Quick #TheGoreYouKnow Trivia for the #MutantFam / @themutantfam.bsky.social as i am getting ready for weekend 6 of 7 at the local ren fair. It is a 3 day weekend, so won't be getting to the computer till monday night. See you then for the SplatterDay2K trivia.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994): Bill Johnson, who played Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), was offered the role of Leatherface. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

According to Freddy vs. Jason (2003) director Ronny Yu, the special effects team used 300 gallons of fake blood for the movie. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The total time the Maitlands are alive in Beetlejuice (1988), not counting the opening credits, is five minutes thirty-five seconds. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994): Stan Winston based the look of Claudia and Madeleine's charred corpses on archival photographs of the victims of The Hiroshima Bombing when he was sculpting the rough models. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Jamie Clayton could barely move while in costume as Pinhead in Hellraiser (2022), as it was very heavy and tight on her body. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Although playing a teenager, Wendy O. Williams was 36 years old when she filmed Reform School Girls (1986). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992) uses the same house from Motel Hell. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam
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Ritch Shydner, who played the Mailman in C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud (1989), was originally set to play Bud the Chud before Gerrit Graham was cast as Bud. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

It took five years to make Evil Ed (1995) which started as a short film project. All the trailers and "films-in-the-film"-scenes was the first sequences to be filmed. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

C.H.U.D. (1984): Laure Mattos, the movie's first on-screen victim, is the real-life wife of co-star Daniel Stern. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The Fury (1978) is the film debut for Daryl Hannah (portrays Pam), Laura Innes (portrays Jody), and Jim Belushi (uncredited). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

While the majority of Sisters (1972) was shot on 35mm film, the dream sequence was shot on 16mm film to give it a more gritty atmospheric appearance. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

As a young man, at his mother's urging, Brian De Palma followed his father and used recording equipment to try catching him with another woman. That incident inspired Dressed to Kill (1980). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Cat People (1982): Paul Schrader was first offered a revisionist remake script of Cat People (1942) by Alan Ormsby. Later, Schrader then re-wrote the screenplay and added the movie's twist ending. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Sleepwalkers (1992) cameos - Mark Hamill plays the policemen entering the house. Stephen King plays the graveyard caretaker. John Landis and Tobe Hooper play forensic technicians. Joe Dante appears as a laboratory assistant. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The Tobin Bell body cast used in the autopsy scene in Saw IV (2007) took two weeks to be constructed. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Contortionist Troy James portrayed the Jangly Man in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019). CGI enhanced the movements of his face, but he performed the movements of walking backward, and crawling upside down himself. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The War of the Worlds (1953): As an homage to Orson Welles and the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, voice specialist Paul Frees appears on-screen as a radio reporter, around 1:02:45, and does his famous Orson Welles's vocal impersonation. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam
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The original cut of The Stuff (1985) was said to be much longer and described by Director Larry Cohen as more "dense and sophisticated." Feeling that the film was too long, it was cut to increase the pace of the film. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social