Fun Horror Facts =p

                                                                                  The Blair Witch Project

Nearly all the dialogue was improvised

Before the film was released, the three main actors were listed as “Missing—Presumed Dead” on IMDB.com

The movie made the Guinness Book Of World Records for budget/box office ratio

The budget was 35,000 but it made 140,530 in the box office!!!!

The Evil Dead(1981)

-The famous eyeball in the mouth scene was an idea that came from the 3 stooges.

-The film’s title was changed from Book of the Dead, as producers feared that kids wouldn’t see a movie with the word “book” in the title

-The Arabic passages read from The Book of the Dead translate to: “Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi are the men on the side of the road”

The Exorcist(1973)

Friedkin was known to “scare” his actors into character, firing a gun before saying “action”—and reportedly even slapping someone across the face

The Exorcist crew was the only Amercan film crew ever allowed to shoot in Iraq

When you hear the demon in Regan's body making noise it is actually real sounds that come from pigs that are being herded for slaughter.

Father O'Malley, the priest who played Father Dyer, was involved in the case that inspired the movie. He claims that the plot of the movie is based on an exorcism of a young boy in Maryland and that the movie is 80 percent factual.

Halloween(1978)

The film is set in Haddonfield, Illinois, but all of the cars have California license plates

Michael Myers wears a William Shatner mask

The entire film was shot in 21 days

Halloween is one of the most successful independent films ever made

Night of the living Dead(1968)

-Tom Savini was originally hired to do the make-up, but was called for military duty in Vietnam

-The zombies were paid $1 for their work—along with a T-shirt that claimed “I was a zombie in Night of the Living Dead”

Scream(1996)

Drew Barrymore was originally cast in the lead... She dropped out because of scheduling conflicts, but offered to play the role of “Casey.”

Approximately 50 gallons of fake blood were used during the production?

In his role as Fred, the janitor, Craven wears the same outfit as Freddy Krueger

The film’s original title was Scary Movie

                                                                                     Psycho

-The shower scene in Psycho consists of over 90 individual shots delivered in just 45 seconds--and no single shot ever shows the knife entering Janet Leigh's body.

-Chocolate Syrup was used as the blood.

-The sound effect of the knife was actually a knife entering a melon.

-It was the first film during that time that showed a toilet being flushed 

The Silence of the Lambs

-The only horror movie to win a Best Picture Oscar

                                                                                   Poltergeist

-In the 6 years that it took to film the trilogy, 5 people attached to the film died. 
-The only scene that actually frightened the girl who played Carol Ann was the scene in which everything was getting pulled into her closest by a large wind that was created using a wind fan. She actually broke down in this scene and Steven Speilberg had to stop the scene and hold her. 
-JoBeth Williams who played the mother of Carol Ann was scared to do the pool scene because of the electrical equipment that was surrounding the pool. So in order to convince her to do the scene he had to get into the pool with her and he told her, "Now if a light falls in, We'll both fry". 
-In the scene where Robbie gets choked by the clown, there was an ACTUAL error with the clown that caused it to choke the actor for real to the point where he had to scream for help. Steven Speilberg at first thought he was improvising but after the kid turned blue he helped him.

Nightmare on Elm Street

-Wes Craven got the idea of Freddy when he came across an article he found about teens that were too terrified to go to sleep.

-“In the middle of the night they heard these horrendous screams and crashings and they ran in and he’s thrashing on the bed. They ran to him and by the time they got to him he was dead. They did an autopsy on him and there was nothing physically wrong with him. And I just thought: “My God.”
~Wes Craven

-The inspiration for the character of Freddy came from several sources in Wes Craven’s childhood. Fred Krueger was a schoolmate of Craven with whom he had shared a paper route, and who had bullied him for several years.

-The only movie New Line Cinema made that reached the same success as Nightmare was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 : The Secret of the Ooze.
-Over 500 gallons of fake blood were used during the making of the film.
-The working title for the movie was “The Dream Killer”, but had to have it’s name changed as that was the current nickname of Ed McMahon who was hosting Star Search at the time.
-Robert Englund still owns the original Freddy Glove.
-All the One Liners freddy said were improvised, so Englund had to come up with 5 different lines for each murder…