A WALK DOWN HORROR LANE

• Jaws is still the Number 1 horror movie ever, with a worldwide gross of $470 million.

• 37 Stephen King scary stories have been made into feature films.

• Jamie Lee Curtis starred in 6 horror movies between 1978 and 1981, earning the nickname "THE SCREAM QUEEN."

• 189 horror movies were released in 1972, the most prolific year in Hollywood for the genre.

• The nightly wage for a zombie in 1978 was $1 ($3.55 adjusted for inflation), according to an extra who played one in that years Dawn of the Dead.

• 4267 Roxbury St., the house in Simi Valley, Ca., where POLTERGEIST was filmed, was last sold in 1979, for $143,500 ($431,247 in todays money).  Zillow estimates the home's current value at $573,500.

• The real-life Wisconsin grave robber and killer Ed Gein, who disembodied and skinned his victims in the 1950s, inspired three villians: Psycho's Norman Bates, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's Leatherface, and The Silence of the Lamb's Buffalo Bill.  One 1 horror film has ever won an Oscar for best picture: The Silence of the Lambs, in 1991.

• The 12 part FRIDAY THE 13TH film series has grossed a total of $380,637,525 at the U.S. box office, making it the top horror franchise in history.  (Only 5 of the 12 movies were released on Friday the 13th).

• The 6 part Saw series has grossed $370,23,890.  The release of Saw VII in 3-D, on October 29, should push the franchise into the top-earner spot.

• Count Dracula, the most-often portrayed character in horror, has been featured in 162 movies.