Best movie trivia of 2012

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Trivia: The actors who play Alex's parents were actually married in real life. Tragically, the actor playing her father (Stephen Dunham) had a heart-attack and passed away less than a month before the film hit theaters.

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Trivia: A point in the score from this, by Joe Kraemer, inspired The Batman's signature motif by Michael Giacchino. After the phone call between Jack and Helen when he warns her potentially not to trust her father, he's driving across a bridge and the music is almost identical to the "bom...bombom...bom" theme from The Batman.

Jon Sandys

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Trivia: Bubo the owl makes another brief appearance in this film, as it did in its predecessor, when Perseus and the others are in Hephaestus' chambers.

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Trivia: A 2020 study by The Science of Scare Project determined this to be the scariest film of all time, based on the heart rates of viewers. However, it should be noted that this study only used a sample size of around 250 people.

Phaneron

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Trivia: Based on the true events that took place at 30 East Drive, Pontifract in 1974. An address that runs ghost hunts for people to attend.

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Trivia: When The Pirate King learns of Pirate Captain's royal pardon, he exclaims, "Is this true?" in exactly the same way that Richard IV does in 'The Foretelling'; the first episode of Blackadder Series 1. Both The Pirate King and Richard IV were portrayed by Brian Blessed.

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Trivia: This film, despite being marketed as a sequel to the "Ringu" film series, is actually more a sequel to the non-canonical "forgotten" sequel "Rasen" than it is to the original "Ringu" or its follow-ups "Ringu 2" and "Ringu 0: Birthday."

TedStixon

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