Subject: Ya Think Ya know Horror Movie Trivia??
Content: So, who out there think that they are Horror Movie Experts?? I have 50 Frightening Facts about some of the most popular Horror Movies around. See how many of these ya know. I bet most ya don't!! HAHAHA! 1. Night of the Living Dead Director, George A. Romero’s earliest film projects was a segment for Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. 2. Both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were offered the role of Dr. Loomis in 1978’s Halloween before it was given to Donald Pleasance. 3. Halloween was filmed in the Spring, so all the fall leaves were artificial. 4. Bela Lugosi turned down the role as the Monster in the 1931 film, Frankenstein . 5. William Pratt changed his professional name to "Boris Karloff." 6 . Child Actress Daveigh Chase played the cursed girl, Samara Morgan from the 2002 movie, The Ring . She was also the voice of Lilo in Disney’s Lilo and Stitch . 7. Director John Carpenter composed all of the musical score for his cult hit movie, Halloween . 8. The two young actresses who played the daughters in the 1982 Spielberg film, Poltergeist , died young. Heather O’Rourke, who played Carol Anne died from complications from surgery at age 13. Dominique Dunne played Dana and died when she was murdered by her boyfriend at age 22. 9. In the 2006 movie, Snakes on a Plane , there is a scene in which the male flight attendant throws a snake into the microwave. The button he pushes to cook the reptile actually reads “Snake”. 10. River Phoenix was originally slotted for the role of the interviewer in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1994), opposite Tom Cruise. Phoenix 's untimely death from a drug/alcohol overdose outside of actor Johnny Depp's Hollywood nightclub on Halloween night 1993 gave Christian Slater the opportunity to co-star in one of the biggest box office hits of that year. 11. Vincent Price and Christopher Lee were born on the same day, May 27 th and Peter Cushing was born on May 26 th . 12 . Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming of "The Exorcist." In a sequence where she was thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her violently from the bed. Burstyn fell on her coccyx and screamed out in pain, which was filmed for the movie. 13. The full name of Chucky, star of Child's Play and the sequels that followed, is Charles Lee Ray. It's a mix of Charles Manson, James Earl Ray and Lee Harvey Oswald. 14. Director Tim Burton originally wanted Sammy Davis, Jr. to play the lead role in his 1988 Horror/Comedy, Beetlejuice. 15. Linda Blair’s character, Regan MacNeil, was possessed by the ancient Sumerian/Assyrian god, Pazuzu. 16. The name of the ship in Dan O’Bannon’s script for the 1979 film, Alien came from the 1904 novel written by Joseph Conrad, Nostromo. 17. The address of the house in 1984’s Nightmare on Elm Street is 1428 Elm Street . The actual house is a private residence, and the address id 1428 North Genesee Avenue , in Los Angeles . 18. Director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell made a short film in 1978, Within the Woods and was given a double billing with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was then followed by the film, The Evil Dead in 1981. 19. Actor Bruce Campbell was originally set to star in the 1990 film, Darkman before it went to Liam Neeson. 20. The 1978 movie, Halloween , was originally titled, The Babysitter Murders. 21. Director Wes Craven’s first movie was the 1972 film, The Last House on the Left . 22. Lon Chaney, Jr. is the only actor to play Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and the Mummy. 23. Jamie Lee Curtis was paid a total of $8,000 for her role as Laurie Strode in the 1978 film, Halloween. 24. The name “Sam Loomis” was used to two Cult Horror Movies, Donald Pleasance’s character in Halloween and John Gavin’s character in Psycho. 25. John Larroquette was the narrator in the 1974 film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 26. In the 1987 movie, The Lost Boys , Kiefer Sutherland was only meant to wear black gloves when riding the motorbike. However, while messing around on the bike behind-the-scenes he fell off, breaking his wrist, which forced him to wear the gloves through the whole movie to cover his cast. 27. The town of Amityville denied permission for the original house on 112 Ocean Avenue to be used in the 1979 film, The Amityville Horror. Instead, the producers used a house in Tom’s River, New Jersey that was made to look like the original house. 