The movie is actually based on
a man named Edward Gein (who
was also a partial inspiration
for The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre). The movie followed
his obession with his mother.
His obsession with killing
also played a role in other
story lines such as The
Silence of the Lambs.
The movie is actually based on
a man named Edward Gein (who
was also a partial inspiration
for The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre). The movie followed
his obession with his mother.
His obsession with killing
also played a role in other
story lines such as The
Silence of the Lambs.
WHen they are showing chunks
of the shark falling after LL
Cool J kills it, you can tell
that one of the shots was
origianlly from Jaws 1 when
Roy Scheider shoots Jaws at
the end.
Before George Clooney was
cast, Tim Roth, John Travolta,
Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi,
and Christopher Walken were
offered the role of Seth
Gecko. All passed because of
scheduling conflicts.
Quentin Tarantino was
originally set to direct the
movie, but decided not to
direct so that he could focus
more on the screenplay and his
role as Richard Gecko.
The famous line, "No thanks,
I've already had a wife," was
improvised by George Clooney.
Director Robert Rodriguez
never intended it to be in the
final cut, but after the
studio included the line in a
trailer, he felt obliged to
include it in the film.
The characters of Sex Machine
and Frost were originally
written the other way around:
Sex Machine was to be the
muscular, scarred,
leather-wearing biker while
Frost was to be a more slender
(yet deadly) individual.
This is one of several movies
directed by Robert Rodriguez
that feature tattooed tough
guy Danny Trejo. He was also
in Desperado (1995) and Spy
Kids (2001). In all three
movies, his character had a
"knife" name: Navajas in
"Desperado" (navajas is
Spanish for "folding knives",
which his character used as
throwing weapons), Razor
Charlie in this film and
Isador "Machete" Cortez in
"Spy Kids". Rodriguez has
announced that he's planning
to make a full-length
direct-to-DVD movie with Trejo
called "Machete", expanding
the fake trailer he made for
Grindhouse (2007).
Originally, Satanico
Pandemonium was called Blonde
Death. Quentin Tarantino
decided to go for a
Latino/Mexican star, so he
used Salma Hayek after seeing
her in Desperado (1995). The
name Satanico Pandemonium came
from the title of a gory
Mexican horror movie (Satánico
pandemonium (1975)) that
Tarantino had seen on the
shelves of the video store he
worked in.
The Mexican criminal hideaway
El Rey is taken from Jim
Thompson's novel "The
Getaway", of which Quentin
Tarantino is an avid fan .
Interestingly, El Rey was
omitted from both film
versions of Thonmpson's book
(The Getaway (1972) and The
Getaway (1994)).
The 'attack dogs' outside of
the vampire mansion were
actually very docile and
playful canines, which were
the only dogs available at the
time. For the scene where they
chase Scott Speedman, director
Len Wiseman had to film short
clips of the dogs running and
later put in sounds of vicious
barking. If you look closely
though you can see their tails
happily wagging back and
forth.
Michael Corvin, played by
Scott Speedman, was named
after Ashe Corven from The
Crow: City of Angels (1996).
The character name of Ashe
Corven was previously named
Michael Corvin.
There were two mules trained
for this film, Steve and
Billy. The mule in the film is
Steve. Steve wouldn't "bray
excitedly", so when you hear a
mule, it is Billy braying.
The inspiration for this movie
is a combination of Adam
Sandler's song "The Lonesome
Kicker" and the "Cajun Man"
sketches from "Saturday Night
Live" (1975).
Suzanne Lloyd Hayes,
granddaughter of silent screen
star Harold Lloyd, filed a $50
million dollar lawsuit against
the Walt Disney Company in
2000, claiming that this movie
was a rip-off of Lloyd's
silent film classic The
Freshman (1925). By 2002, the
courts had ruled against her
During an interview with ESPN
'Lavar Arrington' (LB New York
Giants) mentioned that in
preparation for his role in
the movie, Adam Sandler had
visited him at Penn State to
watch him practice.
When the film was released in
November of 1998 it was
preceded by the trailer for
Star Wars: Episode I - The
Phantom Menace (1999). Many
Star Wars fans who weren't
fans of Adam Sandler paid the
full admission price and sat
through the trailer then left
the theater.
According to writer/actor
Kevin Grevioux, the model for
the Selene character was the
psychic vampire of the
Hellfire Club in the X-Men
comics, the Black Queen
Selene.
