Hmm, some really cool facts in here beside slippy's TMC thoughts anyway!
All I can come up with now (but I'm wasted) is that there is a 'The hills have eyes' poster in the cabin basement in Evil Dead 2, as well as a Freddy glove at a doorpost.
And in Shaun of the Dead, shaun tries to get a table for two at a restaurant named 'Fulci's'
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Originally posted by SlipknoT
Did U NO Dat The texis Chaynsaw Masssacree is a Troo Storee
TCM is loosely based on real life serial killer Ed Gein, as in he did make a full body suit made from human flesh and that he eats people.
Is chosen weapon of death was not a chainsaw but a rifle and he did not live in Texas but lived in Wisconson. He wasn't fat either, or I don't think he was.
Guinea Pig Trivia : ( The Devils Experiment)
A rumor has sprung up around this movie, that this was a film that Charlie Sheen called the FBI on. In 1991 he had wondered if it might actually contain real snuff footage, unable to convincingly explain away the atrocities as special effects work. The FBI then tracked down the makers of the film, who convinced them that the onscreen deaths were indeed only just special effects, much like Ruggero Deodato reportedly had to do in court for his Cannibal Holocaust (1980
Nah he wasnt fat, actually Gein was quite skinny, he was thought of in his town as the village idiot, a simpleton, and actually told ppl what he was doing (robbing graves, etc.) only everyone thought he was just being "lil eddie gein" and telling crazy stories. all in all he only really killed 2 ppl, may have been a rifle, as he was a hunter, but i think it was a revolver. He did however rob hundreds of graves, and make masks of ffaces and body suits of womens skins (he wanted to be a woman, and was obbsesed with his mother)
Trivia for
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Director Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Krueger after a kid who bullied him in school and to have based his appearance on a disfigured hobo who scared him as a youth.
When Freddy Krueger is chasing Nancy and she runs up the stairs only to find that its all gross "muck", what she steps in is pancake mix.
The movie that Nancy watches to stay awake is The Evil Dead (1981).
There is a ripped poster of The Evil Dead (1981).
Wes Craven's original concept for Freddy Krueger was considerably more gruesome, with teeth showing through the flesh over the jaw, puss running from the sores, and a part of the skull showing through the head. Make-up artist David B. Miller argued that an actor couldn't be convincingly made up that way and a puppet would be hard to film and wouldn't blend well with live actors, so these ideas were eventually abandoned.
In the scene where Nancy is sleeping at Tina's house and Freddy comes through the wall over the bed, Jason's hockey mask (from the Friday the 13th films) can be seen. Incidentally, Freddy is being played at this point by special effects man Jim Doyle wearing Freddy's stunt mask.
The poster above Johnny Depp's bed in the scene where he is killed is the Grace Under Pressure album cover by Canadian rock trio Rush.
Johnny Depp accompanied friend Jackie Earle Haley to the auditions, where he was spotted by director Wes Craven, who asked him if he'd like to read for the part.
Wes Craven cast Joseph Whipp, who plays the inept sidekick of John Saxon's Lt. Thompson in this film, as the sheriff who endures David Arquette's inept Deputy Dewey in Scream (1996)
With one exception (Freddy walking through jail-cell bars), all of the F/X in Nightmare were done using physical F/X rather than trick photography.
In the end scene, the top to the convertible came down faster and harder than expected. The expression from the actors is real.
Nancy's bathtub was constructed over a tank built into the floor of the set with a cutout bathtub sealed down to it. Actress Heather Langenkamp spent 12 hours in it during filming, accompanied at least some of the time by special effects man Jim Doyle who was wearing the Freddy glove.
Wes Craven wrote the script and presented it in 1981, but no one wanted it. He said that "It just flew around" until New Line Cinema picked it up.
In "Just the Ten of Us" (1988), Heather Langenkamp makes reference to a rusty knife stuck in a cutting board "looking like something from A Nightmare on Elm Street".
This was the first real movie by New Line Cinema. Before that, they were just a distribution company for college campuses.
This movie was almost never made. About halfway through filming, New Line lost its deal with the distribution company. As a direct result, they couldn't pay the cast or crew for two whole weeks until they found another distribution company. They didn't lose one crew member.
Freddy Kruger was designed by Wes Craven to be the typical "silent" serial killer such as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. But in the sequels Freddy developed a cheeky persona that enabled him to be the black humored villain
The original glove was also used in A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) but then the glove went missing. The original glove was used in 1986 for Evil Dead II (1987) (according to the DVD)
New Line Cinema was saved from bankruptcy by the success of the film, and was jokingly nicknamed "the house that Freddy built".
