Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).

About the movie: Based on the true life serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		After filming the family massacre scene, actor Tom Towles (Otis) insisted that actress Lisa Temple (who plays the mother) go to the casualty department because he was convinced he had injured her neck for real when he snapped it. Temple herself was confidant that no damage had been done, but for Towles piece of mind, she did go to casualty, where she received a clean bill of health. Over time, this story has evolved into an urban myth that Temple had to go to hospital because she was so traumatized by shooting the scene, the content of which the filmmakers had concealed from her prior to shooting. As she herself tells it in Portrait: The Making of Henry, there is no truth in this story whatsoever. She went to the hospital purely as a precaution.
b.		Paul W.S. Anderson was offered the movie on the strength of the box office success of his previous film, Mortal Kombat. It meant he had to turn down the opportunity to direct X-Men and Alien: Resurrection.
c.		Officer Scott Strauss, a first responder with the New York City Emergency Services unit, was offered the chance to play himself in the film. However, Strauss refused to do so and Stephen Dorff was then cast to portray him. Strausss services as a consultant were retained for the film to which he didnt accept payment.
d.		When Commodus goes with Lucius to meet Maximus at the Colosseum, he tells Maximus that Lucius insists Maximus is Hector reborn. Then Commodus asks Lucius, "Or was it Hercules?" The real emperor Commodus believed he was Hercules reborn.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Afternoon Delights shares a title card with Prisoner of Pleasure with some cast credits applying to the former, some to the latter and some applying to both films.
b.		The character of Henry is loosely based upon the real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. As in the film, Lucas was acquainted with a fellow convict named Ottis Toole (although in the film, the characters name is only given as Otis). Additionally, Lucas became the lover of Tooles 11 year old niece, Frieda Powell, who lived with Lucas and Toole for a time and often went under the pseudonym of "Becky" (although in the film, Becky is Otis sister, rather than his niece, and is considerably older than Powell was). Also as in the film, Lucas ultimately killed Becky. Furthermore, like the fictional Henry, the real Henrys mother worked as a prostitute from her house, often forcing him to watch her whilst she had sex, and occasionally making him wear a dress. The real Henrys father had also lost both his legs in an accident, prior to which he had been a truck driver, just like the fictional character. However, the actions of the fictional Henry are inspired not by Lucas real crimes, but by his fabricated ones. In prison, Lucas confessed to over 600 murders, claiming he committed roughly one murder a week from 1975 to 1983. Ultimately however, the vast majority of these claims turned out to be false, whilst many of the rest could not be substantiated one way or the other. Lucas was simply confessing to every unsolved murder brought before him because doing so ensured better conditions for him, as law enforcement officers would offer him incentives to confess. Such confessions also increased his fame with the public. In the end, Lucas was convicted of eleven murders, and sentenced to death for the murder of Frieda Powell, although his death sentence was later commuted to life in prison by the then governor of Texas George W. Bush.
c.		Is the first movie allowed to use the full and actual name of the University of Texas at Austin.
d.		The producers of the film did not include a trailer on location for Maureen OHara in their budget. John Candy was furious that the producers were showing someone of her stature such disrespect he gave her his own trailer. The producers finally caved in because they couldnt have Candy, the star of the film, without his own trailer.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Shipped to theaters under the name "Needs Work"
b.		Sean Bean previously auditioned for the role of James Bond in The Living Daylights.
c.		Fred J. Lincoln, who plays Lord Zazu, is just 10 years older than Arlana Blue who plays his daughter.
d.		The song playing in the background when Otis tests out the new video camera is "Psycho" by The Sonics.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Roger Guenveur Smith, who plays Pruitt, also played Huey Newton in A Huey P. Newton Story, meaning he has played characters at the birth and death of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
b.		Before Antoine Fuqua was involved in the project, Davis Guggenheim was set to direct with Samuel L. Jackson as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris and Matt Damon as rookie Officer Jack Hoyt. When Denzel Washington accepted the role as Detective-Sergeant Alonzo Harris, Guggenheim was replaced per his request.
c.		Per the Rhino soundtrack information Rosalind Russell herself sang in the eventually deleted "Together, Wherever We Go" number, not Lisa Kirk.
d.		Although completed in 1986, the film didnt get a theatrical release until 1989. It is often mistakenly claimed that this was due to its being tied up in censorship issues with the MPAA, and although this is true to a degree, the majority of the delay occurred because the executive producers, Malik B. Ali and Waleed B. Ali were somewhat underwhelmed by the film turned in by director John McNaughton, and werent sure it was even worth their time releasing it on VHS, let alone releasing theatrically. As McNaughton himself says, "they just put it on the self". Several years later, Chuck Parello (who would go on to direct Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2) saw the film and was deeply impressed. Parello was working for the Ali brothers at the time, and he began to lobby them to do something with it. He convinced them to let it be screened at the Chicago Film Festival in 1989, where, after getting a glowing review from the Chicago Tribunes Rick Kogan, the film was accepted into the 1989 Telluride Festival and subsequently the 1990 Splatterfest Festival, becoming the sensation of both festivals. At this point, the Ali brothers realized they had something unique on their hands and set about promoting the film for theatrical release.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		In the first draft, Rita Moreno as Zelda Zanders was to sing "I Got A Feeling Youre Fooling", but after script revisions the song was used in the montage before the number, "Beautiful Girl", along with "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" and "Should I".
b.		Early in the film, a witness on stand pulls a gun out on Harvey Dent (Two-Face) during the trial and tries to shoot him. This is a nod towards Two-Faces original origin story in the comics where in a similar trial scenario, crime boss Sal Maroni is on stand and throws sulfuric acid in Dents face resulting in his scarring.
