10 Horror Movie Moments More Terrifying When You Know The Truth
These scenes are even scarier than you realised.
The work that goes into crafting an all-timer scene in a horror movie is staggering - it requires a filmmaker, cast, and crew working in perfect tandem to deliver something that leaves audiences with a cinematic memory they'll never forget.
And while horror movies are of course the result of make-believe storytelling, sometimes they can be elevated by knowing the wider details that went into their creation.
Sometimes the things happening in the periphery and behind-the-scenes are just as creepy and unsettling as those that occur on-screen, as is categorically confirmed by these 10 movie moments.
Each of them are undeniably bone-chilling in their own right, but through interviews with the filmmakers, cast, and crew, they only become even more informed with terror.
Perhaps a scene was way more real than anyone watching ever expected, something went very wrong on set, or there's a totally disturbing Easter egg hidden in its midst.
And though most audiences have been blissfully ignorant of the inside baseball truth of each scene, now that you know what really went on you'll never be able to watch them the same way again...
10. Bill's Death Left Harry Crosby Partially Blind For Months - Friday The 13th
The penultimate death in the original Friday the 13th sees camp counselor Bill's (Harry Crosby) corpse be discovered by Final Girl Alice (Adrienne King), his brutalised remains pinned to a door with his throat cut and an arrow sticking out of his eye.
To achieve the effect of Bill being shot through the eye, actor Harry Crosby - son of Bing, believe it or not - wore a makeup prosthetic over said eye, but due to the low-budget nature of the production, makeup designer Tom Savini ended up using cheap, unsafe ingredients for fake blood.
This included the wetting agent Kodak Photo-Flo, which then seeped from the prosthetic eye into Crosby's real eye, causing him to feel intense pain and be rushed to the hospital.
According to Crosby, he was left blind in this eye for around six months, though thankfully made a full recovery eventually. Savini, for his part, later said that this "wasn't a proud moment" for him.
And so, whenever you marvel at that gnarly gore effect in the future, know the real pain and months of trauma that went into it.