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50 Fascinating, Little-Known Facts About Horror Movies: Scream

1. Roger L. Jackson voiced Ghostface in the Scream movies and was hidden on set so his voice would be scarier to the actors. 2. One of the facts is that in Evil Dead II, you can see Freddy Krueger's glove from Nightmare on Elm Street hanging in a tool shed. 3. Another fact is that in the final scene of Let the Right One In, the two main characters communicate in Morse code by tapping the word "puss," which means "small kiss" in Swedish.

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50 Fascinating, Little-Known Facts About Horror Movies: Scream

1. Roger L. Jackson voiced Ghostface in the Scream movies and was hidden on set so his voice would be scarier to the actors. 2. One of the facts is that in Evil Dead II, you can see Freddy Krueger's glove from Nightmare on Elm Street hanging in a tool shed. 3. Another fact is that in the final scene of Let the Right One In, the two main characters communicate in Morse code by tapping the word "puss," which means "small kiss" in Swedish.

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50 Fascinating, LittleKnown Facts About

Horror Movies
1. In the Scream series, Ghostface is voiced by Roger L.
Jackson. The director, Wes Craven, intentionally hid
Jackson on the set of all three original movies, so that
his voice would be scarier to the actors hearing it.
During the scenes where the characters were being
taunted on the phone, Jackson was hidden on set,
actually making the calls.
2. In Evil Dead II, you can see Freddy Kruegers glove
from Nightmare on Elm Street. Its hanging above the
door in the tool shed.
3. In the final scene of Let The Right One In, when the
two main characters are communicating with morse
code, they tap the word puss which means small kiss
in Swedish.

The Shining

4. It took about a year to get the iconic shot in where


blood pours out of the elevator in The Shining right, but
only three days to film.

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5. Friday the 13th villain, Jason, was originally to be
named Josh.
6. Rather than risk breaking continuity, Sissy Spacek
slept in bloody clothes for three days while filming the
prom scene inCarrie.
7. Of the infamous virginity rule exemplified by John
Carpenters Halloweenseries:
Carpenter and co-writer Debra Hill have stated many
times over the years that they did not consciously set out
to depict virginity as a way of defeating a rampaging
killer. The reason why the horny teens all die is simply
that theyre so preoccupied with getting laid that they
dont notice that theres a killer at large. Laurie Strode,
on the other hand, spends a lot of time on her own and is
therefore more alert.
8. A few homages to Alfred Hitchcock are hidden in
John Carpenters Halloween. Carpenter cast Psycho star
Janet Leighs daughter Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead role,
and named another main character, Dr. Sam Loomis,
after the object of Janet Leighs affection in Psycho.
9. The Candyman, played by Tony Todd, had to put real
bees into his mouth to film the movies climax.
10. Because he was so young Danny Lloyd, the kid who
played Danny in The Shining, was not told he was
making a horror film. He thought it was going to be a
drama.

11. Everyones favorite kids movie was almost THAT


much better. Leonardo DiCapprio was offered the lead
in Hocus Pocus, originally.
12. In the original Scream, the high school janitor is
named Fred and wears red and green shirt, an allusion
to Nightmare on Elm Street, also directed by Wes
Craven. The janitor is played by Craven himself.

Nightmare on Elm Street

13. Nightmare on Elm Street explores questions in


epistemology, the study of what we can know. Wes
Craven was equipped to do this because he has a degree
in philosophy.
14. Jack Nicholson had worked as a volunteer firefighter,
so when he tore down the bathroom door in The
Shining, he decimated the prop door too easily and had
to use a real door.
15. Heather Donahue, an actor in The Blair Witch
Project, was worried the director planned to make a
snuff film.
16. The original title thought of for The Texas Chainsaw
Massacrewas Head Cheese.

17. Stephen Kings son, Joe, plays a little boy


in Creepshow.
18. In order to film the premonition scene in Final
Destination 3, the actors had to ride the actual roller
coaster 26 times.
19. Kevin Williamson was inspired to write Scream after
a real life incident in which he discovered an open
window in the house he was staying at.
20. The true story behind The Conjuring:
Eight generations of families lived and died in the house
before the Perrons moved in. Andrea Perron suggests
that some of the spirits from the families never left.
Deaths include two documented suicides, a poisoning
death, the rape and murder of an 11-year old girl, two
drownings, and the passing of four men who froze to
death. Most deaths occurred within the Arnold family
from which Bathsheba Sherman was descended.

The Blair
Witch Project

21. It took only 8 days to film The Blair Witch Project.

22. Final Destination is based on an idea for an episode


of The X-Files that was never made.
23. If Virginia Madsen hadnt accepted the lead role
in Candyman, the producers would have given it to
Sandra Bullock, who wasnt well known at the time.
24. When the main characters of Children of the
Corn are driving, you can see a copy of Stephen
Kings Night Shift on the dashboard. This is the book
where the Children of the Corn short story was
published.
25. In Candyman, Virginia Madsen was really
hypnotized for some scenes so she could portray her
trance authentically.
26. Ben Tramer, a victim in Halloween II, was named
after John Carpenters real life classmate, a writer who
worked on Saved By The Bell.
27. The real life Lorraine Warren makes a cameo in The
Conjuringas an audience member while the character
Lorraine Warren is speaking.
28. In 2001, an incident happened in which the son of
the The Birds author was terrorized by seagulls.
29. The Exorcist is Warner Bros highest grossing film of
all time (taking inflation into account).
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What You Did Last Summer

30. Jennifer Love Hewitt was offered the lead role in The
Ring.
31. Psycho was the first time a flushing toilet was shown
on screen.
32. Freddy Krueger was originally going to be a child
molester, but that was thought to be too dark for the
movie.
33. THIS terrifying fact from Candyman:
The architecture flaw of the medicine chests and people
being able to sneak in, is something that Bernard Rose
discovered in his research for the film and there was
actually a series of murders that were committed this
way.
34. In order to make Samaras walk as creepy as possible
in The Ring, they filmed her walking backwards and
then reversed the shot.
35. The crazy red fro of the clown in It, was actually the
actors real hair.
36. Friday the 13th was filmed at a real camp in New
Jersey that is still in operation to this day.
37. The Shining was the first and only film role ever for
both actresses that played the woman in room 237.
38. Even though her character in Scream was killed
when she was unable to fit through the pet flap in the
garage door, Rose McGowan actually could fit through it
in real life.
39. One of Paul Rudds first role was a lead part in the
sixth Halloween movie, Halloween: The Curse of
Michael Myers. He was credited then as Paul Stephen
Rudd.

40. The skeletons in Poltergeist are not props. They are


real human skeletons.
41. Jack Nicholson wanted Jessica Lange to play
Wendys role inThe Shining.
42. Emma Stone auditioned for the role of Laurie Strode
in Rob Zombies Halloween remake.

Carrie

43. In Carrie, the high school is named Bates High after


Norman Bates in Psycho.
44. In Scream, Caseys dad advises her mom to go down
the road to the Mackenzies a destination cribbed from
genre-starterHalloween, where Laurie Strode tells her
babysitting charges the same line.
45. The Shining was nominated for two Raspberry
Awards.
46. E.T. was originally written as a horror film.
47. The house used in the finale of Scream 3 is the same
location (set up as a school) in Halloween H20: 20
Years Later.
48. The mask used in Halloween is a modified Star
Trek William Shatner mask.
49. Molly Ringwald was offered the lead role in Scream.

50. A guy sued Warner Bros after he was injured while


fainting during a screening of The Exorcist. They settled
out of court (meaning, dude got $$$).

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