LITTLE-KNOWN HORROR FACTS/TRIVIA

[Antonio]

(1) The young actor who portrayed mute vamp-to-be Laddie in THE LOST BOYS was also featured as the younger version of Lance Henriksen's Ed Harley character during the awesome PUMPKINHEAD prologue. He is credited as Chance Michael Corbitt in THE LOST BOYS and Chance Corbitt, Jr. in PUMPKINHEAD. I recognized him immediately (sans mullet) upon viewing the underrated PUMPKINHEAD again recently.

(2) Linda Miller, who portrayed Alice's mother in ALICE, SWEET ALICE is Jackie Gleason's daughter, which makes her the younger sister of Jason Miller (THE EXORCIST), and an aunt to Jason Patric (THE LOST BOYS) and Joshua Miller (NEAR DARK), who are both the sons of the late Father Damian Karras. Talk about Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon!

(3) Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are best known for their Scream Queen roles in PSYCHO and HALLOWEEN, respectively. But Jamie's father Tony has also ventured out into the horror genre, in both well-received films (like the docu-thriller THE BOSTON STRANGLER) and low-budget shockers (BRAINWAVES and CHAMBER OF HORRORS). And the elder Curtis daughter Kelly (a major babe just like her sister) starred in a couple of grade-Z horror flicks (like DEMONS 4). Looks like horror films are in the blood with this family.

(4) Anne-Marie Martin, who played sexy bad girl Wendy in PROM NIGHT (where she was credited as Eddie Benton), is married to JURASSIC PARK author Michael Crichton. The couple wrote the screenplay for TWISTER.

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[Antonio]

Anyone else know any killer kool horror trivia?

[A.J. Hakari]

A little fact: Lalo Schifrin's score for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was the rejected score for THE EXORCIST.

[stevereno]

hey ANTONIO!

i accually knew questions 2,3 and 4 but i was lead to believe that LINDA MILLER was JASON PATRICK'S mother athough i am most likely wrong.

hmmmmmm trivia.......

in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET the bath tub scene was constucted over a pool. the hand that comes out of the water was the hand of the special effects man. his wife was nancy's stunt double for the underwater bit.

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[teenkiller]

Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!! Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Razorblade Smile]

There are two Psycho references in H20. The most obvious is that of casting Janet Leigh (Marion Crane) as an employee at Hillcrest. But if you notice, she drives the exact same car that she used in Psycho.

[Razorblade Smile]

Real life Satanist Anton LeVey was involved in the ritual scene in Rosemary's Baby.

[skweemkween]

1/The lead actor who plays the psycho Santa in Christmas Evil has a famous daughter: her name is Fiona Apple.

I'll think of some more later...

[Ominous Phone Call]

During the climax of SCREAM 3, when Sidney (Neve Prescott) stabs killer Roman (Scott Foley) in the back with an ice pick, Neve really stabbed Scott, missing the pad on his back.

[Cabrini Green]

Several relatives of director Brian Yunza have appeared in the Silent Night, Deadly Night series including Zoe Yunza in part 5 and son Conan Yunza in Part 4. Other appearances in the series include Clint Howard (4 & 5), Reggie Bannister (4) and Bill Moseley (3). Laura Harring (3) and Jeanne Bates (4) both recovered from this series and went on to appear in David Lynch’s superb Mullholland Drive.

[Romero&Juliet]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by teenkiller:
Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!! Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.</font>

she is not! I want proof, dammnit!!! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif

from what I heard (which is just a variation of the story) Jamie Lee is what's called an XY female.. an EXTREMELY RARE genetic disorder that pretty makes her a neuter with breasts.

~~Aparently, Queen Elizabeth I was XY as well...which accounts for her baldness, and inability to have kids.

ROMERO'S COOL HORROR FACT!!!

Contrary to popular belief, the blood used in Night Of The Living Dead (68) was NOT Hershey's Chocolate syrup: it was Bosco Chocolate syrup.

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[Jason Lives]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by teenkiller:
Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!! Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.</font>

Yeah I heard that too

[skweemkween]

Lance Henriksen used the money he got from his role as Bishop in ALIENS to pay for his wedding. Before it was going to be a budget reception, but the profits allowed them to have a gala affair. Way to go Bishop.

The lead in Tetsuo:The Iron Man was a famous Japanese rock star. Starring in Tetsuo inspired him to try his hand at directing. Now he does movies.

Aside from starring as Mrs.Harry Cooper in Night of the Living Dead, Marilyn Eastman can also be seen as one of the zombies eating a cricket off of a tree.

Dennis Hopper was paid more money to star in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE PT 2 than all of the other movies he did that year; Hosiers, Blue Velvet, and The Rivers Edge (1986).

Sissy Spacek, before starring in Brian De Palma's CARRIE was the set decorator for his earlier film PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE.

[rtatick]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by teenkiller:
Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!! Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.</font>


No you aren't making it up.... You are spreading stupid rumors. Don't say stupid shit until you KNOW it's true. Otherwise, leave stupid fucking rumors out of here. Sorry, I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't like rumors, especially ones like this about such a respectable woman (i'll just pretend she didn't stoop low enough to appear in the piece of shit H8, but it does show her dedication).

Peace

For further info:
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.htm

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[Antonio]

I didn't create this topic for the rampant, nasty rumours such as the faux JLC story. That's a pretty sick thing to say about someone who has been an icon in the genre we all love...as well as an actress you all claim to love. Stop the fucking madness right now!

[countchocula]

I don't have one, but awhile back, Antonio brought up the fact that Lisa Wilcox (NOES 4-5) and Tuesday Knight (NOES4) are a couple! Now that's interesting!

[JustOneFix]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Razorblade Smile:
Real life Satanist Anton LeVey was involved in the ritual scene in Rosemary's Baby. </font>

As far as I know, Anton Lavay used to spread rumours about his involvement in this and that, but most of it was untrue, like his supposed stint as a police photographer in San Fransisco. I don't think he was in the movie, but he could have hung around the set.

[JustOneFix]

Another juicy bit about Lance Henriksen: he ran away from home when he was 12 or so. He didn't learn to write until he was in his teens (this may be innacurate, but I read it somewhere). He served in the navy, and made ceramics for a living afterwards.

[Klownzilla]

Just about everyone knows about the Stephen Geoffreys/Sam Ritter thing so I'm not explaining it all over again. He was born Stephen Geoffrey Miller and in his early teens, he fought with his stepfather and ran away from home. When he pursued his interest in theater, he saw that the name Stephen Miller was already taken, so he changed his name to Stephen Geoffreys.

[stevereno]

i read that MICHAEL J. FOX real name in MICHAEL DOUGLAS.

there were only 6 ALIEN costums made for ALIENS

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[thingsgoinon]

The Giant Gate from the original King Kong was burned as part of the Atlanta burning scenes from Gone With the Wind.

Halloween was originally concieved to be a sequel to Black Christmas.

Carrie Fisher was supposed to play Carrie, but she didn't want to do the nude scene, so Brian DePalma and his buddy George Lucas (who were holding auditions at the same time ) who had just cast Sissy Spacek as Princess Leia in some film I can't remember the name too, decided that the actresses could switch roles if they agreed. They did.(there are different versions of this)

In the great Harryhausen film "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" the words to the spell that the evil wizard Koura( Dr Who's Tom Baker) uses to summon the Homoncules are actually "Silly rabbit, Tricks are for kids" and "I'm Cuckoo for Coco Puffs" said backwards

The author of The Omen , David Seltzer, also penned the script (uncredited final rewrite) to another famous movie...Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Jaws was the first movie in history to make 100 million dollars (not to shabby considering 1975 ticket prices and only opening on 400 screens)

Robert Shaw wrote the Indianapolis speech himself in Jaws .

In the novel Jaws ,Hooper identifies the shark as a Megalodon.


In Carpenter's The Thing this is what the Norwegian is screaming :"Stop, get the hell away! It's not a dog - it's just an imitation of a dog, it's a kind of thing. It imitates. Get the hell away from the dog you fucking idiots!"


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[RogueSpear]

Lucio Fulci once said that he always saw The Beyond as being mostly plotless. Instead he saw it as nothing more than a succession of images.

I thought that was kind of interesting...

[A.J. Hakari]

A bit of trivia most probably already know, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA originally began as a sequel to THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI.

[Klownzilla]

Didn't Brian DePalma tell George Lucas that Star Wars was the worst movie he had ever seen.

[Terror Australis]

Here's sme trivia...

1. When Jeepers Creepers writer/director Victor Salva was writing the script, he had Lance Henriksen in mind to play The Creeper.

2. While making TCM, Tobe Hooper wanted the film to have PG rating.

3. Wes Craven's Last House on The Left is still banned from Australia.

4. Before his film Psycho was released, Alfred Hitchcock went out and bought every novel of the film so nobody wouldn't find out the ending.

5. The film Scream was inspired by the real life murderer called "The Grainsville Ripper".

6. Psycho became the first film to featured a toilet.

that's for now.

[Romero&Juliet]

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Aside from starring as Mrs.Harry Cooper in Night of the Living Dead, Marilyn Eastman can also be seen as one of the zombies eating a cricket off of a tree.

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COOL!! Qween, you just gave me an excuse to watch NOTLD again!! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[michael_myers_woman]

*Wes craven named Freddy Krueger after a bully at his school.
*The girl who plyed sally in TCM really cut her self while filming the runaway scene.
*In nightmare on elm street they had to use gallons of blood to film the killing scene in the bedroom with rod and that one girl.
*Kane Hodder played Jason Voorhees in f13th 6-8 and Jason X.
*Halloween was originally titled the babysitter murders.
*Halloween started in the 70s
*TCM was based on a true story about Ed Gein
*It took 3 people to move the Chucky doll around
*It took 24 hours to do Pinhead's makeup
*Dick Warlock played Michael Myers in Halloween 2
*The guy who played "Tallman" in Phantasm was 6'3.

