Quick #TheGoreYouKnow Trivia for the #MutantFam / @themutantfam.bsky.social. I will be off line for a bit as faire starts today and runs 7 weekends.

If any one of the #MutantFam / @themutantfam.bsky.social comes to the Kansas City Renaissancnce Festival, stop by booth 357. Thats where i work. The faire is celebrating 50 years.

Okay, I am running late on getting stuff ready for ren faire in the morning so I am doing quick #ThegoreyouKnow Trivia for the #MutantFam / @themutantfam.bsky.social . You will get some tomorrow and then none on sunday, then some late Monday night.

Victor Miller utilized the working title "Long Night at Camp Blood" during the script writing process for Friday the 13th (1980). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Victor Miller adapted two novels into films: A Stranger Is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark was adapted into the 1982 film of the same name and the 1967 young adult novel The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell into the 1977 film of the same name. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Victor Miller wrote 255 episodes of the day time soap Another World. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Victor Miller launched his entertainment career in 1962 when he worked in TV programming at Benton & Bowles in New York. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Victor Miller claimed not to have seen any of the other Friday The 13th films, since he does not like the idea of Jason being the killer. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Scalps (1983) was shot without permits. #SplatterDay #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Filming on Scalps (1983) became frequently suspended due to the fact that actress Jo-Ann Robinson was fighting a serious illness at the time. #SplatterDay #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Scalps (1983) was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by 21st Century Film Corporation beginning in December 1983. #SplatterDay #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Scalps (1983): The "black trees" were actually a group of trees that had been recently charred by a brush fire on the ranch where filming was taking place, and were later worked into the script by director Fred Olen Ray. #SplatterDay #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

According to director Fred Olen Ray, Scalps (1983) was severely re-edited without his consent by the distributor at the time of its release. Scenes were added out of context which threw off continuity and gave away major spoilers. #SplatterDay #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Jack O'Lantern (2004): The Jack O'Lantern creature was played by various people. Mostly by director Ron McLellen, but also by Brooks Ross (Deke) and Barry Norman (Mechanic at shop). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Carved (2024) is based on the director Justin Harding's short of the same name (It was released in 2018). #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Pumpkins (2018) started filming on Halloween in 2017. It is inspired by 80s slasher movies but not set in any specific year. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The Pumpkin Karver (2006) director Robert Mann did the voice of the Pumpkin killer. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The Skull cracking noise at the end of The Spooky Pumpkin (2020) is a watermelon being smashed and a stick being broken. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Creek (2007) director Lola Wallace married Tom Devlin in 2011. He did key special makeup effects for all 3 of the movies she has directed. #SplatterDay2K #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Creek (2007) in Mexico is also known as Camino al horror. #SplatterDay2K #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The original title for Creek (2007) was The Unfortunate. #SplatterDay2K #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Creek (2007) had the working title of Ghoulde Creek. #SplatterDay2K #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Creek (2007) was first released as a dvd on July 23, 2007. #SplatterDay2K #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Early in Without Warning (1994), the town "Grover's Mill," Wyoming is mentioned. "Grover's Mill," New Jersey was the landing site of the first cylinder in Orson Welles' radio broadcast "War of the Worlds," which was an inspiration for this movie. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Mutant (1984): After the script was bought, the writers were contractually obligated to deliver a complete rewrite of the script within 30 days. They actually delivered it in 2 weeks by taking time off from work, working late, and working weekends. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam

The special effects crew that worked on Creature (1985) was the same that worked on Aliens (1986) a year later. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

The mine interiors for The Boogens (1981) were built in a disused grocery store. The interior of the house was a set built in an Elk's Lodge in Park City, Utah. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam

Without Warning (1980) director Greydon Clark doubled both Jack Palance and Martin Landau in long shots in which they either run or walk towards the alien. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Adventures in Babysitting (1987): Bradley Whitford was allowed to use his own Camaro for the movie. It has the license plate "SO COOL," the actual license plate Bradley had on his car. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social

Weekend at Bernie's (1989) was considered as a vehicle for Corey Haim and Corey Feldman early in production before it was decided to make the leads older. #TheGoreYouKnow #MutantFam @themutantfam.bsky.social