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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hell Night (1981) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hell Night (1981)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981).

About the movie: Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		Cynthia Rhodes (Penny Johnson) was the first to be cast.
b.		The assault weapons used by the DDS troopers are (modified) Vektor CR-21 bullpup assault rifles, a product of South Africa, the major filming location of the movie.
c.		The fate of Sanford Clark, the 13-year-old boy who was forced by his uncle, Gordon Northcutt, to participate in some of the Wineville Murders, is not mentioned in the film. After leading the police to the bodies at his uncles farm, Clark was sentenced to five years at Whittier Boys School in California. A sympathetic L.A. District Attorney, Loyal Kelly, later had Clarks sentence reduced to 23 months after the school reported that Clark showed promising job skills and a genuine desire to reform. Clark returned to Canada, where he served in the Canadian military during World War II, and later worked as a mailman for 28 years. He married, adopted and raised two children, and served local community causes throughout his life. Sanford Clark died in 1991.
d.		Though the movie required several shots of the actors to run from the front of the house to the front gates, the actual distance between the two is one mile.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		Alfred Newmans "Conquest" theme was adopted by the University of Southern California athletic teams.
b.		Restoring the sound was a problem particularly because Duke Mitchell fired his sound guy so he wouldnt have to pay him. This made the Director of Photography Peter Santoro in charge of cameras and microphones.
c.		Originally the character of Imp was going to be played by a male actor but Amy Webster Thompson knocked the audition out of the park and the character became androgynous.
d.		Filming took 40 days.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		The many underground tunnels filmed in the movie were actually no more than two corridors in which the director had the actors running repeatedly through from different angles.
b.		The title of the film is a reference to three womb idols of creation the characters are trying to obtain from hidden sites around the world.
c.		Originally, Thurl Ravenscroft was to be only the single voice double for the Medicine Man. However, the actor could not synchronize his lip movements to Thurls recording, so the studio called in Thurl at the last minute to actually play the role on-screen.
d.		Patrick Stewart wanted his lifelong friend Brian Blessed to play Admiral Dougherty.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		In April 1957, this film was distributed on a double bill at many drive-in theaters with Dino starring Sal Mineo.
b.		Cecil B. DeMille agreed to do his cameo for a $10,000 fee and a brand-new Cadillac. When Billy Wilder went back to him later to secure a close-up, DeMille charged him another $10,000.
c.		The hedge maze was brought in as there was no actual garden maze on the mansion property.
d.		When Ralph marks his route to New York City on the map, he starts at a point in the center of Pennsylvania. There is no real town of Chatsburg in PA, but there is a town near his starting point called "Bellefonte" (the character Ralph Burton in the movie is played by Harry Belafonte).

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		Debut of John McGiver.
b.		The film makers had a hard time with the owl who was supposed to fly directly at the camera. They eventually settled with a shot of the owl flying to the upper right of the camera.
c.		Christopher Nolan first pitched the film to Warner Bros. after the completion of his third feature, Insomnia, and was met with approval from the studio. However, it was not yet written at the time, and Nolan determined that rather than writing it as an assignment, it would be more suitable to his working style if he wrote it as a spec script and then presented it to the studio whenever it was completed. So he went off to write it, thinking it would take "a couple of months", but it ultimately took nearly eight years.
d.		Series of 12 two-reel comedies released from 1 March 1926 to 1 August 1926: #1: Roll Your Own; #2: Its a Buoy; #3: Plane Jane; #4: Sock Me to Sleep; #5: Smouldering Tires; #6: Whiskering Chorus; #7: The Lightning Slider; #8: The Big Charade; #9: Up and Wooing; #10: When Sallys Irish Rose; #11: Twelve Smiles Out; #12: Alls Swell That Ends Swell. Many of the titles are word plays on popular feature films of the era.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		This was the last film released by Compass International Pictures.
b.		The Crime Club novel, "Murder in Surgery" was written by Dr. James G. Edwards, M.D.
c.		The original Broadway production starred Maureen Stapleton and Lou Jacobi. The play ran for only 12 performances.
d.		In 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected this film as one of twenty-five landmark films of all time.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		Max Recordss favorite scene in the original book, is when Max meet a sea monster. That scene is however not included in the film.
b.		At an assembly, a student reads "original poetry" by another who had recently killed herself. The poetry is actual an excerpt from the lyrics to "Alive" by Pearl Jam.
c.		The majority of the movie was shot in three locations. The outside of Garth Manor was shot at a mansion in Redlands, California. The inside of Garth Manor was filmed in a residential home in Pasadena, California. The frat party was filmed in an apartment lobby in Los Angeles, California. The mansion used as Garth Manor is now a museum in Redlands, California -the owners made the change from private residence to a museum shortly after filming was completed on the movie.
d.		The Russian ship Leonov, was the inspiration for the look and feel of the Omega-class destroyers in Babylon 5.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell Night (1981)?
a.		The buildings that blow up in the end are all Fox-owned buildings digitally composited into the shot. It was feared that they would invite legal action against the production if they portrayed real credit card companies blowing up.
b.		Much of this movie was filmed at the Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) State Hospital, which was still in use for treatment of mentally ill patients until it closed in 2005.
c.		For the scene where Jeff is thrown down a flight of stairs and hurt his leg, there wasnt a lot of acting involved. In reality, actor Peter Barton had really hurt himself and most of his limping was due to being in real physical pain.
d.		The legendary Berry Gordy, who turned out to be one of the films financiers, was allowed to direct one sequence. This would be one of the sequences where Dr. Death is trying to convince a spirit to enter the wifes body.