28. Christopher Lee actually played the role of the Creature in the 1957 film, The Curse of Frankenstein a year before he ever starred as Dracula. 29. Nicolas Cage had to eat a live cockroach in the 1989 film, Vampire’s Kiss , which took him three takes. 30. For the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire , Anne Rice initially voiced her objections to the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat (her original choice was Rutger Hauer ) but, after seeing the finished film, she paid $7,740 for a two-page ad in Daily Variety praising his performance and apologizing for her previous doubts about the film. 31. In the 1985 film, Fright Night , Roddy McDowell’s Character Peter Vincent, was taken from horror masters Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. 32. Hellraiser was originally based on the novella, The Hellbound Heart , which Clive Barker himself wrote. 33. In the 1982 film, The Thing , the Norwegian camp scenes were actually the charred remains of the American site from the end of the film. Rather than go to the expense of building and burning down another camp, Carpenter re-used the destroyed American camp. 34. The female voice on MacReady's computer from The Thing , was performed (uncredited) by the wife of director John Carpenter, actress Adrienne Barbeau . 35. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula , Gary Oldman was quite drunk the night they filmed the scene where he had to lick blood from Keanu Reeves 's straight razor. 36. At the start of the 2003 movie, Underworld , when Selene encounters a werewolf in the train tunnel, you hear a wolf howl - the sound effect is taken directly from An American Werewolf in London (1981). 37. An American Werewolf in London was the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Makeup. That category was created in 1981. 38. Jason Statham was originally the top runner for playing the part of Cooper, in the 2002 movie, Dog Soldiers , but he had to back down at the last minute to do John Carpenter 's Ghosts of Mars (2001). 39. In the 1982 movie, Poltergeist , The skeletons that emerge from the swimming pool while Diane searches for help are actual skeletons. JoBeth Williams didn't know this until after the scene was shot. 40 . Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Carol Anne in Poltergeist , but Steven Spielberg wanted someone more angelic. It was Barrymore's audition for this role, however, that landed her a part in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982). 41. The original title of the 2001 movie, Jeepers Creepers , was " Here comes the Boogeyman ". 42. The original Friday the 13th was filmed at Camp Nobebosco in New Jersey . The camp is still in operation to date, and they have a wall of Friday the 13th paraphernalia to honor the fact that the movie was set there. 43. Sally Field auditioned for Friday the 13 th , for the role of Alice Hardy. 44. In The Ring , the cursed "video" is available as an Easter egg on the DVD. Select look here and press down and your cursor will disappear. Press enter. This has an interesting feature; your remote control is disabled. Once the "video" has started playing, you can't stop it, pause it, fast-forward it, or return to the menu. Unless you turn off the TV, you're forced to watch the whole thing. When it's over, the DVD returns to the menu, then you hear a phone ring twice before you're given control over your remote again. 45. To make the baboons attack the car in the Windsor Zoo park scene in The Omen , an official from the zoo was in the back seat of the car with a baby baboon, but the baboons had no response at all. They then took the head of the baboons, and the baboons outside went crazy. Lee Remick 's terror as the baboons attack the car was real. 46. Kevin Bacon was offered the lead role in 1983’s Christine, but ended up choosing Footloose (1984) instead. 47. The name "Cujo" used for the 1983 film of the same name is an ancient Indian word meaning "unstoppable force." 48 . 7 cats were used to play the part of "Church" in the film Pet Sematary . 49. Boris Karloff’s character, in the 1932 film, The Mummy 'Ardath Bey',(the name Imhotep assumes after his exhumation) is an anagram of 'Death by Ra' (Ra is the Egyptian sun-god). 50 . 'David' from 1987’s, The Lost Boys , (played by Kiefer Sutherland ) is impaled on a pair of antlers and doesn't disintegrate like the other vampires. Despite what Max later says, he is not really dead. This was intended to be picked up in the sequel, " The Lost Girls ", which was scripted but never made.
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