Portal:Horror/Did you know archive/2006

...that Boris Karloff was sometimes billed as "Karloff the Uncanny"?
...that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution?
...that Cannibal Holocaust is one of the top ten highest grossing films of all time in Japan, acquiring approximately ¥7,000,000,000 in the first year of its release?
...that White Wolf, Inc. publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness"?
...that the three best selling horror books of all time—Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson—all were inspired by nightmares?

...that Slumber Party Massacre was written by feminist activist Rita Mae Brown?
...that the killer in Wolf Creek shares his name with a former member of The Rolling Stones?
...that director John Carpenter's Halloween was inspired by both Suspiria and The Exorcist?
...that Wes Craven was once a professor of humanities at Clarkson College?
...that there are more than twenty videogames in the Castlevania series (as of May 2006)?

...that Ken Kirzinger, who portrayed Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason, had previously appeared as both Jason's stunt double and as a short order cook in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (he also served as that film's stunt coordinator)?
...that Alfred Hitchcock was a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE)?
...that Sam Raimi allowed the filmmakers of Donnie Darko to use footage from The Evil Dead for free?
...that Hideo Nakata directed The Ring Two, making his English-language debut with a sequel to a remake of his own film?
...that in his youth, H. P. Lovecraft used Abdul Alhazred as a pseudonym?

...that Angus Scrimm, who portrays The Tall Man in the Phantasm series of films, is a Grammy Award winner?
...that a working title for Hellraiser was Sadomasochists From Beyond the Grave?
...that Asia Argento's first film (at age 16), 1993's Trauma, was directed by her father Dario Argento and featured her first nude scene?
...that the Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing?
...that the magazine Total Film named The Wicker Man (1973) the sixth greatest British film of all time?

...that Scream 3, at the time of its release, held the record for the highest number of screens on which a film in the United States had been released (3,467)?
...that Stephen King has said (in his book On Writing) that he does not remember writing the novel Cujo, as he was in a drug-induced stupor during its writing?
...that C.H.U.D. an acronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller?"
...that The Outer Limits originally ran from 1963 to 1965 for a total of 49 episoded on the U.S. broadcast network ABC?
...that an anime remake of Suspiria is in production (as of June 2006)?

...that Vincent Price was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity?
...that many of the scenes in Faces of Death and its sequels were faked?
...that Swedish death metal band Entombed recorded a cover version of the main theme from the film Phantasm?
...that David Cronenberg is an officer of the Order of Canada?
...that Ghoulies was actually developed prior to the release of Gremlins?

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