The 'Burbs Quiz Book: Revised and Expanded Edition - Introduction

Introduction to the Revised Edition

Whilst I was working on my What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? book last year I had a very pleasant surprise that continues to put a huge smile on my face whenever I think about it. It came in the form of a message through Facebook from someone who wasn’t on my friends list and someone who was using their son’s account to get in touch with me. Naturally at first I was a little bewildered by what I was reading but that person went on to inform me that they worked for Joe Dante and that her son was Joe’s Godson. She told me her name was Tara Kittle and that someone had recently been into Joe Dante’s office and brought him a copy of my The ‘Burbs Quiz Book as a gift. She thought it would be a nice gesture to send me a photo of Joe holding up my book as a gift to me.

The next message came through a minute or so later with two fantastic photos of Joe Dante holding up my book. I almost fell off my chair! The director of my all-time favorite movie was holding up a copy of MY BOOK! I seriously couldn’t believe it. This was the man who directed Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, Explorers, Innerspace and, of course, The ‘Burbs (as well as many other great movies and TV shows). You can see why I was so astonished.

Looking back at the chronology of the message exchange now there seems to be quite a gap between receiving the photos and my response back to Tara. Clearly I was having trouble processing this incredible correspondence, or maybe I actually did fall off my chair. I’m pretty sure I really spent those lost minutes doing a combination of saving the photos, sharing them on social media, composing myself, staring avidly at the images again and again and trying to find the best words I possibly could to express my gratitude to both Tara and Joe.

My response gushed with my gratefulness and I informed Tara that they were the best photographs I’d ever seen. She went on to tell me that Joe was, “Really tickled by the book as The ‘Burbs was such a hard movie for him to make (and it got horrible reviews) and it always touches him when people like the movie!” Well, I more than like the movie. I love it. And if you’re reading this book right now then doubtlessly you love it too.

I should add that Tara inquired if there was anything else she could help me with so I asked her if she’d be able to get Joe to answer some questions for my What Your Favorite Scary Movie? book, which Mr. Dante very kindly did and I will forever be grateful to him for doing that for me. That was seriously cool of him! Especially (as Tara informed me) as he was literally packing for a trip to Europe at the time!

This new edition contains some extra questions on The ‘Burbs, a few tweaks and amendments, a completely new set of questions on the fantastic Eerie, Indiana and my The ‘Burbs inspired short story The End of the Night.

I sincerely hope you enjoy this new version of the book. As always I’ve had a blast putting it together.

         Once again to Joe and Tara, thanks for reaching out to me, helping me, responding to me and for putting that huge smile on my face.

This book is for you.

Killian H. Gore

Warrington, UK

May, 2016

The 'Burbs Unauthorized Quiz Book: Revised and Expanded Edition

Welcome back to Hinkley Hills! This new edition contains some extra questions on The ‘Burbs, a completely new set of questions on the fantastic Eerie, Indiana PLUS The ‘Burbs inspired short story “The End of the Night” by Killian H. Gore and a new introduction explaining how Mr. Joe Dante himself wound up with a copy of the book!

Praise for The ‘Burbs Quiz Book

“A great companion book for the movie” – SKHM (Barnes & Noble)

“Great fun book” – Patricia Hamling/P. Hamling

“Very entertaining” – Michelle (Amazon)

“Awesome book!” – Cedric (Amazon)

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