Chapter 1? Personally, I’m partial to an overly long author introduction where you’re like “should I read all this? Are they going to spoil things?” You know? Let’s go!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) We’re Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister is on the Soundtrack. That and I Wanna Rock both feature Mark Metcalf in the music video, which is probably most notable for playing Doug Neidermeyer in what classic college comedy?
2) The film is directed by Renny Harlin. He also directed BMT classic The Legend of Hercules. Who is the BMT classic star of that film?
3) You know, filming a bunch of films all at once isn’t at all uncommon. To give another example, a series in which the third and fourth entries were filmed back-to-back have the subtitles Offspring and Trail of Blood respectively. What is that series? Want another hint? The second one has the subtitle The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
4) Froy Gutierrez plays the garbage boyfriend in this flick. His prior film was Hocus Pocus 2. Name the three actresses who play the witches in the Hocus Pocus films.
5) My god, the film is produced by Courtney Solomon. You should know him from BMT work he’s done on what IP which he bought when he was 19 years old?
Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: On December 16, 1993, When a Stranger Calls Back played on Showtime primetime up against:
What is this film?
Answers
1) I hope I didn’t give it too away, it is Animal House. I don’t know why Mark Metcalf was on the mind recently, maybe because I just watched Chilly Scenes of Winter. Quite good, would recommend.
2) Can you remember the name Kellen Lutz? That was a wild time when Lutz was genuinely a leading man in Hollywood. Sure the time was brief, but my god was it beautiful. You might ask, is he still acting? Of course he is. He’s in a film this year called Desert Dawn with Cam Gigantic.
3) Maybe you managed it prior to the final hint, which should have made it obvious it is Anaconda. The series technically has six entries come December. The fifth is called Lake Placid vs. Anaconda … which I don’t think should count.
4) Two are easy. Bette Midler plays the one that sings and gets mad at people. Sarah Jessica Parker plays the dumb one (which maybe you say I Don’t Know How She Does It!). But then can you remember the third … I never can, it’s Kathy Najimy, who plays … I guess the other dumb one? The second movie is terrible BTW.
5) If you hear 19-year-old and IP it almost has to be Dungeons & Dragons. I find it quite strange he doesn’t have a producing credit on the new one. But he is producing all of these The Strangers films and the new Red Sonja film coming out this year. Nuts.
Bonus NYTimes Listing Answer: That would be Top Secret! I’ve never seen it, although now I might have to.
And I lied, it was on HBO but at 6PM not 8PM, but JFK was on at 8PM and that film is sooooo long the listing is huge so I ignored it.
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