[thingsgoinon]

Nick Castle, who played The Shape in the original Halloween, also has claim to a milestone in cinema history...he directed the first film in history to use CGI FX for all the films FX: The Last Starfighter

[HorrorScreenwriter]

Susuan Blu, who played Tina's mother in Friday the 13 part 7, is best known for voice directing and giving a voice to many cartoons.

Wes Craven got his idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street from 3 different newspaper articles in the LA times.

Nicole Kidman was originally supposed to play the lead in Panic Room, but was replaced by Jodie Foster. A smart move I say.

In the original draft for Scream, Dewey was supposed to die.

Scream 2 had several drafts done and everyone involved had to agree not to let word get out about anything major in the movie.

New Line Cinema is also known as the house that Freddy built.

Frank Darabont (directed Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile) did rewrites for NOES 3 after Bruce Wagner and Wes Craven gave an initial script.

Michael De Luca, who wrote the screenplay for Freddy's dead, was fired last year from New Line Cinema and now works for Dreamworks.

NOES 4 was written by Brian Helgeland, who went on to write the novel adaptation LA Confidential. ALso Payback starring Mel Gibson which he also directed.

Only two characters ever survived through two whole NOES movies. They are Alice and Nancy if you include New Nightmare.

Drew Barrymore was first choice to play Sidney Prescott in Scream.

MORE AS IT DEVELOPS...
http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[the_ultimate_evil]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ominous Phone Call:
During the climax of SCREAM 3, when Sidney (Neve Prescott) stabs killer Roman (Scott Foley) in the back with an ice pick, Neve really stabbed Scott, missing the pad on his back.</font>


she's good at this cause in scream 1 she missed the pack and stabed billy with the umberlla

and todays moral kids
never work with neve campbell on a movie where weapons are involved

[Cushing]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari:
A little fact: Lalo Schifrin's score for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was the rejected score for THE EXORCIST.</font>
No It was'nt .The original score for The Exorcist as done by Schifrin was quite diffirent from The Amytiville Horror.
Friedkin rejected the original score but you can hear a good portion of it on the cd. which accompanied the collectors "box" edition of The Exorcist which was released a few years back.
Schifrins score for The Amytiville Horror was excellent and concentrated on a "nursery rhyme " tune which was carried onto the sequel.

[Klownzilla]

Edward Chiodo played the klown known as Klownzilla in KKFOS.
http://www.chiodobros.com/killerKln.jpg

The director of Lawnmower Man, Brett Leonard performed as the klown who sprayed Officer Mooney(John Vernon) in the face with the flowers. He was the klown in the middle.
http://www.art-posters.net/posters/newart/rp1716.jpg

It was John Vernon's suggestion to be sprayed twice in the face with the flowers and to reappear at the end of the film as a type of zombie.

[LamentConfiguration]

I'm not sure if this is little known by you schmoes, but this is a movie that I haven't heard mentioned...

Freaks was banned in Europe for 30 years

Puppet Master's 8th installment is in development, wwhich will even the score between it and the Halloween series (not success wise) http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

It took over six hours to film the scene in Jack Frost 2 where the girl gets trapped under the ice.

more to come...

[Antonio]

Robbi Morgan, who played Annie in the original FRIDAY THE 13TH was also featured in a small role in the 70's "Crazy Mama" classic WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?, starring Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters. Robbi, who was a little girl at the time, played an aspiring Shirley Temple wannabe dressed as Mae West! She attended the drama school that big Shell and little Deb owned.

[A.J. Hakari]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cushing:
Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari:
A little fact: Lalo Schifrin's score for THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was the rejected score for THE EXORCIST.</font>
No It was'nt .The original score for The Exorcist as done by Schifrin was quite diffirent from The Amytiville Horror.
Friedkin rejected the original score but you can hear a good portion of it on the cd. which accompanied the collectors "box" edition of The Exorcist which was released a few years back.
Schifrins score for The Amytiville Horror was excellent and concentrated on a "nursery rhyme " tune which was carried onto the sequel.



Right from the IMDb:

http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0078767

Perhaps it wasn't Schifrin's score, but the rejected score from THE EXORCIST was used in THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.

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[Cushing]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari:
Right from the IMDb:

http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0078767

Perhaps it wasn't Schifrin's score, but the rejected score from THE EXORCIST was used in THE AMITYVILLE HORROR.

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[Cushing]

As you may have noticed my previous thread does'nt make much sense .I pressed the key too early .Anyway ,I checked the link and I don't know where they got the info. from but it's wrong.Schifrins score for Amytiville was an original and written for the film .For a so called internet data base to make such a glaring mistake is , frankly embarresing.I've e-mailed them regarding it.
From what I've been told they get quite a few things wrong or just print gossip.

[APzombie]

In Sleepy Hollow, all scenes of the actor who played the headless horseman with a head (not giving away the actor http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif ) on a horse had to be done with a fake horse, because the actor qoutes "I grew up in the bronks, horses don't like me." So they made a machanical horse that was earlier used in a 1960's movie.

[ParileseMonster]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by countchocula:
I don't have one, but awhile back, Antonio brought up the fact that Lisa Wilcox (NOES 4-5) and Tuesday Knight (NOES4) are a couple! Now that's interesting!</font>

I do not know if they are lovers or not, I doubt it but they are partners in buissness and they do make interesting toe rings for sale and other jewelry, go to www.imdb.com (http://www.imdb.com) and go to Lisa's profile and they will show her official site where they sell this stuff.

[Ominous Phone Call]

Hillcrest Academy in HALLOWEEN H20 also doubled as John Milton's mansion in SCREAM 3. You can easily tell this is the same building (interior) when Laurie battles Michael/Ghostface disposes of a victim out of a window, & (exterior) when Laurie leaves after work/Sidney arrives at the house.

[michael_myers_woman]

onomiousphonecall what? i dont understand u. i got the part about the school in h20 and milton's house but not the rest.

[Ominous Phone Call]

Sorry about the confusion, I was trynna line up scenes in which you can tell the builing is the same by putting the H20 scene first/then the SCREAM 3 scene. If I'm still not helping just let me know, I'm not all tha great with this stuff.

[michael_myers_woman]

ok give me some hints please

[Ominous Phone Call]

OKAY~you can tell the buildnings are the same when:
H20~Laurie goes outside to make sure the buses leave for Yosemite.
SCREAM 3~Sidney arrives at John Milton's house & gets a call from the killer. The outside of each building is the same, only Milton's mansion has a pool in front.

Also:
H20~Laurie battles Michael in the main corridor.
SCREAM 3~Tyson is disposed of by Ghostface. The inside of each corridor is EXACTLY the same, with only slight color/decoration changes.

**There are other scenes in which the similarities can be noted, so check them out yourselves!

[Ominous Phone Call]

During the HALLOWEEN prologue, the hand of Michael Myers (grabbing the kitchen knife) is "played" by co-writer (and wife of John Carpenter) Debra Hill.

[michael_myers_woman]

ok.

*on A Nightmare on elm street the part when Tina is unpside down being slashed by freddy on the ceiling that is really on the ground they just made it look like it was on the ceiling.
*The hook in I know what u did last summer is not a harmless movie prop its a real hook made out of steal metal.
*Kane Hodder played Jason from 7 to jason x.

[Corpse Candle]

As we all know terminator the first one that is ran on an extremly tight budget so much so that they ran dry of cash when they were shooting the final scene.
So at the end of the film when the robot terminators head is being crushed the smoke that emits from the cybinetic skull is the director blowing cigeratte smoke into the camera shot and the robots skull is made of a material very similar to tin foil.
Also tom selleck was origanly going to cast as hannibal lecter....
Well actuely that's a complete lie but just imagion hmmmmm.

[stevereno]

JAMES REMAR (rayden from MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION) was originaly cast as HICKS in ALIENS but was replaced by MICHAEL BIEHN 2 weeks before filming

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[FeydRautha]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Terror Australis:
3. Wes Craven's Last House on The Left is still banned from Australia.</font>

Not quite true...it's available in my 2 local video rental places (in Sydney, anyway).

Your quote about Hitchcock, though (how he bought up all copies of "Psycho" so no one would get the ending), I've heard that's true.

Re: Jamie Lee Curtis' hermaphrodilia...I've always been told that's total bollocks. She got that reputation because she has "masculine" looks. She's a female.

My Trivia: During the making of "Arachnophobia", Frank Marshall ran a betting pool, the winner being the person who did the creepiest stunt with a spider. Roy Brocksmith (The Town Mortician) won by letting a live spider crawl out of his prosthetic nose.

And Stephen King loves making cameos in films of his books; in "Pet Sematary" he's the preacher at the funeral service. In "Sleepwalkers" he's the goofy graveyard groundskeeper. That's all I can recall right now, but there are more.

I've got loads more, but I'll have to look them up...

[FeydRautha]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by APzombie:
In Sleepy Hollow, all scenes of the actor who played the headless horseman with a head (not giving away the actor http://www.joblo.com/ubb/wink.gif ) on a horse had to be done with a fake horse, because the actor qoutes "I grew up in the bronks, horses don't like me." So they made a machanical horse that was earlier used in a 1960's movie.</font>

Sorry to double-post...just had to reply to this one, too. I'm assuming you mean Christopher Walken. This film was shot at Shepperton & Pinewood Studios in England, and I've got friends who worked on the shoot. Walken indeed rode a horse (walking and trotting) during the flash-back sequences, but the mechanical-horse story is the first I've heard. He never rode at a full gallop anyway, they used stuntmen for those shots.