In her room after almost getting killed in the tub, Nancy looks at herself in a mirror and says, "Oh God, I look 20 years old." Heather Langenkamp was 20 years old at the time of the movie.
When Nancy's dreams are "examined", when her hair turns white, the nurse is played by Wes Craven's wife, Mimi.
Over 500 gallons of fake blood were used during the making of the film.
The only times you see or hear the words "Elm Street" are during the opening and closing credits.
When Freddy is chasing Tina, Freddy's long arms were marrionetted.
Wes Craven claimed to have drawn inspiration for this movie from a series of news stories that involved a group of young Samoans who died from a horrific nightmare. The story goes first these young, healthy people would have a nightmare refuse to sleep for as long as they could, then when they finally fell asleep from sheer exhaustion they awoke with a scream, and died from a heart failure
Trivia for
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Filmed in Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA.
The weapons store featured in the film was never a part of the Monroeville Mall. George A. Romero shot those scenes in a gun shop in downtown Pittsburgh and edited the footage in to make it look like it was a shop in the mall.
Director Cameo: ['George A. Romero' ] the director in the television studio.
Cameo: ['Christine Forrest Romero' ] (wife of George A. Romero) director's assistant in the television studio.
Director Cameo: [George A. Romero] Santa Claus biker (briefly visible in biker raid).
Dario Argento re-cut this film to fit the Italian audiences, taking out most of the humor, leaving in all the gore and titling it "Zombi" to make it more of a true Italian horror film. It was such a hit that it Italian horror master Lucio Fulci filmed a sequel, titled Zombi 2 (1979). It was released around the world as "Zombie". At the same time, director George Romero filmed his own sequel, Day of the Dead (1985), so, in a sense, there are two sequels to this film: an Italian version and an American version.
Cameo: [Tom Savini] Zombie who breaks window of truck then is shot by Roger with revolver.
Tom Savini chose a friend to play the helicopter zombie because he was notorious for having a low forehead.
The airstrip used in the film, the Harold W. Brown Memorial Field (aka Monroeville Municipal Airport), is still in operation as of 2002. The privately run airfield is approximately 10 miles from the Monroeville Mall, where the bulk of the film was shot.
The two zombie children who attack Peter in the airport chart house are played by Donna Savini and Mike Savini, the real-life niece and nephew of Tom Savini.
The voice of Christine Forrest ('George A. Romero' 's wife) can be heard on a pre-recorded announcement in the mall ("Attention all shoppers..."😉.
The skating rink shown in the film was part of the Monroeville Mall. It has since been replaced by a food court.
Much of the fake blood used in the blood packets was a mixture of food coloring, peanut butter and cane sugar syrup.
When the film was first released, the shooting budget was reported to be $1.5 million. On his commentary track on the "Ultimate" DVD release, producer Richard P. Rubinstein admitted that amount was inflated for foreign buyers, and the actual budget was around $500,000 (including deferred lab fees and Rubenstein and director George A. Romero deferring much of their salaries).
Many effects were thought of on the spot. Tom Savini created many effects (such as the arm in the blood pressure tester) with no preparations whatsoever.
There was originally a scene during the biker raid involving a cross bow. It was shot but never featured in the final cut.
Tom Savini used the same dummy throughout the course of filming. During that time it was blown up, burnt, shot, and beaten, among other things.
In the Extended Edition (available on both laserdisc and Anchor Bay's "Ultimate Edition"😉, the music that is heard when Peter and Stephen are closing the gates of the mall in an effort to keep the bikers out is taken directly from the opening credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).
Some of the zombies (notably one in the tenement scene) were actual amputees.
EASTER EGG: On disk 4 (Document of the Dead) of Anchor Bay's "Ultimate Edition" DVD set, there is a hidden menu (shape of one of corpse on screen) item which can only be selected after seeing all items.
Filming at the Monroeville Mall took place during the winter of 1976-77, with a three week reprieve during the Christmas shopping season (during which other footage, e.g. the TV studio, was shot). Filming at the mall began around 10 p.m., shortly after the mall closed, and finished at 6 a.m. The mall didn't open until 9, but at 6 the Muzak came on and no one knew how to turn it off.
Joseph Pilato, who played Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead (1985), appears as a policeman at the boat dock.
Joseph Pilato auditioned for the role of Stephen.
The alarm company is named BIG BRUISER.
