FILM 1764: VAMPIRE'S KISS

FILM 1764: VAMPIRE'S KISS

TRIVIA: Peter's strange accent is supposed to be a fake accent used by the character because he thinks he sounds more "elegant" and "smarter" (hence the literary agent job). The accent comes and goes throughout the movie and is more prominent when trying to impress people, and less in scenes with people like the psychiatrist.

A popular image macro meme was taken from a still frame from this movie, in the scene where Cage's character is telling Alva that she is the lowest employee on the totem pole.

Nicolas Cage playing Peter Loew ate a real cockroach for this film - it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."

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FILM 1137: THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY

The life of '80's fashion designer/queer icon Leigh Bowery is explored in this documentary.

Film 1028: Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary

Trivia: Director 'Robert Altman' had planned to make a feature film based on this documentary, but died before the project could be realized.

In 2005, the competition was halted after one of the contestants broke into a nearby Kmart, took a shotgun from the sporting goods section, and committed suicide, which occurred during one of the breaks in the contest.

Film 1007: Pin

Trivia: The film that Leon (David Hewlett) and Marcia see while on their date is Scanners. David Hewlett would later star in Scanners II: The New Order.

Film 973: Arsenic and Old Lace

Trivia: Cary Grant donated his entire salary, $100,000, to the U.S. War Relief Fund.

Ronald Reagan and Jack Benny were offered the role of Mortimer Brewster, but turned it down. Bob Hope was offered the part and was eager to do it but Paramount Pictures refused to loan him out to Warner Bros. for the project.

Cary Grant considered his acting in this film to be horribly over the top and often called it his least favorite of all his movies.

On stage, Boris Karloff played the monstrous Jonathan Brewster, Raymond Massey's film character, who, in eerie-looking screen makeup, resembled Karloff, which was a running gag throughout the picture. Because Karloff was still appearing in the Broadway play during the film's production, he was unable to do the picture.

When Mortimer is sitting in the graveyard, one of the tombstones has the name Archie Leach on it. Archie Leach is Cary Grant's real name.

Jonathan describes one of his killings and Dr. Einstein says "You can't count him. He died of pneumonia," then Jonathan replies "He wouldn't have died of pneumonia if I hadn't shot him." This connects to the United States Presidents theme in the film. In 1881, President James Garfield was shot by a drifter named Charles Guiteau. Garfield recovered from the wound, only to catch pneumonia from tainted surgical tools, and died 79 days after the shooting. Guiteau's courtroom defense was that Garfield died of pneumonia; the verdict was, in effect, that Garfield wouldn't have died of pneumonia if Guiteau hadn't shot him. Guiteau was sent to the execution dock in 1882.