Days before its US opening,
the president of Screen Gems
green lit not only a sequel to
the movie Underworld but also
a prequel after seeing the
number of tickets sold in
Canada alone.
At the start of the movie when
Selene encounters a werewolf
in the train tunnel, you hear
a wolf howl - the sound effect
is taken directly from An
American Werewolf in London
(1981).
The scene is the train station
where the young boy smiles at
Cyclops, and Cyclops smiles
back was unplanned. The boy
was a huge fan of the X-Men,
and Cyclops was his favorite.
The scene originally called
for Cyclops to look at the
train schedule, however,
according to Bryan Singer, the
boy could not stop smiling at
James Marsden (the actor
playing Cyclops). Finally,
during one shot, Marsden just
looked back at him and smiled,
much to the boys delight.
Bryan Singer liked the idea so
much, he kept it in the film,
and told the actress playing
the boy's mother to react the
way she did.
The hospital in the film is a
real day hospital and is not
open at weekends. The trust
managers of the hospital hire
out the hospital for weekends
so the filmmakers paid them
directly which benefited the
finances of this public
hospital.
The members of the Deadly
Viper Assassination Squad are
all named for snakes:
Sidewinder, Black Mamba,
Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and
California Mountain (King)
snake. They are also the names
of enemies of Captain America.
this scene was faked all the
way. all they did was take off
their shirts and put steam in
the car, and did heaving
breathing, and kissed once or
twice. don't be fooled by
thingking they were actually
"doing it"
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Remember the kid with the
small spaceship toy? Now, do
you remember the woman that
plays his mother? She was a
stunt double for Richard Gere
in The Jackal. His body
mimics hers so well that it
was a good fit.
In the fight scene down the
alleyway in the rain where
Mary-Jane gets attacked, after
Spider-Man throws them into
the windows, in the next cut,
you can clearly see the
windows are intact.
'Angelface,' the guy who is
blonde and gets brutally
beaten by Ed Norton's
character is Jared Leto, also
famed for being the lead
singer of (good) rock band 30
Seconds To Mars.
He's also starred in Panic
Room as 'Junior' (who I think
dies) and in American Psycho
where he gets his head chopped
off.
Joe Pesci's character in
Goodfellas was based on a
gangster/career criminal
acquaintence from Pesci's
youth in Newark NJ. That
person was Tommy DeVito. They
ultimately changed the
character's name to that of
Tommy DeVito. The amazing
trivia component to this
information is...Tommy DeVito
was the guitarist and founding
member of Fankie Valli & the
Four Seasons. His amazing
story in chronicled in the
Broadway hit The Jersey Boys.
I'm not sure if this is what
people want to read here but
since I've never seen this
blooper mentioned I thought
I'd submit it. John and
Carol
are cruising the strip and
John starts sweet talking some
girls in a big old Caddy. One
girl responds to his pick-up
line by tossing a water
balloon into his car. The
balloon misses John but hits
Carol squarely in the face.
She orders John
to stop at the redlight and
let the air out of the Caddy's
tires. While John's doing this
Carol
produces a can of shaving
cream. She sprays the
passenger side windows then
jumps on the hood and sprays
the front windshield. Then, in
the very
next frame ( look quickly or
you'll miss it ) she
runs around to the drivers
side. As she's doing this you
catch a glimpse of the
windshield again
which after being sprayed is
suddenly perfectly
clean once more. A very small
blooper to be sure
especially after reading that
this film was shot
in just 28 days. It's truly an
amazing movie.
in BTTF 2, there are 2 martys
at the prom. When Biff's
'guys' chase Marty into the
gym, he rolls under a table,
his hat falls off, he picks it
back up and puts it on
BACKWARDS. he truns around to
talk to Doc on the walkie
talkie but his hat is on THE
RIGHT WAY ROUND. See if you
notice. I promise...
The name of the boy who was
subject of the "true" exorcism
that inspired Blatty's novel
was Ronald Hunkeler. After he
was "cured" he went on to
attend Gonzaga High School in
Washington, DC, graduating in
1954. He was later a scientist
with NASA. Understandably, he
refuses all interviews
regarding his exorcism. At
last account, he was rumored
to be living in Laurel, MD.
