Fun Stuff 2

Quarantine
-Unusually for a Hollywood production, this film does not feature a musical score
-Wilshire the fire dog also featured in an episode of "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan"(2004) (Season 3, Episode 4)

Day of the Dead(1985)
-The book Dr. Logan gives to Bub is Stephen King's "Salem's Lot." Romero and King have been friends for many years.
-All the extras who portrayed zombies in the climax received for their services: a cap that said "I Played A Zombie In 'Day of the Dead'", a copy of the newspaper from the beginning of the film (the one that says THE DEAD WALK!), and one dollar.
-In the cafeteria scene, William McDermott (Jarlath Conroy) says that "All of the shopping malls are closed." This is a clear reference to the film's predecessor Dawn of the Dead (1978), which is set in a shopping mall.
-George A. Romero played a zombie pushing a cart in the foreground during the final zombie feast, seen from the waist down and identified by his trademark plaid scarf wrapped around his waist.
-The blood and entrails used in the disemboweling of Capt. Rhodes were real. Pig intestines and blood were procured form a nearby slaughterhouse and used to make the scene. During filming the refrigerator housing intestines and blood was unplugged by custodial staff, and the entrails started to spoil causing most of those involved to become physically sick.



Cronos
-Guillermo del Toro started writing on the script as early as 1984, where it was titled "Vampire of the Grey Dawn".
-Guillermo del Toro met with Universal in late '93, where they told him they wanted to buy the rights to this film so they could remake it. del Toro's response was "Who wants to see Jack Lemmon lick blood off a bathroom floor?".



Evil Dead 1
-Filmed in a real-life abandoned cabin
-Most of the demon POVs that glide across the ground were shot by mounting the camera to a 2X4 while Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell ran along holding either side
-Bruce Campbell twisted his ankle on a root while running down a steep hill, and Sam Raimi and Robert G. Tapert decided to tease him by poking his injury with sticks, thus causing Campbell to have an obvious limp in some scenes.
-The opening sequence of the evil moving over the pond, is actually Bruce Campbell pushing Sam Raimi in a dingy whilst he films the shot.
-The original script called for all the characters to be smoking marijuana when they are first listening to the tape. The actors decided to try this for real, and the entire scene had to be later re-shot due to their uncontrollable behavior.
-Sam Raimi originally wanted to title this film "Book of the Dead," but producer Irvin Shapiro changed the title to "The Evil Dead" for fear that kids would be turned off seeing a movie with a literary reference
-On the tape, in which the demon resurrection passages are read aloud, some of the words spoken (which sound like genuine Latin) and that sound like "Sam and Rob, Das ist Hikers Dan dee Roadsa" actually mean "Sam and Rob are the Hikers on the road", as it was actually Sam Raimi and Robert G. Tapert who play the fishermen that wave to the car as it passes them near the start of the film.
-In 2006, The Evil Dead (1981) was turned into a Broadway musical



Evil Dead II
-One of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is "A Farewell to Arms".
-The recap of the previous film includes a shot where the "evil force" runs through the cabin and rams into Ash. When this shot was filmed, Bruce Campbell suffered a broken jaw when Sam Raimi (who was operating the camera) crashed into him with a bicycle. Or so people were led to believe. This was a story concocted by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell as a gag to see how many people would believe it actually happened.
-The references to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) were the conclusion to an unspoken battle of "can-you-top-this" between Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. In Bill Warren's book The Evil Dead Companion, it says that Raimi took the torn Jaw (1975) poster in Craven's The Hills Have Eyes (1977) to mean that Craven was saying that his movie was even scarier than Jaws. Raimi included a torn Hills poster in The Evil Dead (1981) to send the same message. Craven responded by including a scene of Nancy watching The Evil Dead in Nightmare. Raimi responded to that with a scene of a destroyed Nightmare poster in Evil Dead II.


Army of Darkness
-The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are "Clatto Verata Nicto" - a reference to "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the words used to command the robot Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still
-That beat-up Oldsmobile that goes through time with Ash belongs to director Sam Raimi. He included it in most of his early movies, each time more banged up than the last. The items in the trunk of the Olds are not product placements; they're what Raimi actually had in his trunk.
-An issue of the magazine "Fangoria" can be seen in the car's trunk.
-The original script was 43 pages.



Day of the Dead(2008 remake)
-Although the film's plot shares little with the original, many of the scenes and situations from the original are duplicated, such as debating on whether or not a fellow member should be killed even though there's a chance he won't become a zombie, a zombie firing a gun, and the heroes having to make their way through an abandoned missile silo
-The Radio Station is on the Elm Street. This is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).



The Exorcist
-Ellen Burstyn received a permanent spinal injury during filming. In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain
-The refrigerated bedroom set was cooled with four air conditioners and temperatures would plunge to around 30 to 40 below zero. It was so cold that perspiration would freeze on some of the cast and crew. On one occasion the air was saturated with moisture resulting in a thin layer of snow falling on the set before the crew arrived for filming.
-Christian evangelist Billy Graham claimed an actual demon was living in the celluloid reels of this movie
-When originally released in the UK a number of town councils imposed a complete ban on the showing of the film. This led to the bizarre spectacle of "Exorcist Bus Trips" where enterprising travel companies organised buses to take groups to the nearest town where the film was showing.
-A film goer 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 original teaser trailer, which consisted of nothing but images of the white-faced demon quickly flashing in and out of darkness, was banned in many theaters, as it was deemed "too frightening".
-The actual residence in Georgetown that is used for the exterior shots has a rather large yard between it and the infamous steps. The window that leads to Regan's room is at least 40 feet from the top of the steps. This distance would make it impossible for anyone "thrown" from the window to actually land on the steps. In the movie, set decorators added a false wing to the house, so that Regan's supposed window would in fact be close to the infamous steps.
-The substance that the possessed Regan (Linda Blair) hurls at Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller) is thick pea soup. Specifically, it's Andersen's brand pea soup. The crew tried Campbell's but didn't like the "effect
-After filming, William Friedkin brought production to 666 Fifth Avenue
-The sound of the demon leaving Regan's body is actually the sound of pigs being herded for slaughter.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
-Body count:11
-Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller decided not to make a sequel to the 2003 movie. But the fans kept coming to them, asking how the family got that way and wanting to know the unanswered questions in the 2003 version. And after a meeting with Michael Bay, they let Sheldon Turner write the script and they were prepared to make it.
-New Line had to pay $3 million more than it expected to in order to keep the series in the studio fold after Dimension Films made a pricey deal with original rights holders Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel and Robert Kuhn.