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- Kelly Kuehn
- 51. Question: In The Purge, how long does the annual Purge last?
- Answer: 12 hours.
- 52. Question: What is the name of the killer in the Scream franchise?
- Answer: Ghostface.
- Count Orlock only Blinks Once in Nosferatu.
- The Exorcist Was The First Horror Film to Be Nominated For A Best Picture Oscar.
- Robert Englund Was Not The First Choice to Play Freddy Krueger.
- Psycho Is The First American Film to Feature A Toilet.
- Stephen King Wasn’T A Fan of The Shining.
- Fay Wray Though She’D Be Starring Opposite Cary Grant in King Kong.
- It Took Seven Years to Get Aliens made.
- Brian de Palma Didn’T See Sissy Spacek as Carrie.
- Roman Polanski and John Cassavetes Had Different Ideas For Rosemary’s Baby.
- Serial Killer Ed Gein Inspired Three Major Horror Movies.
In the nine minutes of screen time Max Schreck has as Count Orlock in F.W. Murnau’s classic Nosferatu(1922), he blinks only one time (near the end of part one).
The horror genre has never gotten much love from the Academy. Though there still seems to be a bias against scary movies during awards season, The Exorcistearned 10 Oscar nominations in 1974, including a Best Supporting Actress nod for Linda Blair, who was just 15 years old at the time.
Wes Craven reportedly planned to have a stuntman play the seemingly immortal youth-hater known as Freddy Krueger, but (wisely) opted to go with an accomplished actor for the role instead. His first choice was the brilliant British character actor David Warner, who you'll no doubt recognize from Time Bandits, Titanic, and various incarnations of Sta...
In addition to being the first American film to show a toilet on screen—oh, the horror!—Alfred Hitchcock's Psychois also the first American film in which we hear a toilet being flushed. (That's just how repressed Americans were in the 1950s.)
In 1983, Stephen King told Playboy, “I’d admired [Stanley] Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the filmare chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.” King didn’t like the casting of Jack Nicholson either, claiming, “Jac...
In his attempts to entice Fay Wray into starring in King Kong (1933), director Merian C. Cooper promised, “You're going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.” “While my thoughts were flying toward the hope that Cooper might be waiting for Cary's [Grant] arrival just as I was, Cooper went on to point at the giant ape and say, again,...
Why did it take seven years to get a sequel made? Lawyers and money, of course. Talk of a sequel began shortly after the original Alien (1979) was a hit, but it was delayed because of a dispute between the film’s producers and 20th Century Fox over the distribution of the original movie’s profits. Fox, reluctant to make a sequel because it would be...
Though Brian De Palma was a fan of Sissy Spacek’s work, he was convinced that he had already found his Carrie in another actress. His decision to let Spacek audition at all was mostly out of courtesy to her husband, Jack Fisk, the film’s art director. "He told me that if I wanted to, I could try out for the part of Carrie White,” Spacek recounted t...
In her 1997 autobiography, What Falls Away, Mia Farrow recounted the tense relationship between Roman Polanski and her Rosemary’s Baby co-star, writingthat in the film’s climactic scene, “John became openly critical of Roman, who yelled, ‘John, shut up!’ and they moved toward each other,” and nearly came to blows. Apparently, it was Ruth Gordon and...
You’ve likely heard of Ed Gein. His house of horrors made headlines for years after he was sent to a mental hospital for his actions. They were so memorable, in fact, that he inspired some of the most iconic thrillers of all time: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Among the items discovered at his Plainfield, Wiscon...
Jun 29, 2020 · 37 Fascinating Horror Movie Facts That You Probably Didn't Know. Trivia night's gonna be a scream. By Elias Garfinkel | Published Jun 29, 2020. Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Movie trivia is always fun, but there's something about horror films that bring out the most absurd facts.
- 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.
- In Evil Dead II, you can see Freddy Krueger’s glove from Nightmare on Elm Street. It’s hanging above the door in the tool shed.
- 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.
- 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.
Oct 13, 2020 · But behind the blood-curdling screams, haunted houses and scary slashers that fill the screen in some of our favorite scary movies, there is a hotbed of horror movie trivia waiting to be...
- Alex Aronson
May 26, 2017 · Blood-Curdling Facts About Horror Movies. Nothing beats a good horror flick—but the stories behind the scenes are sometimes even more chilling than what we see on screen. From Scream to Psycho, Jason to Jaws, we've collected these chilling facts about the most iconic horror movies in history.
Aug 24, 2023 · Whether you just enjoy to quiz yourself on your favorites from the genre or you’re planning the ultimate Halloween party, these scary movie trivia questions can liven up a dull day, get your friends and family involved, and lead to loads of creepy, crawly fun.
