Incredible Horror Movie Facts - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975 – Directed by Jim Sharman)

Oakley Court was the rather grand and gothic house in Berkshire, England, used as the main location for the film, both inside and out. It has been used in many other horror movies including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1974), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Monster of Terror (1965), The Reptile (1966), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973), The Brides of Dracula (1960), The Old Dark House (1963), Witchcraft (1964), Nightmare (1964), Vampyres (1974) and The House in Nightmare Park (1973).

The follow-up film to The Rocky Horror Picture Show was the critical and financial failure Shock Treatment (1981). Despite its negative reputation it has recently gone on to be staged at the King’s Head Theatre in London. Unlike the movie it seems to have been greeted with positive reviews from both critics and audiences.

A third movie was written by Richard O’Brien in the late 80’s/early 90’s called Revenge of the Old Queen and featured Riff Raff being sent back to Earth from the planet of Transsexual by Frank ‘N’ Furter’s mother to find her son. In a rather postmodern way the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show exists within the narrative and the characters make reference to it - believing that it was based on a true story. It was in development at Fox but never went into production and currently looks like it will never be made. Then again, I don’t think anyone foresaw Shock Treatment being produced for the London stage!

Taken from Incredible Horror Movie Facts - Available to buy from Amazon

Killian H. Gore presents an incredible collection of shocking true tales from over 100 horror movies. From the weird to the scary to the completely unbelievable! Discover some of the most bizarre stories in the annals of horror film history and experience a little of the mad and the macabre with each bloodcurdling entry. Read all about... The haunted history of the Evil Dead cabin. The Jaws: The Revenge actress murdered by her father. The 9/11 victim who lived in the Amityville house. The stuntman mauled to death by a shark. The fired film director who returned to the set in disguise. The UFO incident that inspired The Blob. And finally, Killian H. Gore reveals the truth behind the story of Ellen Mort - the "serial killer in the family!" PLUS! The Wicker Man inspired short story: Morning Jogger.

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI - The complete set of questions from the Friday the 13th Quiz Book

Jason Lives: Friday the 13^th Part VI

QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Who plays Jason Voorhees in the film?

A) Kane Hodder

B) Derek Mears

C) Richard Brooker

D) C.J. Graham

2. Who directed the movie?

A) Joe Chappelle

B) Rachel Talalay

C) Tom McLoughlin

D) Rick Bota

3. The year before Jason Lives was released, Thom Mathews (Tommy Jarvis) starred in which other popular 80’s horror movie?

A) Day of the Dead

B) Evil Dead II

C) The Return of the Living Dead

D) Night of the Creeps

4. In the movie what has Crystal Lake been renamed as?

A) Forest Green

B) Diamond Lake

C) Woodland Green

D) Ruby Lake

5. How is Jason brought back from the dead at the beginning of the movie?

A) Tommy reads lines from The Book of the Dead

B) Mrs. Voorhees tells Jason to rise from the grave

C) An electrical cable falls onto Jason’s tombstone

D) Lightning strikes a metal fence post embedded in Jason

6) Which famous rock star provided three songs for Jason Lives?

A) David Bowie

B) Alice Cooper

C) Rob Zombie

D) Billy Idol

7) What was the film’s tagline on the theatrical poster?

A) Jason’s back

B) Jason returns

C) This Friday the 13^th – Jason comes home

D) Kill or be killed

8. What fake-name was the movie filmed under to protect the identity of the project?

A) Aladdin Sane

B) Watch That Man

C) Drive-in Saturday

D) Let’s Spend the Night Together

9. What kind of card floats in the puddle after Lizabeth is killed?

A) Greeting Card (Good Luck)

B) Playing Card (Jack of Hearts)

C) Credit Card (American Express)

D) Business Card (Swimming Instructor)