Tom Savini, head of makeup effects, was unhappy with how the blood mix (produced by 3M) photographed; it looked fluorescent. Director George A. Romero felt it was perfect for the film's comic book style.
Much of the stock music used in this film was licensed from the Music De Wolfe Library, a much-used resource of stock music for motion pictures.
Shooting at the mall was suspended over the Christmas season because it would have been too costly to nightly remove and then later re-hang all the seasonal decorations.
Extras who appeared in this film were reportedly given $20 in cash, a box lunch, and a Dawn of the Dead t-shirt.
In order to save on production costs, director/editor George A. Romero had all the 35mm film stock developed into 16mm, and used that as his work reel. After choosing the scenes and takes he wanted, he had those alone developed into 35mm prints for the master reels.
There is great dispute over the film's alternate ending, where Peter shoots himself in the head and Fran commits suicide by sticking her heads up into the blades of the copter. Some, such as makeup artists Tom Savini and Taso N. Stavrakis maintain that the scene was filmed, while director George A. Romero used to be adamant that it wasn't. However, in the documentary Document of the Dead by Roy Funkes that was filmed during the making of Dawn of the Dead (and is included on some DVD copies), George Romero clearly states to Roy Funkes, as they walk around the mall set, that they did indeed film the alternative ending, although he never filmed the effects shot. Gaylen Ross had had a head mold made for the effects scene, and Tom Savini did not want to see it go to waste, so he dressed the head up as a bearded African-American man, and that is the head that explodes from a shotgun blast at the beginning of the film. To create the exploding head effect, Tom Savini cleared the set and had the head shot at with an actual shotgun.
The MPAA had threatened to impose the X rating if George A. Romero didn't make cuts. Romero did not want to cut the film, and he was adamant against an X rating, due to its stigma of hard-core pornography. In the end, Romero was able to persuade his distributors to release the film with no rating, although on all advertising and trailers, there was a disclaimer that in effect read that while there was no explicit sex in the film, the movie was of such a violent nature that no one under 17 would be admitted.
The narration for the USA radio and TV commercials for this film was provided by Adolph Caesar.
While writing the script for Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero and John A. Russo contemplated how they should have the zombies destroyed. Co-star and makeup artist Marilyn Eastman joked that they could throw pies into their faces. This is undoubtedly the basis for the pie fight scene in Dawn of the Dead.
Some of the actors playing zombies in the movie would frequently get drunk at a late-night bar called the Brown Derby, which was in the Monroeville Mall. One night they stole a golf cart and crashed into a marble pillar, causing $7,000 worth of damage.
Zombie actors took photographs of themselves dressed up in full zombie makeup inside a photo booth on the second floor. They then replaced the sample pictures on the front of the booth with the ghoulish ones.
Many of the extras cast in the film (especially the zombies in close-up shots) were friends and relatives of the production crew.
The outdoor scene where hunters, emergency crew and soldiers are shooting at zombies was done through local volunteers. Several local hunters arrived on-scene with their own weapons, the local National Guard division showed up in full gear, and local emergency crew (police, fire and ambulance) were present, all voluntarily.
Several members of the marauding band of bikers were played by members of the local chapter of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. The elaborate motorcycles they drove were their own.
The only movie in George A. Romero's DEAD series where the word "zombie" is used, and is only used once (Peter says, "With those bay doors open, there's gonna be a thousand zombies in here."😉
The scene between Roger and Peter in the trucks when they are kidding each other about their height was entirely improvised by the two actors.
The scenes between Stephen, Peter, Roger, and Frannie in the helicopter were filmed with the helicopter never running or leaving the ground. A shell was painted blue for the day scenes and black for the night scenes and interspersed with real helicopter footage.
In the original draft of the script, the TV station's call sign was WJAS, the call sign of an actual radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the film was shot. The call sign was replaced with WGON, which was not issued to any station at that time (it had been issued to an AM radio station in Munsing, Michigan, but the station had gone dark some time before). WGON has now been issued to a licensed low power FM radio station (WGON-LP, 103.7) in Slidell, Louisiana.
The scene where Roger slides down the space between the escalators was improvised. There are now metal pegs in the escalator to prevent anyone from repeating the stunt.
The bit in the movie where Roger slides down between the escalators was Scott H. Reiniger's idea.
The car driven in the mall is a 1977 Volkswagen Scirocco.
The helicopter used in the film was a Bell Jet Ranger II. The registration number was N90090.
Much of the fighting done by Fran was at the behest of Gaylen Ross, who refused to play a character who would not fight the zombies on her own.
