In Harry Potter, the wizarding world celebrates Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Father Christmas delivers presents to the good children of the world. So what WOULD Father Christmas be in the wizarding world? A wizard? A fat house-elf? Is he even real in the wizarding world? I’m asking because of the...

Both Filch and Mrs. Figg are Squibs, which means they lack magic power, but were born into wizarding families. However, their Top Trump cards, specifically the Order of the Phoenix ones, rank their magic power at a bit more than 0. Filch's card had his magic ranked at 4, meaning if you put that a...

Looking for a story set in a world with 1890s-1920s technology, around 50-200 years after a nuclear exchange. No memory of when it was written and I'm pretty sure it was in English.

Clone Commando Gregor (CC-5576-39) was shown in Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season One episode 14, "War-Mantle": This suggests that he was not under the influence of the inhibitor chip at this point, due to not demonstrating the blind obedience of the other regular clone troopers. While it is confi...

Around the beginning of his rule, Tar-Calion the Golden was a dear friend to Amandil the Lord of Andúnië, despite Amandil being leader of the Faithful, and he let him be a member of the Council of Númenor. Obviously, at the beginning of his rule Tar-Calion has been more tolerant towards the Faith...

I remember the movie takes place for decades, where the guy who keeps escaping grows old and eventually meets his daughter or something because of weird sci-fi time travel/distortion. There is one escape scene where a group has to slow-mo run through a hallway through some kind of freezing substa...

The Wilhelm Scream is an iconic, if not the most iconic, stock sound effect that used in hundreds of movies like STAR WARS and Indiana Jones. Again, the Wilhelm Scream has been used hundreds of times in all kinds of movies. My question is: What was the first movie that ever used the Wilhelm Scream?

I heard about this movie from a friend, so i don't have exact details. The story is that a man from a Soviet Russian town goes to work by train in the morning, and returns in the evening. He falls asleep on the train ride home and wakes up apparently in his town, walks to apparently his block, hi...

In The War Of The Worlds, the Artilleryman describes a plan to move humanity underground. To quote the musical: "Artilleryman: We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? So, we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. You know wh...

There was a TV show or film available in the early- to mid-nineties when I was growing up that featured a forest of pale, spooky dead trees. They were not animated. I think they were either costumes or props, and were less than 12 feet tall. They also didn't have long branches, just short stubs; ...

Eastern European comedy sci-fi movie probably before 2000. I saw it on TV with subtitles. I don't remember the language. Two present day men find themselves in a future underground bunker. (Possibly they were frozen rather than time travellers?) They discover the bunker is home to a completely fe...

The story centered around the friendship between two humans as they mastered space travel through matter and/or time-space manipulation. As they come into contact with alien species, they eventually come across a hostile one which proceeds to force the humans to demonstrate ultimate superiority t...

I read this in the early '90s. It was a collection of scary stories that I got from the school book fair. I don't remember much, but there was a story in there that took place during the civil war (I think) and there was an illustration of a pair of pants that walked around by themselves at night...

Many years ago I read a short story about a man who figures out that his world is not real but an artificial miniature, populated by artificial people and used to test advertisements, etc. The "real" people then ask him if he'd rather go back to not knowing. I thought he also found a tape in his ...

I read part of this story sometime before 1987. I can remember part of a genus/species name, Rosa... something and that the bush somehow poked into the fourth dimension. I think the story itself was an extra-dimensional adventure of some sort, but that's all I remember.