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40 Random Bits of Horror Trivia We Thought Were Dead and Buried, But Then Thrust a Single Fist Up Out of the Dirt Just Before the Credits Rolled

September 14, 2024

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Depressing Ending

TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK DEPRESSING ENDING Classics like 1988's Spoorloos have depressing endings, but also some of the best horror movies of recent times: Kill List, I Saw the Devil, The Descent, It Follows, The Battery, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Invitation, The Gift, and Martyrs. A well-known example is The Mist, but we recommend the underrated Eden Lake as well. CRACKED.COM

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UFO Abduction

Horror Classics Then vs. Now UFO Abduction Also known as The McPherson Tape, this zero- budget 1989 found-footage movie is cheesy, but unnerving. It got remade in 1998 as Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, and both of their reputations remain infamous. CRACKED.COM

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Brad Anderson

CRACKED.COM THE MACHINIST UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS BRAD ANDERSON For a while now, Anderson has done quirky rom-coms like Next Stop Wonderland and Happy Accidents, but also intense genre flicks like Fractured, Stonehearst Asylum, and Transsiberian. Still, his true gems are the cult horror classic Session 9 and the psychological thriller The Machinist. Skinny Christian Bale? Yup, Anderson's the director behind the meme. — More: Wikipedia
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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE RING TWO A burst water pipe flooded the production office, and weeks later a five-gallon water jug burst wide open and flooded it yet again. Then, on the set, a swarm of bees attacked and then simply vanished. Finally, a set decorator saw an antlered buck running in her direction (no reports on whether it was dodgy CGI, though). CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2011 THE INNKEEPERS The movie is based on a haunted hotel Ti West where and his crew stayed while shooting The House of the Devil. During production, they witnessed flickering lights, slamming doors, and according to West, actress Sara Paxton would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was in the room with her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2012 THE POSSESSION Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan did not believe in spooks, but he does now. While filming, Morgan would feel random cold breezes, a light went from being turned off to exploding, and a fire engulfed a storage room full of props (including the possessed Dibbuk box prop the movie revolves around). CRACKED.COM — Source

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The first horror movie: 1896 CRACKEDCO Georges Melies seems to have pioneered every genre except, like, dogs playing basketball. His film The Haunted Castle was a 3 minute story about a bat morphing into a demon and being driven away by a crucifex.

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UFO

Forgotten Sci-Fi and Horror Shows 1970-1971 UFO After Thunderbirds' success, the Andersons created this show about an international military agency working to prevent an alien invasion. Unlike Thunderbirds, it wasn't a puppet show aimed at children, so it could tell more complex stories. CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Freddy Krueger's Glove in 'Evil Dead II'

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Evil Dead II FREDDY KRUEGER LEFT HIS GLOVE HERE. Freddy's trademark blades appear twice in the movie, once in the woodshed and when Ash goes into the cellar. It seems we're long overdue for a classic horror crossover. CRACKED.COM — Source: Retro Crunch/YouTube

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The first cat video: 1894 Thomas Edison's The Boxing Cats would be some deranged, sociopathic horror sh*kt if it wasn't sO darned cute!

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TELL US NOW: BOOKS THAT NEED TO BE MOVIES Heart-Shaped Box GRACKED Josefine z. says this Joe Hill joint is spooky as all heck: it reads like just the best horror movie ever. It's classic, but fresh, and it is some hecking scary stuff. The story is beautifully thought out, and like all his books, the characters are deeply compelling.

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Mid-Film Plot Switch

TIRED HORROR TROPES THAT STILL WORK MID-FILM PLOT SWITCHES We're so used to established genres, that a midway change in genre, plot, or style can feel refreshing and keep us on our toes. Psycho is of course the grandaddy, and Audition and Abre los Ojos go from romcom to psychological horror. Recent examples include/See You, The Perfection, and Mother! CRACKED.COM

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2016 THE CONJURING 2 Director James Wan talked about self-moving curtains: None of the doors were opened ... They just moved on their own. And I just watched the video Patrick showed me and this person who was filming just walked right up to the curtain ... and there's no one there swaying it, and there's no wind in the room. CRACKED.COM — Source

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40 Random Bits of Horror Trivia We Thought Were Dead and Buried, But Then Thrust a Single Fist Up Out of the Dirt Just Before the Credits Rolled

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STANLEY KUBRICK BERATED SHELLEY DUVALL TO CAPTURE HER REACTIONS IN THE SHINING. director's AMASTERPIECE The demanding OFMODERN HORROR method for perfe

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The Silence Of the Lambs was the first movie to be released on home video before winning the Best Picture Oscar. It was also the first ever horror mov

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In the final scene of Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow's face twists into a look of blood-seethingl horror upon peeking into CRNO the cradle of her newborn

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The Twilight Zone

TV Reboots and Revivals Then vs. Now 1959-1964 The Twilight Zone No revival has ever gotten to the iconic, groundbreaking, just legendary heights of Rod Serling's original. Jordan Peele developed and hosted the latest one, and it was... fine? We associate Peele with awesome horror, but this wasn't it. 2019-2020 CRACKED.COM — More: 4 Reasons Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone Failed

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Sci-Fi Horror Films 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers This classic remake takes a stellar cast and puts them into a place of pure paranoia where you can trust no one. Very few films can make an audience feel absolutely helpless. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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A silent horror film from 1927 went missing because it was titled Unknown. In the archives of Cine- matheque Francaise, there were hundreds of film cans marked un- known, so for years no one knew that one of them contained the actu- al movie. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2019 ANNABELLE COMES HOME The set for the third Annabelle installment was so spooky, a priest had to intervene. A piano bench would move by itself, door knocks would be randomly heard, and performers saw shadowy figures on the set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has a collection of horror movie posters. KAR TLMU And for a while, nearly every single room in his house was covered by posters featuring famous horror creatures. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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'Death Proof' and 'Wolf Creek'

