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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Freddy Krueger Scared Monica Keena So Badly as a Child That Her Mom Took Her to a Doctor. In Freddy Vs. Jason, She Got to Kill Him
For Monica Keena, playing Lori Campbell in 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason meant getting to fight back against the horror villain who’d frightened her so…
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Mike Flanagan Says Carrie’s Prom Scene Was One of the Most Difficult Sequences of His Career
Mike Flanagan says the prom scene in his new Carrie series for Prime Video was one of the most difficult sequences of his career.…
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Glen Powell Nearly Lost His Hand After a Knife Stunt on the Running Man Set
Glen Powell needed emergency surgery after a retractable knife injured his hand during a stunt for The Running Man. At a hospital in Bulgaria,…
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Scream Composer Marco Beltrami Says ‘Scream 4’ Is the “Weakest” and “Most Uninspired” of the First Four Films
Marco Beltrami, who wrote the musical scores for Scream 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7, has shared some candid thoughts about his work on…
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Summer H. Howell Says She Spent 12 Hours a Day Covered in Fake Blood While Filming Carrie’s Prom Scenes
Summer H. Howell’s prom scenes for Prime Video’s Carrie took about 2 weeks to film, with 3 blood drops performed for the cameras. For…
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Matthew Lillard Never Planned to Audition for ‘Scream’ (1996), But He Beat Out Freddie Prinze Jr. Anyway
Matthew Lillard didn’t even mean to audition for Scream — and then he went completely, unhinged, full-send feral in it anyway. Here’s the wild…
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Rob Zombie Says Bob Weinstein Called Him About His ‘Halloween’ and Said, “I Hate Every Single Fucking Frame of This Movie”
Rob Zombie’s fight with the studio lasted beyond the first movie. He said he returned for Halloween II only because the sequel would release…
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A Real Witch Served as a Consultant on the Original ‘Practical Magic,’ Then Demanded $250,000 and Her Own Cookbook
A real witch who served as a consultant on the original “Practical Magic” demanded $250,000 and her own cookbook, then threatened to curse the…
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Mark Duplass Says There’s a “Completely Psychopathic Serial Killer” Inside Him, and “That Door Is Locked Right Now”
Mark Duplass writes every episode of The Creep Tapes as a loose outline, with no dialogue prepared in advance. That lets his serial-killer character…
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Tobe Hooper Got the Idea for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Chainsaw While Trying to Escape a Crowded Christmas Shopping Trip
One of horror’s most iconic weapons didn’t begin with a script — it began with a crowded store and a director desperate to get…
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Florence Pugh Says Midsommar Left Her Depressed for Six Months and She Didn’t Know Why
Florence Pugh returned home for Christmas after filming Little Women and realized the emotional toll of Midsommar had followed her off set. She said…
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There’s Just Something About a Pink Cursive Title Card That Gets Me on My Knees Every Time
The opening credits of Rosemary’s Baby are a quiet marvel: Mia Farrow hums a wordless lullaby as curly pink lettering appears over the New…
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Buscemi Was Absolutely Dripping in Fargo
Steve Buscemi’s Fargo wardrobe helped him figure out Carl Showalter, the criminal he played in the Coen brothers’ 1996 film. At its 25th anniversary…
