CAM 03 · Behind the Scenes · 73 stories
REC 10.16.2026 18:10:13
Behind the Scenes
How the scenes were made: casting, stunts, cut scenes, what the actors gave up and what they got paid.
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Noomi Rapace Says Producers on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Wanted Her to Make Lisbeth Salander “More Likable,” and She Refused
Weeks into filming the 2009 Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace says she faced 4 men who wanted Lisbeth…
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“And I’ve Never Had a Trace of This Disorder Since,” Joey King Says of the ITP She Developed While Filming The Conjuring
Joey King was still dealing with a low platelet count after she finished filming The Conjuring and went home. Her first hospital follow-up showed…
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South Park’s Storytelling Rule Helped Curry Barker Make Every Turn in ‘Obsession’ Lead to the Next
Curry Barker builds his scripts around a single rule he borrowed from the people behind South Park: link every beat with “but then” or…
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Annabelle (2014) Is Based on a Raggedy Ann Cloth Doll, and Filmmakers Only Made It Porcelain Because Test Audiences Weren’t Scared
The doll behind 2014’s Annabelle is a mass-produced Raggedy Ann from the late 1960s or early 1970s. The movie’s custom porcelain version was created…
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Tim Roth Says Making ‘Funny Games’ Traumatized Him So Much That He’ll Never Watch It
Tim Roth has said he will never watch Funny Games because filming it left him traumatized. Two decades on, the movie still ranks among…
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Gabourey Sidibe Carried a Saint Michael Card for 5 Years After a Spell Shook the Table on the Set of AHS: Coven
Gabourey Sidibe says she used sea salt and invoked Saint Michael after she felt something from the American Horror Story: Coven set was trying…
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Austin Abrams Says His Signature High-Pitched Scream in ‘Resident Evil’ Just Came Out That Way, and It Mortified Him
Austin Abrams didn’t plan the high-pitched scream that became part of Bryan Hodukavich’s panic in Resident Evil (2026). During a Fantastic Fest interview with…
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Jack Haven Just Played Little Death in ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’. They Need a Role Paying $4,000 by the End of the Month to Keep Their SAG Health Insurance
Actor Jack Haven has taken to social media with an unusual pitch: they need to book $4,000 in SAG work before the end of…
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Kyle Maclachlan Was Making $185 a Week When He Was “Plucked From Obscurity” to Star in the Original ‘Dune’
When David Lynch’s Dune began casting in 1983, the role of Paul Atreides drew interest from rising stars like Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.…
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Keanu Reeves Refused Coppola’s Order to Scream Insults at Winona Ryder on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
A story of what happened on the set of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) has resurfaced, and it centers on a difficult crying scene, a…
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Henry Winkler Played the Principal in ‘Scream,’ but the Studio Refused to Put His Name on the Movie’s Poster
Henry Winkler earned decades of goodwill playing the Fonz on “Happy Days,” but that beloved image nearly kept his name out of one of…
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Mike Flanagan Cast His New Carrie Without Her Ever Reading the Book or Seeing Sissy Spacek’s Version
When Summer H. Howell first stepped into the role of Carrie White, she did it with a blank slate. The 22-year-old actor had never…
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Haunted Sets: Joey King Developed a Rare Blood Disorder Filming ‘The Conjuring,’ with Bruises That Doctors Couldn’t Explain
Joey King was 12-years-old when something strange began happening on the set of The Conjuring. During filming in North Carolina, unexplained bruises spread across…