10. Who is Tom Fridley’s (Cort) famous Uncle?

A) Harvey Keitel

B) John Travolta

C) Bruce Willis

D) Tim Roth

11. Which character says, “Some folks have a strange idea of entertainment”?

A) Martin

B) Tommy

C) Sheriff Garris

D) Darren

12. Whose hands were actually used in the shot of Tommy opening Jason’s casket?

A) Gunnar Hansen’s

B) Robert Englund’s

C) Tom Savini’s

D) The director’s

13. During the paintball sequence what word is written on the headbands that Katie makes her colleagues wear?

A) Out

B) Victim

C) Killed

D) Dead

14. How many people does Jason kill with one swipe of his machete at the paintballing location?

A) 2

B) 3

C) 4

D) 5

15. Which of the following is the correct line that Deputy Rick Cologne says to Tommy when he points his gun at him?

A) Wherever the red dot goes… you bang

B) Wherever the red dot goes… you die

C) Wherever the red dot goes… you goes

D) Wherever the red dot goes… explodes

16. What is the name of the road that Megan asks her Dad to look for Darren and Lizabeth on?

A) Carpenter Road

B) Craven Road

C) Cunningham Road

D) Cronenberg Road

17. What song is Martin singing as he walks through the woods before he’s killed by Jason?

A) 99 Bottles of Beer

B) Whiskey in the Jar

C) Me and My Shadow

D) I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

18. According to Megan, what is more terrifying than Jason?

A) Jason’s Mother

B) The kid’s arrival at camp

C) Her Dad

D) Ghosts

19. What is the name of the cemetery that Jason is buried in?

A) Eternal Rest Cemetery

B) Eternal Peace Cemetery

C) Eternal Hope Cemetery

D) Eternal Faith Cemetery

20. What is the name of the card game that Sissy invents in the cabin?

A) Chase the Jason

B) Camp Jason

C) Camp Crystal

D) Camp Blood

21. When Cort and Nikki are having sex in the RV, how much longer does Nikki say it is till the end of the song?

A) 10 minutes

B) 5 minutes

C) 13 minutes

D) 6 minutes

22. Where does Jason shove Nikki’s head in the RV?

A) Down the toilet

B) Through a window

C) Into a mirror

D) Into a door

23. Whilst on the phone to Rick, where does Megan say her Dad is?

A) He’s out looking for Jason

B) He’s out looking for Tommy

C) He’s in the can, draining his lizard

D) He’s taking a leak

24. What is the name of the store that Megan meets Tommy at?

A) Rain’s General Merchandise

B) Chaney’s General Merchandise

C) Lugosi’s General Merchandise

D) Karloff’s General Merchandise

25. What is Cort doing when he is killed by Jason?

A) Checking the power cord on the RV

B) Having sex

C) Hiding on the roof of the RV

D) Driving the RV

26. How does Tommy escape from the cell in the Sheriff’s Office?

A) Megan holds Rick at gunpoint and makes him open it

B) Tommy picks the lock

C) Tommy steals the keys from Rick’s belt

D) Megan steals her Dad’s keys

27. What does Tommy say is the only way to stop Jason?

A) Decapitate him

B) Return him to his original resting place

C) Set him on fire

D) Inject him with water

28. How does Megan discover that Sissy is dead?

A) Her head falls from a tree into her lap

B) Her decapitated head rolls out of a police car

C) She finds her head in a rowing boat

D) Her head is catapulted through a window at her

29. How does Jason kill Sheriff Garris?

A) He bends his body back, snapping him in half

B) He twists his head off

C) He cuts his head off with a machete

D) He punches his fist into his chest, ripping his heart out

30. At the end of the movie, what indication does Jason give that he’s still alive (well, undead!)?

A) He jumps out of the water

B) His hand shoots up out of the water

C) His hand moves and his eye twitches

D) He suddenly opens both his eyes

31. What character was originally intended to be introduced at the end of the movie?

A) Jason’s son

B) Jason’s brother

C) Jason’s sister

D) Jason’s father

Jason’s Insanely Difficult Bonus Question!

Another performer played Jason for the paintballing sequence but was replaced by the film’s producers. What was his name?

ANSWERS FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE!!!

Jason Lives: Friday the 13^th Part VI

The Answers

1) D - C.J. Graham

2) C - Tom McLoughlin

3) C - The Return of the Living Dead

4) A - Forest Green

5) D - Lightning strikes a metal fence post embedded in Jason

6) B - Alice Cooper

7) D - Kill or be killed

8) A - Aladdin Sane

9) C - Credit Card (American Express)

10) B - John Travolta

11) A - Martin

12) D - The director’s (Tom McLoughlin)

13) D - Dead

14) B - 3

15) A - Wherever the red dot goes… you bang

16) C - Cunningham Road

17) D - I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

18) B - The kid’s arrival at camp

19) B - Eternal Peace Cemetery

20) D - Camp Blood

21) A - 10 minutes

22) C - Into a mirror

23) C - He’s in the can, draining his lizard

24) D - Karloff’s General Merchandise

25) D - Driving the RV

26) A - Megan holds Rick at gunpoint and makes him open it

27) B - Return him to his original resting place

28) B - Her decapitated head rolls out of a police car

29) A - He bends his body back, snapping him in half

30) C - His hand moves and his eye twitches

31) D - Jason’s father

Jason’s Bonus Question – Dan Bradley

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH EVERYBODY!!!

