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10 Horror Movie Mistakes Directors Refused To Fix Because The Acting Was Too Good
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00:00Life often imitates art when it comes to film, as demonstrated by the long list of horror movies with cursed sets.
00:07Thankfully, we won't be talking about the various deaths and injuries that have occurred whilst filming spooky movies over the years.
00:13Instead, let's talk about some of the more light-hearted mess-ups in horror history, the ones that were so easily overcome that directors just chose to leave them in.
00:22It's testament to the cast involved in these movies that they were able to power through when everything around them was falling to pieces.
00:29In some cases, they acted so well that you wouldn't even notice that there had been an error.
00:34So with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture, here with 10 horror movie mistakes directors refused to fix because the acting was too good.
00:42Number 10. You hit me with the phone in Scream.
00:46Phones play a pretty big part in Wes Craven's satirical triumph, Scream.
00:50The very first scene we get from the movie involves one, as Casey Becker first meets Ghostface.
00:55The device also comes into play during the movie's most famous accident-prone moment.
01:00Towards the film's thrilling climax, Sidney Prescott turns the tables on killers Billy and Stu, taunting them in much the same way they taunted her.
01:08She is on the phone with a bloodied Stu as Billy goes mad behind him.
01:12Billy grabs the phone from Stu, screams at Sidney and then throws it back at his accomplice.
01:17However, because of all the fake blood, the headset got stuck to his hand and then flung off right into the back of Matthew Lillard's head.
01:25Like an absolute pro, the victim of this phone-based assault carried on with a quiet ow before yelling,
01:31You hit me with the phone!
01:33Although to keep this PG, we've left out two words from that section of dialogue.
01:37Number 9. An expensive error in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
01:41There are many questions surrounding the 1997 horror parody movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
01:47The major one being, why?
01:49Why did anyone think this would be a good idea?
01:51Because it's schlocky self-aware goodness, that's why.
01:55Director John DiBello must have thought, why is this happening to me, when a stunt during filming went very wrong.
02:02Whilst filming a scene where a helicopter was supposed to land in the background,
02:05the whirlybird lost control and slammed into the ground.
02:08Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt, but the low-budget film's bank balance took a hefty hit as the chopper was valued at $60,000.
02:16However, because everyone just sort of went with it, footage from the smash ended up in the film itself.
02:22That and because there was no chance they could get the money for another helicopter.
02:26The script was changed so that one of the eponymous mutant foodstuffs took the aircraft down
02:31and the close-ups of the cast members watching the crash are nothing short of hilarious.
02:35If this accident was going to happen on any film set, this was probably one of the better ones.
02:40Number 8. The Moving Hump in Young Frankenstein.
02:44Mel Brooks is a very silly man.
02:46You don't get to pen such comedy classics as Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Spaceballs by taking yourself too seriously.
02:53His comedy horror Young Frankenstein is no different.
02:56A much more light-hearted version of the classic Mary Shelley tale, with Gene Wilder as the mad scientist
03:02and a rendition of putting on the Ritz that will leave you in stitches.
03:06See what we did there?
03:07One of the many funny parts of this film is Igor, the Doctor's disfigured assistant as played by Marty Feldman.
03:14As well as his many great lines, Igor also offers up some physical comedy in the form of an ever-changing hump in his back.
03:21Feldman had been moving the prosthetic around to different places on his body for days until the crew caught on.
03:27Something that would have derailed any other production actually added to the bizarre hilarity of Young Frankenstein,
03:33and so Brooks made the call to leave it in.
03:36It's exactly the sort of ridiculous humour that the writer is known for,
03:39so it's surprising to find out that it wasn't his idea in the first place.
03:43Imagine if he hadn't liked it!
03:45Number 7. A Shocking Oversight in The Thing.
03:49One of the many great jump scares in John Carpenter's The Thing comes when Camp Doctor Copper attempts to restart the heart of geologist Norris.
03:57You sure picked a great time to have a heart attack, didn't you Norris?
04:00As the physician goes to defibrillate his co-worker, he gets quite the shock when his chest opens up to form a giant, gaping mouth.
04:07This shock only gets bigger when said mouth rips his arms off, killing him instantly.
04:12Talk about an accident in the workplace.
04:14It turns out that Norris was infected by the titular thing, leading to Kurt Russell's McCready incinerating the monster before it can harm anyone else.
04:22Spoiler, it harms a lot more people.
04:24The residents of the research station were actually lucky not to have been in a real emergency,
04:29as Doctor Copper was actually a complete fool.
04:31When he tries to defib Norris, he goes to shock his stomach rather than his chest.
04:36This is clearly because the prosthetics for the creature had to be fitted into Norris's stomach,
04:40but thankfully nobody really cares about this medical infraction as this scene is just so damn iconic.
04:46Number 6. Who's That in The Ring?
04:49In terms of English language remakes of foreign language horrors, you can't do much better than 2002's The Ring.
04:56This fabled tale of a haunted videotape scared the living conkers off us all,
05:00and has made everyone fearful of little girls with long black hair ever since.
05:04Plenty of creepy things happen in The Ring. Of course they do, it's The Ring.
05:08But one of the low-key creepiest might have happened by happy accident.
05:11Naomi Watts' Rachel goes with her ex-boyfriend to collect her cursed son Aiden from her sister's house.
05:17As they are about to leave, for the briefest of brief moments,
05:20a shadowy figure can be seen lurking in the doorway behind them.
05:23Is this Rachel's sister? Is it an apparition caused by the haunted tape?
05:27Is it an overly keen pizza delivery driver?
