Best horror movie trivia of 1989

Trivia: In the scene of Missy's funeral, Stephen King plays the priest.

Trivia: In the original script, after making it to the docks, a dog would appear and start barking at Jason prompting Jason to kick it. Kane Hodder refused and even stated that as evil as Jason was, he'd never hurt an animal, so the scene was dropped.

Trivia: The writer of The Burbs (Dana Olsen), is the cop near the end, when the Klopeks' house is blown up.

Trivia: In the dream sequence of the asylum where Amanda Krueger is trapped by the hundred maniacs one of the maniacs looks remarkably like Freddy. Presumably this was his biological father. (Of course this man was played by Robert Englund, the actor who plays Freddy)

Trivia: In one version of the script, Martin finds another videotape of his father Seth. This tape would show Seth (who is in his part-fly form) explaining the "cure". This scene would have required Jeff Goldblum to be in make-up for five hours, and he didn't want to go through that, so he dropped out, and the scene was cut from the script.

Trivia: During one take of a fight scene between Dr. Sam Loomis and Michael Myers, Donald Pleasance accidentally broke Don Shanks' nose.

Trivia: Legendary Three Stooges supporting actor Emil Sitka makes a cameo as the customer Mr Abernathy. He even says his legendary Three Stooges line "Hold hands you lovebirds. "

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Trivia: Whenever we see Pinhead's hands punching someone or picking something up, the hands are actually the hands of a stunt-woman named Cindy Sorensen. Sorensen has dwarfism, so her hands were the perfect size to portray the puppet's.

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Trivia: Reportedly, late in post-production, the lead effects artist had a mental breakdown because he realised he had bitten off more than he could chew and couldn't deliver the effects on time. Director Wes Craven had to rush to locate all the negatives (which were scattered all over LA) and hire more effects artists to try and get the effects done as quickly as possible. Craven has said this is why some of the effects shots are "pretty sketchy" - there was no time to properly finish them.

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Trivia: The DVD box for the movie has the alternate title Welcome To Spring Break.

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Trivia: The film is also widely known as "The McPherson Tape." However, this was never the official title, and is seemingly based on a misconception since the film was often circulated without the title attached in the 90s. Regardless, this incorrect title became so well-known that the film's 2020 Blu-Ray by American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) contains a double-sided cover... one with the correct title "U.F.O. Abduction," and the other with the misnomer title "The McPherson Tape."

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