Lon Cheney Memorial Quiz Bowl Packet
1)Description acceptable. On part of this scene sees an overweight man perfectly throw a monkey wrench which hits a villainous character in the forehead causing him to be wounded by his dropped weapon. This scene begins with a woman limping away from a farm house pursued by two men; one of those men is soon run over by a truck. This seen ends as the above mentioned woman screams GO several times to a driver while sitting in the bed of a pick-up truck. The iconic last shot of this scene sees a tall masked man wildly swing around the film’s title weapon in front of a beautiful sunset in the title US state. FTP, name this scene after which shows a credits card saying “Directed by Tobe Hooper” appears in the first film featuring Leatherface
ANSWER: the final scene of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2)A terrible movie that I love with this number in the title directed by Chris Shadley sees this many people chained to pipes in a room where they are tasked with finding out why they were all kidnapped and brought there. A masked man kills one of them every ten minutes until they ultimately figure out they all inadvertently had a hand in the death of the masked man’s son by denying him health care coverage for AIDS. Besides that movie about this many “Dead” another movie named by just this number sees a scientist create a series of homunculus-like ragdolls called “stickpunks” that go on to explore a post-apocalyptic world. A long song by Emerson Lake and Palmer that begins “welcome back my friends to the show that never ends” is called Karn Evil this number. For ten points, Pluto used to be which numbered planet from the sun.
ANSWER: 9 or Nine
3)A version of this piece plays in the opening of the arcade version of Donkey Kong Jr. In this film adaptation of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, this piece plays as the narrator describes weathering a storm. Spongebob plays this piece in his library in the episode “Something Smells” while wearing Groucho Marx glasses and nose. Also used in La Dolce Vita and Sunset Boulvard, in some cuts of Fantasia this piece is introduced as an example of absolute music and plays to images of abstract patterns and shapes. The use of this piece in 1930s films like the Black Cat and Dr. Jeckl and Mr Hyde made it associated with cliché horror reveals. FTP, name this spooky sounding organ piece by J.S. Bach.
ANSWER: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
4)In part of this film, two religious men kidnap and torture a gay man only to be killed by the ghost of his gay lover named Jesus. Another part of this film sees a woman disturbed by the sight of strange orb in the sky while near the top of a tall apartment building where see encounters deadly black glue. A humorous part of this film sees two castaways duke it out over the affections of a beautiful woman that washes up on their island. This film opens with a section called Amateur, where a would-be assassin dies in an air duct, only to kill his target posthumously when his rotting corpse falls out days later. This anthology film closes with a distrubring section called Zygote where a woman refuses to give birth for thirteen years until her husband returns. FTP, name this 26 part anthology horror film, the second film in its series to use an alpbeatical premise.
ANSWER: ABCs of Death 2
5)A reading of this film as being about the 1980s conservative movement doing harm to the urban poor is corroborated by a scene where a girl watches Margaret Thatcher on TV and a later scene where a creepy old man who died in a haunted chair says that he wants to do harm to younger generations. That girl is later processed by that old man in this film, and she is interviewed though we never see her speak as the man due to the static camera being turned to the interviewers the whole time. In remarkably similar conceit to the Babadook, a tall cartoonish monster is summed from a children’s toy by a child in this film. That monster is called the Crooked Man and is way scarier than the man monster form this film, which is just a demon dressed like a nun. FTP, name this disappointing and bad follow up to a great 2013 film about Ed and Lorraine Warren driving demons out of haunted houses, directed by James Wan.
ANSWER: The Conjuring 2
6)Description acceptable. On part of this part of a larger work sees a naked man with a wound in his arm, rip a shower curtain bar out of the wall to use as a weapon. A different man in this work defends a woman’s choice to do cocaine for the first time from the objections to a more sensitive man by saying that she is a “grown ass woman”. The work is followed in the film in which it appears by a section that sees a man stabbed in the neck by his girlfriend’s lover while asleep. In this work a woman name Lily, may be a reference to the Jewish mythological figure Lilith, with whom see shares some characteristics. That woman in this work has oddly shaped feet and repeatedly tells the protagonist that she likes him. That protagonist is filming a debauched night out with camera glasses and witnesses his friends killed by Lily after she transforms into a winged demon. FTP, name this first section of the first in a series of anthology films named for a video media
ANSWER: Amateur Night or the First film in V/H/S
7)One film featuring these entities sees a group of college students chain themselves to bulldozers, only to be captured by these entities as a result. That 2013 film featuring these is named for a film within a film from a 1980 film featuring these and is directed by Eli Roth. That 1980s film named for these entities made its acting cast go into hiding for a year after its production to perpetuate the illusion that they might be dead. The allegations that that film named for these was a snuff film is supported a scenes where monkeys and turtles are killed on screen. Another film from Italy of that era was called This Ferox. FTP, name these type of people who usually live in the amazon, which RuggeroDeodato made an infamous film about their “Holocaust”.
