Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with THIR13EN GHOSTS (2001)

2001's THIR13EN GHOSTS is based on the brilliant William Castle's 1960 film of the same slightly different name. The budget, opening weekend box office gross, and box office gross overall of this film are all virtually identical (within one million dollars) to that of House on Haunted Hill (1999), which opened almost exactly two years earlier. Both films were adapted from stories written by Robb White and originally directed by William Castle.

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with DREAMCATCHER (2003)

The nickname "Ripley" is a reference to Ellen Ripley, the fictional main character in the Alien series of films because in all stages the parasites are extremely difficult to destroy, and as said by General Kurtz, "This disease is one tough mother to beat, just like that Alien chick."

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with MISERY (1990)

Bette Midler was originally approached to play Annie. But, Midler thought the role was too violent. She later called herself “stupid” for her decision. The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and All the President's Men screenwriter William Goldman wrote Misery with then unknown but respected theater actress Kathy Bates in mind.

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986)

Maximum Overdrive is King's only directorial effort, though dozens of films have been based on his novels or short stories. The film contained black humor elements and a generally campy tone, which contrasts with King's sombre subject matter in books. The film has a mid-1980s hard rock soundtrack composed entirely by the group AC/DC, King's favorite band. AC/DC's album Who Made Who was released as the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack. It includes the best-selling singles "Who Made Who", "You Shook Me All Night Long", and "Hells Bells".

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with CHRISTINE (1983)

After reading over the book, actor Keith Gordon (Arnie) and the costume designer came up with a visual way to show Arnie being possessed by Christine. As the movie progresses, Arnie begins to wear clothes that reflect the era of Christine's make. At various points, especially when Arnie is yelling at Leigh on the phone, Arnie is seen wearing button up shirts open with black t-shirts, black pants, and boots like a 1950's "greaser". When he's talking to Junkins (both times), he's wearing a leather vest over a button up shirt (a nod to western TV shows which were popular in the 50's), and he even starts to wear a red suede jacket like James Dean in 'Rebel Without A Cause' (1955).

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with 'The Curse of the Werewolf' (1961)

Oliver Reed scores in one of his early lead roles as the tormented hero of Hammer Films' only foray into lycanthropy, set in 18th century Spain. Anthony Dawson is great as the depraved, syphilitic Marques Siniestro who sets the plot in motion.

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with 'The Mummy' (1959)

In this scene from Hammer's THE MUMMY, Christopher Lee dislocated his shoulder because a grip forgot to unbolt the door.

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with 'The Curse of Frankenstein' (1957)

Lee has joked in interviews that when making this film, people used to avoid him on the set because he looked so disgusting in his Creature make-up. Lee has also told stories of how on those few occasions he was on the set without his make-up, no one knew who he was. “Oh, you’re the guy playing the Creature? Didn’t recognize you without your monster face on.”

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with Horror of Dracula (1958)

In one scene, Mina exits her bedroom after having been seduced and bitten by Dracula, with a very satisfied and seductive smile on her face. Director Terence Fisher, after a few botched takes, reportedly told actress Melissa Stribling: “Just imagine you’ve had the best sex of your life, all night long!” Providing exactly the right motivation, they then proceeded to wrap the scene on the first take.

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Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954)

Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the scenes shot at Universal City, California. Many of the on-top of the water scenes were filmed at Rice Creek near Palatka, Florida. The costume made it impossible for Chapman to sit for the 14 hours of each day that he wore it, and it overheated easily, so he stayed in the back lot's lake, often requesting to be hosed down (Wikipedia).

Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with THE MUMMY (1932)

Make-up artist Jack Pierce had studied photos of Seti I's mummy to design Imhotep; however, Karloff looked nothing like the mummy of Seti I in the film, instead bears a resemblance to the mummy of Ramesses III (Wikipedia).

Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

Kenneth Strickfaden designed the electrical effects used in the "creation scene". So successful were they that such effects came to be considered an essential part of every subsequent Universal film involving the Frankenstein Monster. Accordingly, the equipment used to produce them has come to be referred to in fan circles as "Strickfadens". It appears that Strickfaden managed to secure the use of at least one Tesla Coil built by the inventor Nikola Tesla himself. According to this same source, Strickfaden also doubled for Karloff during the creation scene, as Karloff was afraid of being burned by sparks being thrown off the arcing electrical equipment simulating lightning. Although he was partially covered by a surgical drape, Karloff's abdomen was otherwise exposed during the scene and the high-voltage arc "scissors" threw white-hot bits of metal when they were used to create flashes (Wikipedia).

Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with THE WOLF MAN (1941)

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Stories about the make-up and transformation scenes have become legendary, and are mostly apocryphal. The transformation of Chaney from man into monster was certainly laborious. The series of makeups took five to six hours to apply, and an hour to remove. Jack Pierce had originally designed it for Henry Hull in Werewolf of London (1935) but Hull argued that the disguise made no sense within the plot, since two characters had to recognize "Dr. Glendon" even in his werewolf form. Pierce was ordered to design a second version which left more of Hull's face recognizable. Pierce then recycled his design for the 1941 film (Wikipedia).

Creepercast Presents Behind the Scenes of Our Favorite Horror Films with DRACULA (1931)

According to numerous accounts, the production is alleged to have been a mostly disorganized affair, with the usually meticulous Tod Browning leaving cinematographer Karl Freund to take over during much of the shoot, making Freund something of an uncredited director on the film (Wikipedia)

Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Horror Films: Sinister (2012)

Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Horror Films: Aliens (1986)

To most of the crew, the choice of James Cameron as director was mystifying as The Terminator (1984) hadn't been released at that stage. The film's assistant director continually questioned Cameron's decisions and was openly antagonistic towards him. Ultimately producer Gale Anne Hurd had no choice but to fire him and he briefly instigated a mass walk-out from the rest of the crew. Fortunately this was quickly resolved but caused some doubt as to whether the film would make it to completion (IMDB).

Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Horror Films: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

For the blood geyser sequence where Glen (Johnny Depp) is killed, the filmmakers used the same revolving room set that was used for Tina's death. They put the set so that it was upside down and attached the camera so that it looked like the room was right side up, then they poured gallons of red water (the red came from food coloring; normal movie blood couldn't create the right effect for the geyser) into the room by pumping it down through the bed. The room itself was to be turned as the blood flowed, but it was turned in the wrong direction so instead of the blood gushing out of the bed and then splashing down the walls, it gushed out of the bed and out of the room through the open door where the camera and equipment was, with exposed wires and electrical sockets. The power on the set went out, but no one was injured. On the DVD commentary, Wes Craven remarks that the room spinning the wrong way was like a "Ferris Wheel from hell." The blood was water mixed with food coloring. The scene was partly inspired by the elevator scene in The Shining (IMDB).

Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Horror Films: Poltergeist (1982)

During the scene where Robbie (Oliver Robins) is being strangled, the clown's arms became extremely tight and Robins started to choke. When he screamed out, "I can't breathe!" director Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper thought that the boy was ad-libbing and just instructed him to look at the camera. When Spielberg saw Robbins's face turning purple, he ran over and removed the clown's arms from Robbins' neck (IMDB).

Behind the Scenes of Your Favorite Horror Films: Evil Dead (1981)

During the scene where Linda is possessed, the make-up artist originally wanted to make her look like a snake-like creature, as can be seen when Ash is dragging her outside (filmed before the scene indoors, with her singing the creepy song). Her make-up was dark and a little more greenish, but eventually they changed the make-up to an evil doll-face look (IMDB).