Horror Is Killer

"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Guillermo del Toro based his full-length feature movie Mama on this two-minute short film. 

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The dinner scene in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was even more brutal than it seemed, given the nightmarish circumstances that the actors went through when filming it. Imagine being shut in a Texas house during 110 degree heat for 27 straight hours with no air conditioning, and all of the windows are covered to keep the light out. Not to mention the lovely aroma given off by the piles of rotting meat.

The smell was so bad, crew members were reportedly vomiting and passing out. Edwin Neal who played the hitchhiker said that if he ever saw director Tobe Hooper again he might kill him because "filming that scene was the worst time of my life... and I had been in Vietnam, with people trying to kill me, so I guess that shows how bad it was."  

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The Ratings Story Behind The Last House on The Left

1. When Wes Craven first took the film to the MPAA, they gave it an "X" rating.

2. In an attempt to get an "R" rating so the movie could be more widely released, Craven removed 10 minutes of footage. But the MPAA wouldn't budge.

3. Craven then took out 20 minutes of footage, and surprise, surprise: The MPAA still insisted on an "X" rating. 

4. Here's how it ended, according to Craven: "The process [of submitting the film to CARA] repeated itself for a week until the film was 75 minutes long and made absolutely no sense anymore. Finally Sean [the co-producer] just swore under his breath, went down the hall to someone who'd made an 'R' film and got their 'This Film Is Rated R' banner and spliced it onto the head of our totally restored, original cut ... and released it that way." 

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George Romero's new project: zombies vs humans vs vampires.

The plot for The Empire of the Dead, a 15 issue series for MARVEL:

Welcome to New York City years after the plague has hit.  But just because the Big Apple has been quarantined doesn’t mean that everyone inside is safe!  Flesh-eating zombies roam within the confines of Manhattan…but they’re not the only predator that’s poised and ready to strike!  Who or what is this new menace?

Artwork via Marvel.com

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Kevin Smith announced that he'll be doing a horror anthology film called Comes the Krampus!

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Silent Hill Art on Etsy:

The Lobotomy Display Bust

Silent Hill Nurse Latex Mask 

Pyramid Head Sword Replica

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Alfred Hitchcock Gets Brutal With The Birds Actress 

During the production of The Birds, actress Tippi Hedren was told she was filming the attack scene in the attic with mechanical birds. But director Alfred Hitchcock had other plans: 

Hedren: “When I got to the set I found out there had never been any intention to use mechanical birds because a cage had been built around the door I was supposed to come in and there were boxes of the ravens, gulls and pigeons that bird trainers wearing gauntlets up to their shoulders hurled at me, one after the other, for a week."

It didn't stop there. Hitchcock also had live birds tied to the actress, one of which barely missed scraping her eye with its claw. 

Hedren: "I shouted, ‘Get these birds off me’ and I sat in the middle of the sound-stage and cried. At the end I was so exhausted I was out cold. I don’t remember anyone driving me home."

After she was carried off the set, the abuse continued. From Cracked: 

Hitchcock became infatuated with Hedren, which he demonstrated by paying staff to follow her on her time off and sexually propositioning her (because chicks love guys who throw birds at them). When Hedren refused and demanded to be let out of her contract, the director vowed to ruin her career. 

For the next two years he refused to let Hedren end her contract with him. During that time she was compensated $600 a week to be in no other movies.

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Ghost Ship Full Of Cannibal Rats Could Be About To Crash Into England According to The Plymouth Herald:

"There are fears a ghost ship full of diseased cannibal rats could be about to crash into the coast of Devon or Cornwall.

The abandoned Lyubov Orlova has been missing since it cut adrift while being towed from Canada nearly a year ago.

The 40-year-old liner has been driven across the Atlantic by high winds and is thought close to the UK shore.

Based on emergency beacons activated last year aboard the ship, it is feared the 40-year-old Yugoslavian liner registered to Russia could crash into the shore of Devon, Cornwall, Ireland or Scotland.

Those searching for the ship say there are likely to be thousands of disease-ridden rats on board with no source of food except each other, according to The Sun.

Belgian-based searcher Pim de Rhoodes said: 'She is floating around there somewhere. There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other.'"

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What if Patrick Bateman was a hipster? This six-minute promotion for a British denim line features two re-envisioned scenes from American Psycho. The video actually turned out to be pretty amazing.  

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Bub from George Romero's Day of the Dead

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The Halloween movie crew originally chose between two different masks for Michael Myers to wear. Their first option was a frowning clown mask, meant to be an homage to Myers killing his sister in a clown costume.

The mask they ended up using was actually a Captain Kirk mask that was bought for less than $2 on Hollywood Blvd. The movie's production designer enlarged the eye holes, removed the sideburns, darkened the hair and painted the face white.

Producer and co-writer Debra Hill said that the "idea was to make him almost humorless, faceless — this sort of pale visage that could resemble a human or not."

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John Carpenter’s The Thing (1984)

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In the 1979 movie Alien, the infamous "chestburster" scene with John Hurt was inspired by real-life body invaders: parasitic wasp embryos.

Injected into a caterpillar by their mother, the once egg-encased wasp embryos develop for about 14 days. Then things get ugly. In a biological attack unique in the animal world, the unassuming embryos use a virus in their DNA to paralyze their host. They bite their way out of the caterpillar and begin spinning cocoons. As a final insult to the injured host, the caterpillar--apparently brain-addled by the virus--builds a silky blanket over its attackers and defends them against predators until the wasps emerge, fully formed, and take to the skies.