"Suddenly I realised the power I held. The power to rule. To make the world grovel at my feet." A famous quote from a mad movie scientist. But who said it?
Claude Rains in The Invisible Man
Jeff Goldblum in The Fly
Peter Lorre in Mad Love
Colin Clive in The Bride of Frankenstein
Before Boris Karloff took the role as the monster in James Whale's Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi had already turned it down. What made him reject the part?
He objected to the scene in which the monster kills a small child
He was annoyed that the monster wasn't a speaking part
He was unwilling to subject himself to the daily three-hour make-up process
A staunch Christian, he was uncomfortable with the idea of Dr. Frankenstein playing God
What invention does Rocky Horror's Dr Frank-N-Furter unveil?
A transsexual playmate called Herbie
The means of dressing anyone he chooses in fishnets and suspenders
A man called Rocky
Janet (Susan Sarandon)'s evil sex-crazed double
1986's The Fly boasted a cameo from its director David Cronenberg. What predictably grisly role did Cronenberg play?
A yuppie neighbour who is eaten alive by the fly
An entomologist who becomes the unwitting host for a colony of killer ants
A lab technician who begins sprouting centipede legs
An obstetrician who delivers a maggot baby
Name the 1992 sequel to Disney's mad-scientist movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, I Diced the Kids (In My Patented Kid-Dicing Machine)
Honey, I Blew Up the Kids
Honey, I Drunk the Kids
Honey, I Sentimentalised the Kids
What gimmick was used to spook the audiences during William Castle's 1959 mad scientist thriller The Tingler?
An attendant dressed in a lab technician's coat was hired to run screaming down the aisle during the film's climax
Shop dummies made up as monsters were sat in various cinema seats and then the lights turned on midway through the movie
Extra projectors cast moving images of monsters on the cinema walls
The cinema seats were wired to give the punters an electric shock
What life-enhancing invention do the teen computer geeks develop in the 80s film Weird Science?
A high-strength acne gun that blasts zits instantly off their faces
Their perfect woman (sweet and easy and resembling Kelly LeBrock)
A magical electric guitar that plays Led Zeppelin riffs when you snap your fingers
A musclebound exo-skeleton that turns its puny wearer into a beach-party heart-throb
What aid did Marlon Brando use while filming his role as the mad scientist in The Island of Dr. Moreau, and what (according to co-star David Thewlis) went wrong with it?
A pair of oversized false teeth which kept snapping on his tongue whenever he spoke
A tiny radio receiver to feed him his lines, which kept picking up messages from a local police frequency
A corset to help him look slimmer, which burst whenever Brando had to stand upright
A prosthetic "Tefal" forehead, which melted under the hot studio lights
Which ageing actor enjoyed his last screen role as the benign - and only mildly dotty - scientist in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands?
Vincent Price
Peter Cushing
Sir Ralph Richardson
James Mason
"A woman born of electricity...a man driven by passion!" The tagline to an 80s remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. But who played the bride and who Dr Frankenstein?
Lori (Fame) Singer and Cary Elwes
Julia Ormond and Danny Glover
Jennifer (Flashdance) Beal and Sting
Patsy Kensit and Phil Collins
