This week marks the first entry in a new series of articles here at the Ghoulzone. Fake Larry’s Horror Facts is a regular column dedicated to listing interesting and little-known facts about horror films throughout history. Trust me, these nuggets of information aren’t available anywhere else on the interwebs. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and look. I dare you.

Anyways, here’s some trivia about horror films I bet you’ve never heard:

On the set of Star Wars in 1977, classic horror star Peter Cushing once caused a delay in filming when he overheard a crewmember remark “in them Limey monster movies, why didn’t Doctor Frankenstein just kill Dracula with a gun?” Mr. Cushing punched him in the mouth. The rest of the crew agreed the dude had it coming.

August 5th 1980: Sean Cunningham, director of Friday the 13th, spent his first night sleeping on a mattress stuffed with money. The mattress was later repossessed by Paramount.

In November of 2010, Lion’s Gate announced plans to continue the Saw series, with the franchise officially ending with number 614. When asked if he would return for the sequels, Tobin Bell said, “just shut the fuck up and sign the check.”

During the preproduction for the 2003 film Freddy vs Jason, director Ronny Yu created controversy when he decided to replace Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four Friday the 13th films, with comedian Colin Mochrie. Fans reacted to the decision by calling Yu a “massive fucktard”. The film was a huge hit in Canada.

All of the computer effects for Piranha 3D were produced using only Flash animation over the course of a single drunken weekend.

Bruce Campbell’s actual birth name is Andy Dick. Coincidentally, Andy Dick’s actual birth name is Fake Shemp.

It took six lobotomy patients 9 months to write Return to Sleepaway Camp. Only one was needed to direct the film.

John Carpenter has signed away the remake rights to his colon for 65 bajillion dollars.

In Rob Zombie’s Halloween, the mask of Michael Myers, his entire wardrobe, the shooting script, and the inside of Rob Zombie’s skull were all constructed entirely out of hemp.

Adam Green’s first movie Hatchet was filmed using an all-dwarf cast. Modern digital techniques were used to make the characters appear to be of average height. This technique was not used on Adam Green.

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