Real cow intestines were used towards the end of the movie in the scene where Sledge (Taso) gets his guts ripped out. Tom Savini has stated that he lived near a slaughterhouse and that's how he got the idea to do the effect.
Both parents of Christine Forrest-Romero make cameo appearances as zombies in the film.
The living quarters where the four heroes shacked up in wasn't located in the mall. It was a set built at George A. Romero's then production company The Latent Image located in Pittsburgh. The elevator shaft was located there as well.
In the scene where Roger his the zombie (played by Tom Savini) with the truck and it leaves a bloody smear on his windshield, the effect was created by Savini throwing himself on the non-moving truck and spitting a mouthful of blood on the windshield.
With such a shoestring budget, the film couldn't afford professional stunt people outside of drivers, so makeup artist Tom Savini and assistant and friend Taso N. Stavrakis volunteered for the task. They are responsible for almost every stunt seen in the film, though not all went perfectly as planned. When filming a dive over the rail of the mall, Savini almost missed his pile of cardboard boxes, with his legs and back landing on the ground. He had to work from a golf cart for several days. The shot where Stavrakis swung down from a banner was poorly planned and he wound up continuing on and slamming into the ceiling.
Trivia for
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Universal pictures (original production company) refused to release the film, believing it would be given an "NC-17" rating by the MPAA.
Filmed in 2000, and not released until three years later.
Several characters are named directly after characters in five Marx Brothers films: Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding from Animal Crackers (1930), Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff from Horse Feathers (1932), Rufus T. Firefly from Duck Soup (1933), Otis B. Driftwood from A Night at the Opera (1935), and Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush from A Day at the Races (1937) (all portrayed by Groucho Marx); and, Signor Emanuel Ravelli from Animal Crackers (1930) (portrayed by Chico Marx).
The robber's line about 'grease paint' and 'brains' is a reference to the song "Grease Paint And Monkey Brains" by Rob's former band, White Zombie.
During its box office run, the movie encountered two instances of the number '666': At the beginning of its run, when its opening weekend was $3,460,666, and at the end of its run, when its per-theater-average (the weekend gross divided by the number of theaters) was $666 per theater. Coincidence or magic? You decide.
The actual house is the same used in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), which can be viewed during Universal Studio's tram ride. However, during filming, Universal refused to cease the tram tours, which delayed filming during many scenes.
Most of the cutaway scenes (Otis torturing cheerleaders, Baby masturbating with the skeleton, etc). were filmed in Rob Zombie's basement after filming wrapped. He would invite cast members over to his house on the weekends and shoot the footage himself with a 16mm hand-held camera. With the exception of the shot of a setting sun, he created the opening credits the same way.
Director Cameo: [Rob Zombie] Appears a few seconds into the film (for roughly two seconds) as Dr. Wolfenstein's assistant, hitting a pumpkin with a sledgehammer. Zombie was originally going to play Wolfenstein himself, but he didn't like the way the makeup turned out and opted to have a brief cameo instead.
When Officer Wydell is showing Mother Firefly the pictures of the missing kids, the picture of Jerry is a picture of Chris Hardwick, the actor that played Jerry, on the set of the movie.
Dedicated to Dennis Fimple, 1940-2002.
Inside Captain Spaulding's gas bar/fast food/museum of horror, behind the cash on the wall are reproductions of Aleister Crowley's paintings of demonic figures which were later discovered under whitewash in his former Abbey of Thelema, in Cefalu, Italy.
When Denise is lowered in Dr Satan's lair, a tape player is also sent down and it keeps repeating a slowed down version of Aleister Crowley's poem "The Poet", read by himself (found on CD called The Great Beast Speaks which is the only known recording of Crowley). The line from the poem that gets repeated over and over is: "Bury me in a nameless grave".
Harrison Young is wearing an almost identical outfit to the one he wore while playing older Ryan in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
In the DVD Commentary, Rob Zombie revealed that Jake McKinnon (The Professor) couldn't see very well in his costume. In the scene where he swings a real axe at Denise his vision was so bad he could have seriously injured Erin Daniels if she didn't move fast enough. Rob says in his commentary, "We just assumed she would get out of the way."
