FILM 1660: RAW

TRIVIA: When shown on Gothenburg Film Festival, several attendants in the audience fainted and vomited. Over 30 people left the cinema prematurely and they had to take a break in the middle of the movie due to all the turmoil.

Director Julia Ducournau really wanted actress Garance Marillier, to work on her body and posture. You can see a drastic change between the beginning and the end of the movie, Garance Marillier 's posture changes as her character transforms.

The raw chicken that Justine is eating out of the fridge is actually sugar. Garance Marillier said about the scene that while it didn't disgust her from chicken, it did disgust her from candies for life.

BOOK 166: JUST CHECKING: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF AN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE: EMILY COLAS

Just Checking by Emily Colas is an account of her experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Divided into four sections, Colas provides snapshots of her life in a journal like manner. The text conveys her emotions regarding the disease throughout her entire life including her childhood and her role as a mother herself.

NARRATIVE MEDICINE

Just Checking fits into the literary genre of narrative medicine. Rita Charon describes Narrative Medicine as "medicine practiced with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness." The purpose of narrative medicine is to add a more meaningful component to sickness and disease. Emily Colas' literary work is an illness narrative because Colas describes her disorder with emotion. She covers all aspects of her life in regards to the disease through her narrative. She acknowledges the illness and releases her feelings towards her dysfunctional condition. Colas' narrative provides an outlet for her to discuss her disorder and reflect on her journey to recovery.

FILM 1121: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE

TRIVIA: The scene where Nosferatu arrives in the city required thousands of grey rats. Real grey rats were unavailable and therefore white ones were painted grey and used instead.

As this movie was made long after the copyright to Bram Stoker's Dracula had expired, Werner Herzog decided to restore the original names of the characters, while still following the movie blueprint laid out by F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922).

Klaus Kinski had to spend approximately four hours per day in make-up. Fresh latex ear pieces had to be poured for each day of shooting because they were destroyed at removal. Kinski, notorious for his violent daily temper-tantrums, had a very good relationship to Japanese make-up artist Reiko Kruk and was exceedingly patient and well-behaved during make-up.

One of five Dracula movies made and released around 1979. The films are Dracula (1979), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Love at First Bite (1979), Nocturna (1979) and Graf Dracula (beißt jetzt) in Oberbayern (1979). Also from 1979 were the vampire movies Thirst (1979) and Salem's Lot (1979).

CAMEO: Werner Herzog:  the person who sticks his foot into the coffin and gets his toe bitten by a rat.

FILM 1117: CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER

TRIVIA: After extensive re-editing and re-shooting by the producers, writer/director Ti West requested to have his name removed from the film and replaced with the popular pseudonym Alan Smithee. Since he was not a member of the DGA his request was denied by the producers and he remains credited as the film's director. West has since disowned the final product claiming that it is more a product of the producers and executives than that of his own. It is unknown if there will ever be a "directors cut" released featuring West's original vision.

Paul (Rider Strong) and Deputy Winston Olsen (Giuseppe Andrews) are the only characters from the first film to appear in the sequel.

The school mascot is a rabbit. In the original Cabin Fever (2002), Paul sees a guy in a rabbit suit at the hospital.

While at Lucille's diner, Winston orders pancakes. In the original Cabin Fever (2002), the little kid, Dennis, repeats "Pancakes!" over and over.

According to Fangoria magazine there were two separate drafts of Cabin Fever 2 written in 2004. One by famed original director Eli Roth and one by genre favorite Adam Green. However due to internal politics at Lionsgate both Green and Roth's scripts were set aside to bring in a completely new vision. When the film was eventually finished, it was shelved for several years.

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Film 1006: Curdled

Trivia: Though he didn't write the theme (as widely believed), and the music is not his usual style, Guns N' Roses guitar god Slash performs on the title theme.

The Gecko brothers from From Dusk Till Dawn are depicted as fugitives on a crime TV show spotlighting the "Blue Blood Killer".