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We'll be looking at interesting little known facts about the genre's most popular icons.

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The inspiration behind ghost face mask scream franchise, the now infamous Ghostface mask comes with some interesting behind the scenes anecdotes.

According to various reports, producer Marianne Maddalena discovered the item during pre production for the film.

She then brought it to the director Wes Craven costume every state.

There's no way to track the purchase from there.

The director set about getting it into the final movie.

He initially had designers make a variation of the mask that can still be spotted in the film.

A great example of what it would have looked like is seen when Principal Henry looks in the mirror in the first scream.

However, Craven was eventually able to strike a deal with the costume company fun world for the rights to use the original mask, it's safe to assume the movie brought a lot more attention to this costume piece, but this is known to be the same costume worn by the killer 17 year old Casey Becker and her boyfriend steven Orth have already lost their lives who's next number nine, the inspiration behind john Kramer a K A jigsaw saw franchise inspiration can come from a number of sources for writers.

Saw writer Lee Juanele had an interesting epiphany during a potentially distressing situation.

What's going on here?

Name is Lawrence Gordon?

I'm a doctor.

I just woke up here just like you when, when L was struggling with a series of migraines, he sought medical help to make sure he was all right.

While he was in the midst of this, he came up with the idea for john Kramer A K A Jigsaw.

His name is john dr Gordon.

He's a very interesting person.

Thank you for that information.

Zep, the fictional character is a terminally ill man that was told by doctors to make the best of his time remaining.

He then creates situations that forces strangers to solve sick obstacles in a limited time in order to survive.

Considering that this concept has spawned nine films and counting it's mind boggling to think that it all started with Bad migraines.

Number eight, Jason's musical thoughts, friday the 13th franchise.

Although Jason Vorhees is all sorts of creepy.

Already an interesting fact regarding his well known theme.

Music really adds to his frightening performer.

The original film's composer, Harry Manfredini added some breathy whispered bits of human sounds into the mix casual listeners have heard during Jason's exploits.

In an interview, composer, Harry Manfredini revealed that those aren't just random sounds.

In fact, he personally whispered these monosyllabic utterances are intentionally shortened versions of the words kill and mummy, they're meant to echo Pamela Vorhees line in the 1980 film, killer.

Mommy killer.

While the score was creepy enough to begin with, we now have this to ponder every time Jason is on the prowl.

Number seven Leatherface wears three different masks.

The texas chainsaw massacre.

When we say leatherface, there's usually one mask that comes to mind.

His poorly stitched face covering constantly haunts our dreams.

But leatherface actually wore three separate masks.

In the first film, they were known as the killing old lady and pretty woman masks, respectively.

These are meant to indicate old leathery moods and intentions.

Killing mask was fittingly for aggressive actions.

The old lady is worn with an apron to represent domestic chores.

Are you sure?

Lastly the pretty woman mask is worn for dinner with a woman's wig.

The latter is obviously the best choice for a deranged bachelor like him.

It's a little strange to think of him running to change his masks were also left wondering if he had more for other hilariously specific occasions.

Number six.

Mark inspiration for Pennywise, It franchise.

Well, I'm Pennywise, the dancing clown.

Pennywise, Yes, me George georgie meet Pennywise though many have thought that john Wayne gacy must have been the inspiration for Pennywise, the dancing clown.

It apparently wasn't so Stephen King has confirmed that he chose a clown as Children are very often frightened of them and an experience he had on an airplane undoubtedly aided in cementing the character, pardon me, miss what time did we get the Denver were due to arrive at 8 20 sir, thank you very much.

King was once on a flight that was slightly delayed for a late passenger.

That person was wearing a full Ronald Mcdonald get up shortly after the clown ordered a drink, smoked cigarettes.

Since this was the late 19 seventies and it sat beside King boy Encounter definitely pushed pennywise to the forefront of it.

Now we can't see the golden arches without thinking of the horrifying clown.

# five Michael Myers is the shape Halloween franchise, Michael Most people will just know him by his iconic name, Michael Myers.

However, in the first Halloween film, the intimidating villain was referred to as the shape.

In the credits reports indicate that director john Carpenter initially called the villain that when putting the script together, although it seems a little odd, it makes sense when you consider that Michael Myers most often appears as a sort of dark specter like shape until he gets really close.

Incidentally harmful spirits were referred to as shapes during the 1690s.

Salem Witch trials, it's safe to say Myers would fit in with that dark and possibly magical vibes considering how many times he's escaped death, but we still don't think we'll start calling him the shape anytime soon.

Mom, I wanted to kill him.

# four sent about design inspiration.

Hellraiser franchise explorers.

In the further regions of experience demons to some angels, to others when it came time to design the center bites for Clive barker's Hellraiser film.

His team was instructed to create magnificent super butchers that depicted a repulsive glamour barker also wanted the creature's looks to remind people of everything from Catholicism to S and M at once.

The design team definitely delivered as the center bites are pretty much horrifying butcher priests that definitely have an affinity for leather isn't for your eyes.

When it came to the design for pinhead, it took a few attempts to get it right.

The team eventually thought pins covering his entire face in a geometric pattern would be the best and create an interesting shadow.

However, since the pins didn't pop on camera, nails were used instead, we have such sights to show you.

Number three practical effects and multiple Chuckie's Child's play high, It's me Chuckie.

What do you think when the original child's play film was produced in the late 1980s, seamless digital visual effects that were still much a thing of the future?

What they did have back then was impressive practical effects.

What's wrong?

Gun, Jim the Chucky doll was a nice blend of animatronic technology coupled with some forced perspective tactics.

Since the filmmakers needed it to display different attitudes and move in certain ways, multiple dolls were created, some could even be controlled via remote control to move the face and thanks to a combination of real actors playing the doll and more than a few puppeteers Chuckie's movements felt real.

Mhm.

Getting the horror icon to look scary was far from child's play Number two Freddie's killing tool, a nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

Why are you screaming yet?

The character of Freddy praise on the fears of his victims.

A similar line of thinking led Wes craven to find his inspiration for the Gauls iconic knife glove.

During the early script stages, he watched his cat just messing around with its natural claws.

He also thought far back to the beginning of humanity and thought about the various clawed animals.

They would have been afraid of these ideas.

Eventually translated into Freddy's iconic glove.

While it still sends chills down our spines, we can't deny how cool it is to see the villain scratch the walls with his homemade clause.

We're really glad that Wes craven was a cat person ever played skin the cat.

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Number one death by sunlight.

Nosferatu remember Bram stoker's dracula, he would die if he was exposed to direct sunlight.

Right surprisingly, that's not the truth contrary to some beliefs, the vampire, like any other night creature can move about by day though it is not his natural time and his powers are weak.

The idea that vampires turned to dust in sunlight is far more recent than you think.

Thanks to Nosferatu in the book, count, dracula is merely weaker during the day, turning full vampire only in the night time hours, creatures of the night were not averse to taking a stroll in the afternoon sun, but in the 1922 film, Nosferatu, a vampire dies via sunlight for the first time, although many copies of the film were destroyed due to a legal dispute with stoker's estate.

The idea of a sunlight weakness stuck.

It's wild to think that generation of vampire stories were affected by one movie.

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