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38. "224" is the number of days that it took to film the Exorcist. Originally the shooting schedule was set for 85 days. Did you know that the bedroom set had to be refrigerated using four air conditioners in order to show the icy breath of the actors while preforming the exorcising scenes? Temperatures would easily drop to around 30-40 below zero. To this day Linda Blair, the actress who portrayed Regan, says she can't bear to be in the cold. When the Exorcist was first released, a filmgoer tried suing Warner Brothers because while he was watching it, he fainted and broke his jaw on one of the seats in the theater. His defense was that subliminal images were inserted into the movie, thus causing him to pass out. Believe it or not the studio settled out of court. The amount of money issued was undisclosed. Mercedes McCambridge had to sue WB as well; it seems that she nearly fainted also, but not because of any nonsense like subliminal images. Rather, she was never given credit for providing the voice of the Demon. One last tidbit regarding the Exorcist; it was the first horror film that was ever nominated for an Academy Award. The category for which it was nominated was "Best Picture." ("The Sting" won it).

39. Another horror movie that was nominated for "Best Picture" but didn't win was M. Night Shymalan's the Sixth Sense. To date it has grossed $672,806,292 worldwide, and the number of video rentals reached in the year 2000 was a staggering 80,000,000. The Sixth Sense was shot completely in sequence, which is very unusual by todays standards of film making. Red was a predominant color that was used in the film. It represented a crossover between the worlds of the living and the dead. So the next time you watch it, keep this in mind.

40. The original title for the 1988 classic "Cheerleader Camp" , was "Bloody Pompoms".

41. The body count for April Fools Day was actually zero.

42. Another famous cult classic was going to be called April Fools Day originally. Instead the name was changed to "Slaughter High".

43. The budget for Mother's Day was a stinking $150,000. The cost to make it was only $110,000. The house that was used for the filming of the movie, was an actual abandoned house which was located in Newton, New Jersey. Upon arriving at the location, a dead body was found inside of the house. It turns out that the owner was murdered there. Another famous movie that was being shot just across the lake at the same time that Mother's Day was being filmed was a small independent flick that you might not be that familiar with. It went by the name of "Friday the 13th".

44. For "The Toxic Avenger", the only hate mail that the movie ever really received was from the scene in which the dog gets killed in the restaurant, the effect was created by smearing spaghetti on a grey carpet. The sheep that Melvin kissed had lice unbeknown to him. The Toxic Avenger a.k.a as "the Atomic Hero"; was the first movie to be set in the fictitious town called Tromaville, it was also the Troma's first horror movie. Reportedly it took nearly four hours to apply the makeup that turned Mitch Cohen into Toxie. One final tidbit involving this low budget classic; the next time you watch it, "pause" your DVD at the 17:08 mark, you should see Oscar winner Marisa Tomei.

45. "Poltergeist" written by Steven Spielberg and directed by the great, Tobe Hooper, originally had someone else in mind to write the screenplay, his name is Steven King. That would have made it his first work in which he wrote directly for a movie, but both parties couldn't come to an agreement. Currently King has over 60 major motion pictures as well as TV miniseries and smaller works that have been adapted to film. Making him "the King" of adaptations. The Poltergeist franchise has been said to be another one of Hollywood's cursed movies. The list of deceased members that died shortly after appearing in the series includes;
Dominique Dunne, who played Dana's sister in the first movie, died by strangulation from her boyfriend in 1982. She was 22.
Heather O'Rourke, who was only 12, played Carol Anne in all three movies, died of Septic Shock when bacterial toxins poisoned her bloodstream.
Julian Beck, who played Kane in the second movie, died of Stomach Cancer.
Will Simpson, who also played in Poltergeist: The Other Side, died from post-operative kidney failure. He was being treated for problems that occurred due to malnutrition.
It is rumored that the curse came about because real skeletons were used in the making of Part 1. Angering the spirits of the deceased. JoeBeth Williams, who played Diane, would often return home from filming only to find all the pictures on her wall crooked. She would straighten them only to find them askew again the next day.
Due to a faulty clown prop, Robbie was actually being choked in the movie by the giant clown.

