13 Fun Horror Facts
1. During pre-production of Jaws producers believed you could capture a great white shark and train it to do the shark stunts in the film.
2. In the book 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die by author Steven Jay, it does not list either Ridley Scott's Alien nor James Cameron's Aliens.
3. In Pet Semetary's Victor Pascow (played by Brad Greenquist), the runner that was struck by a truck, died and came back to warn Louis Creed is categorized in John Landis's Book of Monsters as a zombie.
4. In Michael Bay's remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jessica Biel's character, Erin was actually suppose to be pregnant. In a deleted scene, she tells Kemper before they pick up the hitchhiker and in turn arrive at the farmhouse. It was scraped because they felt Biel's character being pregnant and battling Leatherface would not garner a good audience reaction. Also Renny Harlin's shark film Deep Blue Sea, Jacqueline McKenzie who played Janice Higgins was also pregnant, but again that scene was left on the cutting room floor for fear of audience reaction of a pregnant women being killed by a shark.
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show was Tim Curry's (Dr. Franke-N-Furter) first film role.
6. In the vampire flick From Dusk Til Dawn, in the scene with Salma Hayek dancing on the table in front of George Clooney, you can see him raise up his hands in an attempt to brace Salma because he thought she was going to fall off the table.
7. Neil Marshall director of The Descent, Dog Soldiers and Doomsday directed an episode of the television show Hannibal (Season 3) entitled The Great Red Dragon.
8. Robert Kirkman has stated in interviews had he known the success that The Walking Dead would have achieved, he wouldn't have killed Shane off so early in the comic.
9. Bill Moseley from House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Repo: The Genetic Opera and countless other horror films graduated from Yale University.
10. Fede Alvarez, director of The Evil Dead remake used a huge amount of practical effects and only used CGI in order to remove equipment or anything else that was used during the practical effects,
11. Hatchet II"s director, Adam Green used 136 gallons of blood for the movie.
12. Margaret Hamilton, who played the iconic Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz also played Morticia Addams's mother (Granny Frump) in 3 episodes of The Addams Family.
13. John Carpenter's The Thing, considered a horror classic was a disappointment at the box office.
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