Here are some other film titles that may have been an inspiration in the naming of House of 1000 Corpses :
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
aka "House of the Seven Corpses" - (video title)
Echter Hausfrauenfreund, Ein (1975)
aka "House of 1000 Sins" - USA (video title)
2,000 Women (1944)
aka "House of 1,000 Women"
Casa de las mil muñecas, La (1967)
aka "House of 1,000 Dolls" - USA
Finalmente... le mille e una notte (1972)
aka "House of 1,000 Pleasures"
In "Just the Ten of Us" (1988), Heather Langenkamp makes reference to a rusty knife stuck in a cutting board "looking like something from A Nightmare on Elm Street".
rather lame ANOES trivia related to Just the Ten of Us..........3 of the four teenage lubbock daughters in the show played in ANOES films, ANOES 1,2 and 3..............their younger brother J.R. used to wear Freddy Krueger shirts as a tongue in cheek wink to the audience. Yes, it's sad........I did use to watch Just the Ten of Us. TGIF was great back in the day.
Trivia for
28 Days Later... (2002)
The exteriors of the streets of London were shot in the early hours of the morning on weekdays. The crew only had a couple of minutes each day, and crew members had to politely ask clubbers not to walk onto the streets.
The plane used in the film flew from Blackpool to the location in the lakes. It took the crew hours to make the same journey, but it took the pilot less than six minutes and cost £6,000 in fuel.
The hospital in the film is a real day hospital and is not open at weekends. The trust managers of the hospital hire out the hospital for weekends so the filmmakers paid them directly which benefited the finances of this public hospital.
The tower block where Hannah and her father lived was condemned and has now been demolished.
The tunnel scene was filmed in a new tunnel extension which the filmmakers had special permission to use.
Police allowed a stretch of the M1 motorway to be closed for a few minutes at a time for the scene where you see a long desolate stretch of road.
Most of the film was made using digital cameras to give it the really real look (the final scenes in the cottage were shot on 35mm film). An added benefit of the digital filming was that the London shots could be set up and executed much quicker than otherwise possible which helped the filmmakers exploit very tight time windows to complete the scenes of an empty London.
Christopher Ecclestone and the other soldiers in the film had a three-day training programme with real soldiers to help them learn how to carry themselves believably.
The filmmakers had the co-operation of councils and help from the police to clear streets (and a motorway), but only for short periods which would have been useless if not for the flexibility and speed provided by digital video cameras which were used to shoot the entire film.
The angelic song that plays in the background, particularly during the car trip, is called "In Paradisum" by Gabriel Fauré.
Horror novelist 'Stephen King? bought out an entire showing of the film in New York City.
The surnames of Jim, Selena, Mark, Frank, and Hannah are never revealed, either during the film or in the credits. Likewise, the names of Jim's parents are never revealed.
The Bible verse on the postcard that Jim is so interested in is from the Book of Nahum. Nahum was a prophet who predicted the destruction of the great city of Nineveh, the capital of the great, and at that time flourishing, Assyrian empire. It was to be utterly destroyed as a punishment for the great wickedness of its inhabitants.
Scriptwriter Alex Garland acknowledges several sources as inspiration for his screenplay, notably John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1962), George A. Romero's "Dead" trilogy (Night, Dawn and Day) and The Omega Man (1971). Direct homages include Jim waking up in the hospital from The Day of the Triffids (1962), the chained infected being studied from Day of the Dead (1985), and the scene in the grocery store (people in the mall from Dawn of the Dead (1978)).
Alex Garland and Danny Boyle did a great deal of research into social unrest, drawing ideas from things that had happened in Rwanda and Sierra Leone (such as the piling of bodies inside churches), but drew the line at using any actual footage from such incidents in the opening montage. All footage featuring dead bodies/desecration of bodies was faked.
Leonardo DiCaprio was offered the role of Jim.
Tilda Swinton was offered the role of Selena, but passed.
Robert Carlyle was offered the role of Major Henry West.
A back-story was developed by director Danny Boyle and actress Naomi Harris to explain her character's hard-natured, ruthlessly pragmatic outlook on life. Apparently, the character had been forced to kill her entire family in one afternoon, starting with her infected mother and father to save her baby brother, only to discover that her brother was also infected.
The symbol used for this film is an international symbol for blood-borne biohazard.
Ewan McGregor was the original choice to play Jim.
The fighter jet pilot speaks Finnish. He asks "Lähetätkö helikopterin?" ("Can you please send a helicopter?"😉.
This is Brendan Gleeson's second role in films about deadly viruses. The other was Mission: Impossible II (2000).
All of the scenes in the mansion that involved upstairs rooms were filmed downstairs as the mansion's owner lives upstairs. When Jim jumps in through the window in the roof, he is actually jumping through a hole in the corridor upstairs down to the ground floor with rain effects upstairs.