05:30We can't say for sure, but in all likelihood, it's a crew member who walked into shot by mistake.
05:36Thankfully, none of the cast seem to notice or care that this person is there,
05:39and their shadowy frame only serves to heighten the tension of what is an already buttock-clenching experience.
05:45Number 5. Right in the face in The Exorcist
05:49Watching The Exorcist is never usually a fun experience,
05:52so imagine how bad it must have been making the damn thing.
05:55Of course, the opportunity to be part of one of horror's greatest institutions
05:59is nothing to sniff at, but the actors in the film had to endure some pretty frightening and disgusting stuff,
06:04especially Jason Miller, the man who played Father Karras.
06:08Tasked with removing the evil entity inside of little Reagan McNeil,
06:12Father Karras communes with the demon as the young girl acts as a conduit.
06:16During one famous scene, Pazuzu lures the man of the cloth into a false sense of security
06:20before spewing horrible green vomit directly into his godly visage.
06:25Miller had been told that the fake spew, which was really coloured porridge,
06:28would hit him in the chest. However, when the cameras were rolling for real,
06:31the gloop was aimed a little higher. The actor's reaction was completely genuine,
06:36which was just one of the many ways the cast of this film were tortured in the name of art.
06:41Number 4. A Nightmare to Film in A Nightmare on Elm Street
06:45It's a well-known fact that Johnny Depp is in the first Nightmare on Elm Street film,
06:49but what isn't such common knowledge is just how difficult it was to film his death scene.
06:54Playing Glen Lance, the boyfriend of lead character Nancy Thompson,
06:58Depp makes the number one mistake in this franchise and takes a nap.
07:01He is then pulled through his bed as a geezer of blood shoots up onto the ceiling in a truly stunning visual.
07:07Stunning, but also tricky as hell. To get the shot required, the scene was filmed in a rotating room,
07:13and the fake blood was poured in from the top to appear like it was shooting out from the bottom.
07:18Unfortunately, this water-based solution ended up electrocuting a crew member
07:22when it landed directly on a lamp. Then, because the fake blood was so heavy,
07:26it made the room tip round, making things much trippier than the crew had originally envisioned.
07:31Huge congrats to Depp and Sandy Lipton, who played his character's mother,
07:35for managing to power through such a chaotic scene.
07:37Glen's death is really well acted, as are his mother's harrowing screams.
07:42Oh, and the guy who got electrocuted was fine, in case you were wondering.
07:46Number 3. Merman Malfunction in The Cabin in the Woods
07:50Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods ends with a giant hand shooting out of the earth
07:54to initiate the apocalypse. This is what we call in the business going over the top,
07:59and it turns out that excess is hardwired into this movie's DNA.
08:03During one of the highlights of the film, the part where all the cage monsters escape
08:07and run rampant throughout the facility, technician Steve Hadley meets his horrifying end.
08:12After banging on all movie about wanting to see the Merman in action,
08:17Hadley ends up getting eaten alive by, you guessed it, the Merman.
08:21How exciting for him!
08:23In a really nice visual, the Merman starts ejecting Hadley's blood via its blowhole,
08:28and then it keeps ejecting, and ejecting, and ejecting.
08:32What had happened was the pump inside the prop had broken, causing it to spew the red viscous liquid continuously.
08:39It was only when the fake blood tank started to run out that the crew finally intervened.
08:43This blunder was so gory and so in keeping with the film's mad nature that it was kept in the final cut.
08:49Feel sorry for whoever had to mop those floors though.
08:52Number 2. The Impossible Hotel in The Shining
08:56We've talked a lot about the difficult on-set conditions faced by actors in this list so far,
09:01and now Stanley Kubrick is here.
09:03Terrific!
09:04The auteur famously made life hell for his stars during the filming of the phenomenal 1980 version of The Shining.
09:10Poor Shelley Duvall suffered so badly that her hair started to fall out.
09:14It wasn't just those in the film that Kubrick relentlessly messed with, it was us at home too.
09:19One of the most subtle bits of mind-bendery that Stan employed was to leave several mistakes scattered throughout the layout of the Overlook Hotel.
09:27For example, when young Danny is playing in the hotel hallway, the patterns on the carpet change mid-scene.
09:33Also, when we first meet its manager, we see that his office has a window in it.
09:37This, despite the fact that the room is in the middle of the hotel.
09:40None of this really matters because these errors were actually left in on purpose.
09:44They were designed to make the actors and the audience feel disorientated and to add to the otherworldly nature of the space.
09:51Number 1. Most of it, to be honest, in Jaws.
09:55Jaws might be one of the most important films in popular cinematic history, but it was a bloody pain in the arse to make.
10:01Because young Steven Spielberg was an absolute nutter, he insisted on filming the movie's ocean sequences on the actual ocean.
10:08Now, the ocean is not known as a particularly helpful entity, as Steve found out first-hand.
10:14The Big Blue went to town on this production, wreaking particular havoc on the several mechanical sharks the crew were using to simulate the film's villain.
10:22They broke down, they got rusty, they got tangled up in seaweed.
10:26It honestly would have been easier and safer to use a real shark.
10:29As a result for most of the movie, Bruce, the shark's nickname, is barely seen, merely hinted at underwater.
10:36Not only did this create some incredible suspense, but it also drew excellent performances out of the actors.
10:42Turns out, you can act a whole lot better when you're not looking at a beat-up rubber fish.
10:46And that concludes our list.
10:48If you think we missed any, then do let us know in the comments below.
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11:01I've been Ellie with WhatCulture, I hope you have a magical day, and I'll see you real soon.
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