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Showing posts with label insect. Show all posts
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Monday, 3 April 2017
Monday, 17 February 2014
Monday, 3 February 2014
Film
1078: Mimic
Trivia: Director
Guillermo del Toro
disowned the film after constant clashes with Bob Weinstein, who would
frequently visit the set and make unreasonable demands about what should be
shot, deviating away from the script. Since then del Toro has never worked with
the Weinsteins.
The
scene where Mira Sorvino
and Jeremy Northam walk in the
hall with all the sick kids lying in their beds was actually directed by Ole Bornedal, one of the
producers on the film.
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Film
1016: Bug
Trivia: The
title's (mis)translation in Russia is "Glitches"
The
Apartment set was built inside a high school gymnasium in Metairie, Louisiana.
During
the shoot, many of the crew members got rashes from bed bugs in their hotel
rooms.
Jodie Foster was
considered for the Ashley Judd
role.
Michael Shannon reprises
the role he played in the stage version.
The film
was shot in July and August of 2005 in Southern Louisiana, and wrapped up only
a week before Hurricane Katrina hit the area; the cast and crew narrowly
escaped the disaster by only a few days.
According
to Lynn Collins, director William Friedkin never
took more than four takes to get a scene in this film, and in fact worked so
fast that the actors sometimes had to beg him to do a second take when he
thought they'd nailed it the first time.
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Sunday, 11 August 2013
Film
971: The Tingler
Trivia: The
earliest film to depict an LSD trip.
William Castle toyed with
other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among
them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers
mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler
appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical
device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of
doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the
appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.
This
film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden
Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's
book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
Pamela Lincoln and Darryl Hickman, who play
the young suitors, actually got married on November 28th after the Tingler
release on July 29th 1959. They had two children, and divorced on December 8th,
1982.
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