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unusual facts about horror films



Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

Also, as with the previous two albums, many of the songs feature snippets of dialogue from horror and cult films including The Omega Man, Shaft, The Haunting, The Curse of Frankenstein and To the Devil a Daughter.

Janina Faye

She appeared in several major fantasy and horror films when she was very young, such as Hammer Films' Dracula (1958), Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) and The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) as well as The Day of the Triffids (1962).

Ron Chaney

He starred as Bela Reinhardt in Eben McGarr's 2009 film House of the Wolf Man, an affectionate tribute to the 1940s Universal horror films starring his grandfather, particularly Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

The Hookers

The Hookers make extensive use of Satanic, sexual, fantastic and mythological imagery in their lyrics, as well as frequently referencing horror films, Vikings and biker culture.


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Alex Chandon

Chandon was once known primarily for specialising in straight-to-video micro-budget horror films, but his latest projects, especially Borderline (2006), featuring music by The Dark Poets, show a more mature side to his work.

Alexandre Aja

He is a member of the so-called Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in Total Film magazine for a new wave of directors making brutally violent horror films.

Arthur Edeson

In the early thirties, perhaps his most memorable creative partnership was formed with director James Whale, for whom he photographed the first three of Whale's quartet of horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), and The Invisible Man (1933).

Blue Omega

Founded in 2003, the company has made two horror films, Dark Ride, Danika and developed the best game ever made Damnation, which was published by Codemasters.

Brock Enright

His influences can range from video game violence to horror films to 16th century allegorical paintings.

Child's Play 2

The sequel was in pre-production when an UA executive told producer David Kirschner that the film was put on hold as the studio was about to be acquired by the Australian group Qintex, who decided that in their best interest was not to make horror films.

Dabney Donovan

Another of Donovan's experiments was the creation of the miniature planet Transilvane which he filled with microscopic creatures duplicating classic monsters based on Donovan’s favorite horror films.

Daniel Myrick

In 2006, he co-founded Raw Feed, a direct to DVD division of Warner Home Video that specializes in horror films, with The X-Files executive producer John Shiban and 24 executive producer Tony Krantz.

Geretta Geretta

She has starred in such classic Italian films horror films as, Lucio Fulci's MurderRock, Bruno Mattei's Rats: Night of Terror and Terminator 2, Producer; Dario Argento and Director; Lamberto Bava's DEMONS, and began her career in Susan Siedelman's Smithereens.

Herman Cohen

In the 1960s and 1970s, he began producing horror films in the United Kingdom, working with such stars as Joan Crawford in Berserk! and Trog and Jack Palance in Craze.

Homesdale

The movie was influenced by horror films such as The Cat and the Canary.

Irving Gertz

Amongst his most recognized works are the music for the western Top Gun in 1955 and many horror films such as The Leech Woman, The Alligator People and Curse of the Undead.

Isle of the Snake People

Isle of the Snake People is one of four low-budget Mexican horror films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara, the others being The Incredible Invasion, The Fear Chamber, and House of Evil.

Isobel Black

She is perhaps best known for her parts in films such as The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Twins of Evil (1971), both horror films made by Hammer, and 10 Rillington Place (also 1971).

Joel M. Reed

Harve Presnell starred in the film as a producer of horror films who arranges in his studio a Black Mass.

Jonathan Sothcott

Sothcott has since produced more than 20 films, including such diverse fare as horror films "Dead Cert", "Devil's Playground" and "Airborne" and comedies "Big Fat Gypsy Gangster" and "How To Stop Being A Loser".

Joseph Bishara

He composes music for mainly horror films, and has worked several times with director James Wan.

Although Bishara's film score work began with the Biblical drama Joseph's Gift in 1998, most of his subsequent work has comprised horror films like Unearthed and The Gravedancers in 2006 and Night of the Demons in 2009.

Juon

Ju-on, a series of horror films originating in Japan; remade in English as The Grudge by the same director

Mark Burg

In 2004, with Oren and the late Gregg Hoffman, created the production company Twisted Pictures that mainly focuses on developing and producing horror films.

Massimo Pupillo

Pupillo also directed two other horror films that same year, Bloody Pit of Horror (starring Mickey Hargitay) and "The Revenge of Lady Morgan".

Mikita Brottman

She has written influentially on horror films, critical theory, reading, psychoanalysis, and the work of the American folklorist, Gershon Legman.

Nature Trail to Hell

At the time of the song's release, the 3-D process had made a short comeback through horror films like Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3-D.

Roy Skeggs

Skeggs relocated Hammer Films to Hapden House in Buckinghamshire, and shifted production away from remakes of traditional Dracula and Frankenstein horror films towards anthologies and television serials.

Sexykiller

Makes references to many classic horror films including Taxi Driver, Friday the 13th (1980 film), The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Evil Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead.

Shawn C. Phillips

Shawn C. Phillips (born September 23, 1985) is an American actor who starred in various independent horror films.

Sophie Dee

Apart from her pornographic career Dee also starred in two independent horror films, Theater of Derange and Unmimely Demise.

Stupid Teenagers Must Die!

Set in the 1980s, the movie is a tongue-in-cheek homage to classic 80's horror films such as Night of the Demons, the Friday the 13th and Halloween films and Sleepaway Camp.

Superhost

Generally two films were shown, going from 1 to 4 p.m. The movies would be old horror films like Frankenstein or Japanese monster movies such as Godzilla.

Tales from the Crapper

While Troma is most well known for its horror films, they have acquired foreign films and released them with completely original dialogue for comedic effect, including Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters and Parts of the Family.

The Chain Reaction

The film was nomitated for 1983 Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy of Horror Films for Best International Film but lost to Mad Max 2 (1981).

The Gorgon

In North America, the film was released in 2008 along with three other Hammer horror films (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and Taste of Fear) on the 2-DVD set Icons of Horror Collection: Hammer Films (ASIN: B001B9ZVVC), from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The Incredible Invasion

The Incredible Invasion is one of four low-budget Mexican horror films Karloff made in a package deal with Mexican producer Luis Enrique Vergara.

The Last Horror Film

Vinny Durand (Joe Spinell) is a New York City taxi driver who is obsessed with the international cult actress Jana Bates (Caroline Munro), who is known as the "queen of horror films".

The Lovers

Sometimes, that impulse manifests as curiosity (Eve, Pandora, Psyche); sometimes it manifests as sexual desire (the basis of much great literature, as well as ordinary romances, most teen movies, and even horror films); sometimes it manifests as duty (a soldier heeding the call).

Tina Ona Paukstelis

Throughout the 2000s she continued to land lead and supporting roles in the horror films Julia Wept (2000), October Moon (2005), October Moon 2: November Son (2008), and The Legend Trip (2006).

Traces of Death

Brain Damage Films specializes mostly in distributing low-budget independent horror films like Vulture's Eye, Strange Things Happen at Sundown, and Terror Toons.

Tsukihana

Track two, "Kagami no Kuni no Aria", is featured in the Japanese releases of horror films, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Piranha 3D, and Carrie.

Twisted Terror Collection

Horror fans praised the line for its inclusion of rare horror films, some by famous directors such as John Carpenter ("Someone's Watching Me"), Wes Craven ("Deadly Friend") and Oliver Stone ("The Hand") but the line was criticized for lack of special features and for the fact that the films were all drastically different in tone.

Whitney Moore

She is best known for playing Nathalie in the horror films Birdemic: Shock and Terror and Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, both of which received an overwhelmingly negative response and both films being cited as two of the worst films ever made.

She is best known for her role in the horror films Birdemic: Shock and Terror and Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, both of which received an overwhelmingly negative response.