The execution pit scene near the end was filmed outside a church off Witherington Road connecting Salisbury to Downton. One of the props teams didn't pick up the fake bodies after filming and a local hairdresser from Downton saw the massacre from the road. She panicked, crashed her car and phoned the police who came to investigate and interrogate the crew.
While filming the mansion scenes, the crew's favorite place was The Wooden Spoon in Downton, Wiltshire. They liked it so much that they gave them one of the dead bodies from the execution pile which can still be seen today sitting at a table.
The crew filed all of the necessary papers to destroy the petrol station in Canary Wharf, but the police were unintentionally not notified. When the explosives were detonated, police responded as if a petrol station had really exploded and sent fire brigades (although there was already one present). Danny Boyle finally resolved the manner after several hours.
Funded by the British Film Council, which in itself is funded by the National Lottery. As a result of this, there are prominent advertisements for the National Lottery throughout the film, for example in the newsagents near the beginning of the film and in the supermarket (in the background while Jim and Frank are discussing whisky).
The first scene of an empty London was filmed early on a weekday morning. The director Danny Boyle organized for good-looking women to stop the traffic from entering the empty streets as he rightly reckoned the drivers would be more co-operative with good looking girls.
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SPOILER: There were two alternate endings filmed. Both are available on the DVD. One had Hannah and Selena taking Jim to a hospital to try to treat his gunshot wound, but they are unsuccessful and he dies. They leave together. This is the one that was put after the credits on some US prints. Another ending was filmed that was pretty much like the theatrical ending, but with a rooster instead of Jim. A third alternate ending was written, but not filmed. It broke off right after Frank becomes infected. In this version the military didn't show up and Jim captured Frank alive and took him to the lab where Rage was developed. A man who has barricaded himself in says Rage can be cured by total blood replacement. Jim is a compatible donor, so he swaps blood with Frank, who is cured while he becomes infected. This was dropped because it didn't make sense as there was no way they could completely remove all of Frank's old blood. This is presented on the DVD as narrated storyboards.
SPOILER: There are several scenes missing from the released version in addition to alternate endings. All of these are available on the DVD. Additional Scenes Cut From The Final Release: More footage of Jim walking around the abandoned London streets. As Jim, Selena and Mark are walking along the Docklands Railway, they find a ?hospital train? which they investigate. Jim finds a mobile phone but there is no signal. The scene is supposed to demonstrate a retrospective look at the events leading up to mass infection as the government must have used hospital trains to cope with the mass overflow in hospitals. There is a scene where Jim, Selena, Hannah and her father are trying to get out of London (which would have appeared before the tunnel scene). The shot pans up to a flyover with smashed vehicles everywhere, some hanging over the edge and the city in the background. This scene appears untreated on the DVD as the film makers never added CGI since the scene was not used i.e. you can still see moving traffic etc. On the drive up to Manchester, you see Jim, Selena and Hannah all taking turns driving and acting out the character of a taxi driver. The scene was cut as it was felt the characters had bonded enough and the shot didn't really work anyway as it was a little cringeworthy. An alternate take of Jones's death with the infected overrunning the mansion and killing him. This scene also had Col. West shooting the floppy-hatted soldier (with great remorse) plus Farrel and Selena looking down into a basement swarming with the infected. Final shot is West bolting a door to prevent the infected getting to him and an infected woman trying to bite through the glass to reach him. Jim hiding under the floorboards to avoid Mailer and the floppy-hatted soldier as they rampage through the house.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) :
A poster can be seen on the wall in the radio station for the band "Fine Young Cannibals."
The "family group shot," as seen in the advertisements, posters and video covers, uses the same positioning as the promotional group shot for the movie The Breakfast Club (1985).
When the BBFC notified Cannon that at least 20 minutes, and possibly 25, would have to be trimmed, Cannon aborted its plans for a planned U.K. release in 1990.
Director, Tobe Hooper and co-writer of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Kim Henkel originally had an idea for a sequel that would feature an entire town of cannibals. The title of that sequel was to be Beyond The Valley Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but it never came to fruition.
The controversial "butcher cover" of the Beatles album "Yesterday and Today" can be seen hanging in the radio station.
The chainsaw used in this movie can be found at Planet Hollywood in Dallas, TX.
Directors Cameo: (Tobe Hooper) Frolicking during a party scene
When originally submitted to the MPAA, it received an "X" certificate, prompting the filmmakers to release it as "unrated".