However, here's a bit of "Sleepy Hollow" trivia for you...one of the two stuntmen who portrayed the Headless Horseman (while headless) was Ray Park, who went on to Star Wars: Phantom Menace as none other than Darth Maul.

[CeMeTaRy_GaTeS]

You may or may already know these but here it goes.
1. Carrie Henn was dicovered at a military base with no acting expirience before getting to play Newt in Aliens. And she is now becoming a teahcer.

2.Ripley was originally supposed to be nude when she sees the alien when their in the Narcissus. Since they had only one day left to film, they scrapped that idea and gave Weaver small panties.

3.Evil Dead was filmed in a real life abandoned cabin. Plus the title was originally "Book of the Dead" but the producer changed the title fearing it wuld drive kids away thinking they'd see it as a litirary reference

[Ominous Phone Call]

Debra & John Strode (Kim Darby & Bradford English) in HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS were named after the original HALLOWEEN creators, Debra Hill & John Carpenter.

In real life, Liev Shrieber who plays Cotton Weary in the SCREAM series is deathly afraid of scary movies & has never seen the trilogy he starred in.

[Klownzilla]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space star Grant Cramer is the son of classic film star Terry Moore, who starred in the original Mighty Joe Young.

During Re-Animator, David Gale had to wear a wig because they could not make the severed head to resemble Gale's real hair.
Gale's wife left him shortly around the release of Re-Animator because of the scenes that he has with Barbara Crampton, who was strapped to the Gurney table.
Gale told co-star Robert Sampson that he felt morally terrible about doing the explicit scenes with Crampton.
In the scene where Megan discovers Rufus in Herbert West's refrigerator, a real dead cat was used.
During the long shots of having David Gale's "severed" head in the dish, Jeffrey Combs "fed" Gale cigarettes from time to time.

[Antonio]

I heard that Gene Hackman and Michelle Pfeiffer were up for the roles of Hannibal and Clarice in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Although both are great actors, no one can compare to the Hopkins-Foster duo!

[NbdysPerfect]

Ok here is just some cool horror facts I know, sorry if everyone else knows these, hehe:

* In HALLOWEEN, Laurie is watching "The Thing From Outer Space" with the kids. John Carptenter later re-made this film and called it...you guessed it...The Thing

* In the Craft, the actress that plays Sarah is wearing a wig through the whole movie because she shaved her head for a role in Empire Records.

* In the end of PHANTASM, you may notice that the guy that plays "The Tall Man", his hair is a little longer. That is because they gathered everyone together after a few months after filming had wrapped to re-film the ending and his hair had already started to grow out.

[bulletproof]

Heres one:In all of Dario Argento's movies when you see the killer's hands?Those are Dario's hands doing the onscreen killing.

Charleton Heston was tapped to play Quint in Jaws,but turned it down.

Kane Hodder tried out for the Freddy Kruger
role,but went with Englund instead.

Jean Claude Van Damme was originaly gonna play the predator,until the producers were
unimpressed with the 1st Predator suit.

John Carpenter wanted Charles Bronson to play Snake Plissken,before Kurt Russell.

[FeydRautha]

In "Carrie", when everything goes nuts in the gym/prom dance, Wanda is killed by a flying waterhose. In actuality P.J. Soles (Wanda) was knocked unconscious when the crew swung the hose at her, and broke her eardrum. She looks dead for the rest of that scene because she was out like a light.

[ICP RULZ]

Does anyone know any Lost Boys trivia?I dont know any trivia at all.I know I suck.

Peace

[FeydRautha]

No you don't, ICP RULZ! Think better of yourself (go on, get that self-esteem back up there!...)

Lost Boys trivia: For the waterfront/amusement park scenes they filmed in Santa Cruz. In the opening scenes that show "street people", those people are the real street people of Santa Cruz. (I found this out because my brother lived in Santa Cruz for awhile, and we watched LB together when he visited me in the UK. He pointed out the bearded guy in the monk's robe in particular, saying he was a well-known character on the waterfront there.)

When David (Kiefer Sutherland) gets impaled on the antlers, he doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires because the script for a sequel was in the works and they wanted to bring the character back for it. But this sequel never got made.

[ICP RULZ]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by FeydRautha:
No you don't, ICP RULZ! Think better of yourself (go on, get that self-esteem back up there!...)

Lost Boys trivia: For the waterfront/amusement park scenes they filmed in Santa Cruz. In the opening scenes that show "street people", those people are the real street people of Santa Cruz. (I found this out because my brother lived in Santa Cruz for awhile, and we watched LB together when he visited me in the UK. He pointed out the bearded guy in the monk's robe in particular, saying he was a well-known character on the waterfront there.)

When David (Kiefer Sutherland) gets impaled on the antlers, he doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires because the script for a sequel was in the works and they wanted to bring the character back for it. But this sequel never got made.</font>

Thanks,I needed that.I wonder if I write in to them if they would create that sequal.Do you know where I could get a draft of it or something.Thanks again.

Peace

[FeydRautha]

There's reputedly another sequel in the works called "Lost Girls". But I don't have any info on it.

Joel Schumacher (director of LB) wanted to make the sequel starring David, but went on to other things. I'm guessing the old sequel script is sitting in a drawer at the studio or his home, unused. You could always write to him and ask him about it.

Back on topic - more horror trivia: Exorcist. The first scene Max Von Sydow has with Linda Blair is when she screams at him "Your mother sucks cocks in hell!!!" Von Sydow is renowned as an old-fashioned gentleman, and when the 12-year-old Linda spat that line at him on his first shot, he had to excuse himself from the set for a few minutes and compose himself. He wasn't used to being in films where little kids swear like a trooper.

In the scene where Regan's mother is thrown backwards against a wall, Ellen Burstyn damaged her spine and needed medical attention. She had to have physiotherapy after the film wrapped for the injury.

[XCoRyX]

I know some casting facts off the top of my head,casting is my favorite thing to look up on in the movie business...i want to be a caster for movies....

1) For Jeepers Creepers, Marla Sokoloff was a step behind Gina Phillips from getting the role,and right behind Sokoloff was Dominique Swain...Swain was reportedly not nice enough,but could play the bratty/immature part of the role very good,but wasnt too great on playing the serious and nice side.Behind Justin Long for his role in Jeepers Creepers,actors like Joey Lawrence and Jonathan Taylor Thomas tried out for roles as well...

well actually,thats the only one i can think of off the top of my head,im tired.

[Ominous Phone Call]

In the chilling JAWS opener, director Steven Spielberg is pulling actress Susan Backlinie under the water himself.

[Mojo67821]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NbdysPerfect:
Ok here is just some cool horror facts I know, sorry if everyone else knows these, hehe:

* In HALLOWEEN, Laurie is watching "The Thing From Outer Space" with the kids. John Carptenter later re-made this film and called it...you guessed it...The Thing

* In the Craft, the actress that plays Sarah is wearing a wig through the whole movie because she shaved her head for a role in Empire Records.

* In the end of PHANTASM, you may notice that the guy that plays "The Tall Man", his hair is a little longer. That is because they gathered everyone together after a few months after filming had wrapped to re-film the ending and his hair had already started to grow out.

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Actually...Angus Scrimm's hair is SHORTER at the end of Phantasm. Everything else you said was correct, except for the fact that he had gotten a haircut between the wrap on principal shooting and the retakes.

[NbdysPerfect]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Mojo67821:

Actually...Angus Scrimm's hair is SHORTER at the end of Phantasm. Everything else you said was correct, except for the fact that he had gotten a haircut between the wrap on principal shooting and the retakes.

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Oops sorry bout that, hehe. Long, short, who's counting!

I have some more little tid-bits:

* Sam Raimi, director of Spider Man and the Evil Dead Trilogy put Bruce Cambell in a little cameo during the wrestling match!

* John Carpenter got the name Laurie Strodes from an old high school girlfriend.

* Sam Raimi also directed The Gift, which I absolutely loved!!

grr that's all I can think of right now.

[Klownzilla]

The cartoon character Dudley Do-Right was modeled after David Gale's 6 foot-tall frame.

[[SD] Bob Plisskin]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Another juicy bit about Lance Henriksen: he ran away from home when he was 12 or so. He didn't learn to write until he was in his teens (this may be innacurate, but I read it somewhere). He served in the navy, and made ceramics for a living afterwards</font>

Lance Henrikson still makes ceramics and you can buy them on his official site:
http://www.bylancehenriksen.com/01tl.gif (http://www.bylancehenriksen.com/)

also Lance was Cameron's first choice for the role as the Terminator since he wanted the Terminator to be able to blend into the crowd.

Another little thing which I don't know is true is that when Sarah Michelle Gellar is killed in IKWYDLS her blood apparantly sprays the camera in the form of the buffy symbol.

oh and that thing about Jaws and Speilberg pulling the girl, I never thought that was true, but what is true is there were several takes on that shot and the one they used was were the girls ribs were actually broken because the scream was more real.

&lt;OB&gt;

[Ominous Phone Call]

In the abortion-themed thriller THE UNBORN, Lisa Kudrow can be spotted in her first role as Dr. Meyerling's (James Karen) brunette receptionist. She's quite scary without any make-up!

[Ominous Phone Call]

Jacinda Barrett, featured in CAMPFIRE TALES (1997) & URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT, got her start on MTV's THE REAL WORLD LONDON (season 4). She also had Bianca Kajlich's part as Sara Moyer in HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION, but for some reason backed out at the last minute.

[FeydRautha]

Kinda gross, but...

During the climax of "Poltergeist", instead of using dry ice for smoke Hooper opted instead for a mixture of chalk and oil smoke that lays more heavily on the ground. One drawback to using it, however, was that after breathing the stuff for days the cast and crew all came down with bad cases of diarrhoea (a hitherto unknown side-effect, as chalk & oil is normally only used in theatrical productions). Apparently JoBeth Williams suffered the worst.

[Evil Spike]

paul anderson says that the orinal script for the movie soldier called for horrirble winds on the waste planet all the time. due to time and budget resone, they didnt follow throught with it.

also, it was said there were only 17 super soldiers attacking the planet, but tood, russel's charater kills closer to 30 of them.

[Linus*likes*noise]

Did you know??...

In HalloweenII when the shape walks through the plaza like area the dude walking with the boom box and cowboy hat is actually the "actor" of the shape's (Dick Warlock) son? Tis' true, his other son also makes an appearance as one of Ben Tramers worried freinds who talk to the deputy after the car crash scene.

In related fun facts, the excellent musician Beck emulated Dick Warlocks son's costume(Cowboy hat,JeanJacket,boom box,etc) for the video of his single "Devils Hircut". Check it out duders.

More Halloween shite lata.

[Romero&Juliet]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ominous Phone Call:
In the abortion-themed thriller THE UNBORN, Lisa Kudrow can be spotted in her first role as Dr. Meyerling's (James Karen) brunette receptionist. She's quite scary without any make-up!</font>

btw, have any of you guys ever heard that Lisa Kudrow is supposed to be this big mega-genius??? Kinda wierd considering the fact that her character acts like an asshole in Friends..

[FeydRautha]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Romero&Juliet:
btw, have any of you guys ever heard that Lisa Kudrow is supposed to be this big mega-genius??? Kinda wierd considering the fact that her character acts like an asshole in Friends..</font>

Yeah, I've heard that too. She married a Frenchman and for his benefit learned French in a matter of months. I've also read interviews where she comes across as much more intelligent and mature than her "Friends" co-stars, and even hints that she dislikes the Phoebe character as it's type-casted her for future roles in Hollywood (as was proved in "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion").

Maybe she should do what Geena Davis did and join Mensa...

[Ominous Phone Call]

Like Lisa Kudrow being in THE UNBORN as her first role, the same for Kathy Griffin playing lesbian lamaze instructor Connie.

[JustOneFix]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Linus*likes*noise:

Beck emulated Dick Warlocks son's costume(Cowboy hat,JeanJacket,boom box,etc) for the video of his single "Devils Hircut". Check it out duders.

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Actually, Beck emulated the costume worn by Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy. The devil's haircut video is an homage to Midnight Cowboy. In Halloween 2, Dick Wralock's son is dressed up like Jon Voight.

[Antonio]

Brock Simpson, the actor who played Josh the computer geek in HELLO MARY LOU-PROM NIGHT II is the same actor who portrayed the younger version of Nick in the original PROM NIGHT prologue. He is the offspring of Peter Simpson, the producer of the entire PROM NIGHT franchise. Brock's mother Gordene sang the haunting final song "Fade To Black" in the original.

[FeydRautha]

This bit of trivia always makes me go "Aaawwwwwww..."

During the filming of "The Omen", Gregory Peck got on so well with his tiny co-star Harvey Stephens (Damien) that he kept in touch with him his whole life. Every birthday and Christmas Stephens would get a gift from Peck, no matter where he was in the world. Peck attended Stephens' high school and college graduation ceremonies, and every time he visited London would make arrangements to have dinner or at least meet up for a drink. Stephens said in an interview a few years ago that Peck was like "a second dad" to him, and a great positive influence.

More Gregory Peck-related horror trivia: the first movie he ever saw was the original "Phantom of the Opera" (the silent version starring Lon Chaney). It scared him so badly that he had to sleep in his grandmother's bed that night.

[Bomont the Destroyer]

Heres some not that exciting ones for
Lost Boys:
The movie was originally written as a bunch of "Goonie type 5-6th grade kid vampires". Joel Sheumacher liked the title but hated the concept, so he changed it.

Both Corey Feldman, who plays Edgar Frog, and Barnard Hughes, who plays Grandpa, share the same birthday, July 16th.

Re-Animator:
The man sitting next to Meg with his jaw bandaged up is James Cameron's father. (Source: director's commentary)

The first man who is re-animated at the morgue (who goes on to kill the dean) is Arnold Schwarzenegger's body double.

TCM 2:
A poster can be seen on the wall in the radio station for the band "Fine Young Cannibals."

The "family group shot," as seen in the advertisements, posters and video covers, uses the same positioning as the promotional group shot for the movie Breakfast Club, The (1985).
Sorry if any of those were already posted.

[Bomont the Destroyer]

Wait I got more. These are ones I used for my Return of the Living Dead essay:
The Police Chief character that the zombified Trash kills is the movies writer and director Dan O'Bannon.

Mark Venturini who played Suicide was killed on a movie set accident in 1996.

Brian Peck who played Scuz went on to direct The Willies which starred James Karen, Clu Gallagher and that kid DonkeyLips from the Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts.

Jewel Sheppard who plays Casey, was original going for the role of Trash, but turned it down when she found out she would be naked most of the movie, but then went on to star in Hollywood Hot Tubs 1 and 2.

They made a fake latex snatch piece for Linnea Quigley for her naked tombstone dance.

Allan Trautman, the man who was in the Tarman getup controlled the "Floppy" puppet on the WB sitcom Unhappily Ever After.

James Karen had a cameo appearance in Mulholland Drive.

And one from Monster Squad:
Brent Chalum who played Horace, or "Fat Kid" died a few years ago at the age of 22.

[Lady Summerisle]

Bomont the Destroyer,

Anyone who knows that much about RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD is wicked in my book.

[APzombie]

according to Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs the book, Dr. Lecter has six fingers on his right hand...

[Gregorious8]

Some from Jason Goes TO Hell: The Final Friday.

* The dagger and Necronomicon are the same props as used in Evil Dead II (1987).

* In the basement of the Voorhees house, there is a crate marked "Arctic Expedition - Julia Carpenter - Horlicks University." This is the same crate from the "Crate" chapter in the movie Creepshow (1982).

* Kane Hodder also plays Freddy's Golve at the end of the movie.

Evil Dead 2:

* Freddy Krueger's glove is hanging near the steps in the cellar

* Ash's chainsaw appears to switch hands in one scene. This is because Sam Raimi decided Ash should walk the opposite way across the room in that scene, so he flipped the negative.

* Professor Knowby's wife is said to be in the "fruit cellar" is a homage to Psycho.

NOES 3: Dream Warriors

* The movie Jessica is watching before she dies is Critters.

[APzombie]

- All the characters in Night of the Creeps are named after horror film directors.

- There are two different versions of Gremlins 2: one for the theatre, one for video. The difference is that in the theatrical version, it appears that the film begins to burn, however, in the video version, this segment is replaced by a segment which simulates a broken VCR machine.

[Corpse Candle]

Strange facts:

1)The whole horror genre is just a figmant of my imagionation really i'm a fox sleeping in a field on top of a golden cloud near heaven.
I watch over everyone and I am also the god of hunting and misfourtune.

2)That was actully a lie.

3)I have nothing intresting to say and I appoligies about waisting everyones time.

4)I must punish myself (oh errr).

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[APzombie]

Frankie Faison was the only actor to appear in all four films dealing with Dr. Hannibal Lecter (or as manhunter puts it, 'lecktor') . Aside from playing a cop in Manhunter, he played Barney in Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon.

[APzombie]

Horror regular Dick Miller (Gremlins 1 & 2, The Termintor, Night of the Creeps) had a 2 minute scene in Pulp Fiction that was deleted. He played Joe, owner of Monster Joe's and shared a conversation with Harvey Kietel. The scene can be viewed in the new Special Edition of Pulp Fiction on DVD.

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[BettyLouisePlotnick]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by stevereno:
i read that MICHAEL J. FOX real name in MICHAEL DOUGLAS.

there were only 6 ALIEN costums made for ALIENS

SHIVER ME TIMBERS</font>


Not to by picky or anything... but it's actually Michael Keaton, whose real name is Michael Douglas....

[FeydRautha]

Mel Gibson is a notorious practical joker on set. There's a scene in "Forever Young" where he knocks on Jamie Lee Curtis' kitchen door and she opens it. On the first take she opened the door, and Gibson was standing there in a Michael mask holding a big kitchen knife. (The crew laughed, but apparently Ms. Curtis didn't find this at all funny and asked Mel not to play any more Halloween-related pranks.)

During the shooting of "Signs" he locked co-star Joaquin Phoenix in a closet for 3 hours while the rest of the cast and crew went to lunch.

[Meis760]

Damn Mel is ruthless.....

[APzombie]

I heard George Clooney also liked to pull pranks on poeple during a shoot. One of the last ones i heard he did was telling everyone who worked with him before to tell Brad Pitt that he liked to pull pranks on co-stars. So every night when Pitt went to his hotel during the oceans 11 shoot, he would check the room for hours looking for a hidden camera or other crap... Apparenley he checked every night for about 3 weeks until he realized that the big prank was Clooney not pulling one but to tell everyone else to tell Pitt one was coming....

Pitt and Gibson should make a movie together, one would be likley to die...

[Jason13thh]

Argento came to direction because he was not satisfied of the directors he was proposed.
At the beginning he was a producer.

[Grebdron]

Here's some AOD trivia:

The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the same words used to command the robot Gort in Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951).

Director Sam Raimi shot two different endings. One ending has Ash battling a she-demon in a department store in the present. The alternative ending has Ash imbibing a secret potion that would make him sleep one century for each drop of the potion he drinks. He then goes to a cave to sleep. However, he drank one drop too many and wakes up to find a barren post-apocalyptic landscape. The final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a red sky. The Great Britain video version shows the "potion" ending, and the version shown in U.S. theaters showed the "she-demon" ending.

That beat-up Olds that goes through time with Ash belongs to director Sam Raimi. He included it in most of his early movies, each time more banged up than the last. The items in the trunk of the Olds are not product placements; they're what Sam Raimi actually had in his trunk.

The magic words ash (Bruce Campbell) says are also said by the general in the movie TOYS when he is about to be eaten by the giant slug.

and

The incantation Klaatu, Barada, Nikto is also the names of three aliens in Return of the Jedi.

[FeydRautha]

Here's one that always makes me chuckle:

Brad Dourif plays the didgeridoo - a native Australian instrument that sounds not unlike a wombat farting down a drainpipe.

(Actually, it takes quite a bit of skill to play the didge coz you have to blow down a long hollowed-out branch with your mouth while breathing in through your nose at the same time. But it still sounds dreadful.)

When Dourif was here in Oz a while ago (filming a US TV series called "Ponderosa") he invested in some new didges to take home with him. Let's all spare a thought of sympathy for Mr. Dourif's neighbours...

[Lady Summerisle]

Brad plays a Digeridoo!
I will pass that on to anyone I meet on the street.

[FeverDog420]

BUMP!

I read in Entertainment Weekly that Donald Pleasence accepted his role in Halloween because his daughter was a fan of Carpenter's previous movie Assault on Precinct 13.

[Andrew Tom]

Bruce Campbell's scream in the end of Evil Dead is real, since Sam Raimi crashed into him with the "Evil Camera" bike.

[KingPhenom007]

Heres some:

Sally Fields was originally asked to play Alice in Friday the 13th

Lee Marvin was originally asked to play Quint in Jaws

Freddy Krueger was originally supposed to be Jasons supernatural foe in F13 pt 7

Actor Bill Mckinney actually tried to rape Ned Beatty during the rape scene in deliverence. Burt Reynolds pulled him off Ned when he realized what Bill was doing.

A scene showing Dr. Loomis being rescued from the fire after Halloween 2 to be shown at the beginning of pt 4 was started but never finished

Donald Pleasence was originally supposed to play Blair in The Thing

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing both turned down the role of Dr. Loomis in Halloween. Also Lee was asked to play the priest in the Fog but declined.

Estelle Parsons was originally gonna play Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th

Return of the Living Dead was originally gonna be directed by Tobe hooper and was to be in 3D

Tobe Hooper wanted to make a sequel to TCM in the 70s. It was to be called Beyond the Valley of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and was gonna have the family controlling a town.

The original identity of the Man in black in Halloween 5 was to be Michaels twin brother.

Speaking of brothers.....Jason goes to Hell was originaaly supposaed to have Jasons brother as the killer and flashbacks about Pamela Voorhees involvement in the occult

The guy who played the killer, Marty in Slaughter High committed suicide after finishing the film

James Woods was originally gonna star in Inferno

Burt Reynolds was up for the part of Rosemarys husband in Rosemarys Baby

Corey Feldman was originally supposed to play Tommy Jarvis in F13 5 for the entire movie instead of a cameo but couldnt because he was filming Goonies

Before turning the letters on Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White was in a horror film called Graduation Day. She got the part because her uncle Christopher George was the star.

Walt Gorney(Crazy Ralph) wa s the narrator at the beginning of F13 7. Plus Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, and Walt were all asked to be in JasonX but all declined.

Amy Steel actually cut the thumb off the actor playing Jason in F13 pt 2

Morbieus the Living Vampire was originally supposed to team up with Blade in Blade 2

In TCM 4, Jim Seidow turned down the chance to play the cook again but when Darla yells out the window at an "old man" shes supposed to be yelling at the cook though youre made to think later it was W.E. though hes not really an old man.




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[FeydRautha]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by KingPhenom007:
Actor Bill Mckinney actually tried to rape Ned Beatty during the rape scene in deliverence. Burt Reynolds pulled him off Ned when he realized what Bill was doing.</font>

Wow...poor Ned. More Deliverance trivia: Burt Reynolds was widely tipped as an Oscar winner for his performance in this film, but then he posed "almost" nude in Cosmopolitan magazine. The centrefold cost him an Oscar nomination that he most likely would have won.

The budget for Deliverance was so tight, director John Boorman didn't shell out for insurance...and all the actors did their own stunts, uninsured against potential injury.

[the_ultimate_evil]

hate to brake this but the cop who trash kills in return is the directer he says so in the new commentary

[*Escapade*]

The original ending to VALENTINE involved Jeremy Melton going back through the yearbook and ripping out the pictures of more girls that tortured him.

[malaria]

Originally posted by Antonio

(3) Janet Leigh and Jamie Lee Curtis are best known for their Scream Queen roles in PSYCHO and HALLOWEEN, respectively. But Jamie's father Tony has also ventured out into the horror genre, in both well-received films (like the docu-thriller THE BOSTON STRANGLER) and low-budget shockers (BRAINWAVES and CHAMBER OF HORRORS). And the elder Curtis daughter Kelly (a major babe just like her sister) starred in a couple of grade-Z horror flicks (like DEMONS 4). Looks like horror films are in the blood with this family.
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Tony Curtis starred in another rare horror flik called "The Manitou" (based on my favourite writer Graham Masterton's book by the same name) in which he played a tea-leaf palm reader who becomes embroiled in a nightmarish battle with an ancient Native American demon called Misquamacus who is growing out of his girlfriend Susan Strasburg's neck. It's really good until the final showdown where she battles the demon with multicoloured energy bolts of pure love!!! HEURGGH!

[MacReady]

Originally posted by Lady Summerisle
Bomont the Destroyer,

Anyone who knows that much about RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD is wicked in my book.

Oh really? Is that a fact? Well then this should be interesting.
Did you know that Trioxin(the chemical from the movie) is actually a real chemical used to restore dead people? Now before you start boarding up your windows(like that would stop them:rolleyes:) it's a vemonmous chemical used by morticians to slow down the cells from decomposing. Neat:D.

[MacReady]

Originally posted by Bomont the Destroyer
Wait I got more. These are ones I used for my Return of the Living Dead essay:
The Police Chief character that the zombified Trash kills is the movies writer and director Dan O'Bannon.

Actually that's not true. According to imdb that character was played Bob Libman, not to mentioned that they also say that Dan didn't act in the movie. Plus Dan says that's a lie on the DVD Commmentary.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by MacReady
Oh really? Is that a fact? Well then this should be interesting.
Did you know that Trioxin(the chemical from the movie) is actually a real chemical used to restore dead people? Now before you start boarding up your windows(like that would stop them:rolleyes:) it's a vemonmous chemical used by morticians to slow down the cells from decomposing. Neat:D.


Here's an amusing web page all about Trioxin (the miracle drug):

http://www.hearod.com/gnn/health.shtml

[The Troll Man]

During filming of The Exorcist, Friedkin made his actors look shocked and scared by firing a shotgun behind them when they were about to go on...

Kubrik was originally approached to direct... John Boorman also turned it down, then went on to direct the sequel...

Friedkin asked for one set to be exorcised or blessed...

Captain Howdy, who Regan "meets" through the Ouija Board, is used as the killer's online nickname in Strangeland

According to the IMDB, it's the only time an American crew has been allowed to film in Iraq (for the opening scenes)

[Donnie Darko]

Originally posted by malaria
Tony Curtis starred in another rare horror flik called "The Manitou" (based on my favourite writer Graham Masterton's book by the same name) in which he played a tea-leaf palm reader who becomes embroiled in a nightmarish battle with an ancient Native American demon called Misquamacus who is growing out of his girlfriend Susan Strasburg's neck. It's really good until the final showdown where she battles the demon with multicoloured energy bolts of pure love!!! HEURGGH!

That sounds about as gay as the ending of "Little Nicky". I can't imagine anyone looking at that script and saying to themselves... "Yeah, I can see how that would play out."

[eetstatik]

In Spiderman, the punk lady telling the news she digs spiders and spiderman is actually a heavily made-up Lucy Lawless of Xena fame, which Sam Raimi directed and produced.

The Indian in Poltergeist 2 was an actual Indian Witch Doctor who did an exorcism on the cave set when it was discovered the dead bodies where actual medical cadavers.

The residents of the town where Jeepers Creepers was filmed protested the film because of writer/director Henry Silva's past (he pleaded no contest to a child molestation arrest in 1984).

The opening credits of Ginger Snaps was filmed in an occupied home of a family with a three year old son. He had to be kept upstairs as not to traumatize him for life when saw the girls covered in fake gore.

On that note, Katherine Isabelle, who played Ginger, has a scene in Insomnia most would notice, but Emily Perkins (Brigitte) is actually the girl reading the eulogy at the funeral where Pacino picks her up from.

Loose horror connection, but Francis Ford Coppola (director of Dracula) got his start doing lighting for pornos when he was younger.

[MacReady]

Also in Return Of The Living Dead Freddy has a jacket that say's "Fuck You"(no joke). However, in the tv version it says "tv version"(again, no joke).

[J.Sledge]

Clint Eastwood is in Revenge Of The Creature, the sequel to creature from the black lagoon as a lab tech who hates rats.

[CrazyKillah]

Originally posted by teenkiller
Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite. NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!! Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.
I'd always heard that too, but always figured it was one of those Hollywood rumors (kinda like the one I head about Marilyn Manson having a set of ribs surgically removed so he could suck himself off:p ). Was this ever seriously reported anywhere?

[XCoRyX]

Sean Cunningham tried many a times to get sally field to play the lead in the original friday the 13th,adrienne king later took the role.

[XCoRyX]

Originally posted by KingPhenom007
Heres some:

Sally Fields was originally asked to play Alice in Friday the 13th

Walt Gorney(Crazy Ralph) wa s the narrator at the beginning of F13 7. Plus Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, and Walt were all asked to be in JasonX but all declined.



sorry didnt see someone already posted that sally field info,
but i also must correct you,i dont think walt was approached to have a cameo in jason x or any role,as he has been did for well over 11 years.He died in 1989.

[WamphyriNate]

a little alien(s) trivia

In the filming of the chestburster scene Ridley Scott didn't tell the actors what was going to happen because he wanted real reactions from them. (notice Yaphett Kotto had the best reaction, he grabbed a knife). Also during filming of this scene, Veronica Cartwright fell and broke her arm. The "Oh my God" you hear from her was real, in reaction to her injury.

Same trick was used in aliens. When the female marine(don't remember her name) raised the cacooned womans head and she opened her eyes, she was told it was a dummy so her reaction would be more realistic.

Not horror, but did anyone notice that in the green mile one gaurd is named Harry(Terwillager) and another is named Dean Stanton? Thought that was too funny since Harry Dean Stanton was in it. Another interesting fact, Big Mike Duncan is only one inch taller than David Morse. Stephen King is the same height as David Morse.(6'4" for David and Stephen, 6'5" for Big Mike)

[studlyhorrorbuf]

For "Jeepers Creepers," Victor Salva envisioned the Creeper to be originally played by Lance Henrikson. The part went to Johnathon Breck.

Gina Philips Justin Long never met Johnathon Breck without makeup. They only first met him in makeup and full costume to a full reaction.

When Gina Philips and Darry are driving and get hit from behind by the Creeper's car, they were not told that this was going to happen. This was so that Gina Philips and Justin Long would have genuine and spontaneous reactions on their faces when they get rear ended by the Creeper's car.

In "A NIghtmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" the woman who swims naked in Joey's waterbed during his "wet dream" was a Playboy centerfold in real life.

The nubile, hot nurse who went topless for us in a "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" also bared all for an issue of Playboy in real life.

The vomit that was spit upon the priest by the possessed child in "The Exorcist" was really thickened pea soup.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by studlyhorrorbuf
The nubile, hot nurse who went topless for us in a "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" also bared all for an issue of Playboy in real life.


You didn't happen to acquire some pictures along with this information, did you?? :p:p:p

[FilmBuff84]

People may already know this stuff but here are my contributions....

Michelle Pfeiffer was offered the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct but turned it down, I believe due to the sexual content.

Aussie horror director Jamie Blanks wanted Bruce Campbell for the role of Detective Vaughn in Valentine.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Tara Reid were originally involved in Valentine before it changed companies. Reid had the role of Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw) and Hewitt had the role of Paige (Denise Richards)

Skeet Ulrich had open heart surgery when he was younger and has a particular sensitive point on his upper body. In the final moments of Scream, he was stabbed in that particular spot by the umbrella and then Neve Campbell stuck her finger in the spot in the scene before he stabs her, getting his natural reaction on film.

[Shatter]

The Shining
Kubrick made the cast watch Eraserhead (1977) to put them in the mood he wanted from them.

[studlyhorrorbuf]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
You didn't happen to acquire some pictures along with this information, did you?? :p:p:p
No, but I can direct you to a web page where you can order the issue that she is in. Studly Horror Buff out.

[TATU]

In Halloween: Ressurection, Busta Rhyme's character, Freddie Harris's name was originally going to be spelled Freddy Harris as a sort of reference to nightmare on Elm Street. I thought it was until I read the end credits.

[*Escapade*]

In FINAL DESTINATION 2, the mental institution Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) is in, is the the same institution used for Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION.

[Duke Nukem]

Did you know?: Christopher Reeve and Mark Hamill, both stars of John Carpenter's "Village of The Damned," have the same birthday, though I forget when it is. Hamill is 1 year older than Reeve at age 51 or 52.

[Romero&Juliet]

Originally posted by Bomont the Destroyer


The "family group shot," as seen in the advertisements, posters and video covers, uses the same positioning as the promotional group shot for the movie Breakfast Club, The (1985).
Sorry if any of those were already posted.

HOLY FUCK! Never noticed that..

[Cabrini Green]

In CARRIE PJ Soles suffered a ruptured eardrum during the prom bloodbath scene in which the high-pressure hose slammed into her, temporary knocking her unconscious. In HALLOWEEN II Pamala Shoop also received an ear infection while being held underwater. Talk about dedication to the craft of movie making!

[The Claw]

Originally posted by CrazyKillah
I'd always heard that too, but always figured it was one of those Hollywood rumors (kinda like the one I head about Marilyn Manson having a set of ribs surgically removed so he could suck himself off:p ). Was this ever seriously reported anywhere?

wasnt marilyn manson really that guy on the wonder years? Paul? or is that some urban legend?

[TheJadedGamer]

That was an urban legend. When the Wonder Years was on TV, Marilyin Manson was still playing Dungeons and Dragons and wanking off.

[El Intruder]

Man, you guys have said it all, I can barely think of anything. Anyway, at least two things:

Sam Raimi's brother, Ted, made two cameo appearances in Army Of Darkness, one as a villager when Ash is asking them to help him fight the undead, and the other as an S-Mart employee which Ash is telling his whole story in the store ending. Both Ted and Bruce worked together in Xena: Warrior Princess as Joxer and Autolycus (sorry if it's spelled wrong) respectively.

Much like Susan Blu, Jeff Glenn Bennet starred in Friday The 13th Part 7 (playing the character Eddie), in one of very few roles in which you actually see his face. Like Susan Blu (who played Mrs. Shepard), Jeff Bennet is known for giving his voice to characters in many cartoons, sometimes video games. Some of his roles in cartoon voices include the characters of Brooklyn, Owen Burnett and The Magus in Gargoyles (IMO, one of the best cartoons series ever), Blitz in the good but short-lived Road Rovers, Petrie in most Land Before Time movies, and the lead character in Johnny Bravo.

[Cabrini Green]

Here’s some useless information. Gremlins actor Zach Galligan had a case of conjunctivitis/pink eye during the filming of the department store scene at the conclusion of the film. Amazing what you can learn from commentaries. The guy can’t catch a break with that and his recent legal trouble.

[J.Sledge]

Everyone might know this one or not but in the new daredevil movie, Kane Hodder makes a cameo

[biff_debris]

Here's a few I've gleaned from DVD commentaries and elsewhere:

-The name of the ghost ship in The Fog (Elizabeth Dane) was a reference of one of John Carpenter's former girlfriends

-In The Exorcist, the puke that hits Jason Miller in the face was supposed to hit his sweater -- at least that's what William Friedkin told him ;)

-In the movie Dogma there's not only an Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade reference (when Silent Bob throws the avenging angels off the train, he turns to a scared passenger and says "no tickets" -- just like Indy did to the passengers the zeppelin), but a The Howling reference as well (altho obscure -- when Silent Bob is about to strike the demon Azrael with the blessed golfclub, Azrael -- Jason Lee -- says "C'mon Bright Boy, don't you know anything?" The exact same thing Eddie says to Chris before getting killed in The Howling)

[Duke Nukem]

I just saw the remake of "Psycho," and although it's set in present time (1998), and Marion Crane (played here by Anne Heche), the shower victim, drives a volvo, you do see the older car Janet Leigh's Marion Crane drove in the original "Psycho" in the back of the Motel.

Also, Marie Samuels, the name Marion Crane uses to sign into the Motel, ends up being the name of Meg Tilly's character in "Psycho II."

[Big Brother]

William Malone did the first 'draft' of Michael Myers' mask...the first one.

[ERIN_LoJ]

None of this trivia is that good, but was skimming through one of my horror books trying to find something remotely interesting...

In Silence of the Lambs the costume designer Colleen Atwood was originally going to have him dressed in orange, but they decided that the white clothes promoted a more creepy image, and Anthony Hopkins' inspiration was his childhood fear of dentists.

In Candyman three bonfires were used for the end of the movie, held up by metal and there were three hooks made for Candyman's arm.

The catch with Rob Reiner being able to buy the rights from Stephen King for the movie misery was that King's name would have to be attached as either producer or director. Rob Reiner doesn't like horror films. Warren Beatty was considered for the role of Paul Sheldon. He was worked with by Reiner for almost two months daily but in the end he did not accept the part. Beatty was the one who suggested changing the foot scene from being cut off to being broken. Bette Midler was considering being Annie Wilkes but eventually decided against it, afraid it would change the public's views on her. The director had cast the role of Annie with Kathy Bates in mind, happy with previous work he had seen her do. Kathy Bates is a big Stephen King fan in real life. Reiner refused to let the actors see their daily shoots, afraid it would affect future acting, so they had to wait until the film was complete to see it.

For Night of the living dead, the black and white version, Romero and Russ Streiner were driving to New York with the finished film in the backseat of their car the night Martin Luther King was shot. He says that the fact that a black man was the leading role was a coincidence that had people work the movie up to what they considered a work of art afterwards. He says the main theme of the movie is lack of communication.

Stephen King was angry about the Pet Cemetary 2 sequel. When originally selling the rights he wanted to not sell sequel rights along with it but was talked into it, being told that most people will not buy rights without sequel rights attached, and told that it was very doubtful a sequel would be made. When a sequel was in the works King refused to see it and encouraged fans not to see it and boycott it, and then he said that from that day forward he would never sell sequel rights again. I have no idea if he stayed true to that or not.