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ SHELTER DEATH PROOF TARANTINO PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE 2005 HORROR FILM WOLF CREEK. Stuntman Mike was going to be played by Wolf Creek actor John Jarrat before the role went to Kurt Russell. In the end, Mike crashes into an for the film. CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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MARK RUFFALO CRACKED.COM In 1994, Mark Ruffalo made his feature film debut as Christian in the direct-to-video horror sequel Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance about a haunted looking glass. It somehow warranted a 3rd - Mirror, Mirror 3: The Voyeur in 1995. — Source: universaldork

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Cronos (1993)) VAERE YEARS TALE Of ORHOINALITY. 8 AACA8BB HVAOUD ANO ABESTINO VUA4. MCONSISTENTLY IMAIGUING 1G 2 -A 81818 BLEND FUN, FRIGHT AND MORAL FERVOR. GREAT MACABRE GUSTO. EXOTIC. VERY STYLISH And SOPHISTICATED. CRACKEDd Guillermo del Toro's hit horror film almost died on the vine, several times. His signature

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Dee Wallace Shines Through the Horror

Scream Queens Dee Wallace is a self-help author. Elliot's mom from E.T. has an impressive horror resume, with movies like The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo, The Frighteners, and The House of the Devil. But she has also built a career on the message of struggling with hardship through determination and love. CRACKED.COM — Sources: WhatCulture, TEDx Talks/YouTube

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Horror movies on streaming A Nightmare HBO on Elm Street max Freddy wears a red and green sweater because Wes Craven read on Scientific American that the human eye doesn't like seeing those colors together. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Raw

Horror movies on streaming NETFLIX Raw Due to the film's graphic nature, at least one movie theater in Los Angeles offered movie goers custom-made barf bags. CRACKED.COM — Focus World
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MAY UNDERAPPRECIATED DIRECTORS LUCKY MCKEE While everybody was swooning for Amélie, horror buffs had their own messed-up manic pixie dream girl in 2002's May. The rest of McKee's horror output is just as fascinating: The Woods is a giallo homage, the upcoming Old Man looks intense, and his two Jack Ketchum adaptations, Red and The Woman, are horror treats. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The hybrid in Alien: Resurrection was originally a sexual horror. It had a combination of male and female genitalia, and they shot the whole movie with that design. But director Jean-Pierre Jeunet said that even for a Frenchman, it's too much, and they edited out the genitalia in post-production. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Movie Scenes That Were Supposed To Be Way Different

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The Shining

In accordance with the book, some spine-chilling scenes from the horror movie, THE SHINING, were to occur in a hotel room numbered 217. Unfortunately for fans, the room number was changed to 237 because the hotel seen in the movie actually had a 217, and management worried that their future guests would fearfully avoid it. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Movies Changed For Ding-Dong Reasons

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 1968 ROSEMARY'S BABY Shortly after release, composer Krzysztof Komeda went into a coma after falling off a cliff, and soon died. Producer William Castle got hate mail, developed kidney stones, and hallucinated about the film at the hospital, eventually screaming, Rosemary, for God's sake, drop the knife! And finally, there's the infamous fate of Roman Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The tortures seen in AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM are actual treatments used to cure patients in mental institutions.

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You've probably sat in some gross food at some point. But for hours at a time? And on purpose? Actors playing corpses in Day Of The Dead would be attached to bodies stuffed with entrails from a local meat plant, shooting for hours with their noses just inches away. Over the course of shooting, those piles went from disgusting to literally rancid. The true horror of the movie was the smell. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TELL US NOW. ... Brogan В. says Carpenter's The Thing is worlds better than the 1952 movie. Outstanding creature effects and human characters just as chilling as the monster itself ensured the scares were dread-inducing. It's a masterclass in horror. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 THE CONJURING Things mysteriously changed places in the Warrens' store room. Actress Joey King became covered with bruises, while Vera Farmiga woke up with three scratch marks on her thigh, and the same marks would also appear on her laptop and cellphone. Also, Farmiga would wake up between 3 and 4 a.m., the same time at which the witch dies in the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Martin Freeman

Lord of the Rings Stars' Side Projects Martin Freeman Freeman was in Ali G Indahouse, Love Actually, and Shaun of the Dead, which we had totally forgotten. What we couldn't possibly forget is the absolutely underrated movie that is 2017's Ghost Stories. It's a British anthology horror, so you just know you wanna watch it alone and with the lights out. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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PLANT-BASED FICTIONAL CHARACTERS LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS AUDREY II This mean green mother from outer space is one of the most iconic characters in musical theater. It's not often that a man-eating plant can rock out! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Masterfully Subverted Tropes Tragedy Girls The unstoppable killer Tragedy Girls is no horror masterpiece, but it has some things going for it. A masked killer stalks a couple making out in a parked car in the middle of nowhere, but it immediately becomes clear that this is a set-up-by the victims. Five minutes in and this is already a whole different slasher. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Frankenstein

Sci-Fi Horror Films 1931 Frankenstein The classic tale of Dr. Frankenstein playing God by getting a sewn-up mass of body parts to rise from the dead. Some would argue this is the original sci-fi/horror movie. CRACKED.COM — IMDb

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