I remember learning that the plane in the first Final Destination film was actually based on a real plane that exploded in mid-air in pretty much exactly the same way. I was so shocked because I thought that was entirely Hollywood shit.
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Eyes Wide Shut has a scene where a book by Lord Longford is center of frame. Lord Longford is notorious for kicking off the (rather unpopular) Commission on Pornography, as well as touring sex clubs in Denmark (which aside from presenting an obvious conflict of interest, were accused in the 1970's of harboring underage prostitutes.) Lord Longford was also an associate of Frank Beck, who was found guilty of molesting roughly 100 children (and at least one author suspects was assassinated.)
Lambert the girl who got xenoraped to death in the first Alien movie was actually given reassignment surgery as a baby because his/her parents didn't want a boy.
I don't know if he confirmed this or not but I'm pretty sure Michael J Fox gave himself Parkinson's when he insisted on doing his own stunts during the hanging scene in Back to the Future 3. Maybe that's common knowledge but I remember putting two and two together and being like HOLY SHIT
I knew he nearly actually suffocated during that, but I had no idea that had anything to do with his Parkinson's.
When I learned the cast didn't know that the first alien from Aliens was going to pop out of the guy's chest while he was lying dead on the table in order to get a better reaction. I hadn't seen anything about Cannibal Holocaust at the time, so it was my introduction to directors screwing with actors to get better reactions.
Speaking of Alien, there's a human skull in the face of the puppet they used for the movie. As in a real human skull.
David Lynch still hasn't revealed what he used to make the baby from Eraserhead from. And the spermlike worms the Lady in the Radiator stomps on were actual umbilical cords he stole from a hospital.
I could be wrong but the fact that he did lose consciousness and was diagnosed not long afterwards made me assume that's how he got it.
Something that always horrified me was a brief scene in a film called The Plague Dogs, which was based off of a novel of the same name by the guy who wrote Watership Down. You think the cartoon adaptation Watership Down was fucked up? Well in The Plague Dogs the two lab dogs who escape the facility they're being tested in go past animals being subjected to many different experiments - including a monkey forcibly strapped to a device with her legs splayed open. That device is essentially a monkey rape-inducing device and it's very, very real.
Learning the truth about Milo & Otis. It's such a cute, wholesome film. I watched it for the first time as a teenager, and a few things set off a few red flags. As in, "these animals look like they're in pretty precarious positions, I can't believe the ASPCA gave this the green light." Then I read on Wikipedia about some of the allegations. The exact circumstances are pretty murky, especially whether or not any animals died. Then I saw this scene not included in the English version:
If I had grown up with it, I would be mortified.
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Ed Harris almost drowned in The Abyss (I think this is seen in the final film, been years since I saw it), and he punched James Cameron for it because he kept the camera rolling. Then twice there was liquid breathing showcased with the rat and also with Ed's character, and it's real--it's called oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion. (Link has the video clips.)
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That the two brothers who made the Matrix both Trooned Out
More fun with dead bodies.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre used real human bones imported from India. It was cheaper for the filmmakers to import actual remains from India than it was to make plastic or fake skeletons. Matter of fact, India used to export a lot of bones to movies in the 70s before producers started realizing they were getting a lot of dead bodies and that they were probably funding body farms.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre used real human bones imported from India. It was cheaper for the filmmakers to import actual remains from India than it was to make plastic or fake skeletons. Matter of fact, India used to export a lot of bones to movies in the 70s before producers started realizing they were getting a lot of dead bodies and that they were probably funding body farms.
Yes, I too have watched Return of the Living Dead.
Really? I thought it was a sheep fetus... Considering he stole umbilical cords for that scene, I don't think I want to know anymore.
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This didn't exactly freak me out but it bothers me. In one of my favorite films, Miller's Crossing, one of the main characters, an old irish gangster played by Albert Finney, appears in drag in a scene with a bunch of other women. Now whenever I watch it I can't un-see it.
i dont think thats how you get parkinsons either
Most people assume it's a sheep or cow fetus, but he's been tight lipped on what it actually is since the movie was made, just making vague comments like "it was born nearby, or maybe I found it." when pressed.
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