Pop Quiz: Winter Horror IMDb Trivia – with Answers!

Name the winter-set horror movie based on the trivia pulled from its IMDb page. Answers in photo collage form; collage by Nikki K. (find her on Facebook @horrorfrenzy). Thank you, Nikki!!

1. Stanley Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive (as they do in the book) was unworkable, due to restrictions in special effects, so he opted for a hedge maze instead. [1980]
2. The title of the film (as well as the novel upon which it was based) refers to the fact that, according to myth, vampires must be invited in before they can enter someone’s home. [2008]
3. The sounds of the vampires were created through a mix of the screams of the actors with recordings of local death metal singers and various marsupials. The signature roar of the vampires was the actors screaming while inhaling. [2007]
4. Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider is the voice from the top of the mountain who announces “Last chair is through.” Dee’s son Cody was the director’s assistant on the picture, and cameos in the lodge wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt. [2010]
5. Max’s mom alludes to “the noodle incident” that estranged the family from a neighboring one. The noodle incident was often referred to but never explained in the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip, and [film title] also leaves it unexplained. [2015]
6. After seeing The Shining (1980), Rob Reiner was inspired to make a movie based on a Stephen King novel. He ended up directing two Stephen King adaptations, Stand By Me (1986), based on King’s novella The Body, and this film, based on King’s 1987 novel of the same name. [1990]
7. Unused music composed for this film was later used by Ennio Morricone in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Ironically, Morricone’s [film title] score was nominated for a Razzie for worst score, while his score for The Hateful Eight won him an Oscar. [1982]
8. The second of two ghost story horror pictures that veteran actors John Houseman and Melvyn Douglas made in a two-year period (the first films were The Fog and The Changeling, respectively). [1981]
9. Originally, Stripe and Gizmo were the same character. This changed when executive producer Steven Spielberg insisted one of the [title characters] be a good guy with whom the audience could identify. Director Joe Dante has said that this decision was the reason why the film is so fondly remembered. [1984]
10. Partially, and very loosely, inspired by the “Donner Party” disaster of 1847. [1999]
11. Graphic designer Burt Kleeger created the infamous poster art of Santa going down the chimney with an axe. [1984]
12. Oliver Reed was arrested by the Canadian police during the production of this film after he made a bet with someone that he could walk from one bar to another without wearing clothes in freezing cold weather. [1979]
13. Hauser Hall is a reference to Kaspar Hauser, an enigmatic child who turned up in a German town in the 16th century. Hauser’s origin is considered a great mystery, akin to the Bermuda Triangle, the Mary Celeste, or Count St Germain – very fitting for a film about the equally mysterious Dyatlov Pass. [2013]
14. Thomas Jane starred in the film because his mother, a big fan of Stephen King, told him to. Jane would later star in two more King adaptations, The Mist (2007) and 1922 (2017). [2003]
15. The movies Grace and the children watch at [film title] are The Thing (1982) and Jack Frost (1998), which both feature snowy settings.
16. Zach Gilford and Connie Britton also starred together in Friday Night Lights. [2006]
17. The hotel room in which Ingunn is killed and later the others hide is room number 237. This is an homage to The Shining (1980), in which the notorious room number was also 237. [2006]
18. When Emma Roberts read the script for the film, she couldn’t sleep afterward because it scared her so much. [2015]
19. The Nazi zombies in this film are a combination of typical zombies in popular culture and ancient Norse mythical beings known as draug. A draug is an undead being who would inhabit graves, often the graves of important men, as they often had treasures in them. A draug would protect these treasures as if they were their own. [2009]
20. Originally conceived for theatrical release, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paramount decided to change its release strategy and make it a Paramount+ exclusive, making this the first film in the franchise to not be given a theatrical release. [2021]