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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pet Sematary (1989) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Pet Sematary (1989) Quiz
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About the movie:
The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
This movie was an even bigger financial flop at the box-office than the original first run of
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
.
b.
The idea for this story came about when Stephen Kings daughters cat, Smuckey, was killed on the highway outside their home.
c.
This was the first theatrically released movie featuring
Mickey Spillane
s detective Mike Hammer since
The Girl Hunters
, a gap of about nineteen years. In that movie, Spillane, the novelist creator of Mike Hammer, actually played Hammer in that movie.
d.
Winner of the
Lynn Redgrave
Award for Best Feature presented by Ms. Redgrave herself at the Kent Film Festival 2009.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
The local butcher provided some of the offal required for the brain operation scene.
b.
When Rachel gets off the semi, the numbers "666" are on it.
c.
After a character leaves, we see a shot of a jet airplane. Originally, the airplane shot was not in the movie. After a Midwestern preview, an audience member asked director
Garry Marshall
what happened to the character that left. When he heard the question, he had the shot inserted.
d.
The movie that the film student refers to when talking to Lauren at the beginning of the film is
Killing Zoe
, directed by
Roger Avary
; it also stars
Eric Stoltz
, who plays Mr. Lawson in this movie.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
Stephen King
required the movie to be filmed in Maine and his screenplay to be followed rigorously.
b.
The third pairing out of ten movies of comic actors and great friends
Jack Lemmon
and
Walter Matthau
.
c.
John Carpenter
, who composes the scores to his own films, was originally chosen to compose the score to "Planet Terror". (
Robert Rodriguez
ended up taking over the job as composer instead.)
d.
A Hollywood legend claims that Warner Brothers, makers of
Casablanca
, threatened to sue the Marx Brothers for using the word "Casablanca" in the title.
Groucho Marx
wrote a letter to Warner Brothers in which he threatened to sue them for using the word "Brothers": "Professionally, we were brothers before they ever were." However, film critic
Richard Roeper
claims (correctly) that the story is fake. In fact, Warner Brothers never threatened to sue, but merely inquired about the story of the Marx Brothers film, to make sure there was no copyright infringement. Groucho used the inquiry as an excuse for a publicity stunt. He wrote a series of comic letters to Warner Brothers (in which he told the studio, "Professionally, we were brothers before you ever were.") The letters were published in "The Saturday Evening Post" to publicize the movie.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
George A. Romero
was originally set to direct but when filming was delayed, he dropped out, and
Mary Lambert
stepped in.
b.
Pelléas and Mélisande are the title characters in a Symbolist play (by Maurice Maeterlinck and was first performed in 1893.
c.
Elia Kazan
s last film
d.
Matthews story/joke goes as follows. The British are trapped in the Sahara and are surrounded by the Germans. One day, an officer makes an announcement: "I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, we have no food but camel poop. The good news is, there is plenty of it."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
When
Fred Astaire
learned that
Gracie Allen
was nervous about dancing with him onstage, he reportedly made a point of tripping and falling in front of her the first day on the set to put her at her ease.
b.
Serial killer Scorpio was loosely based on the Zodiac killer, who used to taunt police and media with notes about his crimes, in one of which he threatened to hijack a school bus full of children. The role of Harry Callahan was loosely based on real life detective
David Toschi
who was the chief investigator in the Zodiac case.
c.
Buddy Hackett
auditioned to do the voice of Paulie, but lost to
Jay Mohr
who did an impression of Buddy Hackett. Buddy Hackett does appear in the film in a small role as Artie, the Pawn Broker, and during his scene Jay Mohr also appears in person as Benny.
d.
Bruce Campbell
was the first choice for the role of Louis Creed.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
Ben Daniels was offered a role but turned it down.
b.
This movie is notable for its sequence involving an airplane ride through the Grand Canyon.
c.
Bill Pope
agreed to be the movies director of photography because he was looking for "something completely different" from his previous three movies,
The Matrix Reloaded
,
The Matrix Revolutions
, and
Spider-Man 2
, all of which contained large portions filmed in front of blue/green screens.
d.
7 cats were used to play the part of "Church."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
HIDDEN MICKEY: The bus drivers hair is shaped like Mickey Mouses ears, as well as the green pepper slices on the pizza Robert and Giselle are served at the Bella Notte restaurant.
b.
Martin Campbell
claimed in an interview that the only reason he agreed to direct was because he had no other projects in development.
c.
For the Italian version of the movie, notorious Italian art critic
Vittorio Sgarbi
gave his voice to the Brain Gremlin.
d.
During the film, the character played by
Fred Gwynne
mentions that he a had a pet named "Spot". "Spot" was also the name of the family pet on the TV show
The Munsters
, also starring Gwynne.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
The film was shot on location in the same rural Maine area that
Stephen King
set the novel "Pet Sematary."
b.
Shot on a shoe-string budget in only 9 days.
c.
Temperatures reached 117 °F during filming. Some of the day sequences were changed to night so the cast would not collapse from the heat.
d.
Won four awards at the Weekend De Le Peur film Festival in France. Best Director, Best Film, First place and excellence awards.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
French Stewart
s film debut.
b.
Tom Savini
turned down the chance to direct the film.
c.
Dania Ramirez
was originally cast in the film when
Antoine Fuqua
was still directing the production.
d.
For years, during the 80s and 90s, this is the movie Swedish TV used to show on New Years Eve, just after midnight.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Pet Sematary (1989)?
a.
Robert Aldrich
earned so much money off the back of his film
The Dirty Dozen
that he was able to buy his own film studio and make the kind of films he wanted to make. Unfortunately the first three that he made independently (
The Killing of Sister George
,
The Legend of Lylah Clare
and
Too Late the Hero
) were all box office flops. When this movie also crashed and burned at the box office in 1971, Aldrich was forced to sell his studio and go back to being a director for hire.
b.
The camera never angles on a straight, horizontal level throughout the whole film.
c.
The role of Zelda, Rachaels dying sister, was played by a man. The role called for her to look emaciated, and apparently there were no women skinny enough.
d.
Robert Altman hired a local theater group to stage a scene from Oscar Wildes "Salome". He then copied their staging for the rendition of that same scene in the film.
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