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Weird movie facts that will blow your mind

Think you know everything about movies? Well, then we know how to surprise you now. Here are some unusual movie facts that you probably don't know yet.

Weird movie facts that will blow your mind:

1. OJ Simpson almost played the Terminator, but James Cameron thought OJ was too nice to play such a dark character.

2. The sound of the velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, 1993) is actually the sound of turtles mating.

3. Do you know why Psycho (1960) is a black and white film? Hitchcock was criticized because the scene in the shower was too bloody.

The shower scene was too bloody.
The shower scene was too bloody.

4. The scene in the film Pulp Fiction (Šund, 1994), where Vincent stabs Mia in the heart with a needle, was filmed in reverse. So John Travolta pulled the needle from Uma Thurman.

5. The burning scene from the film Gone with the Wind (1939) was filmed by setting fire to the place where MGM kept the old sets.

6. During the filming of Poltergeist (1982), Robbie was literally suffocating in the grip of a robotic clown. Spielberg didn't notice until the boy turned blue in the face.

The boy was actually suffocating.
The boy was actually suffocating.

7. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon included a gay scene in the original script for Good Will Hunting (1997), just to see who actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein recognized the discrepancy and secured his job.

8. In the movie Django Unchained (Django unchained, 2012), Leonardo DiCaprio in a fit of anger crushes a glass with his hand, causing bleeding. It was actually an accident, and Tarantino decided to include it in the film.

9. Silent Hill (2006) is based on a real location, Centralia, Pennsylvania. The city is mostly abandoned, and everyone who has visited it says that they had an unpleasant feeling in the city.

'Silent Hill' actually exists.
'Silent Hill' actually exists.

10. Gregory Peck chose the role of The Omen (1976) in order to come to terms with his 'own demons' - his son committed suicide just before the audition.

11. Daniel Radcliffe's stuntman was paralyzed in the last Harry Potter film, so Daniel decided to raise funds for his university education.

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12. In The Hangover (2009), Ed Helms is also truly toothless. As a teenager, he got a permanent implant, and the dentist removed it for the filming of the film.

Ed was truly toothless.
Ed was truly toothless.

13. In the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939), the Wicked Witch of the West actually suffered severe burns in the fire scene.

14. Judith Barsi, the 10-year-old girl who played Anna-Marie in the animated musical comedy drama All Dogs go to Heaven (1989), died tragically just before the premiere.

15. When Alex was repeatedly dunked in a tub of water in A Clockwork Orange (1971), there was a tube under the water through which he could breathe. It got clogged, so all the drowning scenes are still somewhat real.

The drowning was somehow real.
The drowning was somehow real.

16. The movie Scream (1996) is based on a real murder spree in the nineties in Florida.

17. During the scene in the movie Alien (Osmi potnik, 1979), when he looks at an alien creature from the character's chest, the horrified reactions of the actors are completely real. The director did not tell the actors what was going to happen, so they were (uncomfortably) surprised.

18. In the movie Candyman (1992), Tony Todd put real bees in his mouth while filming this scary scene.

There are real bees in the mouth.
There are real bees in the mouth.

19. The voice of Boo from the animated film Monsters, Inc. (Monsters from the Closet, 2009) lent by Mary Gibbs, who was a toddler at the time of production. That's why the team couldn't get her to sit down and read the lyrics during filming. They followed her around the studio with a microphone.

20. Joe Pesci actually bit Macaulay Culkin's finger during the filming of Home Alone (1990).

21. ET (1982) and Poltergeist (1982) should actually be a single film called Night Skies.

22. Will Ferrell's reactions in the movie Elf (2003) in the scene with the 'surprise boxes' are real - the director surprised him with the contents of the box every time.

Will Ferrel never knew what was in store for him.
Will Ferrel never knew what was in store for him.

23. Jack Nicholson used a real gun in The Departed (Double Feature, 2006). He believed that the scene was not intense enough.

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