10 Mind-Blowing Film Rumours That Turned Out To Be Fake

8. Lizard In A Woman's Skin Used Real Dogs For Vivisection Scenes

Italian director Lucio Fulci is well-known for pushing the boundaries of gore and bad taste in his exploitation films from the 1970s and '80s, and with Lizard In A Woman's Skin, the authorities actually believed he'd gone too far. In one scene of his LSD-fuelled horror about a woman who believes she's a murderer because she dreamed about a killing that actually happened at the same time, the lead actress walks into a sanatorium that houses four vivisected dogs with their chests cut open and hearts still beating. Needless to say, it's a pretty grotesque scene, but it's one that actually ended up putting Fulci in front of a judge for obscenity and animal cruelty charges. The effects were so realistic that the authorities believed that the crew had actually mutilated real dogs, and Fulci had to bring in crew members and his special effects supervisor to tell the court exactly how they achieved the gruesome images.