Portal:Horror/Did you know archive/2007

...that Johnny Depp's first film appearance was in A Nightmare on Elm Street?
...that The Evil Dead was originally titled The Book of the Dead?
...that the subset of cultural studies dealing with issues related to gender as expressed through the content of the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer and to a lesser extent, Angel have been dubbed Buffy studies by academics?
...that Rasen and Ring were filmed and released concurrently with a shared cast but separate screenwriters, crews and production companies?
...that Sergey Lukyanenko, author of Night Watch was educated as a psychiatrist?

...that Witchfinder General is loosely based on Matthew Hopkins, who claimed to have been given the title of "Witch-finder General" by the Puritan Parliament?
...that Anthony Hopkins was the second actor to portray Hannibal Lecter (the first was Brian Cox who portrayed Lecter in Manhunter (1986))?
...that the making of From Dusk Till Dawn was documented in the feature-length film Full Tilt Boogie?
...that I Am Legend has been adapted to film three times (as The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), and I Am Legend (2007))?
...that the My Chemical Romance music video for the song "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us" was based on the film Audition?

...that the Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing?
...that Robert Englund, the actor who portrays Freddy Krueger, was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art?
...that in The Simpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror 2003 comic book, there is a story called "The Cask of Amontilla-D'oh!" which is a parody of "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?
...that director Ruggero Deodato is working on a sequel to his 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust?
...that Melanie Shatner, star of Bloodstone: Subspecies II and Bloodlust: Subspecies III, is the daughter of William Shatner?

...that Heather Langenkamp (star of A Nightmare on Elm Street and two of its sequels) attended Stanford University?
...that Anne Rice had gastric bypass surgery in 2003?
...that when responding to critics of his film Hostel, Eli Roth claims that "my film is not a geographical work but aims to show Americans' ignorance of the world around them?"
...that Lloyd Kaufman, founder of Troma and director of numerous films, was a friend of George W. Bush when the two attended Yale University?
...that Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft?

...that when Edgar Allan Poe died, he was wearing someone else's clothes?
...that actor Bruce Campbell plays himself in the forthcoming film My Name Is Bruce?
...that author Poppy Z. Brite self-identifies as a "non-operative transsexual?"
...that the success of the videogame Silent Hill has generated several comic books, one movie adaptation (with a second release under development), and several novelizations?
...that comic book writer Robert Kirkman is the principal writer behind both The Walking Dead and Marvel Zombies?