Taken from the Friday the 13th Quiz Book - AVAILABLE TO BUY ON AMAZON

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Excerpt - The Thingy from Another World (Chapter 13)

THIRTEEN

The creature that sat across the table from me was still partially human. I could make out human flesh and hair, fingers and bones... teeth shaped from bones. Sharp and hungry. A solitary eye seemed focused upon me, its gaze becoming more apparent as the remaining smoke drifted away. As it clarified it looked more and more like the eye had been fashioned from a nipple – I surmised that it couldn’t have been one of his actual eyes seeing as they had exploded out somewhere into the chilly canteen, probably looking at me now too.

       The center of its nipple-eye had the same verdure of the thing in the pallet, glinting at me, gawking at me. I found myself unable to move, the past and present events too peerless to comprehend. Around me I continued to hear the sniffles of snot and tears as people wept in fear. Incontrollable blubbering had replaced the screams that had only momentarily diminished. I wanted to be the one to perform the encore, screaming directly into the warped, grotesque beast that sat across the canteen table from me.

       It was a thing made up of my old workmate, Roger, and something entirely else. It sat there like a wild dog, breathing heavily, focused and ready to pounce. Visually it resembled a concoction of a man and a beast chewed up and spat out by a huge, bloodied and gaping mouth of razor sharp teeth, regurgitated back up. It was about the size of a bulldog, albeit a bulldog that had been turned inside out. I didn’t wish to study its body in too much detail but at a glance it brought to mind imagery from Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. If only I had a puzzle cube at hand to send the hellish creature back to the dark domain it emanated from. Unfortunately, I had no such device and so the animal remained, starkly, as real as my tuna sandwich and the blood stained playing cards, in the room with us all.

       The smoke that had once cloaked the whole canteen now only glided around its crazy flesh – clinging to it as if cradling it; protecting it. Somehow I didn’t fear it lurching up at me. It was as if it knew who it used to be, only moments ago. There was an ineffable understanding between us. Nothing on (what I assumed was) its face communicated any definite emotions towards me, and yet I felt safe before it.

       Finally (even though it was only actually a matter of seconds) it took its nipple-eye off me and moved its head around to look across the room. I think it was probably a reformed toe beneath its eye that appeared to be sniffing at the air. Sniffing the people in the room, the other life forms. The jagged bones that made up its terrible mouth snapped open and shut. Newly remodeled bones, modeled into small but immensely sharp teeth in a freakish little mouth of pain. Livid personified. Its head shifted back to me. Just for a second or two. Then it sprang from its seat and slapped down onto the cold, wet floor.

       Thingy, using its host’s hands to shift around upon, stumbled as it attempted to find its footing (or its handing, if you want to be pedantic). Its head was directed at the door and it began to sniff at the air again, like a tracker dog; a bloodhound with a purpose unknown. Pandora and Ellen attempted to clamber further behind the vending machine, with no further retreat available. The door was adjacent to the machine, and so close to the creature they clearly felt vulnerable. But Thingy wasn’t interested. Rising up onto its newly found and formed legs (Roger’s old fingers, I think) the messy gore-hound took one last sniff at the air and bolted out of the room, leaving behind a streak of greenish, white smoke and a collection of gasps, screams and cries from the room full of interrupted diners. I felt compelled to utter ‘You gotta’ be fucking kidding’, but thwarted by the intense seriousness of the situation, I refrained.

TAKEN FROM "THE THINGY FROM ANOTHER WORLD" BY KILLIAN H. GORE

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Children of the Corn 2009 - The strange version the Lifetime TV Network wanted to make

An interesting story features on the new Children of the Corn Trilogy Blu-ray from 88 Films. When director Donald P. Borchers was pitching the 2009 remake he received on offer from the Lifetime TV Network for $6 million. But... they had some notes. They wanted to lose the kids killing their parents story elements and drop the whole religion thing, stating that the kids can't be seen worshipping anything.

Naturally Borchers realised that they basically had taken the whole point of the story away so he sarcastically thanked them for their notes and said he'd accept the offer if he could just change the title to The Honeymoon Couple. Not quite getting the joke the executives at Lifetime said, "Well, if we change the title then what are we buying?"

The film ended up (with a lower budget) on the Syfy Channel and though it wasn't universally acclaimed it was, at least, more faithful to Stephen King's source material. I can't help but wonder what the movie would have ended up like if Borchers had accepted the Lifetime offer.