Most Startling Films Ever Made

SAW

SAW kicked off the fine era of torture movies. SAW was an absolute hit in its own gruesome, sadistic way.

The Shining

The Shining, debuting in 1980, is arguably the most important horror movie ever made. It was so popular because it was a disturbingly deranged psychological horror starring Jack Nicholson as a writer who becomes a caretaker at a Colorado hotel to cure his writer’s block…

The More You Know

Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.
In every scene of Fight Club, there is a Starbucks coffee cup.
Despite pulling in over $240m My Big Fat Greek Wedding never once topped the US box office chart.
The Candyman, played by Tony Todd, had to put real bees into his mouth to film the movie’s climax.

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