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Actor Christopher Lee has never stopped growing since puberty. The 88 year old actor now measures 8' 7?. During the production of Hammer Studio’s Horror of Dracula, Lee was doubled by two stunt men, one sitting on the shoulders of the other. Mr. Lee has stormed off the set a record 22 times after being asked “how’s the weather up there?”

The 1971 film The Touch of Satan was one of the only Hollywood productions not actually touched by Satan. This was reflected in the film’s opening weekend gross which totaled $23.95.

As of 1965, 13 horror films had been made using Esperanto as the main language. After the release of Incubus, they were all rounded up and buried in a landfill in New Mexico.

The plot of the 1980 Italian science fiction horror film Contamination, featuring exploding alien eggs, was changed along with it’s original title, “Cinque morti per il coniglietto di Pasqua” (Five Deaths of the Easter Bunny).

In Italian, the name Lucio Fulci means “holy shit, look at all the blood.”

In Italian, the name Dario Argento means “I don’t know what I just saw, but it was lit well.”

The 1977 film Demon Seed contained neither demons nor seeds. However, it was the first horror film to feature a victim being crushed by the world’s largest Rubik’s Cube.

The 1986 horror zombie romp Night of the Creeps took three times longer to film than scheduled and went several thousand dollars over budget due to the coolness of Tom Atkins continually causing the film to freeze in-camera.

Jamie Lee Curtis has two pit bulls named Stop Frigging Asking Me and About Michael Myers.

For his work in Near Dark, actor Bill Paxton was paid 16 bottles of Miller beer, nearly three times his salary for Weird Science.

Fruits, vegetables and other foods will spoil in exactly 3 minutes when placed next to a DVD of Hobgoblins or Hobgoblins 2.

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