The movie boasted one of the most disturbing scenes in cinema in which a character willingly and joyfully hanged herself at a birthday party attended by young children. It also features a particularly disturbing decapitation scene, one of mainstream Hollywood's first. "If there were a special Madame Defarge Humanitarian Award for best decapitation, .... READ MORE ...
Halloween premiered on October 25, 1978, in Kansas City, Missouri, and a few days later in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.[26] Although it performed well with little advertising???relying mostly on word-of-mouth???many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film. The first glowing review by a prominent film critic, however, came .... READ MORE ...
Slither was a box office bomb, earning a disappointing $3,880,270 in its opening weekend, and grossing a worldwide box office total of $12.2 million, substantially less than its total budget of $29.5 million (when marketing costs are included).[1] Consequently, Slither's poor box office performance may have a profoundly negative affect on the futur .... READ MORE ...
The film was a phenomenal success. It spawned several sequels, as well as making a horror icon of the film's villain, Freddy Krueger. By the time of the film's second sequel, Freddy was a household name, appearing on t-shirts, masks, action figures, candy, magazines, trading cards and much more. The character remains, along with Friday the 13th's J .... READ MORE ...
In the original Damien knocked Katherine over the railings by bumping his tricycle into the chair she was standing on at the time. In this version Damien used his scooter instead.
In the remake, recent events were purported to fulfill Biblical end-time prophesies, such as the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the .... READ MORE ...