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Trivia: John Ritter originally was supposed to have a cameo as a security guard at the doll factory, but his part was written out of the film. He would have caught a group of kids sneaking into the abandoned factory because they heard the "urban legend" of Chucky the killer doll.

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Trivia: The film was notorious at the time of its video release as it was said to be one of the inspirations for the death of 2-year-old James Bulger, who was murdered by two 10-year-old boys. Supposedly, one of his killers had seen the film, and it was suggested that it partially inspired him. While investigators subsequently tossed out this theory and said there was no link between the film and the murder, several European television networks refused to air the film due to the controversy.

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Trivia: The film's twist ending - the meaning of the mark on Julia's hand - was surprisingly spoiled in several of the trailers, which featured an unused line of the character Galen Burke directly and blatantly explaining that the mark means "rebirth." This line of dialogue is not in the finished film, and the characters only discover the mark's meaning about 60 seconds before the movie ends.

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Trivia: Just a cute background detail: At the beginning of the film, a character briefly mentions that she wants to be "Miss Arizona." If you look closely at the background at the end of the film, you can see her standing around with a "Miss Arizona" sash on. Evidently she made it.

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Trivia: The film was directed by Ivan Reitman, whose son Jason Reitman is also a well-known film director. It was actually Jason's idea for the characters to do a Head and Shoulders commercial at the end of the film.

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Trivia: During the shoot in Arizona, Dan Aykroyd would have fun by randomly show up at the houses of locals to hang out and have a cup of coffee. He also helped out at local businesses.

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I remember seeing part of the premiere of a show about 10 years ago. I don't know how long the show went on, but the scene always stuck with me. I think it was a show about court judges (maybe supreme court) and their associates. And there was a scene where an older judge said a cute rhyme about justice/court to a new person. There were also a group of judges in the scene, and they kept referring to each other as "Justice so-and-so." The scene was also set outside if IIRC. Ring anyone's bell?

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Trivia: The first film was shot in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio. However, they decided to shoot this sequel in the wider 2.35:1. Reportedly, the reason for the change was that director Sam Raimi felt that it would be better to accommodate Doc Ock's tentacles with the wider frame.

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Trivia: Shot back-to-back with "Puppet Master 4."

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Trivia: The reason Leach Woman was "killed off" in this movie was reportedly because executives at Paramount hated the puppet and demanded she be written out of the movie. However, the puppet was actually pretty popular with audiences, so she was eventually written back into the series.

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Objects in Space - S1-E10

Trivia: Just an interesting thing to note. The villain of the episode is an unhinged character named "Jubal Early," and is played by Richard Brooks. Six years earlier in 1996, Brooks starred in the film "The Crow: City of Angels," where he also appeared as a similarly unhinged villain... with the remarkably similar name "Judah Earl." Just a fun, odd coincidence.

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Continuity mistake: SPOILERS: During the final scene, when Samuel L. Jackson is "puppeted" to lift his arm up to make it look like he's pointing a gun at the SWAT team, the number of laser-sights visible on his chest changes between cuts. In the wide-shot, there's only three, but when it punches into a close-up, suddenly there are five.

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Trivia: The exterior of Hill House was actually a hotel in England, but the interior were all sets.

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Trivia: In an early draft of the script, the story was re-written so that Hill House was actually a mental hospital where Eleanor was a patient, and the other characters were doctors and staff. It would be revealed that Eleanor was mentally ill and was misinterpreting the things around her as being supernatural in origin. However, this idea was discarded and the film was re-written to be more faithful to the original novel.

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Trivia: Julie Harris was very aloof during filming and would often ignore her co-stars behind the scenes - especially Claire Bloom. Bloom felt very hurt by this. However, after filming, Harris showed up at Bloom's house with a gift and revealed that she actually really liked Bloom and her other co-stars. She behaved as she did during filming because she was trying to stay in-character between takes, and was worried that her performance as an outsider would suffer if she was friendly with her co-stars.

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Trivia: The puppet "Decapitron" was actually based on an unmade script of the same name that Empire Pictures was originally going to make in the 1980's.

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Trivia: Shot back-to-back with the fifth film.

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Trivia: The entire movie was shot in only about two-and-a-half weeks.

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Trivia: The puppet Torch could actually shoot fire up to about 10 feet behind-the-scenes.

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Trivia: One of many films delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was delayed a full year from May, 2020 to May, 2021.

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