MOVIES TRIVIA: In the “Day of the Dead” the turkey legs feasted on by the zombies were barbecued to look like human flesh.

• I. The “Day of the Dead” movie had zombies feasting on turkey legs. The horror movie was released in 1985, and funny enough, the turkey legs feasted on were barbecued in a very special way to make it look like human flesh.

• II. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was the first movie released with a strict censorship over it, that anyone who was not over 18 years of age would not be permitted to see it in a theater, this agreement was reached after a difficult battle with censoring organizations.

• III. Anthony Quinn’s performance, being an eight minute tour de force in Gauguin’s 1956 “Lust for Life”, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. And the shortest performance to have won in the female category, was Beatrice Straight, for her 5 minute and 40 seconds performance in the film “Network”, in 1976.

• IV. Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night”, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, won the Academy Awards, sweeping away categories like Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay (adaptation). The second movie to achieve such a feat was the 1975 movie, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.

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• V. In 1995, “Toy Story” became the first feature film to be created strictly by Computer Generated Imagery. More than 800,000 hours of mathematical equations went down in order to achieve it. This means more than one week of computer time for every second on the screen.

• VI. The sole character that has been used over time to depict horror in movies, is Count Dracula. The character has been used often, and it is the creation of Bram Stoker, (1847-1912). He was a writer from Ireland.