Reguarding Zombies & Trioxin:
(I found this from google-ing return of the living dead wikipedia)
Trioxin (aka 2,4,5-trioxin) is a fictional nerve agent featured in the Return of the Living Dead movies. It is shown as a greenish or whitish vapor, typically stored under pressure in large steel drums. It was originally created by the United States military as an herbicide to destroy marijuana plants; however, the Army was quite surprised when the gas also restored life to cadavers, dismembered body parts, and even dead animals and insects. Moreover, trioxin appears to be toxic, and a single exposure can both kill a person and revive him again.
"Zombies" created by exposure to trioxin retain all of their former intelligence and abilities, including the abilities to speak, run, and reason. Like normal cadavers, they suffer the effects of rigor mortis, which they naturally find extremely painful. They also crave human brain; one zombie explains that they require endorphins found in the brain to stave off the pain of being decomposing cadavers. Trioxin zombies cannot be killed by normal means or by damage to the brain. The only known ways to destroy zombies created by trioxin are by incineration or electrocution.
Though a volatile gas, 2,4,5-trioxin is fairly stable, and can withstand temperatures in the thousands of degrees. Attempts to cremate trioxin-spawned zombies typically release trioxin gas into the air, where it may contaminate rainclouds and fall to the ground. If the contaminated rainwater falls over a cemetery, it can potentially reanimate every corpse interred there.
According to the Return of the Living Dead series, trioxin was the cause of an incident on which the "fiction" movie Night of the Living Dead was based. Since the zombies created by trioxin could not be killed with a shot to the head, unlike the zombies in the film, they were stored in sealed drums for two decades. In Return of the Living Dead III, it is revealed that the U.S. military is deliberately experimenting with trioxin in an effort to create zombie supersoldiers.
2,4,5-trioxin is based in part on Agent Orange, a real-life defoliant used by the Army during the Vietnam War. The two chemicals share a number of similarities: both were used against plants by the United States Army during the 1960s, and both proved to have horrifying side effects. One of the two chemicals used to produce Agent Orange is called 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Agent Orange also contained chemicals known as dioxins.
2,4,5-trioxin should not be mistaken for the real chemical trioxin, which is used by morticians to repair cells and maintain a corpse's contours after postmortem tissue constriction.
Also, Amityville Horror is not based on a true story (someone else wrote this previously!) It is completely fictional and was created by the author and the family as a way to bring in some cash!
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1). PSYCHO was the first movie based on Ed Gein 2) rotld is not rEAL. IT WAS A JOKE3) amittyville horror was proved to be frabricated by the people who lived there and wrote a book for $$
danebramage i think you should look more into your facts!
first. parts of ROTLD are real, the government worked on and still are trying to make it better, a chemical that restarts the body, and makes it twitch and move but not as euquipted as a living human.
Second. The amittyville horror was real!!....it was in the news paper!! and people are able to be possessed....and you cant disagree with facts! Actually! In This book written about the house in it says that a fire started inside the house and it went out it self the guy inside was phoning the police and by the time he was going to hang up it went out! and in the news paper! it says that there was a family and it got killed by the dad/brother or w.e and they actually had the bodies of the family in the morgue! no paper would lie about a family dieing they would have to know and see the facts!!
but you are right about the first movie made about him "psycho"
Actually amittyville was based on actual events and as far as sites go to prove these findings all you have to do is check wickepedia if something is found to be not true they take it off
more movies based on actualities are the vanishing,the entity,polterghiest (i know it was cheesy and crap but none the less loosly based on actual events),zodiac,helter skelter not horror but scary to think those people could be your neighbors there is another ghost movie about a guy who hits this girl and she passes out....yada yada..he puts he in a car and pushes it in the water...yada yada she wasnt dead but comes back yrs later to haunt him and the buddies that helped him it is loosley based on actual events and yes the guys were haunted for real but never hurt
Originally posted by Napalm
Allright listin kids ed gein had movies "Scilence of the lambs" "Psycho" and "The texas chainsaw massecer" done after him also there was a flick called "Ed Gein" based on him
Not only those films, but two others....
"Deranged" was also based on Ed Gein. The character's name in the film is Ezra Cobb, but is very closely based on Gein. Excellent film by the way...well worth tracking down.
Also, a film called "Three on a Meathook" was also based on Ed Gein.
Ok...The Amityville Horror is based on the actual murders of the DeFeo family by their oldest son, Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr, who on November 13, 1974, shot and killed both parents and his four siblings. DeFeo then ran into a local bar screaming for someone to help him....he thinks that his mother and father had been shot. He attempted to blame a mob hit-man named Louis Falini for the murders but confessed after inconsistencies in his story came out.
George and Kathy Lutz are the names of the characters in the Amityville Horror movie...who were portrayed by James Brolin (George Lutz) and Margot Kidder (Kathy Lutz)..the priest was Rod Steiger who played Father Delany.
I was able to see this house and meet the previous owners in the late 80's while on vacation with my family. We were visiting family in upstate New York and were taken on a tour of local haunts by an elder male cousin, who grew up about 40 miles from Amityville.
There were NO voices, NO spectral visits, NO demonic forces, NO blood oozing from the walls, and NO portal to Hell in the basement.
This was an act of unmeasurable horror during the 70's that was the work of one disturbed young man who suffered from an antisocial personality disorder and abused Heroin and LSD. DeFeo is currently serving 6 consecutive sentences of 25 to life at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Beekman, NY...a maximum security prison.
His DIN number with the New York State Department of Correctional Services is 75A4053.
It's been discussed before, if not in this thread than in others.
There's barely any basis in TCM from that guy. Like, the only thing is some furniture made from skeletons and body parts, and the mask of human flesh.
He's also the 'basis' for Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs and Norman Bates in Psycho, both very loosely.
It happens regularly.
Partly the fault of many little word-of-mouth urban legends. You often hear someone say "My dad's friend's brother's second cousin works with someone who knows someone who met someone who works at the insane asylum where they're keeping leatherface". And you go "Nah, it's not real". Best to just laugh it off and make sure they know that they're idiots.
Originally posted by BackFire
It's been discussed before, if not in this thread than in others.There's barely any basis in TCM from that guy. Like, the only thing is some furniture made from skeletons and body parts, and the mask of human flesh.
He's also the 'basis' for Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs and Norman Bates in Psycho, both very loosely.
Originally posted by Röland
I got in an argument with a kid at my school because he kept insisting TCM was an actual event. I tried to tell him that the movie was based off of Ed Gein's murders and acts, but he wouldn't listen. *sigh*