Literature and film have long shared a love/hate, symbiotic relationship. Guess which films these books — not all of them “real” but not all of them fictional, if you know what I mean — are making cameos in.
See also: Quiz the seventy-third: By the book (Part two), Quiz the one hundred-and-fifteenth: By the book (Part three), Quiz the one hundred-and-seventy-first: By the book (Part four).
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Alex on Film 
Pure guesses on most. But what the heck. How many opportunities a month do I have to look ridiculous? (How many quizzes ya got?) This is a good one, but they all are. Here goes nuthin’:
04) It’s Alive 3, Island of the Alive
05) Rushmore
07) Patton
09) Georgy Girl
10) Quills (?) (???????) (Like that’s going to make me right.)
11) The Brood
13) La note
17) Donnie Darko
18) The Third Man
22) Misery
24) House of Games
#13 is La notte. I’ll blame the keyboard.
You got It’s Alive 3!
Not many people could have done that.
8) The Evil Dead
20) Apocalypse Now (oh, Francis…)
17) Donnie Darko, the extended pretentious director’s cut (if I’m not mistaken)
Kurtz is a very well-read army officer! He can even recite The Waste Land.
I love the Mad Magazine version of Apocalypse Now where he recites Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha” instead. Willard complains that he knows that poem and it goes on forever and Kurtz asks What’s the rush?
Those Mad parodies showed no mercy. I still remember 201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy (“what’s this black object? A prehistoric basketball court? A dawn-of-man tape deck?”)
…actually I think it was “prehistoric handball court”
I remember that one! I still have my old Mad magazines stored away somewhere. I think I have the Space Idiocy one in a special issue that was a collection of the best of their movie parodies. Mort Drucker was one of the only comic book artists I could have named when I was growing up. I loved his stuff.
25) Zardoz — of course (smacks forehead)
Drucker is awesome. Another line: [ape throws bone into air; cut to] “I could have sworn a bone just bounced off the spaceship.”
2) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (featuring a book by Dr. No-First-Name Frankenstein)
Close. That book is in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, but that is not the movie I actually took the image from. I guess I was being a bit tricky.
That will teach me to confirm my educated guesses before posting — it’s Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein.