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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton

What facts do you know about certain horror movies that not many know about?

I have a couple about the classic werewolf movie An American Werewolf in London.

The five pointed star which is known as a pentagram or pentacle has been known to have been used to ward off evil spirits so it makes sense that it would be used in The Slaughtered Lamb to keep the werewolf out.

The full moon occurs two nights in a row in the movie when David transforms which does actually occur. Those full moons are actually known as Blue Moons which makes sense with the songs of the same name and you can see a hint of blue in one of the shots of the moon.

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

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By *ty31Man  over a year ago

NW London

Scream was originally going to be called Scary Movie but was changed by Miramax at the last minute.

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Beetlejuice was almost called Scared Sheetless. Warner Bros. executives didn’t like the name Beetlejuice and pushed to have it changed to House Ghosts. Burton jokingly suggested Scared Sheetless as an alternate name, and was appalled when Warner Bros. actually considered it

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth

The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out.

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Fay wray thought she sound be staring against

Carry grant not

King Kong

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Fay wray thought she sound be staring against

Carry grant not

King Kong "

Would not sound

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton


"Scream was originally going to be called Scary Movie but was changed by Miramax at the last minute.

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Beetlejuice was almost called Scared Sheetless. Warner Bros. executives didn’t like the name Beetlejuice and pushed to have it changed to House Ghosts. Burton jokingly suggested Scared Sheetless as an alternate name, and was appalled when Warner Bros. actually considered it"

I knew about Scream but I didn't know about Beetlejuice being almost called Scared Sheetless.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Fay wray thought she sound be staring against

Carry grant not

King Kong "

Wow !

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Robert

England

Was not first choice for

Freddie cruger

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton


"The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out."

I know that they actually cut the actress' finger because the tube on the knife wasn't working.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS  over a year ago

Cheshire

In the famous last scene of the film ‘Carrie’ Sissy Spacek hand is actually used. They put her in a box underground and she was given instructions when to grab the actresses hand.

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth


"The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out.

I know that they actually cut the actress' finger because the tube on the knife wasn't working."

Despite its cult status, the cast and crew hated working on it.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Edger Wright and Simon pegg both played zombies in land of the dead

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

The Shining is famous for the huge amount of takes used by Stanley Kubrick, including one scene with 148 takes and another with 127.

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth

John Carpenter's 'The Fog' was partially inspired by a visit he and his then girlfriend paid to Stonehenge. The were visiting on what started out as clear day, but the fog started moving in as they stood on the monument.

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen

In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white "

Not true

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true "

and you know that how?

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton


"The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out.

I know that they actually cut the actress' finger because the tube on the knife wasn't working.

Despite its cult status, the cast and crew hated working on it. "

Indeed. Did you know that the skeleton of Leatherface's grandma sat in the chair was an actual real skeleton from India?

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth

Hallowe'en was an indie film that was made for $320,000. It went onto make $70 Million worldwide.

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth


"The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out.

I know that they actually cut the actress' finger because the tube on the knife wasn't working.

Despite its cult status, the cast and crew hated working on it.

Indeed. Did you know that the skeleton of Leatherface's grandma sat in the chair was an actual real skeleton from India?"

That I didn't, thank you for that. I do know that Gunnar Hansen was not only a talented actor, he was also a trained counsellor.

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true "

????

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton


"The dinner party scene in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was filmed over several day. The food, which was real, wasn't replaced and there was a heatwave going on. By the third day, the looks of horror on the actors' faces was real, as the whole room had a stench that drove them out.

I know that they actually cut the actress' finger because the tube on the knife wasn't working.

Despite its cult status, the cast and crew hated working on it.

Indeed. Did you know that the skeleton of Leatherface's grandma sat in the chair was an actual real skeleton from India?

That I didn't, thank you for that. I do know that Gunnar Hansen was not only a talented actor, he was also a trained counsellor.

"

Interesting

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton

The giant bat skeleton when the vampire Jerry is killed by sunlight in Fright Night was actually the original design for the Library Ghost in Ghostbusters but they didn't use it as it was deemed too scary.

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"Fay wray thought she sound be staring against

Carry grant not

King Kong "

I think she thought it was Clark Gable not Cary Grant

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

In the beginning of the film The Thing the Norwegians are shouting...get the hell out of there,thats not a dog but a thing imitating a dog....

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Bela Lugosi's Dead

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true "

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy"

thank you

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

HR Giger designed the models in Alien and incorporated a human skull into the Alien model's head. AFAIK he never disclosed where he had procured it from

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By *yronMan  over a year ago

grangemouth

During the surgery scene in 'Dog Soldiers' there's a bit where Kevin McKidd punches out Sean Pertwee. It's not acting: Pertwee said something that upset McKidd and the resulting punch knocked him out. It was so good, it was kept in the film.

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By *lassy_but_sassyWoman  over a year ago

Birmingham


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy thank you "

This is true!

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy thank you

This is true! "

Ok

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By *unandgamegeek OP   Man  over a year ago

Bolton


"During the surgery scene in 'Dog Soldiers' there's a bit where Kevin McKidd punches out Sean Pertwee. It's not acting: Pertwee said something that upset McKidd and the resulting punch knocked him out. It was so good, it was kept in the film."

Sean Pertwee was actually d*unk during that scene as well.

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Fay wray thought she sound be staring against

Carry grant not

King Kong I think she thought it was Clark Gable not Cary Grant "

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen

Kevin bacon was in Friday the 13th (he was killed)

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"During the surgery scene in 'Dog Soldiers' there's a bit where Kevin McKidd punches out Sean Pertwee. It's not acting: Pertwee said something that upset McKidd and the resulting punch knocked him out. It was so good, it was kept in the film."
don’t fuck with the ginger highlanders lol

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By *lassy_but_sassyWoman  over a year ago

Birmingham


"Robert

England

Was not first choice for

Freddie cruger "

Isn't it crazy to think now that they ever thought Warner should play Krueger? Thank god they went with Robert Englund, he IS Freddy Krueger!

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT


"Robert

England

Was not first choice for

Freddie cruger

Isn't it crazy to think now that they ever thought Warner should play Krueger? Thank god they went with Robert Englund, he IS Freddy Krueger! "

Yes

Englund was great xx

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

In young Frankenstein, the horses react because “Frau Blücher” sounds like glue in German

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy thank you

This is true! "

They used Bosco chocolate syrup in Night of the Living Dead.

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By *ayjay218Man  over a year ago

Aberdeen


"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy thank you

This is true!

They used Bosco chocolate syrup in Night of the Living Dead."

was that a black and white movie?

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge

Talking of An American Werewolf…

Rik Mayall is an extra in the Slaughtered Lamb but it’s not the only horror movie he had a bit part in. He had a blink and you’ll miss it part in Michael Mann’s The Keep as a German soldier.

Alien was originally going to be called “Star Beast” and only came into being when a proposed adaptation of Dune fell through. Some of H.R. Giger’s concepts for the film still exist, for example , Harkonnen War Machines.

A major inspiration for Aliens was Them, the 1950s b movie about giant ants.

Veronica Cartwright’s character, Lambert, in Alien is canonically trans.

Jack Nicholson used to be a volunteer firefighter and as a result made short work of the door Shelley Duvall hides behind in the Shining. Kubrick had him do it again and hold back to make it more tense.

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge

Yes

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By *ablo minibar123Woman  over a year ago

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In the original thing movie, the actor in the scene where he gets his limbs bitten off by the monster was actually paraplegic

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By *ablo minibar123Woman  over a year ago

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"In the psycho shower scene they used chocolate sauce for blood as it showed up better in black and white

Not true

Hershey's chocolate syrup, because they had some handy thank you

This is true!

They used Bosco chocolate syrup in Night of the Living Dead. was that a black and white movie?"

yes

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Psycho

Was the first film to show a toilet.

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By *hestagandvixenCouple  over a year ago

Loughborough

The first girl to be attacked in Jaws wasn’t very convincing in her performance, so they tied a rope to her and dunked her when she wasn’t expecting it to get a more realistic reaction. Worked too!

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By *ablo minibar123Woman  over a year ago

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Texas chainsaw massacre actually contains very little blood as the director was hoping to get a pg13 rating

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By *hestagandvixenCouple  over a year ago

Loughborough

By not showing blood Tobe Hooper hoped to get the Texas Chainsaw Massacre a U certification.

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By *adetMan  over a year ago

South of Ipswich

Lamberts reaction to the chest burster scene in Alien is real. They didn't tell her she was going to be sprayed with blood

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By *dam_TinaCouple  over a year ago

Hampshire

Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

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By *adetMan  over a year ago

South of Ipswich


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed"

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson?

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By *hesblokeMan  over a year ago

Derbyshire village


"During the surgery scene in 'Dog Soldiers' there's a bit where Kevin McKidd punches out Sean Pertwee. It's not acting: Pertwee said something that upset McKidd and the resulting punch knocked him out. It was so good, it was kept in the film."

Love that film

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"In the famous last scene of the film ‘Carrie’ Sissy Spacek hand is actually used. They put her in a box underground and she was given instructions when to grab the actresses hand. "

Sissy Spacek wasn't first choice. Brian De Palma had his minds eye on someone else and didn't think she would make a good Carrie. Sissy only got an audition because her husband was the art director on the film.

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By *dam_TinaCouple  over a year ago

Hampshire


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson? "

Exactly that. That was how Johnny Carson was introduced on his show

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By *adetMan  over a year ago

South of Ipswich


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson?

Exactly that. That was how Johnny Carson was introduced on his show"

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan  over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

The original Nightmare on Elm Street was Johnny Depp's first ever film role

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman  over a year ago

On a mooch


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson?

Exactly that. That was how Johnny Carson was introduced on his show"

Also could be a reference to the character’s name. A lot of Johns went by the name of Jack.

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge


"Lamberts reaction to the chest burster scene in Alien is real. They didn't tell her she was going to be sprayed with blood "

None of the actors apart from John Hurt knew what was going to happen in that scene so all their reactions are unscripted.

Alien was originally set Aboard a b52 bomber and set in world war 2. The crew would be plagued by a gremlin that threatened the plane.

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge

The initial final script of alien had the landing team find the space jockey alien had scratched a triangular symbol on his dash board. This leaves them baffled until the storm clears revealing a huge alien pyramid that dwarfs the spaceship. The pyramid is a temple dedicated to the worship of the aliens and before Kane is implanted they find a complex engraving of the alien’s life cycle.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman  over a year ago

On a mooch

The crew of the Exorcist thought it was cursed, they regularly bought a priest to bless the crew & cast. A fire completely destroyed the first set and it had to be rebuilt and by the end of the movies being made, 9 people associated with its production had passed.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson?

Exactly that. That was how Johnny Carson was introduced on his show

Also could be a reference to the character’s name. A lot of Johns went by the name of Jack. "

It's both I think. Kubrick didn't get the Carson reference as he'd lived in England for so long and it was almost cut from the film.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"The crew of the Exorcist thought it was cursed, they regularly bought a priest to bless the crew & cast. A fire completely destroyed the first set and it had to be rebuilt and by the end of the movies being made, 9 people associated with its production had passed.

"

I saw the Exorcist when I was 14 and slept with the lights on for at least two years afterward.

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By *etwifeandhim69Couple  over a year ago

Darlington

In the movie Alien, in the infamous scene with John Hurt, it acctuqlly took 2 takes to get (so not a shock to the cast as the myth goes). The look of disgust and horror was real though as the cast was told real animal blood and intestines where going to be used (they where not).

Also the Alien used shredded condoms as jaw tendons.

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge

More werewolf related trivia - the 1941 movie The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney is responsible for most of the modern werewolf tropes like silver bullets, going after loved ones and being bitten by a werewolf makes you one. Most folk stories don’t mention any of these as they were created by the movie’s writers.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"What facts do you know about certain horror movies that not many know about?

I have a couple about the classic werewolf movie An American Werewolf in London.

The five pointed star which is known as a pentagram or pentacle has been known to have been used to ward off evil spirits so it makes sense that it would be used in The Slaughtered Lamb to keep the werewolf out.

The full moon occurs two nights in a row in the movie when David transforms which does actually occur. Those full moons are actually known as Blue Moons which makes sense with the songs of the same name and you can see a hint of blue in one of the shots of the moon."

My most favourite movie ever!!

Also. I believe most of the movie was shot in the same running order as the script, rare

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge


"

My most favourite movie ever!!

Also. I believe most of the movie was shot in the same running order as the script, rare "

It’s a classic, that’s for sure.

And Jenny Agutter….or should I say Jenny Shagutter! Phwoar!

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Most of the people in the slaughtered lamb pub were in the same London play and were driven to Wales to film the scene

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge

More AWIL trivia: The commuter that gets attacked in the Underground station is played by the same actor that played Bib Fortuna, Jabba the Hutt’s lackey, in The Return of the Jedi.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

The Micheal Myers mask in Halloween is an inside out William Shatner mask.

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By *aitonelMan  over a year ago

Away for Christmas


"The initial final script of alien had the landing team find the space jockey alien had scratched a triangular symbol on his dash board. This leaves them baffled until the storm clears revealing a huge alien pyramid that dwarfs the spaceship. The pyramid is a temple dedicated to the worship of the aliens and before Kane is implanted they find a complex engraving of the alien’s life cycle."

The original script had the Xenomorph being a feral bloodthirsty monster for only the start of its life cycle, eventually the species would mature in to a mild and intelligent creature capable of art and architecture living a full scholarly life for 200 years - probably the space jocky/giants we know of today being their final form.

The pyramid was replaced with the derelict space jockey ship in a script change due to both a lack of screen time to explain the origins and lack of money to visualise on screen. The purpose of the pyramid was solely used for the procreation process of the species.

The pyramid concept was later revived and used in the first Alien vs Predator movie as part of a coming of age ritual/trial for the Predator species to produce the Aliens as dangerous prey/opponent.

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By *2000ManMan  over a year ago

Worthing

In addition to the comment about Rik Mayall. John Landis has stated if he had known Rik was more well known in the uk as he initially thought, a bigger part would have been given.

The Alien book written by Alan Dean Foster has a a lot of different dialog to the film. Also a few scenes are either different to the film or extra (even comparted to the extended film).

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

Cambridge


"In addition to the comment about Rik Mayall. John Landis has stated if he had known Rik was more well known in the uk as he initially thought, a bigger part would have been given.

The Alien book written by Alan Dean Foster has a a lot of different dialog to the film. Also a few scenes are either different to the film or extra (even comparted to the extended film)."

The novel I believe was based around the original script that had these scenes still in it. They were cut from the movie due to budget/pacing issues.

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By *octor DeleriumMan  over a year ago

Wellingborough


"The Shining is famous for the huge amount of takes used by Stanley Kubrick, including one scene with 148 takes and another with 127."

The bar scene (see below for a reminder) was filmed at the iconically named Stanley hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.

Unsurprisingly, the hotel has cashed in on the connection to the film not least in the bar prices.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+shining+bar+scene&oq=The+Shining+bar+scene&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l7j0i22i30l3.4899j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

For decent Mexican food in Estes Park, head down the road from The Stanley to Ed's Cantina and Grill.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Another for The Shining. In the scene where Jack Nicholson breaks the door down with an axe a prop door was originally used. Jack Nicholson broke the door down far too easily so a real door had to be used.

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By *2000ManMan  over a year ago

Worthing

Alien again! One scene shows the Nostromo entering the planets orbit as a monitor computer animation. To the right is a picture of Jonesy the cat as a kitten.

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Here’s a funny story as related by Joe Pilato from the set of George Romero’s classic, Day Of The Dead.

Pilato’s villainous character gets ripped in half in the finale as the zombies chomp merrily on his innards.

Apparently the ‘guts’ were a mixture of fake organs and real meat all lovingly mixed in a sea of fake blood.

Unfortunately, the fridge in which the meat was stored ceased to work prior to the scene’s filming however and the meat subsequently went off(!)

It was still nonetheless used in the scene as planned and the actor was forced to wear nasal plugs to combat the resulting vile stench which he said he could nonetheless STILL smell for days in his nostrils afterwards.

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

By the way, Rhodes’ (Pilato’s) famous final words, ‘Ch*ck on ‘em!!!’ as he is ripped to shreds were entirely ad-libbed.

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

The bird in that film was a goose with big eyes

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Here’s another funny one:

The always superb Tony Todd managed to negotiate a $1,000 bonus payment for every time he got stung during the bee scenes he appeared in, in Candyman.

As it turned out, he did rather well from this scheme alone, as he was stung 23 times.

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

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"Here’s another funny one:

The always superb Tony Todd managed to negotiate a $1,000 bonus payment for every time he got stung during the bee scenes he appeared in, in Candyman.

As it turned out, he did rather well from this scheme alone, as he was stung 23 times."

Yes x

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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Actor William Holden was originally offered the role eventually given to Gregory Peck in the original, The Omen.

Ostensibly, Holden initially turned it down after reading the script which he felt, conflicted with his Christian beliefs.

However, after the commercial success of the first film, Holden seemed more than happy to put his beliefs to one side and starred in the sequel(!)

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

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"Actor William Holden was originally offered the role eventually given to Gregory Peck in the original, The Omen.