ANSWER: Cannibals
8)In an unsettling scene in Fable III, Sir Walter Beck repeatedly demands that you abandon him in a sandstorm after he gains this attribute. Film critic Amy Nicholson recently compared a film featuring an antagonist with this characteristic to Book Nine of The Odyssey.A painting in the Chicago Arts Institute by Henry Fuselli features a man with this attribute sitting in a chair while his daughter sits next to him writing some things down.A 2016 film featuring a man with this attribute stars Jane Levy and Stephen Lang, and begins when some teenagers break into a house to exploit a man with this attribute. FTP, the film Don’t Breath features a man with what attribute that cuts off all the light in his house so that his intruders can see what he sees?
ANSWER: blindness
9)One person who becomes one of these type of people jokes with her younger sister that see likes to dance naked with the devil in the full moonlight in one film. A film featuring these type of people sees a long scene where a blind piano player is killed by his own dog. That film about these people opens with a ballerina being killed by a gloved figure and was Directed by giallo master Dario Argento. Besides Suspirira, another film featuring these people sees a young boy previously attracted to his sister kiss one of these figures in the wood and earlier one of these figures kidnaps and chops up his younger brother. Black Philip the goat kills the patriarch of a family in a film named for one of these people that most of the UF quiz bowl team saw together in theaters. FTP, name this type of person that Tomasson becomes at the end of a Robert Eggers film set in puritan New England.
ANSWER: witch
10)Description acceptable. A woman in this episode quips to a man who points out her video game collects that she could beat his as at Street Fighter. A story about a bully permentaly scarring his arm in gym class foreshadows the reappearance of that bully as a black cloak and hat wearing man later in this episode. Starring the guy who played the quarterback in 22 Jump Street, another instance of foreshadowing in this episode features that man watching a movie featuring a giant spider on an airplane, only to encounter a giant spider monster later while in a stereotypical haunted mansion. Kate guides Cooper through a very advanced augmented reality horror game in this episode, most of which much like An Occurance at Owl Creek all takes place in Cooper’s head in a fraction of a second before he is killed by the electrical interference caused by a call from his mother. FTP, name this episode of a British anthology series recently acquired by Netflix, the second episode of season three named for what a tester might due to a video game before it is released.
ANSWER: Playtest or description of the episode of Black Mirror before it becomes too obvious
11)One song by this band mentions “free hand drawings of Lon Chaney” and “recipes for cake” in a list of thing hoarded by a group of drug addicts in “Letter From Belgium”. That album by this band also features a reference to The Exorcist actress Linda Blair on “Linda Blair was Born Innocent”. On a later album, this band behindWe All Shall Be Healed wrote an ode to western bloodsuckers in “Damn These Vampire” and calls back to Satan-worshiper Jeff as he remembers the old Death metal band he was in in “In Memory of Satan”. As mentioned recently at Penn Bowl, this band also wrote a song about the Halloween killer in “Michael Myers Resplendent”. FTP, name this band whose numerous horror film references can be heard on albums like Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree.
ANSWER: The Mountain Goats
12)Description acceptable. This entity can be seen watching the protagonist of the film in which it appears from the tops of several house rooftops in rapid successions. The group of teens in that film mistake a soccer player walking across a field for this entity. This entity appear in a kitchen as a peeing cheerleader and appears as a hollowed eyed very tall man enters a room after a girl opens a door saying he coast is clear. This entity devours one boy in the form of his mother and is repeatedly electrocuted in a swimming pool by various appliances while invisible. It can be seen slowly walking behind a young couple holding hands in the film in which it appears. FTP, identify this shapeshifting monster that pursues the last person to have sex with the person it previously pursued which appears in a 2015 horror film.
ANSWER: the monster from It Follows