The special effects budget in T2 goes over the entire budget in the entire movie of Terminator, The.

For Halloween, the first Michael was played by Nick Castle who currently is a director, who made Dennis the Menace, Tap, The boy who could fly and the last Starfighter. John Carpenter and he had been friends and had gone to film school together. Castle was in the middle of putting his first film together and asked to hang around on the Halloween set; Carpenter said since he was hanging around anyways, why not be the killer?

For Halloween 2, it was Dick Warlock , who originally applied for a job as the stunt coordinator and got to be Michael instead. They fitted his boots to give him extra height because he is only 5'9. He said he went through a personality change when playing Michael that eventually his wife and friends began to notice. The man with the hammer to the head and the girl with the needle to the temple were dummy heads.
The little boy that bumps into Michael (with the cowboy hat) is Dick Warlock's son.
When the phony shape gets hit by the police car in the beginning of the movie, Warlock played the stuntman driving the car and another stuntman playing Michael in the one scene.
He was dissapointed that he wasn't called back for part 4.
Warlock did work in Halloween 3.

George Wilbur, who played Michael in Halloween 4, was worried about how his friends and family would see him playing the violence in the film. He was real concerned about Danielle Harris not having nightmares or Michael on her mind when she went to bed at night and so he would take care to joke and laugh with her before the heavy scenes.

In Jason takes Manhattan on the train scene one of the extras sticks his head out to see people running by. Kane Hodder decides to club the guys head with his arm as he walks by, figuring it was something Jason would do, and afterwards the guy admits he had put his head out just to stand out from the other extras on purpose.
In the scene where the gush of fluid comes from the sewer, they completed the stunt twice, but the second time the wind was knocked out of Hodder; over 2,000 gallons of water slam into him from 6 feet away. His leg gets caught in a pipe as he falls over but he manages to get it out before damage occurs.

In Hellraiser 3 Douglas Bradley is very nearsighted in real life, and they have a surprise for him - the contact lenses have been given his prescription. He does end up getting an irritation from them soon after. In the battlefield scene in daylight, in order to chase the character who played Joey Pinhead had to tape his skirts up in order not to trip.
In the scene in the church the altar collapses in front of Bradley, but the dais he's on lurches backward. he think its going to cave in and ends up taking several steps backward in alarm, they have to cut around the scene.

(These tidbits from Fangoria's best horror films)

Other tidbits I can think off the top of my head...

The girl cenobite in Hellraiser is Clive Barkers cousin. Barker originally wanted Julia to be the villian but the fans chose Pinhead.

In the making of Jaws the mechanical shark did not work most of time, as shown in the special edition.

All I can think of....

[gorysnoopy]

Originally posted by Cabrini Green
Here’s some useless information. Gremlins actor Zach Galligan had a case of conjunctivitis/pink eye during the filming of the department store scene at the conclusion of the film. Amazing what you can learn from commentaries. The guy can’t catch a break with that and his recent legal trouble. Um,what legal trouble would that be?

[Klownzilla]

Originally posted by gorysnoopy
Um,what legal trouble would that be?

Back in February, he was caught shoplifting a Deep Purple CD at Tower Records.



Stuart Gordon originally wanted to film Re-Animator in Chicago and use his performers from the Organic Theatre Company, but the tight budget made him film in L.A.

[Quiver]

Can anyone confirm something for me?

I was watching F13 part 6 awhile back, and I think that the scene where Tommy drives off in the sherrif's daughter's car showed the same town square as in the movie Back to the Future, with the big clock tower and everything. I'm probrably wrong on this, but does anyone know if they were the same sets?

[Duke Nukem]

They may just be. I have a clear picture of them driving off to finally get to Crystal Lake, and there is always something about the shot that reminds me of something I've seen before.

[gorysnoopy]

Originally posted by Klownzilla
Back in February, he was caught shoplifting a Deep Purple CD at Tower Records.


Damn,that's pretty fucking sad.


I dunno if it's been said already,but in Poltergeist,the skeletons in the pool were real-according to JoBeth Williams(on VH1's "I Love The 80's"-a Stevereno show if there ever was one!!)

[ERIN_LoJ]

For Nightmare on Elm Street......

Wes Craven came up with the idea from reading about 3 people from 3 different articles who were having nightmares and died in their sleep.

The series grossed 216 million in the US, part 4 grossed the most money

In the death of Glen in the part 1 over 500 gallons of fake blood was used.

Banned in Finland :)


For Friday the 13th....

The original opened the same day as The Shining

Banned in Finland :)

Betsy Palmer was chosen to play Jason's mother strictly for the fact that she could provide her own transport to the set

The series has grossed over 250 million, the 1st grossed the most at 37 million.

[ERIN_LoJ]

For Hellraiser....


Clive Barker came up with the box idea from chinese puzzle boxes he would get from his grandfather when he was a kid.

Olive Smith played Frank the monster in part 1, and also in Hellraiser 2 with the guy with the maggots on the mattress.

Clive Barker's original title for "Hellraiser" was "Sadomasochist from Beyond the Grave".

The Cenobites are a mixture made up of the Spanish Inquisitors and S & M enthusiasts.


From the Howling......

When Karen is in the prono booth with Eddie at the beginning of the movie, the porn that is put on was filmed by the director Joe Dante in his garage!


For the Exorcist....

The role of Chris McNeil was offered to Shirley McLaine and Jane Fonda

Jack Nicholson was up for the role of Father Karras

Mercedes McCambridge sued Warner Bros. because she didn't receive credit in the film for the demonic voice.

Made over $165M in the theaters in the US and $90M on video.

9 people died during the filming. The set burned down and delayed the set for 6 weeks.

There is an exorcist statue in Wishmaster

[Klownzilla]

Does anyone remember the rebel-type hero Rudy from The Monster Squad? That was Ryan Lambert. Even though he's no longer an actor, he's in a San Francisco band called Elephone. Ryan's the guy on the left.

http://www.elephone.net/terryryan1.gif

[ERIN_LoJ]

BUMP

...and (From Women of Horror)


*Sigourney Weaver of the Alien series is actually afraid to travel in elevators. One would think that some of the scenes in the movies she filmed would have gotten to her. She also grew to the height of 6 foot by the age of 12! And she speaks fluent french and German.

*Tippi Hedrin from the Birds and Marnie is Melanie Griffith's mother. Okay...so everyone knew this but me. :p It is also said that Alfred Hitchcock unsuccessfully tried to pursue a relationship with her during the filming.

*Winona Ryder (who actually is a natural blonde - who knew) refused to do promotion for Lost Souls. The film Lost souls from 2000 was filmed in 98 but shelved by New Line for 2 years.

*Linda Blair recieved death threats after the exorcist and Warner brothers hired police to live with the blair family for 6 months after the release of the film. She now owns her own clothing line called Linda Blair's Wild West Collection.

[spacemonkey]

Heres a continuity mistake from From Dusk till Dawn:

At the end when George Clooney gives some cash to Juliett Lewis check the scene out cause the money dissapears by the end of the scene. Its really funny, cause one moment the moneys there then suddenly its no longer in her hands...:D

On Monster Squad, you know that scene where the kid is fighting with Dracula, and that black hole is dragging them through the street? Look beneath Dracula you can see this black metal plate pulling him...

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by Jason Lives
Yeah I heard that too

This is one of those urban legends. If you want info on this one, check out The Urban Legends Reference Page (http://www.snopes.com/index.html). Check under the legends about movies and movie actors. Surprisingly, this urban legend has been unconfirmed as niether true or untrue.

For my trivia, I'd have to give props to The Arrow for this one:

- Kane Hodder can regurgitate on command, and put this to use in Jason Takes Manhattan. In the sewer scene, where the sewer is flooded, Kane drank a pitcher of water beforehand. When Jason is caught in the flood, Kane brought up the water he drank previously to enhance the whole effect (which was a good move IMO, as the whole demise of Jason in this scene is the dumbest ever).

[TheAxeGrinder]

Stupid back button. Delete this one, I made a mistake. Actually, what the hell, I'll use this as my next post (remember kids, no double posting).

- In Jason Goes To Hell, John D. LeMay, who played Steven Freeman, also starred in the late 80's TV series Friday the 13th, The Series.

- JGTH is the only film in the "Friday the 13th" series in which Jason's face is not seen (so far).

- Also in JGTH, Michelle Clunie and Michael B. Silver, who played the campers Deborah and Luke respectively, were romantically involved years before the movie and had broken up a year before there parts were cast. Also, in the sex scene these two were in, Adam Marcus (the director) had to make several cuts (even from the DC) in order so thay you couldn't see 'the whole fruit basket' and 'the angry pickle'.

- In John Carpenter's remake of The Thing, where Dr. Copper (Richard Dysart) gets his arms bitten off, Carpenter had gotten a double amputee to stand in with prosthetic arms on and a mask on to resemble Dysart. When the pneumatic jaws of The Thing chomped down on the arms and ripped them off, the closeup of the doc is the stand in actor wearing the mask. The 'arms' were made up of jello, raspberry jam and latex.

- The Thing opened on June 25th, 1982 (2 weeks after "E.T.") at a total cost of $15 million plus advertising and prints. $1.5 million alone was spent on the special effects. Grossed $13.8 million in the first 3 weeks at the box office and then dropped out of sight.

- Also in The Thing, certain home video releases of the film had copyright problems with Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious". The song was dubbed over with "One Chain Don't Make No Prison" by The Four Tops. On the DVD it is back to Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious".

[supa_horror_fan]

Here's one that my friend told me awhile back......

