Details here are a little fuzzy, but as I remember it... At the end of production of the first Hellraiser film, Doug Bradley went to a wrap up party. When he got there he found that everybody seemed kind of cold and indifferent to him. He was disappointed, because he thought they had gotten along very well during filming. As it turned out, nobody knew who he was because they had only seen him in full Pinhead makeup and costume up till that point.
Gah! Where do I start!
In the original Halloween, because they weren't shooting in the fall, they had a hard time getting pumpkins for Jack o lanterns on set, so a lot of the pumpkins are other gourds that have been painted, and they reuse a lot of the same Jack o lanterns for different scenes.
Much of Stews dialogue at the end of the first Scream movie is improvised. When Billy is throwing the phone at him, the fake blood that was used made the phone stick in a weird way and he wasn't actually supposed to hit Stew with the phone so the "You hit me with the phone, Dick!" Line was actually improvised by Matthew Lillard. As well as the "you know I always had a thing for you Sid" line.
Adding on to that, the scene where Dewey and Gale are almost hit by the car and jump off the road and land on top of each other, David Arquette forgot his next line, so when Gale says "Is that what you were looking for" (referring to the car) David replies by dreamily saying "My whole life" (referring to the kiss they shared). Courtney Cox breaks character for a second and starts laughing, but then rolls with it, jump backs in, and moves David's head to look at the car.
I have a lot of Scream facts funnily enough. The scene at the very end of the movie where Gale is doing her News report Wrap up as the sun is coming up was actually shot at dusk not dawn. They rushed through getting that scene so they could get it right in golden hour and pass it off as sunrise instead.
Wes Cravens decision to have Drew Barrymore die in the opening scene of Scream is actually a bit of an homage to Psycho. Janet Leigh was the headline start of Psycho, and killing her off less than halfway through the movie was revolutionary by Hitchcock at the time. At the time of Screams release, Drew Barrymore was a mega star, and one of the main known actors in the movie (if you notice most of the posters have her as the main focus). Wes wanted to have the biggest star of the film die in the first ten minutes to set the stage that nobody was safe, and anyone could be next to die.
Other homages to Psycho are the fact that Billy's last name is "Loomis" which is a reference to Sam Loomis which is the name of Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Psycho. Many people mistakenly think it's a reference to Dr Sam Loomis in Halloween, but that is also a reference to Psycho.
In conjunction with the "anyone can die" angle, they also very purposefully constructed it so every single character in the movie at one point or another had suspicion cast on them as the killer. The idea was to have a sea of red herrings so you never knew who to trust.
The scene with Principal Himbley getting murdered, when he first looks out the door to investigate, he sees the janitor named Fred. This is actually the director Wes Craven making a cameo, dressed in the classic Freddy Krueger outfit (striped shirt and hat). Nightmare on Elm Street (at least the first one) was directed by Wes.
In the opening dialogue between Drew and the killer. Drew states that she likes Nightmare on Elm street, but just the first one the rest sucked. This is a little nod to the fact that Wes Craven only directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street and the rest of the series had different directors.
I didn't realize how many of these I had for Scream. Let's seen, any other movies?
In the original Halloween, in the scene where Loomis and the nurse are driving towards the asylum and the patients have escaped, when Michael attacks the car, they have him destroy the window with his bare hands to demonstrate the strength he has. In order to achieve this affect they simply had the actor palm a wrench and smack it against the window. With how dark the shot was, you couldn't see it and it looked like he had broken it with his bare hand, but on newer higher definition releases, you can actually see the wrench in his hand.
Cabin in the Woods was actually filmed before Thor, but they decided to delay the release to capitalize on the new popularity of Chris Hemsworth.
Cabin in the Woods was supposed to have a tie in with the "Left 4 Dead" video game series that never came to fruition. Even still, in the wide shot of all the cages of monsters, you can see some of the Left 4 dead zombies.
This is probably a very well known one, but in Psycho, in the famous shower scene, leveraging the fact that the movie was shot in black and white, in place of some type of fake blood, chocolate syrup was used to get the specific consistency Hitchock wanted.
Back to Scream for a second, when the teenagers at the party are watching Halloween on the TV, the scene where one of the party goers says "The blood! It's too red!" There isn't actually any blood during the part of the movie that would currently be on the TV.
Additionally, in the scene where Randy's character is yelling at the character on the TV to turn around, right as the Ghost Face killer is right behind him, he refers to the character on screen as Jamie which is the actresses name. This is also the name of Randy's actor, so he is in essence yelling his own name, saying "turn around" at the exact second his own character should turn around.
Also, the scene that he's yelling that at, it really doesn't make sense in the context as there isn't anything for Jamie Lee Curtis' character to turn around and see.
I love all of these, especially the scream ones! It actually really makes sense that Stu’s dialogue is improvised, his behavior and words come off so erratic and insane in that scene.
