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The Sega Genesis has a few sounds in their games stolen from other sources. The knife welding lunatic in streets of rage 2 uses sound clips of daffy duck's laugh from the cartoon the ducksters and the werewolf howl in altered beast is lifted from the howl in an American werewolf in London
 
The helicopter used for the show airwolf was converted into a rescue helicopter after the show ended and was involved in a fatal crash on its second mission.

A helicopter crash happened during the filming of the 1983 twilight zone movie that killed actor vic morrow and two Vietnamese immigrant children who were working on the film illegally to get around child labor laws.
 
Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
A lot of the sound effects Doom used were from a stock library. X-Com used the BFG firing sound for the plasma cannon, the same iconic 'woosh-click' door opening noises, and one the imp death sounds for the Snakemen.

Also, the movie The Santa Clause used the demon 'snort-snort-snort' sound effect for Santa's reindeer.
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Let this play in the background and the lizard brain will twitch at one point.
 
Graham ingles was one of the artists on E. C. Comics aka the publisher that made the original tales from the crypt comic books, as well as the vault of horror, the haunt of fear, and later Mad magazine.

Why did I mention Graham specifically? Well out of all the artists working for ec his work is often credited with being the most gruesome and detailed graphic wise, so much so that it's partly the reason comics in the 50s were said to be too violent and disturbing for the target audience of children.

Graham was so set in his ways that after ec shuttered the horror comics, most of the artists were able to adapt and alter their styles to suit the more Humorus and comical art for Mad the sole surviving publication following the changes. Graham however was not. His art work was rejected for still being too disturbing, and Mad publisher William Gaines reluctantly had to fire him. Ingles tried to become a freelance artist and illustrator but it was no good. He died penniless and all but forgotten.


However it was after the popularity of the old ec horror titles rose again thanks to movies like creepshow and later the actual tales from the crypt TV show, that Graham's work was reevaluated and given the recognition it truly deserves.
 
Queen has a interesting history with Disney. They left Capital Records and switched over to Disney's Hollywood Records label in 1991 and has since owned the North American distribution rights to their catalog. 20th Century Fox produced their 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and the studio and film are now owned by Disney.
 
The Norwegian outpost in john carpenter's The Thing is just the american outpost after the final scene was filmed. Carpenter had to use rooms that were so damaged by the fire that they couldn't be recognized as any room in the american outpost.

Also during the autopsy scene wilford brimley was the only actor who didn't get queasy handling real raw organ meat.

Lastly although there never was a cinematic sequel to The Thing, the film's prince of darkness and in the mouth of madness are considered follow ups to The Thing in what carpenter calls his "apocalypse trilogy."
 
Jasonfan89 said:
The Norwegian outpost in john carpenter's The Thing is just the american outpost after the final scene was filmed. Carpenter had to use rooms that were so damaged by the fire that they couldn't be recognized as any room in the american outpost.

Also during the autopsy scene wilford brimley was the only actor who didn't get queasy handling real raw organ meat.

Lastly although there never was a cinematic sequel to The Thing, the film's prince of darkness and in the mouth of madness are considered follow ups to The Thing in what carpenter calls his "apocalypse trilogy."
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There was also an ending that was exclusive to TV airings. After the camp burns down, the TV version cuts to a dog running through the snow similar to how the movie opened, indicating the Thing might not have been stopped.
 
The 1951 version of the thing was the first film to use a specially designed fireproof suit for a stunt man to wear while being set on fire.


The longest time a stunt man was on fire goes to kane hodder for the first time he played jason vorhees in Friday the 13th part 7

Clancy brow aka mr krabs played the villain in pet sematary II


Edward furlong (John connor) didn't reprise his role for terminator 3 because he was homeless and dealing with drug addiction at the time.
 
