It was the first time Bank had seen Regehr in his full vampire regalia, and the sight of those fangs caused her to freak out. While it works perfectly for the scene, the young actress really was afraid. The count then reveals his red eyes and pearly whites, causing the 5-year-old to scream in terror. As the heroes battle it out with the monsters, Dracula approaches the girl, lifts her up by her chin, and angrily demands she hand over the all-powerful jewel. Played by actress Ashley Bank, Phoebe Crenshaw is a little kid who winds up with the amulet in the film's climactic showdown. However, standing between the count and unlimited power is one 5-year-old girl. Played by Duncan Regehr, this Transylvanian vampire wants to get his undead hands on an amulet that will help him conquer the world. There's the Gill-Man, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man, but of course, the scariest of the bunch is the bloodsucker himself, Count Dracula.
Spend a time memorizing your lines, do a little acting, and hope he doesn't shoot you in the face.ĭirected by Fred Dekker and co-written by Shane Black, The Monster Squad is a unique '80s movie that pits a group of kids against some of the most famous monsters in cinematic history.
"Leo's reaction is in real time," Scorsese confirmed, and as DiCaprio elaborated, Nicholson's stunt "changed the whole dynamic of the scene." But hey, that's just a normal day in the office when you're working with Jack Nicholson. Now, while a prop man warned DiCaprio that Nicholson was armed and dangerous, it didn't make him feel any better when the veteran actor shoved a handgun in his face, and DiCaprio's look of alarm is genuine. So the director encouraged Nicholson to do anything that would "put on edge." With Scorsese's permission to go nuts, Nicholson assembled a crazy collection of props, including a fire extinguisher, a whisky bottle, matches, and a pistol. Nicholson supposedly felt that DiCaprio wasn't scared enough, and Scorsese seemed to agree. However, filming the scene was actually kind of difficult. Even tough guy Idris Elba, who was standing nearby, let out a squeal of surprise.Įspecially when he starts pulling out weapons.ĭuring one intense moment in the movie, DiCaprio's undercover cop is confronted by Nicholson's mob boss.
So when actress Kate Dickie (who plays the ship's doctor) rolls the corpse over, a crew member yanked the monster out of the dummy's mouth, causing Dickie to yelp in alarm. He then told everyone on set to keep quiet and make sure the actors didn't see the storyboards for the day. Pulling pretty much the exact same stunt he used over 30 years ago, Scott replaced Spall with a dummy, loaded the Hammerpede puppet in its mouth, and connected the alien creature to a wire. The characters freak out, and–as you've hopefully guessed by this point–their screams are genuine. A little later on, his comrades stumble across his corpse, and when they turn his body over, the monster shoots up out of his mouth. In fact, it ends up with the Hammerpede crawling inside the scientist and killing him. In one of Prometheus's more infamous scenes, a biologist with questionable decision-making skills (played by Rafe Spall) tries petting the world's scariest space cobra. Several of the actors retreated to their dressing rooms to calm down, wipe the pig off their faces, and lower their blood pressure. The first take strategically brought the crew closer to the table by spurting only a small amount of fake blood, so when the next take left them all covered in the pig cocktail, their faces expressed true, terrified surprise. The rest of the cast was brought in unaware of the device about to spray them with pigs' organs, or why the film crew was wearing rain gear and protective plastic sheeting. John Hurt, the man whose innards are left on the faces of the unknowing cast, was taken aside during shooting and rigged up to a device loaded with the rancid organs of pigs. The cast had no idea the worm monster was going to pop out of their fellow actor's chest and splatter them all with blood and guts. Although, in 1979, the special effects sufficed to create the illusion of a creature violently exploding out of a human body, the real "magic" of this scene is how surprised and shocked the cast appears. When that phallic alien burst out of the chest of the astronaut in Alien, it scared everyone, including the cast.