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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Stanley Kubrick Cut a Two-Minute Hospital Scene from ‘The Shining’ Days After It Was Already in Theaters, Then Ordered Every Copy Destroyed
For a few days in 1980, audiences who bought a ticket to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining saw an ending that no one has been…
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Wes Craven Told David Arquette to Look at Courteney Cox “Like You’ve Been Looking For This Person Your Whole Life.” They Got Married Three Years Later
Some of the most enduring love stories start on a movie set — and for David Arquette and Courteney Cox, it started on one…
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Zach Cregger Wrote Barbarian’s Opening Scene Based on a Book About the Tiny Warning Signs Women Brush Off So They Don’t Seem “Like A B*tch”
In Barbarian, Keith keeps crossing Tess’s boundaries in ways that can look harmless: an unwanted touch, a sexualized compliment and a favor she never…
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Timothy Olyphant Has a Funny Story About Getting Fired from ‘Practical Magic’
Timothy Olyphant is a terrific actor who has donned the Ghostface mask in Scream 2, faced off against a serial killer in A Perfect…
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Ellen Burstyn Maintained the ‘Exorcist’ Set Was Cursed. William Friedkin Denied It Until He Died
The set of “The Exorcist” has been shadowed by stories of misfortune for half a century. A fire tore through much of it during…
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Bradley Whitford Worked on Obama’s Campaigns, So He Played Get Out’s Smug Liberal Dad Without Realizing He Was Being Mocked
One of the smartest lines of dialogue in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ (2017) was so subtle, the actor who delivered the line didn’t realize…
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‘Hocus Pocus’ (1993) Was First Imagined as Much Darker and Scarier
Hocus Pocus (1993) is a classic Disney Halloween comedy-fantasy directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the…
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Both Auditioned for 1996’s ‘Primal Fear.’ They Lost to Edward Norton, Whose Performance Earned Him an Oscar Nomination for His Very First Film Role
In 1996, a courtroom thriller called Primal Fear turned an unknown actor into an overnight Oscar contender — and sent two future stars back…
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‘Clue’ Documentarians Call on Paramount to Release the Movie’s Never-Seen Fourth Ending in Honor of Tim Curry
Clue famously had three endings, each pinning the murders on a different guest. A fourth was shot where Tim Curry‘s Wadsworth did all the…
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Underwhelmed by the First Take of Henry Winkler’s Death Scene in Scream, Wes Craven Asked, “Do You Think It Might Be More Excruciating?”
Henry Winkler will readily admit he is not a horror fan. Despite playing Principal Arthur Himbry in Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher classic ‘Scream,’ the…
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The Frantic Third Act of ‘Clue’ (1985) Left Tim Curry So Breathless a Doctor Put Him on Blood Pressure Medication
Tim Curry spends the last stretch of Clue (1985) sprinting from room to room, reconstructing every murder in real time. The movie had three…
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Watch Some Behind-the-Scenes Footage of ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’!
Toho and Gkids have released a new behind-the-scenes video for Godzilla Minus Zero! Clips include set building, filming on location and in the studio,…
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Tim Curry Played the Devil in ‘Legend’ and Pennywise in ‘IT,’ but the Darkest Role He Ever Took Was a Two-Episode Serial Killer Arc on ‘Criminal Minds’
Curry played the Devil in Legend and Pennywise in the 1990 IT, but the role that rattled him most was a two-episode guest spot…