Way back when they made black and white gangster movies they didn't use blanks in the tommy guns. Rigging glass, bottles, tables and other crap to shatter and splinter when shot at was too time consuming, expensive and technically complicated. They didn't use a full gun powder load in the cartridges, but still. This mainly affected the extras, they didn't shoot at the stars of course, but it was dangerous as hell.
James Cagney took a brave stand for the extras and refused to participate in any movie that used live ammo. It seems ridiculous today, who the fuck would use live ammo or endanger people like that, but Hollywood was a wild place. When filming a scene of the flood in the 1928 version of Noah's Ark three extras drowned and many more were injured. I've read that more than three drowned and some hollywood accounting had been done on the number of fatalities.
The scene from that movie, with some annotations:
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Way back when they made black and white gangster movies they didn't use blanks in the tommy guns. Rigging glass, bottles, tables and other crap to shatter and splinter when shot at was too time consuming, expensive and technically complicated. They didn't use a full gun powder load in the cartridges, but still. This mainly affected the extras, they didn't shoot at the stars of course, but it was dangerous as hell.
James Cagney took a brave stand for the extras and refused to participate in any movie that used live ammo. It seems ridiculous today, who the fuck would use live ammo or endanger people like that, but Hollywood was a wild place. When filming a scene of the flood in the 1928 version of Noah's Ark three extras drowned and many more were injured. I've read that more than three drowned and some hollywood accounting had been done on the number of fatalities.
The scene from that movie, with some annotations:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZdpfsOMfU
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I remember watching The Passion Joan of Arc for a class, and the professor mentioned that the bloodletting scene was real, that they actually punctured an actor's arm. As I recall there was quite a bit of blood during that scene. And then there was Rules of the Game, which featured the actors actually shooting rabbits.

Nobody gave a fuck back then.
 
There's nothing left of the original animatronic t-rex from jurassic park. Natural latex decays when when exposed to water and light and the hydrolics and mechanical parts rust and break down. Rexy stood in sotarage for years being only briefly taken out for a few times while filming the lost world and jp3, until eventually her latex had gotten too discolored and her skeleton too unreliable that she was shreded and scraped.

hell this is true of almost all animatronics from the past 40 years, hoggle from labirynth, the werewolf from an american werewolf in london, zilla from godzilla 98, and all the puppets from the tv show dinosaurs.
 
The early Star Wars novel 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' was intended to be filmed as a cheap made for TV sequel to A New Hope if it flopped at the box office and 20th Century Fox didn't pick up The Empire Strikes Back. It's set entirely on an alien planet, so no spaceship scenes would need to be filmed, and Han and Chewie didn't appear, so no having to pay Harrison Ford or make another Wookiee costume for Peter Mayhew. Ironically, it has a scene where Luke fights Darth Vader and lops off his lightsaber hand, which eventually happened in Return of the Jedi.
 
The tales from the crypt TV show lasted longer than the comic book it was based on

TV show original run 1989-1996
Comic book run 1951-aprox 1954

Similarly the TV show M. A. S. H a show about the Korean war lasted longer than the actual Korean war
1972-1983

The 1980 movie raise the Titanic was a box office bomb makining only 7 million on a then blockbuster 40 million dollar budget. Ironically the actual Titanic cost roughly 7.5 million dollars to make in 1912 unadjusted for inflation
 
Fun farming facts that are also useful if you’re a certain kind of degenerate!
Compost materials are broken down into two broad categories; “hot greens” that compost fast and smell strongly due to their high nitrates to carbon ratio (and are usually green) and “cold browns” that due to their low nitrates to carbon ratio, take forever to decompose if not mixed with greens. Most compost heaps are best when being one part green to three parts brown and a big scoop of local soil to help the local micro-flora adapt to the compost.
Woody plants are especially nitrogen-hungry due to how wood is expensive to produce biochemically. You can help by watering with a good natural compost that you definitely have at home. Human urine has about a 1 to 1 ratio of carbon and nitrates making it a very hot green. It’s also mostly water. So if you have a cherry tree in your yard you want to harvest from, collect your piss in an old jelly jar and water the tree with it you sick fuck.
Remember that a woody plant’s young soft roots are about as far from the trunk as the edge of the crown as a rule of thumb.
 
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