The sound of the demon leaving
Regan's body is actually the
sound of pigs being herded for
slaughter; a possible
reference to the story of
Christ driving out demons in
Mark 5:13.
The Exorcist was also accused
of, among many other things,
manipulation of its audience
through the use of subliminal
imagery. A detailed article in
the July / August 1991 issue
of Video Watchdog provides
stills in support of this
claim. The subsequent
re-release of the film
featured additional
"subliminal" images,
particularly in the form of
Captain Howdy, a white-faced
demon that appears on screen
at various points during the
film for very brief periods of
time.
When released in 1973, some
theatre patrons reportedly
screamed and fainted while
viewing the film, requiring
paramedics to be called to
theaters. Theaters provided
"Exorcist barf bags". A
filmgoer who saw the movie in
1974 during its original
release fainted and broke his
jaw on the seat in front of
him. He then sued Warner
Brothers and the filmmakers,
claiming that the use of
subliminal imagery in the film
had caused him to pass out.
The studio settled out of
court for an undisclosed sum.
The network TV version was
edited by Friedkin. He looped
the Demon's more obscene lines
himself because he didn't want
to work with Mercedes
McCambridge again. [citation
needed] "Your mother sucks
cocks in hell" became "Your
mother still rots in hell" and
"Shove it up your ass, you
faggot" became "Shut your
face, you faggot." By and
large, this network TV version
is not used for TV and cable
showings today.
Contortionist Linda R. Hager
was hired to perform the
famous "spider walk" scene,
filmed on April 11, 1973, but
deleted by William Friedkin
before the film's December
release. He felt it was "too
much" of an effect because it
appeared too early in the film
before the possession was
fully established by the end
of the first hour of the
movie. Almost 30 years later,
Friedkin changed his mind and
restored the scene for the
special edition theatrical
release. Hager used a harness
and flying wires hung above
the staircase used in the
set.
There are actually three
different versions of the
"spider walk" sequence. The
one ending with blood pouring
from Regan's mouth is the one
most frequently shown in
clips. The second, actually
more faithful to the book, has
Regan flicking her tongue like
a snake and chasing Chris and
Sharon. A third take had Regan
biting Sharon on the leg. The
sequence has been used in Ruby
(1977) and other low-budget
films.
The scene wherein Father
Merrin asks Chris the child's
middle name (Teresa) was cut
for the 1973 release, but
there is still the scene where
Merrin exorcises Regan and
uses her first, middle, and
last names.
Other tales about ominous
events surrounding the
year-long shoot, including the
deaths of nine people
associated with the production
and stories about a mysterious
fire that destroyed the set
one weekend, are probably
fakelore and were either
deliberately released by the
studio for publicity, or
concocted by tabloid writers
as no evidence exists for any
freakish occurrences. These
stories are the source of the
rumor that the film was
cursed. Blatty, Schrader and
von Sydow have all discounted
such tales as nonsense.
However, Ellen Burstyn has
indicated that some of these
rumors are true in her 2006
autobiography Lessons In
Becoming Myself.
An apocryphal story has
Friedkin supposedly asking
technical adviser Rev. Thomas
Bermingham to exorcise the
set. He refused, saying an
exorcism might increase
anxiety. This probably did not
happen. According to Catholic
doctrine, an exorcism has to
be applied for and approved by
Church authorities -- this is
key part of the film's
storyline, so Friedkin would
have known it. A blessing with
holy water is all that is
necessary. Rev. Bermingham
reportedly visited the set,
gave a blessing, and spoke
briefly to reassure the cast
and crew.
The bedroom set had to be
refrigerated to capture the
authentic icy breath of the
actors in the exorcizing
scenes. The temperature was
brought so low that a thin
layer of snow fell onto the
set one morning. Linda Blair,
who was only in a flimsy
nightgown, says to this day
she cannot stand being cold.
The "Exorcist steps", stone
steps at the end of M Street
in Georgetown, were padded
with 1/2"-thick rubber to film
the death of Karras. The stunt
man tumbled down the stairs
twice. Georgetown University
students charged people around
$5 each to watch the stunt
from the rooftops.[5]
The scenes showing Father
Karras in his room at
Georgetown were filmed in
Fordham University's freshman
residence, Hughes Hall, second
floor, room 215. Each year,
Father William O'Malley (who
played Father Dyer) talks
about his experience with the
movie after students watch it
on the same floor where it was
filmed.