Jim Siedow is the only actor in this movie that was in the original
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
The original script was much more brutal with explicit gore sequences. The producers objected to many of the scenes (one of which had a nude man being split down the middle while hung upside down) and demanded extensive changes to the script to reduce gore and violence. Further cuts had to be made to avoid an X-rating after the film was finished.
The only Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie not filmed in Texas.
Tobe Hooper, director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was originally going to be involved in the film. He had submitted a treatment to New Line execs, but bowed out of the project due to scheduling conflicts concerning his film Spontaneous Combustion (1990).
The chainsaw in the film was designed by Robert "Bob" Shaye, the CEO of New Line Cinema.
The chainsaw in the movie weighed apporiximately 80 pounds.
There was also supposed to be a brutal "unmasking" scene, which would reveal Leatherface as horribly disfigured. That scene was scrapped (despite an obvious buildup) and saved because New Line wanted to use it in the next sequel. It was eventually used in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003).
Kane Hodder, who played 'Jason' in four 'Friday the 13th' films - was the stunt coordinator for this film.
Among others, one of New Line's first choices for director was Peter Jackson.
The ranch where most of the filming was done is so close to the Disney Ride "Space Mountain" that director Jeff Burr swears you can hear screams from the Roller Coaster during some takes.
Viggo Mortensen was not the studio's first choice top play Tex. He didn't do well in the audition, and New Line hired another actor who was later fired, and the role of Tex went to Mortensen.
SPOILER: It was decided that Ken Foree's character should live after he gained high favorability ratings during early test screenings. The new ending was subsequently shot, in which somehow Ken pops up in the final frame with a tiny flesh wound on his head (even though we all saw him get torn apart in the finale).
Trivia for
Hellraiser (1987)
It took six hours to place Doug Bradley into the Pinhead makeup.
The budget of this movie was $1,000,000. It earned about $20,000,000. It was the directing debut of Clive Barker, who had made only two short films before this.
The film is based on the novel "The Hellbound Heart".
The film's original title was "Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave".
Industrial band Coil originally did the soundtrack for this movie, but it was turned down by the film studio. Clive Barker said: "The only group I've heard on disc whose records I've taken off because they made my bowels churn."
The address for the house in this movie is 55 Ludovico place. The name of the institute in A Clockwork Orange (1971) where Alex is deprogrammed of violence was the Ludovico Institute.
The video release of Hellraiser (1987) had one of the most unusual pieces of bonus materials that has ever been offered: A Home Shopping show where merchandise from the movie could be purchased. The show was hosted by a giddy old lady claiming to be a hardcore fan of the movie.
At the time of the movie's release the MPAA had an agenda on "intensity of tone". As a result of this director Clive Barker had to make several cuts to his film: consecutive hammer blows, fingers entering flesh, S&M spanking between Julia and Frank, additional "thrusts" during the sex scene, all with the intention of watering down the overall impact of the piece.
Doug Bradley's character's name wasn't "Pinhead". He was just named "Lead Cenobite", but was given the name short after the film started.
Doug Bradley was originally offered a choice of roles between one of the mattress movers and the Lead Cenobite. He originally thought it important that, as a new film actor, the audience should be see his face, and nearly turned down the Lead Cenobite role.
Andrew Robinson improvised the line "Jesus wept".
In his DVD commentary, Clive Barker explains that filming the movie in an actual house forced him to be creative in his cinematography. There was often only room for a single camera and this explains why many of the shots are from only one angle. In particular, vertical movement was often the only movement available to the camera operators, which explains many of the overhead and zoom shots. Only one room in the house, the attic, was shot on a soundstage, but only the FX shots used this attic set.
Many viewers have commented about the poor quality of the FX at the end of the movie. Clive Barker has explained that, due to a very limited budget, there was no money left to have the FX done professionally after the primary filming. Instead, Barker and a "Greek guy" animated these scenes by hand over a single weekend. Barker has also commented that he thinks the FX turned out very well considering the amount of alcohol the two consumed that weekend.
THE THING (JOHN CARPENTER)
The film was originally banned when released in Finland.
The original movie, The Thing From Another World (1951), took place at the North Pole. This version takes place at the South Pole.
Donald Pleasence was the original choice for the character of Blair. Pleasence was unable to perform the role due to a scheduling conflict.
At the beginning of the film the Norwegian with the rifle is actually Kurt Russell's former brother-in-law, Larry Franco, who, needless to say, does not speak Norwegian. He spoke made-up gibberish instead of actual Norwegian. This is from John Carpenter himself in the film's commentary track.