46. "Cabin Fever" was the last of 347 films that were shown at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. It also grossed the most money out of them same 347 films. Other notable films were "Spun", starring Brittany Murphy, "The Eye" (Hong Kong version), "Bubba Ho-Tep", and "8 Mile". The movie had the lowest budget that year for Lionsgate Films, but ironically it grossed the most money for them. It was also the highest grossing horror movie in 2003. Earning itself $22 million at the Box Office. Director Eli Roth came up with the idea when he acquired a bad skin infection while working on a horse farm. Much like the movie, Roth's skins broke out in sores, and began peeling and bleeding when he shaved. If you arrange the letters in Cabin Fever, you get "Cerina V Feb". Coincidently enough the movie stars Cerina Vincent who was born in February.

47. During the filming of [*Rec], The closing passages really were shot in complete darkness, using an infra-red camera. The actors had no idea what was taking place as they couldn't see a thing.

48. In Death Proof, Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) drives two cars: a 1971/72 Chevy Nova SS and a 1969 Dodge Charger. The license plate on Stuntman Mike's Chevy Nova is JJZ-109. This is the same license plate number that was on the 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback that Steve McQueen's character drove in Bullitt. The two cars in the chase at the end are a black 1969 Dodge Charger (an homage to the General Lee, with correct 10 spoke American Racing Vector rims), and a 1970 Dodge Challenger (just like the one Barry Newman drove in Vanishing Point).

49. James Cameron turned in the first treatment for Aliens, called Alien II at the time, on September 21, 1983. Some of the differences between this initial treatment and the final film included the following: - The character of Carter Burke was absent, instead, his dialogue was given to someone named Dr. O'Niel, who did not join Ripley and the marines on their voyage to the colony planet. - Instead of being taken to the Gateway Station, Ripley was taken to Earth Station Beta. - The name of the colony planet was Acheron, taken from the script of Alien, instead of LV-426. - Ripley's daughter was alive, and Ripley had a disheartening videophone conversation with her, where she blamed Ripley for abandoning her by going to space. - There were multiple atmospheric processors on the planet. - The initial discovery of the aliens on the colony planet is much longer, where it is shown how Newt's father gets to the site of the eggs and is jumped by a facehugger. - An additional scene involves a rescue team going to the site of the alien eggs and being jumped by tens of facehuggers. - The aliens sting people to paralyze them before either killing or cocooning them. - At one point Ripley, Newt and Hicks get cocooned. - The aliens cocooning people are a different breed. They look like smaller, albino versions of the warrior aliens. - Bishop refuses to land on the planet and pick up Ripley, Hicks and Newt, indicating "the risk of contaminating other inhabited worlds is too great." - Ripley ends up using the colonists' shuttle to get back to the Sulaco. - Bishop tells her: "You were right about me all along." The first draft script was turned in by Cameron on May 30, 1985. This draft was quite different from the treatment, but very close to the final film.
Although the first script draft turned in on 30 May 1985 was very close to the final film, some scenes in this version were dropped in the final film. Those include:
A shower scene with Ripley in a futuristic shower environment,
Ripley going into more detail about the facehuggers while briefing the Marines, calling the facehugger "a walking sex organ" to which Hudson replies, "Sounds like you, Hicks."
There are thirty atmospheric processing units on the planet, as opposed to only one in the final film.
Newt formally offering Ripley to be her daughter.
Bishop encountering an alien while crawling along the tunnel (this scene also appeared in the final script but neither in the theatrical release nor in the Special Edition).
The second drop ship refueling itself before leaving the Sulaco under Bishop's remote control.
The first draft also included a scene with a cocooned Burke, which was shot but not included in any of the versions of the movie.

50. The name Gojira is a combination of the Japanese words for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira). The monster was so named because his original design was that of a gorilla-whale monster, which is recounted by people who worked on the film. 'Shigeru Kayama' (who was hired by Tanaka to write the original story) recounted in a book of memoirs he published in Japan, that Tanaka told him the creature would be a sea monster that was "a cross between a whale and a gorilla". After producer Tanaka saw the American monster film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, he got the idea to turn Godzilla into a dinosaur monster. Despite the physical change the name of the monster was kept.


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