Half of 28 Days Later had to be scrapped due to a plothole. The Exorcist prequel was so bad, the entire film was reshot from start to finish. This is the only time this has happened in cinematic history. The director of Get Out shot scenes while doing the voice of Barack Obama and Forest Whitaker. An American Werewolf in London was the first film ever to win an Oscar for its makeup. It only took eight days to shoot The Blair Witch Project. The plot of Final Destination was meant to be used for an episode of The X-Files. Mel Brooks didn't tell anybody he produced The Fly because he was worried people would think the film was a comedy. The inventor, Thomas Edison produced the first Frankenstein film. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is very popular with the LGBTQ community.

Steve Buscemi nearly played Freddy Krueger. The ship in Alien was meant to be called The Snark. Eddie Murphy was meant to play the lead in Get Out. Evil Dead was turned into a Broadway musical in 2006. The Fly was turned into an opera in 2008. Friday the 13th was nearly called Long Night at Camp Blood. People complained about the Frankenstein film because it was too different from the novel. George A. Romero forgot to copyright Night of the Living Dead for 21 years. The theme song of Dracula is from Swan Lake. Jaws was meant to be called Stillness in the Water.

In Prometheus, Jesus Christ is an alien. The first horror film to win an Oscar was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One of the main actors in Alien3 is a murderer. The Sunken Place in Get Out is meant to represent how minorities' rights are ignored by society. None of the cast of Scream correctly guessed who the killer was. The killer in Halloween was meant to wear a clown mask. Brad Pitt hated working on Interview with the Vampire so much, he tried to quit. One of the actors to audition for Gremlins didn't get cast because he was "too good." The death scenes in Cannibal Holocaust are so realistic, the director was arrested for murder.

Think you know all there is to know about horror movies? Well, think again. 1000 Amazing Horror Movie Facts is chock full of fascinating and unusual facts about classic (and not so classic) horror movies. Blockbusters, B-movies, slashers, ghost stories, video nasties, anthologies, sequels, gore, cursed productions, what might have been, casting, controversy, and so on. So dim the lights and prepare to enter the spooky and blood drenched world of horror movies....

In one of the Jaws films, the shark roars... even though sharks don't have lungs. The kid who plays Damien in The Omen punched the director in his private parts during his audition. Johnny Depp made his film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Kathy Bates is the first actress to win an Oscar for acting in a horror movie. The word "pharaoh" is misspelt in the film, The Mummy. In Night of the Living Dead, the zombies rise from their graves after being exposed to "Venusian radiation." A meteor appears for a second in Jaws. Stephen King was taking cocaine while directing the film, Maximum Overdrive. Cat People was the first film to have a jump-scare. Hugo Weaving was strongly considered for the role of Pennywise in IT.

The fact that horror remains one of the most popular genres in the history of film and has produced so many classic titles, proves that we all thrive on suspense and audiences everywhere just love to feel the fear factor. Who among us can ever forget such all time favourites as Halloween, Psycho and Jaws? And no matter how many times we may have watched these cult films, they still manage to keep us on the edge of our seats. The Horror Movie Trivia Book is a definitive guide to things that go bump in the night and the 1,000 questions contained inside the cover will test your memory of the writers, characters, human and inhuman monsters that inhabit the world of horror. With sections on all the best-loved spine tingling films from yesteryear through to the current day, this book is a must have for all fans of the genre but be prepared for one or two surprises as, in the world of horror, things are not always as they seem.

The time machine in Back to the Future was meant to be a refrigerator. Steve Carell wanted to play the Joker in The Dark Knight. William Wallace was never called Braveheart. Die Hard started off as a sequel to Commando. Aliens were meant to appear in Dr. Strangelove. ET - The Extra-Terrestrial was nearly called A Boy's Life. Blade Runner and Alien take place in the same universe. The line "Play it again, Sam" is never said in Casablanca. Russell Crowe thought his dialogue in Gladiator was "garbage." The shark barely appears in Jaws because it kept malfunctioning. The Lion King is the most successful VHS film ever. Although Viggo Mortensen stars in The Return of the King, he thinks the film is overrated. Orson Welles hated the twist in Citizen Kane. In Star Wars, Han Solo was meant to be a green, gilled, noseless alien. Christopher Walken, Sean Connery, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tommy Lee Jones were considered for the role of Morpheus in The Matrix.