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Originally Freddy Krueger was going to wear a yellow and red sweater, because they wanted the character to have a color pattern associated with him so he'd be more identifiable whenever he transformed, but they changed it to red and green because they heard that it was the hardest color combination for the human eye to look at. Freddy's glove was also supposed to have large fish hooks on the tips, but Wes Kraven decided to switch it to knives after watching his cat tear into his couch and becoming instinctly unsettled at seeing its claws extending and tearing into something like that.

I have a whole fuckload of trivia relating to horror movies, and I've decided to post as much of it as I possibly can in honor of Halloween.
 
Here's a guide to which casinos on the Las Vegas Strip serve Coke vs. Pepsi. It's a few years out of date though:

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Echidnas not only have a 4 headed penis (the heads are called Rosettes), they've never been seen ejaculating until 2007. They also only use 2 heads at a time, but they alternate. Also, when it's mating time, a train of males, about a dozen head to tail, will follow a female for a month, with the males leaving and rejoining. When the female is ready to mate, the males all gather around her and dig a trench and compete for her by pushing each other out. Last one standing gets to bone her. Males will also mate with a hubernating female, which causes a funny situation where a female wakes up from hibernation and finds out they're pregnant.

Australia went to war with emus and lost. We also have a have a story about our first beer brewed here, a bloke named James Squire(who was in the first fleet of convicts) stole some hops and was caught, the judge ordered 150 lashes and 2 kegs of beer.

In Brazil, there's a type of spider whose venom causes men that are bitten to suffer a painful erection.

Japan has the guineas world record for the largest orgy of 500 couples, and it was filmed. Quoting Wikipedia, "Viewing the massed couples in action, one reviewer had reminiscences of the CGI scenes in The Lord of The Rings movies while another was reminded of March of the Penguins."
 
Brother Rabbit said:
Australia went to war with emus and lost. We also have a have a story about our first beer brewed here, a bloke named James Squire(who was in the first fleet of convicts) stole some hops and was caught, the judge ordered 150 lashes and 2 kegs of beer.

In Brazil, there's a type of spider whose venom causes men that are bitten to suffer a painful erection.
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ALREADY IN THIS THREAD I THINK, REEEEEEW.
 
Initially, the Halloween series wasn't supposed to be solely focused on Michael Myers. John Carpenter's initial plan was to have each story focus on a different tragedy, with the connecting thread being that each story takes place on Halloween night. However he made the mistake of having the first two movies focus on Myers, and when he actually did follow through with the original plan in 3, Myers' fame and the fact that 3 was handed off to a company that really and truly didn't give much of a shit about the film, resulting in the original plan being killed in favor of having the series become a generic slasher marathon.

Also the original Halloween wasn't going to have a soundtrack at all in an attempt to make it seem more realistic, but after the critics who attended the early screening criticized the film for its silence Carpenter himself wrote an entire soundtrack by himself in a mere three days using synths.

Myers' signature mask went through a lot of development during the planning stages for the film. Initially they wanted him to wear a cheap creepy clown mask, since the opening scene features him murdering his sister in a clown costume as a kid, but they thought that idea was fairly bland so instead they experimented with several cheap Halloween masks in an attempt to make it look like something someone pulled off the shelf at a drug store and customized to look more unsettling. They initially tried to use a Richard Nixon mask and a Spock mask, but in the end they used a Captain Kirk mask spray painted white because the blank expression made the scenes look much more unnerving.
 
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FatFuckFrank said:
I've got millions of stupid facts about movies if you give enough of a shit.
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Count groudon said:
I have a whole fuckload of trivia relating to horror movies, and I've decided to post as much of it as I possibly can in honor of Halloween.
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Do any of you know something cool about Hellraiser (first movie or whole series)? I swear, every trivia sets on it rehash same 3-5 facts.
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
Do any of you know something cool about Hellraiser (first movie or whole series)? I swear, every trivia sets on it rehash same 3-5 facts.
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Yes in fact I sort of do!

So apparently Clive Barker the dude who wrote the Hellbound Heart, the novel the movies are based on, fucking despises the fact that the main Cenobite is called pinhead. He apparently prefers the name "hell bishop" or something to that effect, and made it a point in his later novels that pinhead despises that name and becomes even more sadistic to anyone who calls him that.
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
Do any of you know something cool about Hellraiser (first movie or whole series)? I swear, every trivia sets on it rehash same 3-5 facts.
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Doug Bradley had the choice of playing either one of the furniture movers or Pinhead.
 
UnsufficentBoobage said:
I actually made an attempt to read said novel...this, in general, is one of Clive's most :autism: moments.
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From what ive read of it, it seems like a fairly solid book. And yeah, that kinda reminds me of Chris' weird habit of inserting things he hates about his trolls into sonichu just to show how much it bothers him. Pretty sad too, the guy genuinely has a good If a bit fucked up imagination.
 
Count groudon said:
From what ive read of it, it seems like a fairly solid book.
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I think it would've been better without any cenobite-related plot.
I myself think Barker is better than Stephen King, but he often comes off as a person who has someone tell him "Yes, Clive, you are the most deranged guy out there" (while petting him on the head reassuringly) when he goes to bed, because he won't sleep otherwise.
 
There is a town in Tasmania known as Doo Town, where house (except for 1) has a name involving the word doo.
One of these houses is called doo fuck all.
Other weird Aussie towns include Tittybong, Nowhere else and Come by chance

Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
In 2003, a passenger flight from Charlotte, NC to Greenville, SC stalled and crashed shortly after takeoff because the passengers were too fat.
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What I find really weird about this fact is that there was another incident in January of 2003, involving being fat.
The Waterfall train accident was an incident where an overweight driver broke the dead mans brake and then proceeded to have a heart attack, which caused the train to hit a bend too fast and derail.
 
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