Did You Know?
As Halloween approaches and the night covers Broome County you may find yourself watching a scary movie or two at home to bury yourself in the season. Here’s some movie trivia you might want to share with the living.
Chucky’s full name from the “Child’s Play” slasher films is Charles Lee Ray. He was named after 3 famous Killers: Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray.
Did you know Jamie Lee Curtis was paid only $8,000 to star in the movie “Halloween”?
The Villain in the “Nightmare on Elm Street “movies, Freddy Krueger, was named after a boy who used to bully the movie’s director, Wes Craven in his younger school years.
Did you know the Blood used in the “Night of the Living Dead” was actually chocolate syrup?
Did you know “The Hills Have Eyes” was based on a real 15th century Scottish family of cannibals, the Sawney Bean Cave Clan. They lived in caves and only ventured out along the countryside to find their prey. Legend has it that in 25 years they may have claimed over 1000 lives.
American screen writer, actor & producer, Kevin Bernhardt, was also a graduate of SUNY Binghamton. To his long list of credits he also had a lead role in the horror film “Hellraiser 3”.
Did you know Leonardo DiCaprio was offered the lead role in “Hocus Pocus”?
Did you know a soon to be released horror film “ The Stay” was filmed in part at The Mad Hatter Antique Shop on Clinton St. in Binghamton?