Round 5: Tossup 9

In a film with this title, a woman rolls her eyes in different directions while eating takeout. In that film with this title, an actor wore a leather half-glove to cover a burn in a scene ending with his character being trapped in a freezer. A shot from a film with this title ominously pans from a woman supervising a group of children at a playground to a priest in all black staring at them while riding a swing. Near the end of a film with this title, a man sits in an office cutting up newspaper before leaving to join dozens of people walking through the halls in absolute silence. Two car ride scenes in that (*) remake with this title feature cameos by the original’s director Don Siegel and lead actor Kevin McCarthy. A Philip Kaufman film with this title ends with an extreme zoom on a man’s gaping mouth, as he screams at a woman who encountered a dog with the face of a banjo player. For 10 points, two films with what title about alien spores spawned the slang term “pod people?” ■END■ (10[1])

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