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Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>presents 40 Fascinating Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 5. STEPHEN KING WASN\u2019T A FAN OF THE SHINING<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> King didn\u2019t like the casting of Jack Nicholson either, claiming, \u201cJack Nicholson, though a fine actor, was all wrong for the part. His last big role had been in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>, and between that and the manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. But the book is about Jack Torrance\u2019s gradual descent <\/em>into madness through the malign influence of the Overlook\u2014if the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n 24. GENE HACKMAN WAS SLATED TO STAR IN\u2014AND DIRECT\u2014THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> 38. SISSY SPACEK WAS ADAMANT THAT HER OWN HAND APPEAR INCARRIE<\/em>\u2019S FINAL SCENE.<\/span><\/strong> Mental_Floss\u00a0presents 40 Fascinating Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 5. STEPHEN KING WASN\u2019T A FAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13753,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13751\/revisions\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nIn 1983, Stephen King told Playboy<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019d admired [Stanley] Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nGene Hackman and Orion Pictures split the $500,000 needed for the movie rights to the book. But\u00a0Hackman dropped out days after he watched clips of himself at the 1989 Oscars as FBI Agent Alan Parker in the violent Mississippi Burning<\/em>, deciding not to follow up a dark role with an even more unlikeable character.<\/p>\n
\nThough Brian De Palma wanted to get a stunt person for the final scene, where Sue Snell visits Carrie\u2019s grave, Spacek insisted that it needed to be her hand that was shown, which required her to be buried in the ground. \u201cI laughed about that,\u201d Spacek told NPR. “I do all my own foot and hand work, and always have.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"