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• JAWS is still the No. 1 horror movie ever, with a worldwide gross of $470 MILLION.
• 37 Stephen King scary stories have been made into feature films.
• Jamie Lee Curtis starred in SIX horror movies. between 1978 and 1981, earning the nickname “THE SCREAM QUEEN.”
• 189 horror movies were released in 1972, the most prolific year in Hollywood for the genre.
• THE FIRST horror film, the 1896 French short Le Manoir Du Diable, is 2 minutes long.
• The first movie based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was 16 MINUTES LONG.
• The nightly wage for a zombie in 1978 was $1 ($3.35, adjusted for inflation), according to an extra who played one in that year’s Dawn of the Dead.
• 4267 Roxbury St, the house in Simi Valley, California, where POLTERGEIST was filmed, was last sold in 1979, for $143,500 ($431,247 today). Zillow estimates the home’s current value at $573,500.
• The real-life Wisconsin GRAVE robber and killer Ed Gein, who disembodied and skinned his victims in the 1950s, inspired THREE villians: Psycho’s Norman Bates, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Leatherface, and The Silence of the Lambs’s Buffalo Bill. Only ONE horror film has ever won an Oscar for best picture: The Silence of the Lambs, in 1991.
• The 12 part FRIDAY THE 13th film series has grossed a total of $380,637,525 at the U.S. box office, making it the top horror franchise in history. (Only 5 of the 12 movies were released on Friday the 13th.)
• The SIX part Saw series has grossed $370,203,890. The release of Saw VII in 3-D, on October 29, should push the franchise into the top-earner spot.
• Count Dracula, the most-often portrayed character in horror, has been featured in 162 MOVIES.

This was genuinely informing and entertaining. I cannot believe there have been six Saw’s (try saying that after a few Goldschlägers) of which I have seen two.

(Source: stumbleupon.com)