MOVIE QUIZ
Through the vagaries of movie release scheduling — especially over the past year — this week’s big openings include both “Army of the Dead” and “Those Who Wish Me Dead.” In addition, there’s also the debut of “Spiral: From the Book of Saw” with Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, the non-sequel, nonreboot, ninth installment in the serial killer horror franchise,
Aw, wrong movie quiz, buddy; this one's all about movies with "dead" in the title. Although, Ethan Hawke, one of the stars of the 1993 based-on-fact survival thriller "Alive," does figure into two of the movies on the "dead list" below.
where many characters wind up, well, you know.
In “honor” of this coincidental timing, we set the latest movie quiz in the land of the dead — movies with the word “dead” in their titles, that is. We’ll give you the year it came out and the names of three of its cast members; you guess the movie. As a bonus, we’ve got 15 questions instead of the usual 10, because, hey, we’ve got the room.
And as a final note, don’t expect any of the George Romero-directed zombie classics to appear here. Only the most diehard fans would recognize the actors’ names. No “Evil Dead” references either because the name Bruce Campbell would be a dead giveaway. We’ll stop now.
(P.S. The 1990s seemed to be a particularly good time for the dead, especially 1995.)
1. 1991: Andy Garcia, Robin Williams, Emma Thompson
2. 1988: Jim Carrey, Liam Neeson, Clint Eastwood
3. 1999: Marc Anthony, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
4. 1995: Leonardo Dicaprio, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe
5. 1995: Jack Black, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Penn
6. 2007: Albert Finney, Michael Shannon, Marisa Tomei
7. 1999: Amy Adams, Allison Janney, Kirsten Dunst
8. 1995: Chris Tucker, Terrence Howard, Bokeem Woodbine
9. 2004: Ving Rhames, Ty Burrell, Sarah Polley
10. 2017: Javier Bardem, Paul Mccartney, Geoffrey Rush
11. 1995: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Leslie Nielsen
12. 1989: Josh Charles, Ethan Hawke, Norman Lloyd
13. 1995: Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton
14. 1982: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Steve Martin
15. 1988: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Jeremy Irons
—C.J. Lais Jr.