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Lightning strikes, the castle door creaks, and the classics rise again. Test your knowledge of Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and his Bride, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, King Kong, Godzilla, and the stars who brought them to life.

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Classic Movie Monsters: The Actors Behind the Monsters

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  1. 2. Colorful surname of the actor who played Viktor in The Bride (1985)
  2. 4. Surname one letter away from England, belonging to Elm Street's striped-sweater star
  3. 6. Narrow valley, one N short of the first name of Strange, the Monster in House of Frankenstein (1944)
  4. 9. Patriarch of an acting clan who played the caped count in House of Frankenstein (1944)
  5. 11. First three letters of the first name of Browning, the Gill-man's underwater performer in 1954
  6. 12. Wegener's first name, shared with an apostle, behind a clay protector in a 1920 silent
  7. 13. Before a stage name made him famous, this was the surname of Frankenstein's 1931 creature performer
  8. 14. Kinski's given name, for the pale count in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake

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  1. 1. Hodder who wore the hockey mask in four consecutive Friday the 13th films
  2. 2. It star Skarsgard's first name could also be a landlord's demand
  3. 3. ___ Chapman, who handled the Gill-man's scenes on dry land in 1954
  4. 5. Surname of the principal performer inside Japan's atomic reptile for its 1954 debut
  5. 7. Broadway's caped count in 1977, then the same aristocrat on film in 1979
  6. 8. Citrus name shared by the performer inside Japan's atomic reptile from 1984 through 1995
  7. 10. Stormy forecast, by the sound of the surname behind The Invisible Man (1933)

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Classic Movie Monsters: Castles, Laboratories and Monster Settings

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  1. 3. Huge open vessel for a mad scientist's bubbling brew
  2. 5. Bent-necked laboratory vessel, or a sharp comeback
  3. 7. Tall, narrow structure that gives a vampire's residence its looming silhouette
  4. 8. Spooky mansion's storage space directly beneath the roof
  5. 10. Grated gate dropped vertically to secure a fortress
  6. 12. Mountain pool like the eerie body of water beside the House of Usher
  7. 13. Rocky hill that makes a dramatic perch for an eerie stronghold
  8. 14. Castle's most fortified inner stronghold

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  1. 1. Water-filled defensive ditch around a vampire's stronghold
  2. 2. Hinged crossing raised to seal a fortress entrance
  3. 4. Flaming brand carried by the searching mob in Frankenstein (1931)
  4. 6. Flight path between floors in a creaking mansion?
  5. 9. Subterranean prison beneath a sinister stronghold
  6. 10. City beneath whose opera house the Phantom makes his home
  7. 11. Low, marshy ground where a movie creature might lurk

Classic Movie Monsters: Creature Features from King Kong to Godzilla

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  1. 4. Size relationship that makes a performer look gigantic beside miniature buildings
  2. 7. Supersonic pterosaur introduced in a 1956 Japanese film
  3. 8. Fictional island investigated after ship disasters in Japan's 1954 reptile classic
  4. 9. Eight-legged title terror of a 1955 film starring John Agar
  5. 11. Primate type portrayed by the title character of 1949's Mighty Joe Young
  6. 13. Bikini, whose nuclear tests influenced Japanese creature cinema, is this kind of coral formation
  7. 14. Giant crustacean whose 1966 film carries the English subtitle Horror of the Deep

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  1. 1. Pollution-fed creature nicknamed the Smog Monster in a 1971 Japanese film
  2. 2. Atomic-breathed screen icon known as the King of the Monsters
  3. 3. 1933 cinema giant who made the Empire State Building his perch
  4. 4. Wearable costume that turned Haruo Nakajima into a towering screen reptile
  5. 5. Willis O'Brien's craft, practiced one frame at a time for a 1933 giant-primate adventure
  6. 6. Long-necked dinosaur encountered at a swamp in the 1933 giant-primate classic
  7. 10. The ___ from 20,000 Fathoms
  8. 12. Huge object that hatches into twin larvae in a 1964 Japanese creature film

Classic Movie Monsters: The Invisible Man and Mad Scientists

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  1. 4. First name of Colin Clive's scientist in Frankenstein (1931)
  2. 5. Peter of Mad Love (1935), playing a dangerously obsessed surgeon
  3. 7. Respectable doctor with a secret second identity in Stevenson's 1886 novella
  4. 9. Conductive contacts that deliver current to a movie scientist's experiment
  5. 11. Secret chemical recipe behind a screen scientist's breakthrough
  6. 12. Jon ___, star of Invisible Agent (1942)
  7. 13. Botanical-sounding name of the fiancee in The Invisible Man (1933)
  8. 14. Small, stoppered glass container for a screen scientist's mysterious liquid

