20 Random Horror Facts

1) Stephen King’s addiction to drugs and alcohol was profound enough that when he was finally clean in 1987, he found the manuscript for Cujo and had to re-read it to recall what it was about, as he literally couldn’t remember much about writing it at all because it was written under the influence.

2) Edgar Allan Poe served two years in the Army but was court-martialed and promptly discharged.

3) George Romero had a cameo in The Silence of the Lambs as one of Hannibal Lecter’s prison guards.

4) Bruce Campbell kicked Chuck Norris right in the balls once. A week later, Chuck sent Bruce a fruit basket thanking him for the honor.

5) Rumor has it that Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite (someone born with both male and female sex organs, usually has male organs removed and is raised as a female). She has never commented on these rumors, but someone with this condition apparently cannot have children. Jamie and her hubby have two adopted kids.

6) H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937 but didn’t have a headstone until 1977 when fans of his pitched in to buy him one.

7) John Carpenter named the character of Laurie Strode (Halloween) after his first girlfriend.

8) Alfred Hitchcock was honored with a U.S. Postage stamp in 1998.

9) Dario Argento’s hands are almost always the gloved killer’s hands in his films.

10) Vincent Price attended the opening night of the first production of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show”, the stage musical that was the basis for “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.

11) Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark) was badly burned by boiling water at age five and had several skin grafts. Not that you can tell now!

12) Lucio Fulci was broke at the time of his death. Dario Argento paid for his funeral.

13) After writing Jaws and realizing it painted the shark as a heartless villain, Peter Benchley became a huge advocate for the preservation and conservation of sharks, in particular the Great White.

14) When asked about education, Quentin Tarantino quoted: “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them ‘no, I went to films.’”

15) It is said that Wes Craven worked in pornographic films as an editor, writer and director before he had success in horror.

16) Besides writing Psycho, author Robert Bloch wrote over twenty novels and hundreds of short stories. It is he, not Stephen King, who originally quoted “I have the heart of a little boy; I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

17) Bela Lugosi was offered the part of the Frankenstein monster but declined it, paving the way for Boris Karloff.

18) Christopher Lee has been in over 275 films since 1947. This is a Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever.

19) Ruggero Deodato was arrested after his film Cannibal Holocaust was released, and was forced by a judge to produce the actors from the movie because they were feared dead.

20) Janet Leigh’s body double for the shower scene in Psycho was ironically stabbed to death in 1988.



 

 

 

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The cult classic horror film “Alien” was actually going to be called “Star Beast.”

 FRIDAY THE 13TH - Composer Harry Manfredini has said that contrary to popular belief, the famous "chi chi chi, ha ha ha" in the film's score is actually "ki ki ki, ma ma ma". It is meant to resemble Jason's voice saying "kill kill kill, mom mom mom" in Mrs. Voorhees' mind

 

 

Nightmare on Elm Street-

1. When Johnny Depp's character is lying in bed listening the radio listen to the DJ. The DJ announces that it is station KRGR. KRGR is Krueger without the vowels

2. At the hospital where Nancy's dreams are "examined" (the part where her hair turns white) the nurse is played by Wes Craven's wife, Mimi Craven.

3. The only times you see the words "Elm Street" are during the opening and closing credits. The word "Elm Street" is not mentioned at all during the movie

Halloween-

 

 

 Three Christian holy days:   All Saints' Day (a.k.a. All Hallows' Day) on NOV-1. The holiday was first celebrated on 609-MAY-13 CE when Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome to the Virgin Mary. The date was later changed to NOV-1 by Pope Gregory III who dedicated a chapel in honor of all saints in the Vatican Basilica. Pope Gregory IV (827-844) later extended the feast to the whole church. The Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate All Saints Day in the springtime -- the Sunday after Pentecost.
 
 All Souls' Day (a.k.a. the Day of the Dead) which is normally celebrated on NOV-2. When NOV-2 is a Sunday, as it was for the years 2003 and 2008, the celebration is held on the following Monday. This is a day for prayer and almsgiving in memory of ancestors who have died. Believers pray for the souls of the dead, in an effort to hasten their transition from Purgatory to Heaven. It is primarily celebrated by Roman Catholics. The day is believed to have been selected by "St. Odilo, the fifth abbot of Cluny...France because he wanted to follow the example of Cluny in offering special prayers and singing the Office of the Dead on the day following the feast of All Saints." 1
 
 Some Protestants celebrate Reformation Day. This is the anniversary of 1517-OCT-31 CE, the day that Martin Luther's published his 95 theses. These were criticisms of beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic church, particularly related to the sale of indulgences. He is widely believed to have published them in a dramatic manner, by nailing them to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Actually, that may never have happened. There is some evidence that he did write a letter to his superiors attacking the sale of indulgences; the 95 theses were merely appended to the letter. This triggered the Protestant Reformation, leading to a decades-long war in Europe, enmity between Catholics and Protestants, and the eventual fracture of Christianity into thousands of individual faith groups.
   

 

 



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The blood from the shower scene in the 1960 film “Psycho“, was actually chocolate syrup.

 

 

 

 A secular celebration, Halloween on the evening of OCT-31. In some areas, if OCT-31 falls on a Sunday, Halloween is celebrated on the evening of OCT-30. Stores love Halloween. It is the festival when the largest amount of candy is sold. It is second only to Christmas in total commercial sales. The total sale of costumes, candy and other Halloween material  reached almost $7 billion in 2003. 2 A 2008 survey by the National Federation in the U.S., revealed that the average person was spending $66.54.