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- "A Tribute to" is a tribute to cult films that are remembered for themselves or for their anecdotes with a minimum of veracity!! The films are: "Alien": Apparently Sigourney Weaver is allergic to cats, which may seem curious because in "Alien" has a fellow cat, Jonesy. The rest... is fiction. The vomit of Regan in "The Exorcist" that ends directly at Father Karras face, was actually designed to hit him in the chest, but the rubber tube pointed higher. The actor Jason Miller got really pissed. The rest (except the lines that Regan has to say) is fiction. In "Carrie" directed by Brian, de Palma, Sissy Spacek spent two weeks soaked in animal blood with a substance that clung to her skin and had to remove it with a hose. By the way, in the scene of the hose with water pressure, it hits an actress who break her tympani. The rest... is fiction. "Halloween" has a small budget, about $300,000, and art team bought the cheapest mask in a costume store. The mask was based in the first Captain Kirk of Star Trek, William Shatner, who had to compete with Emmet Kelly clown mask. Movie team had to vote which one prefer. The rest... is fiction. Apparently, in "Misery", James Caan and Kathy Bates don't like each other very much, although in the end, when Bates picked up the Oscar for Best Actress, he apologized for what he had done to his ankles. In the book, Stephen King didn't think about breaking them, he went further... The rest... is fiction. It was difficult to find Damien for "The Omen". Its director, Richard Donner, even thought about casting a girl, but then they casting to Harvey Stephens. Apparently, what happened during the casting was true. The rest... is fiction. One of the tracks of the "The Sixth Sense" soundtrack, conducted by James Newton Howard, has a big spoiler. The rest ... is fiction. At the end of the shooting of "Phenomena", the actress Jennifer Connelly lost a piece of thumb, bited by a monkey. In the hospital they could sew the finger piece. The rest... is fiction. In "Poltergeist" director, Tobe Hopper, and producer, Steven Spielberg casting for the role of Carol, a child called Drew Barrymore. She didn't fit for this film, but shortly after, Spielberg would count on her for "E.T." The rest... is fiction. In "Psycho", the actress Marli Renfro was the double of Janet Leigh in the shower sequence, although it seems, Leigh and the director denied at first. The rest ... is fiction. First edition of "Rosemary's Baby" was four hours long. Polanski could not decide what to cut, so he left it in his editor's hands, Sam O'Steen, who later would direct the sequel, "Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby". The rest... is fiction. In "Saw," one of the writers, Leigh Whannell, said that the scene in which his character, Adam, puts his hand on the toilet, was made to pay tribute to "Trainspotting." The rest ... is fiction. In "Scream", to keep Drew Barrymore looking scared and crying, director Wes Craven kept telling her, real life stories about animal cruelty. She is a keen animal lover in real-life. One of the several calls to 911, made by Casey, Drew Barrymoore's character, nobody hung up the phone and the emergency services heard the actress screaming and begging for her life. The rest ... is fiction. "The Shining" was highly criticized in its premiere and even nominated for the Razzie Awards. Now, the tribute is to its steady cam and inventor, Garrett Brown. The rest... is fiction. Dick Warlock has been Kurt Russell's double in many of John Carpenter films, such as "The Thing", "Escape from New York" and "Big Trouble in Little China". The rest ... is fiction. Bette Davis stated in her book "This 'N That" that "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" had to be shot in color, but that she opposed it, claiming that color would make a sad story pretty. The rest... is fiction.