The Norwegian dog in the film was named Jed. He was a half wolf/half husky breed. Jed was an excellent animal actor, never looking at the camera, the dolly or the crew members. Jed, however, is NOT the dog seen in the beginning chase scene, where the Norwegian is trying shoot him. Per Carpenter's commentary, this was another dog painted to look like Jed.
To give the illusion of icy Antarctic conditions, interior sets on the Los Angeles sound stages were refrigerated down to 40 F while it hovered around 90 F outside.
There are no female characters in the film. The only female presence in the movie is in the voice of MacReady's chess computer and the contestants seen on the game show that Palmer watches. A scene containing a blow-up doll was filmed and then left on the cutting room floor. According to John Carpenter, only one crew member was female but she was pregnant and this forced her to leave the shoot; she was replaced by a male.
Trivia for
The Omen (1976)
Charlton Heston, Roy Scheider and William Holden turned down the lead role. Gregory Peck, who hadn't worked for 5 years accepted the lead. William Holden did eventually accept a role in a sequel.
To make the baboons attack the car in the Windsor Zoo park scene, an official from the zoo was in the backseat of the car with the "leader" baboon, which made all the baboons outside go crazy. Lee Remick's terror as the baboons attack the car was real.
When the fishbowl falls to the ground, (dead) sardines painted orange were used in place of actual goldfish, which director Richard Donner refused to kill for the sake of making a movie.
The shot of Lee Remick falling to the floor was done by building the "floor" on a (vertical) wall and dollying an upright Remick backward towards it.
Having changed its title from "The Antichrist" to "The Birthmark," the film seemed to fall victim to a sinister curse. Star Gregory Peck and screenwriter David Seltzer took separate planes to the UK...yet BOTH planes were struck by lightning. While producer 'Harvey Bernard' was in Rome, lightning just missed him. Rottweilers hired for the film attacked their trainers. A hotel at which director Richard Donner was staying got bombed by the IRA; he was also struck by a car. After Peck canceled another flight, to Israel, the plane he would have chartered crashed...killing all on board. On day one of the shoot, several principal members of the crew survived a head-on car crash. The jinx appeared to persist well into post-production...when special effects artist John Richardson was injured, and his assistant killed, in an accident on the set of _Bridge Too Far, A (1977)_ .
In the closing scene, Richard Donner used reverse psychology on young Harvey Stephens telling him, "Don't you dare laugh. If you laugh, I won't be your friend." Naturally, Stephens wanted to laugh, and he instead smiled directly into the camera.
As part of its pre-release publicity campaign, and to point out the significance of "the three sixes" as The Sign of Satan, the movie was sneak-previewed nationwide in the USA on 6 June 1976. While audiences inside the theatres were being scared witless by the film, theatre employees were out front, busily putting up specially made posters declaring: "Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of Nineteen-Seventy-SIX!" Hokey though it was, the gimmick worked quite well, as many a theatre patron literally "freaked-out" upon seeing those posters as they left the previews.
According to at least one biography of Gregory Peck, he took this role at a huge cut in salary (a mere $250,000) but was also guaranteed 10% of the film's box office gross. When it went on to gross more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, The Omen (1976) became the highest-paid performance of Peck's career.
According to director Richard Donner, he talked the noted cinematographer Gilbert Taylor into coming out of retirement to shoot this film.
Mike Hodges was offered the chance to direct the movie. He refused, but actually went on to direct three weeks of Damien: Omen II (1978) before he was fired over creative differences.
Richard Donner credits the success of the film to composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose music made the film scarier than it would have been had he not be involved.
Richard Donner and Harvey Bernhard asked Alan Ladd Jr. then the head of Twentieth Century Fox for extra money during the film's post-production period to hire composer Jerry Goldsmith, whose music they strongly felt was right for the movie after seeing him perform a live concert at the Hollywood Bowl earlier that year. Ladd was finally talked into giving Donner and Bernhard around $250,000 to hire Goldsmith, who would deliver his first and only Academy Award win for his score in 1977.
Rottweilers experienced a surge in popularity in the US after the release of this film.
Richard Donner decided that Harvey Stephens' naturally blond hair should be died black to give him a more sinister look in his role as Damien.
Did you know that.....
the film "When A Stranger Calls" ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0080130/ )was originally planned as a sequel to Black Christmas (1974) when 'John Carpenter' 's film Halloween (1978), which had originally been planned as the sequel, became a stand-alone film in its own right. This movie enjoyed the same "promotion" and Black Christmas remained without a sequel.
Also its being remade :