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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Monster House (2006) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Monster House (2006) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006).
About the movie:
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
The motto on the police car reads "We Wanna Help".
b.
Peter Lorre
claimed that the giant squid got the role that was usually reserved for him.
c.
Originally, the fourth alien movie was to be a rendition of the popular comic Aliens Vs. Predator, which combined the Alien creatures with
Predator
since 1991.
d.
The movie took five years to complete, but was in development for over ten years before it entered active production.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
This film holds the record for fastest release from theaters to home video/DVD: 29 days.
b.
All of the police cars damaged in the film, as well as the garbage truck that overturns, were bought at city auction by director
H.B. Halicki
in 1972, for an average price of $200 each. They sat in an empty lot for over a year until production on the movie began in 1973.
c.
The poster at the circus for Constances performance calls her "the woman as big as a house."
d.
Paul Henreid
s act of lighting two cigarettes at once caught the publics imagination and he couldnt go anywhere without being accosted by women begging him to light cigarettes for them.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Animator/filmmaker
Ralph Bakshi
tried to convince producer
Laila Nabulsi
to let him do "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as an animated movie, done in the style of
Ralph Steadman
s illustrations for the book. Bakshi is quoted as saying: "Hunter had given the rights to a girlfriend of his. I spent three days with her trying to talk her into me animating it - she wanted to make a live action of it - I kept telling her that a live action would look like a bad cartoon but an animated version would be a great one. She had a tremendous disdain for animators because it wasnt considered the top of Hollywood. Hunter also could not make her change her mind. So she made the pic with
Johnny Depp
(who is a great actor) and got the film I told her she would get - it would have been more real in a cartoon using Steadmans drawings."
b.
The first animated film to be made using Sonys animation rendering software.
c.
The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.
d.
After being fired from this film,
Judy Garland
was a guest on
Bing Crosby
s radio show, and they sang a duet of "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know Ive Been a Liar All My Life". A recording of the broadcast survives today and reveals the legendary Garland wit. She says she was going to star in this film, but "Leo the Lion bit her".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Linda Seaton was loosely based on Gertrude Sanford Legendre, a former debutante who left high society to become a big-game hunter and later spied for the OSS during WWII.
b.
The second film to be released in REAL Ds digital 3D format.
c.
Roman Polanski
owned a painting by British artist
Michael Worrall
, which gave him the inspiration to make the movie. The second scene was based on this painting.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Two minor roles were played by Playboy Playmates. Vicki De Soto was played by
Erika Eleniak
(July 1989) and Susie was played by
Julie McCullough
(February 1986).
b.
Isabella Rossellini
claims that during the initial filming of the ritualistic rape scene,
David Lynch
couldnt stop laughing off-screen at the weirdness of it all. Though she was baffled as to why he was laughing at the time, Rossellini says that to this day, she herself laughs uncontrollably every time she watches that particular scene.
c.
For the Italian version of the film, Bones and Skull have been renamed "Punk" and "Freak".
d.
MGM paid $50,000 for the rights to the original story.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
The films one-sheet movie poster was painted by screenwriter/director
John Fasano
.
b.
Voted number 6 in channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
c.
Homages to various
Stephen King
stories abound. The idea of a house that comes alive and eats people can be found in the third installment of Kings "Dark Tower" series, "The Wastelands". And while in the houses basement, Chowder shines his flashlight on a mechanical monkey much like the one found in Kings short story "The Monkey", collected in "Skeleton Crew".
d.
Sean Penn directs Dennis Hopper in this movie without Penn acting in it at all. Dennis had directed Sean in Colors (1988) which Hopper did not act in all.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Robert Blake
was offered the part of Ratso, but declined.
b.
For the German version of the film, Bones, Skull and Chowder have been renamed "Punk", "Freak" and "Ketchup".
c.
The infamous sound effect, the "Wilhelm Scream: is featured in this film. The scream was originally done in the 1950s by Sheb Wooley, who sings "Flying Purple People Eater," (1958) used in the closing credits.
d.
Willie the Dog is played by
Danny
Finn, whose owner had to stand in for the film companys dog-handler, who could not get Danny pay attention. (Danny is not a professional actor.)
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Laurence Fishburne
and
Eriq La Salle
both auditioned for the role of Ben.
b.
To keep the movie a PG rating, the victims that were eaten (Bones, the cops and the dog) had to come back to life during the end credits.
c.
The script was originally performed on stage in March 2000 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco one month before film production began.
d.
The song that made
Dick Van Dyke
s career, "Put on a Happy Face", was unsuccessful in early showings of the musical and almost cut from the production.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Monster House (2006)?
a.
Elle Driver (
Daryl Hannah
) was actually whistling "Twisted Nerve" whilst entering the hospital for the scene. It sounded quite professional, but it was masked over; the instrumental was taken off, and the sole whistling from Herrmans song was what we hear until she enters a changing ward.
b.
The character Walter Neff was originally named Walter Ness, but director/writer
Billy Wilder
found out that there was a man living in Beverly Hills named Walter Ness who was actually an insurance salesman. To avoid being sued for defamation of character, they changed the name. In the novel, his name is Walter Huff, and Dietrichson is Nirdlinger
c.
Brad Pitt
, who was a big fan of
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
, approached director
Guy Ritchie
and asked for a role in this film. When Ritchie found Pitt couldnt master a London accent, he gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy.
d.
The film used 3D motion capture techniques to digitally record the physical performances of the actors before "skinning" them with their animated forms.
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