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One of Freddy Krueger’s most infamous scenes—the homoerotic shower murder of Coach Schneider in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE—doesn’t actually feature Robert Englund, as New Line initially refused to hire him back after the first film. He was instead replaced with an unnamed stand-in to save money. After producers found the stand-in’s walk to be stiff and labored rather than scary, Englund was rehired. The shower sequence had already been completed, so the stand-in remains in the finished film.

One of Freddy Krueger’s most infamous scenes—the homoerotic shower murder of Coach Schneider in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE—doesn’t actually feature Robert Englund, as New Line initially refused to hire him back after the first film. He was instead replaced with an unnamed stand-in to save money. After producers found the stand-in’s walk to be stiff and labored rather than scary, Englund was rehired. The shower sequence had already been completed, so the stand-in remains in the finished film.

1,018,729 views • 1 month ago

Cassandra Peterson honed her tassel-twirling skills in the finale of ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988) when she worked as a teenage Las Vegas showgirl, where she practiced them extensively. She fought hard to keep the costly Vegas finale in the movie (it nearly got cut for budget reasons) and even performed the number while sick with a high fever from the flu.

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Cassandra Peterson honed her tassel-twirling skills in the finale of ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK (1988) when she worked as a teenage Las Vegas showgirl, where she practiced them extensively. She fought hard to keep the costly Vegas finale in the movie (it nearly got cut for budget reasons) and even performed the number while sick with a high fever from the flu.

662,442 views • 1 month ago

When J.J. Abrams was 15 years old, his father, producer Gerald W. Abrams, took him to an early rough-cut screening of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) at Paramount. After the screening, when John Carpenter solicited feedback, Abrams asked him what happened to Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau’s character) during the climactic scene in which the Duke (Isaac Hayes) speeds toward her—in the version he saw, her fate was unclear. Carpenter took the teenager’s note seriously. To fix it, Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey decided they needed a brief shot of Maggie’s body lying on the ground so that the audience would know she was killed in the crash. Carpenter subsequently staged the shot in his own driveway, with Barbeau lying on the ground doused with fake blood. Years afterward, Abrams told Cundey that he had attended that screening, and Cundey reportedly remembered the kid who asked the question.

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When J.J. Abrams was 15 years old, his father, producer Gerald W. Abrams, took him to an early rough-cut screening of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) at Paramount. After the screening, when John Carpenter solicited feedback, Abrams asked him what happened to Maggie (Adrienne Barbeau’s character) during the climactic scene in which the Duke (Isaac Hayes) speeds toward her—in the version he saw, her fate was unclear. Carpenter took the teenager’s note seriously. To fix it, Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey decided they needed a brief shot of Maggie’s body lying on the ground so that the audience would know she was killed in the crash. Carpenter subsequently staged the shot in his own driveway, with Barbeau lying on the ground doused with fake blood. Years afterward, Abrams told Cundey that he had attended that screening, and Cundey reportedly remembered the kid who asked the question.

420,372 views • 1 month ago

The script for FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) simply called for Crispin Glover’s character Jimmy to dance at the party—there was no elaborate choreography or intention to create an iconic scene. Glover instead based the moves on the unusual way he danced in clubs in the early 1980s. He timed the dance to “Back in Black” by AC/DC, but producers couldn’t license it, so they replaced it with “Love Is a Lie” by Lion. The resulting mismatch makes Jimmy’s jerky movements seem even stranger than they originally did.

The script for FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) simply called for Crispin Glover’s character Jimmy to dance at the party—there was no elaborate choreography or intention to create an iconic scene. Glover instead based the moves on the unusual way he danced in clubs in the early 1980s. He timed the dance to “Back in Black” by AC/DC, but producers couldn’t license it, so they replaced it with “Love Is a Lie” by Lion. The resulting mismatch makes Jimmy’s jerky movements seem even stranger than they originally did.

38,317 views • 1 month ago

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