The archaeological dig site
seen at the beginning of the
movie is the actual site of
ancient Nineveh in Hatra,
Iraq. Friedkin had to take an
all-British crew to film in
Iraq because the U.S. had no
diplomatic relations with Iraq
at that time. They were
allowed to film on conditions
that included teaching Iraqi
filmmakers advanced film
techniques and special
effects.
The original soundtrack LP has
only been released once on CD,
as an expensive and
hard-to-find Japanese import.
It is noteworthy for being the
only soundtrack to include the
Tubular Bells theme, and the
composition Night Of The
Electric Insects.
The famous 'pea soup vomiting'
scene in actuality did cause
Linda Blair to vomit. At the
time she hated vegetables so
much that when she tasted the
soup she actually threw up.
After asking Reverend William
O'Malley if he trusted him and
being told yes, Friedkin (the
Director) slapped him hard
across the face before a take
to generate a deeply solemn
reaction that was used in the
film as a very emotional
Father Dyer.
Yanked violently around in
harnesses, both Blair and
Burstyn (Blair's double)
suffered back injuries and
their painful screams went
right into the film.
When Bond is in the petrol
tanker and he is being chased
by the baddies,they shoot at
him with a machine gun and,if
you listen carefully with the
sound up when the bullets hit
the tanker,you will hear the
Bond theme tune played by the
bullets hitting the tanker!
I do not consider this to be a
trivia or something
unimportant. This is something
that fascinates med and scares
me. During the movie, the
caracter Quint tells a story
about a warship from WW2
called USS Indianapolis. This
is is a true story! This
actually happened for real in
1945.
Steven Spielberg decided to
shoot the entire D-Day in
Normandy scene all at once to
secure the authenticity of the
event. In the first take, when
the grenade is tossed from the
soldier carrying the grenade
to the soldier who throws the
grenade into the bunker, he
dropped it. They had to do the
entire scene a second time,
which is the scene they kept.
Jamie Lee Curtis mom (Janet
Leigh) is in a scene where
they are both outside and
Janets character Ms. Tate says
to Jamie's character "If I may
offer some maternal advice".
After their conversation,
Janets character walks away to
her car while the "Psycho"
theme plays slowly. As you
know Janet Leigh was Norman
Bates "shower victim" in the
original "Psycho".
In the scene where Christopher
Walken's character delivers a
long speech to Butch as a
child, he had been drinking
tobasco sauce before the scene
to give him enough saliva to
continue talking so as to
avoid lots of takes.
When Alladin is in the cave
when he first found the genie
lamp, Genie sings a song. In
the scene where theres three
ladies dancing with Alladin
you can see that the lady in
front of Alladin (the last one
to disapear)that they are
having sex doggy style. If you
play it in slow motion, you
can see him pull up his pants.
Jennifer gray was very
reluctant to play alongside
Patrick Swaze after a falling
out on the set of "Red Dawn".
Patrick went to she her and
after a tearful row she agreed
Well first off, "Scream" was
intended as a dark humoured
parody of the genre. And you
wouldn't believe how many
people i have met that thinks
Scream is a serious horror
movie.
Second, while working on the
movie, its working title was
"Scary Movie" But they changed
the title to "Scream" shortly
before release. When several
years later the movie " Scary
Movie" came, it was actually a
parody of a parody.
The song that Rafiki sings
when grown-up Simba first
meets him, "Asante sana Squash
banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana"
is Swahili for "Thank you
very much, Squash banana,
You're a baboon and I'm not."
Simba asks, "What does that
mean?" and Rafiki says, "It
means you're a baboon and I'm
not."
When they peed against the
wall, the little boy isn't
peeing -- only Big Daddy is.
It was a mistake. He wasn't
meant to, but just before he
starts persuasing the boy you
hear him whisper:
"I really gotta go, guys"
I guess no-one could stop him.
Baby's mother, in the film, is
played by four different
characters. This is because
they kept getting ill from the
cast food peanut-butter
sandwidges, which were found
to contain fungus.
The bomber that drops the
nuclear bomb on the Martians
is a Northrop YB-49. It is
stock footage from a
testflight, because the type
never made it to operational
status, and the program was
canceled before the movie was
made. (originally submitted by
Olav westerman)