Ostensibly, Holden initially turned it down after reading the script which he felt, conflicted with his Christian beliefs.

However, after the commercial success of the first film, Holden seemed more than happy to put his beliefs to one side and starred in the sequel(!)

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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"Actor William Holden was originally offered the role eventually given to Gregory Peck in the original, The Omen.

Ostensibly, Holden initially turned it down after reading the script which he felt, conflicted with his Christian beliefs.

However, after the commercial success of the first film, Holden seemed more than happy to put his beliefs to one side and starred in the sequel(!)

"

Actually, another interesting fact regarding the film; The wondrously ominous main score by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith is entitled, ‘Ave Satani’. This is apparently a deliberate misspelling of the correct Latin, ‘Ave Satanas’ (‘Hail Satan’).

It has been rumoured (but never to the best of my knowledge, officially confirmed) that Goldsmith actuated this slight lyrical amendment in order to avert the invocation of any unwanted ‘dark powers’ during its performance.

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By *urplechesterCouple  over a year ago

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The famous “here’s Johnny “ scene from the shining was ad-libbed by Jack Nicholson, and almost didn’t make it into the film! 60 doors were axed until he got the right size hole to put his face through Miss Pc

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By *ocusMan  over a year ago

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"Alien again! One scene shows the Nostromo entering the planets orbit as a monitor computer animation. To the right is a picture of Jonesy the cat as a kitten."

Even more Alien. To add to the sense of scale some of the scenes on what turned out to be LV-426 were filmed with child actors in the space suits.

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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Everyone remembers Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of the eponymous Count Dracula in director Tod Brownings 1931 classic.

What many are unaware of however, is that after each days shoot, another director, namely George Medford was filming a Spanish Language facsimile of the film with a Spanish cast and utilising the same sets.

In this version, Count Dracula, or Conde Dracula as it translates, was played by Carlos Villarias who, according to many who have seen it (I sadly have not) was even better than Lugosi.

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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"Everyone remembers Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of the eponymous Count Dracula in director Tod Brownings 1931 classic.

What many are unaware of however, is that after each days shoot, another director, namely George Medford was filming a Spanish Language facsimile of the film with a Spanish cast and utilising the same sets.

In this version, Count Dracula, or Conde Dracula as it translates, was played by Carlos Villarias who, according to many who have seen it (I sadly have not) was even better than Lugosi.

"

*George Melford in fact

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

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"Everyone remembers Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of the eponymous Count Dracula in director Tod Brownings 1931 classic.

What many are unaware of however, is that after each days shoot, another director, namely George Medford was filming a Spanish Language facsimile of the film with a Spanish cast and utilising the same sets.

In this version, Count Dracula, or Conde Dracula as it translates, was played by Carlos Villarias who, according to many who have seen it (I sadly have not) was even better than Lugosi.

*George and Mildred in fact "

x

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By *ensuallover1000Man  over a year ago

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"Everyone remembers Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of the eponymous Count Dracula in director Tod Brownings 1931 classic.

What many are unaware of however, is that after each days shoot, another director, namely George Medford was filming a Spanish Language facsimile of the film with a Spanish cast and utilising the same sets.

In this version, Count Dracula, or Conde Dracula as it translates, was played by Carlos Villarias who, according to many who have seen it (I sadly have not) was even better than Lugosi.

*George and Mildred in fact x"

I’m now experiencing visions of George about to take a bite out of a young victim before Mildred abruptly interrupts matters, shouting out, ‘Geoooorge! ! Have you put the bins out?!’

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By *asmeenTV/TS  over a year ago

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"Everyone remembers Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of the eponymous Count Dracula in director Tod Brownings 1931 classic.

What many are unaware of however, is that after each days shoot, another director, namely George Medford was filming a Spanish Language facsimile of the film with a Spanish cast and utilising the same sets.

In this version, Count Dracula, or Conde Dracula as it translates, was played by Carlos Villarias who, according to many who have seen it (I sadly have not) was even better than Lugosi.

*George and Mildred in fact x

I’m now experiencing visions of George about to take a bite out of a young victim before Mildred abruptly interrupts matters, shouting out, ‘Geoooorge! ! Have you put the bins out?!’ "

Ha yootha

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" in the Shining was ad libbed

I never understood why he said Johnny. Maybe it's a reference to Johnny Carson?

Exactly that. That was how Johnny Carson was introduced on his show

"

"Jack" Torrence was probably Jonathan Torrence anyway.

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