He claims Marilin Manson the horror rock singer is the same guy from "Who the Boss" the older brother....... I dont know if its true but if you take there picure and compair it side by side they look damn similar....

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by supa_horror_fan
Here's one that my friend told me awhile back......

He claims Marilin Manson the horror rock singer is the same guy from "Who the Boss" the older brother....... I dont know if its true but if you take there picure and compair it side by side they look damn similar....

This isn't necessarily horror related, supa, but Manson's makeup makes it horrifying enough. This one also falls under many urban legends about Manson, like one where he was Fred Savage's brother on 'The Wonder Years', and that Manson had his lower ribs removed so that he could, um, 'do it' himself, if you get my drift.

[Wayne]

Thanks guys. I'm even more intelligent than I was.:D

[Function13]

Hmm, let me see-

*You lot probably know this but in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday Kane Hodder makes a cameo as a SWAT guy outside the morgue where the coroner gets possesed. I always thought it was kind of funny that Jason (technically) kills himself.

*Kevin Peter Hall who played the Predator makes a cameo at the end of the first film as a helicopter pilot who picks up Dutch (Arnie) after the Predator blows up.

*Stan Winston (the creature special effects artist from Predator) got the idea for giving the Predator manibles from James Cameron.

*Betsy Palmer was supposedly asked to do a cameo in Jason X for the virtual reality Crystal Lake scene but turned it down.

*In Evil Dead II when Ash is being thrown through the trees Sam Raimi is one of the people who hits him with a branch. Apparently Sam loves to put Bruce Campbell through pain and is normally the person that gets Bruce to do all the painful stunts.

*Ted Raimi (Sam Raimi's brother) is the possesed Henrietta in Evil Dead II.

*The producer for the Evil Dead Trilogy Robert Tapert had a cameo in Army Of Darkness but the scene was cut. You can catch it on the deleted scenes of the DVD.

[sherimoon]

Originally posted by stevereno
i read that MICHAEL J. FOX real name in MICHAEL DOUGLAS.

there were only 6 ALIEN costums made for ALIENS

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

Micheal Keatons real name is Micheal Douglas too

[horrorfreak13]

Here are some facts that I know that haven't been posted.

John Carl Buechel the director of Friday the 13th part7 was the special effects and make up designer for Halloween 4, Halloween 6 and NOES 4.

Stephen Miner the director of Friday The 13th part 2,3 and Halloween H20 was the associate producer of the original Friday The 13th

When Dr. Loomis drives away from Dr. Wynn in Halloween "Dr. Chance, to ward C please," can be heard over the intercom outside. John Carpenter went under the name of James T. Chance when he edited Assault on Precinct 13.

Jamie Lee Curtis made $8 000 for Halloween, Donald Pleasence made $20 000

In the scene where Laurie and Annie are talking on the phone and Tommy looks out the window and notices Michael, 3 trick or treaters run down the street. Well, one of those trick-or-treaters is Debra Hill, the producer

In Halloween 4 Jamie Lloyd's name in the original HALLOWEEN 4 script was Britty

In Halloween 6 A Michael Lerner played Michael Myers in the final 15 minutes of the theatrical release

Also in Halloween 6 when Michael Myers chases the doctor down the hall of red lights, the actor portraying Michael (A. Michael Lerner) is actually chasing his real-life father (Fred Lerner).

Stephen's name in the original drafts of Halloween 6 was Kyle, named after Kyle Richards, who played Lindsey in the original.

Danielle Harris wanted to play Jamie Lloyd again, but Dimension Films would not pay her the $5,000 she wanted.

The name of Barry Simms' radio station was WKNB. The "KNB" was in reference to the "KNB boys," who did the FX in Halloween 5.

[TheAxeGrinder]

Here's a cool one that I never really thought about while watching the movie:

In the movie GREMLINS, in the scene with the stop-motion gremlin horde walking down the street, there's a light that goes out in one frame, accompanied with the breaking glass sound. It turns out that while filming the stop-motion, a light on the left side of the set blew out and went unnoticed until the dailies were shown. When director Joe Dante saw this, he saved a bundle by having the sound guys insert a clip of glass breaking on the soundtrack when the light broke, making it seem like the gremlins broke the light. Pretty slick, don't you think?

[Mojo67821]

Man this topic brings back memories..

Let's get this one started back up...

In "Halloween H20" the voiceover in the beginning is NOT something Donald Pleasance recorded before his death, rather they got someone to do a "voice-alike" performance.

During the making of 'The Shining" Stanley Kubrick used to call Stephen King up in the middle of the night just to ask him bizaare questions like "Do you believe in God?".

Sam Rockwell, who was the oldest brother in "Clownhouse" starred two years later as the "head thug" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

All of the extras in "Day of the Dead" recieved 1 dollar and a copy of the newspaper in the beginning that says "The Dead Walk!" for their payment.

Linnea Quigley, who is a well known animal rights activist, once rescued a drowning lizard from her pool and gave it mouth to mouth with a straw! I do not make this stuff up! She said it in her interview with me:
www.bghorror.topcities.com/interviewlinnea.html

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Mojo67821
All of the extras in "Day of the Dead" recieved 1 dollar and a copy of the newspaper in the beginning that says "The Dead Walk!" for their payment.



I would kill to get an authentic copy of one of those papers!

[ParileseMonster]

Hey and those extras actually got fed a good lunch as well.:p

[XCoRyX]

heres one i just learned today...

jean claude van-damme signed on to play the predator originally,but got himself fired by acting like a fool,so he could shoot bloodsport instead.

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by XCoRyX
heres one i just learned today...

jean claude van-damme signed on to play the predator originally,but got himself fired by acting like a fool,so he could shoot bloodsport instead.

He wasn't actually fired. He quit after two days as he was dissatisfied that he wouldn't be included in the credits as a special effect (The "hole in the jungle" appearance of the Predator was played by Jean-Claude Van Damme in a "blue screen" (actually red) suit). It was also during this time that the original Predator model was scrapped (originally, the Predator concept was a creature with a long neck, a head shaped like a dog and one big eye in the middle). When Stan Winston was called in to mop up, he redesigned the Predator (which was originally called the 'Hunter', as was the movie) and was eventually played by 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall (who also plays the helicopter pilot at the end when Arnold is picked up). The 'beetle's mandibles' idea for the Predator's face originally came from James Cameron.

Whew, still more trivia . . .

- The minigun Jesse Ventura's character (Blain) holds is a sawed-off version of an M61, a 20mm cannon used by most of the US's warplanes. In order for him to fire it during the movie, the crew reduced the cannons fire rate, fired only blank ammunition, and Ventura had to have something to lean against (hidden or not) to avoid being knocked over by the massive, continuous recoil.

- An attempt was made to get shots of the Predator swinging from tree to tree using a monkey in a red special-effects suit. However, the monkey kept removing the suit and the idea was abandoned. Incidently, this is where Van Damme was imployed afterwards (insert Van Damme and monkey joke here).

[Mojo67821]

one of Mathew Lillard's first acting roles was in the Ghoulies sequel "Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College". It was a very quick cameo as a nerdy college student.

[Cabrini Green]

Betsy Baker filmed her demonic scene in extreme discomfort from the white opaque contact lenses she wore in The Evil Dead.

The basement scenes in The Evil Dead were filmed in Raimi’s garage since the cabin had only one floor.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Final Destination was picked up from an unused X Files (or Twilight Zone, im not sure) script.

[Cronos]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
Final Destination was picked up from an unused X Files (or Twilight Zone, im not sure) script.

Twas X-Files, the director also worked on the series

[X-Nightcrawler]

yeah, james wong sure did good, his foreshadowing job couldn't be any cooler because it wouldnt be legal.

[countchocula]

Originally posted by TheAxeGrinder
and was eventually played by 7'2" Kevin Peter Hall (who also plays the helicopter pilot at the end when Arnold is picked up).

This might have been posted earlier in the thread, but Kevin Peter Hall passed away in 1991. He contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion.

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by countchocula
This might have been posted earlier in the thread, but Kevin Peter Hall passed away in 1991. He contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion.

Whoah, that totally sucks. I guess Van Damme will have to play the Predator in A vs. P (if he's smart, since this is the only work he'll be able to get from now until people take an interest in him again. Yeah, right). Anyways, I think that we need to cheer up some and keep this board going with more trivia, this time for Alien:

- In Alien, Roger Dicken, who designed and operated the "face hugger" and the "chest burster," had originally wanted the latter to pull itself out of Kane's torso with its own little hands, a sequence he felt would have produced a much more horrifying effect than the gratuitous blood and guts in the release print.

- Much of the dialogue was developed through improvisation.

- Originally, when the crew awakens from their hypersleep, Ridley Scott wanted the crew to be naked (horny bastard), but Sigourney (Ripley) and Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) objected, and so it boiled down to just having Sigourney in those too small panties at the end.

- Dan O'Bannon, of Return Of The Living Dead fame, wrote the screenplay for this film and came up for the idea of the egg-laying alien idea from nightmares he had about the spider wasp (ichneumonid) that lays its eggs in the abdomen of paralyzed spiders, which were then eaten alive by the hatched young.

-O'Bannon also starred in the turkey that was Alien: Ressurrection .

- Many of the non-English versions of the film's title translate as something similar to "Alien: The 8th Passenger".

[TheAxeGrinder]

Originally posted by countchocula
This might have been posted earlier in the thread, but Kevin Peter Hall passed away in 1991. He contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion.

That totally blows. Now who are they going to have play the pred in A vs. P (if I were Van Damme, I'd jump all over this, as far as I'm concerned, as this would probably be the only work he'd be getting all year).