It takes all sorts of tricks of the trade to create movie scares. This is what some favorites looked like behind the scenes, without their special effects.
In July of 1990, Universal Studios’s slogan “Ride the Movies” became all too real for Anthony Salamone. The 39-year-old bank officer from New Jersey visited the Florida theme park with his family, but found their options for rides were limited. Though the park, which had only been open for one month, featured attractions built around marquee names like King Kong and Marty and Doc from
Jaws ride in particular had become particularly troublesome, as Salamone would soon discover.
Salamone and his family boarded a pontoon boat that took them around a lagoon surrounded by New England-inspired scenery. After leaving the dock, it was almost possible to imagine they had been transported from Orlando to the fictional island town of Amity from