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  1. 1. Sinister alter ego introduced in Stevenson's 1886 novella
  2. 2. Spiral conductor that gives a movie scientist's electrical rig its turns
  3. 3. Author whose 1897 novel supplied cinema with its famous unseen scientist
  4. 6. Cabinet-owning doctor in a landmark 1920 silent film
  5. 7. The title scientist in The Invisible Man (1933) has this first name
  6. 8. Actor who played both Frankenstein's creation and the scientist in The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
  7. 10. The Invisible ___, a 1936 film about an eerie scientific discovery

Classic Movie Monsters: The Mummy and Ancient Egypt on Film

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  1. 3. Egyptian capital featured in Stephen Sommers's 1999 adventure
  2. 6. Plateau home to the Great Sphinx
  3. 8. Ornate stone container from which a wrapped screen menace might emerge
  4. 9. Fictional leaves whose brew sustains a wrapped creature in a 1940s film series
  5. 10. Surviving object from antiquity, prized by screen archaeologists
  6. 12. ___ Cushing, who portrayed explorer John Banning in a 1959 chiller
  7. 13. First name of the actor beneath the famous wrappings in a 1932 chiller

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  1. 1. ___ Pictures, studio behind a 1932 wrapped-creature classic
  2. 2. Royal title borne by Tutankhamun and Ramses II
  3. 4. Goddess associated with protective magic and motherhood
  4. 5. Often green-skinned god who rules the Egyptian afterlife
  5. 7. Ancient priest portrayed by Arnold Vosloo in a 1999 adventure
  6. 8. Beetle-shaped charm placed among ancient burial treasures
  7. 11. Funerary vessel that might appear among a screen archaeologist's discoveries

Classic Movie Monsters: The Wolf Man and Werewolves

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  1. 6. Frightening imaginary creature, such as a werewolf.
  2. 8. Earth's natural satellite, central to werewolf folklore.
  3. 9. Twelve o'clock at night, a traditional spooky hour in werewolf tales.
  4. 13. Single footprint left by a passing werewolf.
  5. 14. Larry ___, the central character in The Wolf Man.
  6. 15. Land covered with trees, a common setting for werewolf encounters.

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  1. 1. A person before turning into a werewolf.
  2. 2. Walking stick Larry carries in The Wolf Man.
  3. 3. Thick coat covering a werewolf's body.
  4. 4. Projecting nose and mouth of a doglike creature.
  5. 5. Relating to Earth's natural satellite.
  6. 7. Change shape, as a person does when becoming a werewolf.
  7. 10. Film genre focused on frightening the audience, including werewolf movies.
  8. 11. An animal's nip, often responsible for passing on the werewolf condition.
  9. 12. Sharp, curved nail on a werewolf's fingers.

Classic Movie Monsters: Frankenstein and His Bride

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  1. 1. ___ Lanchester, actress who played the female creation in 1935.
  2. 3. Body part where the 1931 giant has two metal fasteners.
  3. 6. Flames that frighten Frankenstein's creation.
  4. 7. Thinking organ whose abnormal condition affects the creation in the 1931 film.
  5. 9. Bright electrical flashes across the sky during the creation scene.
  6. 11. Room where Henry Frankenstein performs experiments.
  7. 12. 1935 film title: ___ of Frankenstein.
  8. 13. Violent weather during the famous creation scene.

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  1. 2. What Henry Frankenstein celebrates with the cry "It's alive!"
  2. 4. Series of connected metal links used to restrain the giant.
  3. 5. Residents of the small community who form an angry mob in the 1931 film.
  4. 7. Cloth strips covering the female creation before her unveiling.
  5. 8. Loud rumbling heard during the creation scene's violent weather.
  6. 10. Feature styled into a tall shape with white streaks in the 1935 film.

Classic Movie Monsters: Dracula and Vampire Lore

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  1. 3. Evening twilight when the sky begins to darken.
  2. 4. First light of morning, when Dracula seeks shelter.
  3. 5. Long, eerie cry made by the wild canines in Dracula.
  4. 6. Large fortified home like Dracula's mountain residence.
  5. 9. Able to live forever, as the vampires of legend are said to be.
  6. 12. Strong-smelling kitchen bulb traditionally used to repel Dracula.
  7. 13. Wild canine that Dracula can become.
  8. 15. Flowing, high-collared garment of the screen's most famous vampire count.

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  1. 1. Bela ___, star of the 1931 Dracula film.
  2. 2. Neither living nor truly dead, like Dracula.
  3. 7. Dark shape that Dracula does not cast in the original novel.
  4. 8. Long burial box where Dracula rests.
  5. 10. Reflective glass in which Dracula has no image.
  6. 11. Time between sunset and sunrise, when movie vampires roam.
  7. 14. Christopher ___, star of Hammer's 1958 Dracula.
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