Topic: Horror Fact of The Day - January

I am currently doing this thing on twitter when I tweet a new fact about horror every day so I thought i would post it here aswell. Sorry if this sounds utterly stupid, but its here if anyone is curious.

3rd – The inspiration for Black Sabbath's band title was Mario Bava's 1963 Italian horror film of the same name

4th – The 1929 ballet 'The Innocence and The Beast' was the inspiration for Edgar Wallace's classic story of King Kong

5th – Argento's Tenenbrae used to be cut in his own Italy due its graphic scenes of Berlusconi's ex wife playing a victim

6th – Rosemary's Baby (1968) was filmed in the same apartment building (The Dakota) where John Lennon was shot outside of

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I like this idea.  A little bit of horror info a day keeps, um, romantic comedies away!

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Oliver Reed was considered for the part of Quint in "Jaws" (1975).

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I like that ideas

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7th – Gremlin's (1984) used techniques originally applied in the Muppet Show to bring it's minituare monster's to life.

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The Song "Maniac" from FLASHDANCE, should played on the Movie MANIAC, but he send the wrong tape to the Wrong Directors

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Godzilla has such kewl radioactive breath

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markus wrote:

The Song "Maniac" from FLASHDANCE, should played on the Movie MANIAC, but he send the wrong tape to the Wrong Directors


Oh wow!  I just had a visual of Joe Spinell doing Flashdance...   Hehe

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The Horror Punk band Misfits named a lot of their songs after Horror movies titles of which they're big fans. Horror Hotel for example.

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Azathoth has a small winky.

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markus wrote:

The Song "Maniac" from FLASHDANCE, should played on the Movie MANIAC, but he send the wrong tape to the Wrong Directors

Yeah, he was inspired to write that song by the movie.  Obviously he changed some of the lyrics, since Maniac wasn't about a steel town girl on a Saturday night looking for the fight of her life, but hey,  it was (and still is) a pretty cool song.