From the blood simple to the die hard
Questions
1. Which series of horror films, the fourth of which emerges
today, has Jigsaw as its chief villain?
2. Which Irish director scored a box-office hit with The Brave One this summer?
3. I'm running around with orange peel in my mouth. Argh! I've died. Who am I?
4. Whose first line is "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war"?
5. Dead of Night. The Devils. Gothic. (In that order) Which dynasty?
6. What began with Number 13 and ended with Family Plot?
7. Why might a lesser Schwarzenegger adventure and a Monkees vehicle remind you of David Lynch?
8. Detention proves eventful. William Lee goes to Interzone. Wally and Andre chat. What are talking about?
9. Sylvester Stallone and Mark Wahlberg have both done it once. Jude Law has done it twice. What, exactly?
10. What, aside from Titanic, is the highest grossing film neither to be nor to have spawned a sequel?
Answers
1. Saw
2. Neil Jordan
3. Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather
4. Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
5. The Redgraves. Michael Redgrave was in Dead of Night. Vanessa Redgrave, his daughter, was in The Devils. Vanessa's daughter, Natasha Richardson, was in Gothic.
6. The career of Alfred Hitchcock
7. The Schwarzenegger film is Eraser. The Monkees movie is Head. Hence Eraserhead.
8. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. The films in question are The Breakfast Club, Naked Lunch and My Dinner with Andre.
9. Taken roles previously played by Michael Caine. Stallone was in Get Carter. Wahlberg was in The Italian Job. Law was in both Alfie and the upcoming Sleuth.
10. Finding Nemo (which, rather depressingly, is only No 14 in the list of all time money earners).