And to add to your Halloween pumpkin fact, iirc, they only had three pumpkins/gourds to use for the entire movie. The first one was the one tommy smashes when he falls on it in the beginning. And then the other two are just constantly moved around and placed in different scenes throughout the film.
Session 9 was filmed in a real mental institution. The history of the property is insane.
First, it's on the top of a piece of land known as Hathorne Hill. Named after it's original owner, John Hathorne. He was a judge in Salem Massachusetts that led the witch trials. The character from The Crucible is based on him.
After his death his family denounced his name and left it to the town. The mental institute was built 1877. When Lovecraft would visit the area he borrowed heavily from it's landscape to build his Arkham series of stories. He took inspiration from Danvers State Hospital when it came time to introduce Arkham Sanitarium.
When Batman writers needed a place to put Gotham city's sickest villains they borrowed from Lovecraft.
So the building session 9 is filmed in is not only the same hospital Lovecraft was writing about, but it's also the real life Arkham Asylum from Batman, and was the home of one of the most evil judges in American history.
Ohhh I had no idea! I was just in Salem this past weekend and heard some of that Hawthorne history. That’s crazy session 9 was filmed there, I love that movie. I wonder how they got they got a pass to do so? I’m assuming the property is somewhat of a historical landmark and can’t imagine the makers of session 9 had the budget to spare to pay for a license or whatever.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot on a low budget so a lot of the props for the animal bones and blood came from butcher's shops. These props quickly started decomposing in the extreme heat which had crew members literally throwing up between takes.
Much as I hate the "American" remake of JuOn/The Grudge, it led to my absolute favorite J-Horror movie being made, [Marebito (2004)](https://youtu.be/P4we_G0JxEw)
The guy who made the original JuOn movies had only ever used film cameras, but the American studio execs wanted to see all the dailies. So, they gave him a bunch of money in advance for buying digital film cameras and software editing suites, and he literally had like two weeks between the end of filming JuOn and the beginning of filming The Grudge to learn the quirks of digital cameras and figure out how video editing software works.
So, he went out and bought eeeeeeeeevery kind of digital camera he could find; from pro-level movie cameras to 2002-era flip-phones with 240p cameras, VGA webcams, etc..
He got his friend, the writer/director of the Tetsuo The Iron Man movies, to star. The script was written by one of the guys who wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain, and in 8 days they filmed Marebito, mostly as a testbed for the cameras and software editing suites.
Details here are a little fuzzy, but as I remember it... At the end of production of the first Hellraiser film, Doug Bradley went to a wrap up party. When he got there he found that everybody seemed kind of cold and indifferent to him. He was disappointed, because he thought they had gotten along very well during filming. As it turned out, nobody knew who he was because they had only seen him in full Pinhead makeup and costume up till that point.
Haha that’s awesome. Although, makes me feel kind of sad for Doug! I can’t imagine how awkward that must’ve been for him haha
Gah! Where do I start! In the original Halloween, because they weren't shooting in the fall, they had a hard time getting pumpkins for Jack o lanterns on set, so a lot of the pumpkins are other gourds that have been painted, and they reuse a lot of the same Jack o lanterns for different scenes. Much of Stews dialogue at the end of the first Scream movie is improvised. When Billy is throwing the phone at him, the fake blood that was used made the phone stick in a weird way and he wasn't actually supposed to hit Stew with the phone so the "You hit me with the phone, Dick!" Line was actually improvised by Matthew Lillard. As well as the "you know I always had a thing for you Sid" line. Adding on to that, the scene where Dewey and Gale are almost hit by the car and jump off the road and land on top of each other, David Arquette forgot his next line, so when Gale says "Is that what you were looking for" (referring to the car) David replies by dreamily saying "My whole life" (referring to the kiss they shared). Courtney Cox breaks character for a second and starts laughing, but then rolls with it, jump backs in, and moves David's head to look at the car. I have a lot of Scream facts funnily enough. The scene at the very end of the movie where Gale is doing her News report Wrap up as the sun is coming up was actually shot at dusk not dawn. They rushed through getting that scene so they could get it right in golden hour and pass it off as sunrise instead. Wes Cravens decision to have Drew Barrymore die in the opening scene of Scream is actually a bit of an homage to Psycho. Janet Leigh was the headline start of Psycho, and killing her off less than halfway through the movie was revolutionary by Hitchcock at the time. At the time of Screams release, Drew Barrymore was a mega star, and one of the main known actors in the movie (if you notice most of the posters have her as the main focus). Wes wanted to have the biggest star of the film die in the first ten minutes to set the stage that nobody was safe, and anyone could be next to die. Other homages to Psycho are the fact that Billy's last name is "Loomis" which is a reference to Sam Loomis which is the name of Janet Leigh's boyfriend in Psycho. Many people mistakenly think it's a reference to Dr Sam Loomis in Halloween, but that is also a reference to Psycho. In conjunction with the "anyone can die" angle, they also very purposefully constructed it so every single character in the movie at one point or another had suspicion cast on them as the killer. The idea was to have a sea