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Trivia: At one point in the film Jill Valentine asks her teammates whether they would rather be eaten by a giant snake or a shark. This is a reference to the original Resident Evil video game were the player has to battle a giant snake called Yawn and a mutated shark called Neptune. Neither of these creatures made it into the film.

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Trivia: The story mission "NeoTokyo" was inspired by Akira (1988). Both take place in NeoTokyo in the year 2019 and have similar visual aesthetics.

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Trivia: Easter Egg: Go to any story mission on any difficulty and intentionally die. This will take you to the "Game Over" screen, wait here and don't touch anything. After 2-3 minutes you will start to hear strange garbled sounds, after 7 minutes or so you will hear a woman's voice say "Is that too loud?" and from this point onwards there is no sound at all until you leave the screen, at which everything returns to normal.

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Trivia: The original theatrical trailer for this movie includes the scene where Gary (Owen Wilson) is grabbed from behind by the snake and pulled backwards but the CGI snake hadn't been added in yet so you just see Gary falling backwards. This trailer is available on YouTube.

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Trivia: Due to the potential dangers of filming in a real cave the entirety of the film was shot on sets. Twenty one "caves" were built for the shoot.

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Trivia: The scenes where the child vampires float around outside or float into the bedrooms of their victims were partly filmed in reverse to make them seem more "unnatural."

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Trivia: The name of Harvey Keitel is never revealed during the film and is only credited as "LT."

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Trivia: When Wolff wakes up Chalmers from her sleep you can see a copy of a play called "R.U.R" lying on her chest. R.U.R is a science fiction play and it contained the first use of the word "robot." This is a clue as to Chalmers' origin. (00:07:32)

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Trivia: At the beginning of the film when Wolff kicks his ship's computer you can hear an R2-D2 sound effect as it explodes. (00:07:21)

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Trivia: When Caleb attempts to leave the gang for the first time, just as he gets to the bus station you can see a cinema behind him that is playing Aliens (1986). Near Dark was released a year after Aliens and it shares most of the same cast. The director of Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, was also married to Aliens director James Cameron at the time. (00:22:28)

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Trivia: Due to problems with financing this film took 7 years to make.

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Trivia: "The Demon Headmaster" is actually only a Headmaster for the first three episodes of Series 1.

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Trivia: The show is adapted from four of Gillian Cross' "Demon Headmaster" novels. The first half of the first series is adapted from "The Demon Headmaster", the second half is adapted from "The Prime Minister's Brain", the second series is adapted from "The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again" and the third series is adapted from "The Demon Headmaster Takes Over."

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Trivia: The music used for the Octopus Dare computer game is an 8-bit rendition of the show's main theme tune.

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Trivia: When Father Malone discovers the journal, at the beginning of the movie, he opens it to a full page of text. We only see it very briefly but if you pause the film it appears to be some sort of joke. Here's a couple of extracts I could make out: "writing dumb shit in this fucking movie.." "...big tits, tatoos (sic)..." (00:06:41)

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Trivia: Writer-Director John Carpenter appears in the film as Bennett, Father Malone's assistant, at the beginning of the movie.

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Trivia: At the end of the film, when we see the TV news report on the transportation of the T-Rex, if you look very closely at the TV screen you can see a reflection of Steven Spielberg sat on the couch seemingly next to Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore watching the CNN report. It's an intentional cameo, albeit a highly obscure one. (01:59:52)

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