However, filming the scene was actually kind of difficult. Even tough guy Idris Elba, who was standing nearby, let out a squeal of surprise.Įspecially when he starts pulling out weapons.ĭuring one intense moment in the movie, DiCaprio's undercover cop is confronted by Nicholson's mob boss. So when actress Kate Dickie (who plays the ship's doctor) rolls the corpse over, a crew member yanked the monster out of the dummy's mouth, causing Dickie to yelp in alarm. He then told everyone on set to keep quiet and make sure the actors didn't see the storyboards for the day. Pulling pretty much the exact same stunt he used over 30 years ago, Scott replaced Spall with a dummy, loaded the Hammerpede puppet in its mouth, and connected the alien creature to a wire. The characters freak out, and–as you've hopefully guessed by this point–their screams are genuine. A little later on, his comrades stumble across his corpse, and when they turn his body over, the monster shoots up out of his mouth. In fact, it ends up with the Hammerpede crawling inside the scientist and killing him. In one of Prometheus's more infamous scenes, a biologist with questionable decision-making skills (played by Rafe Spall) tries petting the world's scariest space cobra. Several of the actors retreated to their dressing rooms to calm down, wipe the pig off their faces, and lower their blood pressure. The first take strategically brought the crew closer to the table by spurting only a small amount of fake blood, so when the next take left them all covered in the pig cocktail, their faces expressed true, terrified surprise. The rest of the cast was brought in unaware of the device about to spray them with pigs' organs, or why the film crew was wearing rain gear and protective plastic sheeting. John Hurt, the man whose innards are left on the faces of the unknowing cast, was taken aside during shooting and rigged up to a device loaded with the rancid organs of pigs. The cast had no idea the worm monster was going to pop out of their fellow actor's chest and splatter them all with blood and guts. Although, in 1979, the special effects sufficed to create the illusion of a creature violently exploding out of a human body, the real "magic" of this scene is how surprised and shocked the cast appears. After the filmmakers disappeared, the recovered footage led viewers to believe that they were lured and killed by the witch while filming their documentary.When that phallic alien burst out of the chest of the astronaut in Alien, it scared everyone, including the cast. The local lore suggested that the witch, Elly Kedward, had forced a hermit, Rustin Parr, to kidnap and kill eight children in the 1940s. The trio traveled to Burkittsville, Maryland to hike the Black Hills area in order to investigate the legend of the Blair Witch, a ghost that haunted the area after being banished for practicing witchcraft. Williams, and Joshua Leonard, three young, aspiring filmmakers. Presented as a documentary, The Blair Witch Project followed Heather Donahue, Michael C. The Blair Witch Project created a viral storm of suspicion but it has been credited as influencing a new segment of horror in the decades that followed. The 1999 found-footage film was written and directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. The Blair Witch Project was a fictional horror movie, but due to its innovative marketing techniques, many viewers walked away thinking it was a true story.
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