c.		The film was shot on 16mm in 28 days with a budget of $110,000. It initially earned $600,000 on its (extremely limited) theatrical run, but has since gone on to earn millions on VHS and DVD, as well as theatrical re-releases.
d.		The shotgun used in the movie is a Model 1887 Winchester lever-action shotgun.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Forrest Gump is in the 9th Infantry Division, as is shown in the Vietnam scenes by the patch on his shoulder (the top is red and the bottom is blue on the color versions of the patch).
b.		When Somerset is in his apartment, he can be heard listening to a radio broadcast of John F. McClellan. McLellan was a Boston disc jockey (among other things) who did live Tuesday night broadcasts from the Boston club Storyville, on WHDH radio in the early 1950s. In the clip in the movie, you can hear McLellans voice announcing some of the members of the band at Storyville that night, including Charlie Parker with Herb Pomeroy on trumpet.
c.		During its release limbo, tapes circulated around Hollywood which won many roles for Michael Rooker including one in Eight Men Out.
d.		During the early to mid-Seventies, there were fifty-seven unsolved murders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation due to the fighting between the "Traditionals" and Tribal government sanctioned "goons". This made the Village of Pine Ridge (Pop. 1100) the "Murder Capitol of the Nation" with the highest number of violent death per capita in the United States.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Alex Forrest suffers from an obsessive condition known as de Clérambaults syndrome.
b.		The movie playing on the television set, just before Otis breaks it, is Becket, starring Richard Burton and Peter OToole.
c.		The first scene to be shot was the burning of the Atlanta Depot, filmed on 10 December 1938. If there was a major mistake during the filming, the entire film might have been scrapped. They actually burned many old sets that needed to be cleared from the studio backlot, including sets from The Garden of Allah and the "Great Wall" set from King Kong. The fire cost over $25,000, and yielded 113 minutes of footage. It was so intense that Culver City residents jammed the telephones lines, thinking MGM was burning down. Scarlett was stunt doubled by Aline Goodwin and Lila Finn, while Rhett was doubled by veteran stuntmen Yakima Canutt and Jay Wilsey.
d.		Barbra Streisand was considered for the part of Dwan.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		Brian De Palma: [Split Screen] The entire film is shown in split screen.
b.		Bizarrely, the origins of this film are to be found in a never-made documentary about professional wrestling. Director John McNaughton had worked for the Ali brothers (Waleed B. Ali & Malik B. Ali) as a delivery man with their video equipment rental business during the late 70s, and Waleed and McNaughton had always vowed to make a film together at some stage in the future. Several years later, the Ali brothers hired McNaughton to direct a documentary about organized crime in Chicago entitled Dealers in Death. The film was well received and turned a profit, and the brothers were happy with McNaughtons directorial work. As such, they hired him to shoot a second documentary, this time about the professional wrestling in Chicago. A collection of previously thought lost VHS tapes showing wrestling in Chicago during the 1950s had been unearthed, and the brothers had agreed to purchase the tapes from the owner for use in the documentary. However, when the brothers went to buy the tapes, the owner doubled his price at the last minute, and the brothers pulled out of the deal. Waleed then had the idea to use the money set aside for the documentary to instead make a feature film, and he kept McNaughton on as director, offering him $100,000 to make a horror movie. Waleed didnt care what the film was about, he just wanted something in the horror genre. McNaughton had no idea what to write about until he saw an episode of the show 20/20 about Henry Lee Lucas, and he decided that his subject matter was not going to be a demon, a monster or an extra terrestrial, but a normal human being.
c.		Samanthas dads car has the license plate "V58", which stands for "Vacation 58", a story John Hughes wrote in National Lampoon Magazine.
d.		Bob Clark invited to write and direct a third Porkys film. He was interested, but also busy directing Rhinestone and said that he would have to think about a good storyline for the film. The producers didnt want to wait for him to do this however, and hired Ziggy Steinberg to write a screenplay for the film. Clark hated the screenplay and was furious that the producer had it written behind his back; as a result, he refused to have anything to do with the film.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		A light fell at the "Andes House" location resulting in a giant burn on one of the couches.
b.		According to Michael Anderson, the old mans buttons are United States pennies. He made makeshift buttons out of them because he couldnt find any real buttons.
c.		The CG models of the Republic attack gunships had to be extremely detailed to withstand viewer scrutiny during closeups. ILM even crafted a version with a fully decked out interior, which was used as the background for new bluescreen elements of the actors aboard the gunships shot during additional photography in London. The real life gunship interior sets were left in Sydney, so these new shots required digital gunship interiors.
d.		Director John McNaughton originally intended to shoot the entire film with a hand-held camera, so as to give it the look and feel of a fly-on-the-wall documentary. He had hired Jean de Segonzac to work as the director of photography as de Segonzac was regarded as one of the worlds foremost hand-held cameramen. However, a week before filming began, de Segonzac had to drop out of the project, and McNaughton was left without a director of photography. He subsequently hired Charlie Lieberman, who had shot a number of half hour substance abuse programs, and together, McNaughton and Lieberman decided to abandon the hand-held idea and go in the opposite direction; never using a hand-held camera at all, and ensuring very exact, very rigid framing throughout the film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)?
a.		The final scene was filmed at the southeast corner of Park Avenue & 68th Street in Manhattan, across the street from Hunter College.
b.		Michael Rooker said he was working as a janitor when he auditioned for the part of Henry and went to the audition in his janitor uniform. He got the part, and continued to wear his uniform throughout the film shoot. He only had one jacket, though, so he took it off before he "killed" anyone so he wouldnt get blood on it.
c.		Its rumored that there was some alternate, violent scenes, that were deleted from the final edit.
d.		To save money, the interior scenes were shot with a multi-camera television setup, then transferred to 35mm film.

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