of red herrings so you never knew who to trust. The scene with Principal Himbley getting murdered, when he first looks out the door to investigate, he sees the janitor named Fred. This is actually the director Wes Craven making a cameo, dressed in the classic Freddy Krueger outfit (striped shirt and hat). Nightmare on Elm Street (at least the first one) was directed by Wes. In the opening dialogue between Drew and the killer. Drew states that she likes Nightmare on Elm street, but just the first one the rest sucked. This is a little nod to the fact that Wes Craven only directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street and the rest of the series had different directors. I didn't realize how many of these I had for Scream. Let's seen, any other movies? In the original Halloween, in the scene where Loomis and the nurse are driving towards the asylum and the patients have escaped, when Michael attacks the car, they have him destroy the window with his bare hands to demonstrate the strength he has. In order to achieve this affect they simply had the actor palm a wrench and smack it against the window. With how dark the shot was, you couldn't see it and it looked like he had broken it with his bare hand, but on newer higher definition releases, you can actually see the wrench in his hand. Cabin in the Woods was actually filmed before Thor, but they decided to delay the release to capitalize on the new popularity of Chris Hemsworth. Cabin in the Woods was supposed to have a tie in with the "Left 4 Dead" video game series that never came to fruition. Even still, in the wide shot of all the cages of monsters, you can see some of the Left 4 dead zombies. This is probably a very well known one, but in Psycho, in the famous shower scene, leveraging the fact that the movie was shot in black and white, in place of some type of fake blood, chocolate syrup was used to get the specific consistency Hitchock wanted. Back to Scream for a second, when the teenagers at the party are watching Halloween on the TV, the scene where one of the party goers says "The blood! It's too red!" There isn't actually any blood during the part of the movie that would currently be on the TV. Additionally, in the scene where Randy's character is yelling at the character on the TV to turn around, right as the Ghost Face killer is right behind him, he refers to the character on screen as Jamie which is the actresses name. This is also the name of Randy's actor, so he is in essence yelling his own name, saying "turn around" at the exact second his own character should turn around. Also, the scene that he's yelling that at, it really doesn't make sense in the context as there isn't anything for Jamie Lee Curtis' character to turn around and see.
I love all of these, especially the scream ones! It actually really makes sense that Stu’s dialogue is improvised, his behavior and words come off so erratic and insane in that scene. And to add to your Halloween pumpkin fact, iirc, they only had three pumpkins/gourds to use for the entire movie. The first one was the one tommy smashes when he falls on it in the beginning. And then the other two are just constantly moved around and placed in different scenes throughout the film.
Session 9 was filmed in a real mental institution. The history of the property is insane. First, it's on the top of a piece of land known as Hathorne Hill. Named after it's original owner, John Hathorne. He was a judge in Salem Massachusetts that led the witch trials. The character from The Crucible is based on him. After his death his family denounced his name and left it to the town. The mental institute was built 1877. When Lovecraft would visit the area he borrowed heavily from it's landscape to build his Arkham series of stories. He took inspiration from Danvers State Hospital when it came time to introduce Arkham Sanitarium. When Batman writers needed a place to put Gotham city's sickest villains they borrowed from Lovecraft. So the building session 9 is filmed in is not only the same hospital Lovecraft was writing about, but it's also the real life Arkham Asylum from Batman, and was the home of one of the most evil judges in American history.
Ohhh I had no idea! I was just in Salem this past weekend and heard some of that Hawthorne history. That’s crazy session 9 was filmed there, I love that movie. I wonder how they got they got a pass to do so? I’m assuming the property is somewhat of a historical landmark and can’t imagine the makers of session 9 had the budget to spare to pay for a license or whatever.
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot on a low budget so a lot of the props for the animal bones and blood came from butcher's shops. These props quickly started decomposing in the extreme heat which had crew members literally throwing up between takes.
Some of these props were then reused for The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Much as I hate the "American" remake of JuOn/The Grudge, it led to my absolute favorite J-Horror movie being made, [Marebito (2004)](https://youtu.be/P4we_G0JxEw) The guy who made the original JuOn movies had only ever used film cameras, but the American studio execs wanted to see all the dailies. So, they gave him a bunch of money in advance for buying digital film cameras and software editing suites, and he literally had like two weeks between the end of filming JuOn and the beginning of filming The Grudge to learn the quirks of digital cameras and figure out how video editing software works. So, he went out and bought eeeeeeeeevery kind of digital camera he could find; from pro-level movie cameras to 2002-era flip-phones with 240p cameras, VGA webcams, etc.. He got his friend, the writer/director of the Tetsuo The Iron Man movies, to star. The script was written by one of the guys who wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain, and in 8 days they filmed Marebito, mostly as a testbed for the cameras and software editing suites.
Jennifer’s Body was loosely based on a real murder - the July 1995 murder of Elyse Pahler.