Trivia: Have a close look at the Predator's trophy collection on his spaceship. Taking pride of place is a skull from the creature in the Alien movies. (01:33:05)
Trivia: When the movie played in theaters, there was a scene where Dr. Catheter begins to tell Billy about the gremlins before the movie is interrupted by gremlins until they are threatened by Hulk Hogan. When the movie was released on VHS, the scene was changed to static appearing and gremlins constantly changing the channels. This caused many people who bought or rented the movie to think there was something wrong with the tape and took it back to the stores they purchased it from.
Trivia: Reportedly, star Kevin Bacon was at a rough patch in his life during production and didn't understand the appeal of the film or the light-hearted comedic elements. (Even once breaking down in public and exclaiming in frustration "I'm in a movie about giant underground worms!") And thus, he chose to have no involvement in the sequels. It wasn't until some years later that he decided to re-visit the film and give it another chance after it became a massive cult-hit, and discovered that he actually really loved it. Bacon has since gone on record saying one of his dream projects would be to reprise his role of Val McKee in a future film.
Trivia: The third story, " A Lovers Vow" was based on the Japanese folklore of the yuki-onna. However, writer Malcom McDowell decided that the creature should be a gargoyle instead of a spirit.
Trivia: A lot of the witches who attend the Grand High Witches meeting are actually men dressed in women's clothing.
Trivia: Cinematic legend and Sam Raimi regular Bruce Campbell plays Darkman in the final shot.
Trivia: Macaulay Culkin, although playing a truly pivotal role, is not credited. Pretty peculiar, huh?
Trivia: Since spiders really aren't a trainable type of animal, the filmmakers used hairdryers to blow on them, in order to get them to move correctly.
Trivia: Ralph wears his arm in a cast for the first part of the film. This is because Balthazar Getty broke both wrists just a couple weeks before filming began, but director Harry Hook liked him so much in the role that he just wrote the injuries into the part.
Trivia: In the original movie, the daughter zombie kills her mother with a trowel. In this movie, when the daughter kills her mother by biting her, the blood then splatters over a trowel hanging on the wall.
Trivia: The characters Karen Barclay and Detective Norris were meant to be in the film during an opening courtroom scene, but the sequence was cut out to save money. Funnily enough, Karen Barclay's actress Catherine Hicks, despite not being in the movie, was often on-set as she met and married one of the special effects wizards who created the Chucky doll in the original film, and had returned to work on the sequel.
Trivia: The post-production process of the film was very dramatic. The studios became worried that the subject matter was too strange for audiences, and in an attempt to make the film faster and simpler to understand, they demanded that nearly an hour of material be removed from the film. Director Clive Barker also maintains that the film wasn't marketed properly. A Director's Cut of the film (containing much of the cut footage) was announced more than 20 years after the film's original release-date.
Trivia: Even though Lionel Jeffries plays Michael Caine's father, he was only 7 years his senior.
Trivia: Much of the ending was restructured and reshot to make the climax more action packed. In fact, the entire exorcism scene and the character Father Morning was added in lengthy and rather expensive reshoots. In the original ending, Kinderman simply shoots Patient X/Father Karras/The Gemini Killer to stop the madness, then leaves the room. The studio felt the ending was a little too short and anti-climactic, and had William Peter Blatty write a new climax to end the film with a bang.
