1931) is the second big screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's genre-defining 1897 novel. This film, released almost ten years earlier, was the first.
What is Nosferatu (1922)?
The lost film Drakula halála (transl. Dracula's Death) from 1921 does feature Count Dracula, but it is not not an adaptation of Stoker's novel.
This Paul Thomas Anderson drama features a cast of troubled characters interacting in Los Angeles and a rainstorm where frogs fall from the sky.
What is Magnolia?
This well-known sound effect has become a stock "scream" used in film and tv ever since its debut in 1951's western Distant Drums.
What is the "Wilhelm scream"?
This 1995 Michael Mann directed crime epic features the first time that film legends Robert De Niro and Al Pacino shared a scene together.
What is Heat?
This eventual Oscar winner played juror number 8 in Twelve Angry Men.
Who is Henry Fonda?
As of December 2024, this is the highest grossing horror movie of all time.
What is It (2017)?
His debut feature film, 1991’s Boyz n the Hood, earned this filmmaker the youngest Best Director nomination in Oscar history (as of 2024).
Who is John Singleton?
This term, translated from Chinese as "martial arts and chivalry", is a genre featuring often elaborate martial arts action set in historical China.
What is wuxia?
In Kill Bill, the Bride, played by Uma Thurman, filled the role of "Black Mamba" in this group of hired killers.
The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.
The theme from The Third Man (also called "The Harry Lime Theme" was performed on this instrument?
What is a zither?
In the movie The Blair Witch Project, this is the fictional town the filmmakers travel to before they disappear.
What is Burkittsville?
As of December 2024, this Neon picture is the highest grossing independent film of 2024.
What is Longlegs?
Often considered the first motion picture, 1878's The Horse in Motion was shot by this British nature photographer.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1987 movie The Running Man is based on a novel by which well-known author?
Who is Stephen King?
This critically panned 1984 country-musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone eventually became a cult classic.
What is Rhinestone?
This is the name of the demon that possesses young Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973).
What is Pazuzu?
At eleven films, this Academy Award-winning director has had more movies selected for the National Film Registry than any other filmmaker, including The Quiet Man, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Who is John Ford?