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Trivia: Early on in production, "The Frighteners" was in consideration to be the second "Tales from the Crypt" movie, after "Demon Night," and before "Bordello of Blood." Producer Robert Zemeckis liked the story so much, however, that he decided to produce it as a stand-alone work.

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Trivia: Made more in its domestic opening weekend (at just over $77 million) than any other film in the series made in their entire domestic run. Additionally, it was also already the highest grossing entry in the series worldwide after its opening weekend.

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Trivia: If one counts her voice-over cameo in "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," this will be the sixth film in the original "Halloween" film series to feature Jamie Lee Curtis to some capacity, meaning she has appeared in two-thirds of the films. The only films she didn't appear in were "Halloween 4," "Halloween 5," and "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers." (Not counting the 2007 remake and its 2009 sequel).

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Trivia: During one of the nighttime scenes, among the various trick-or-treaters are a trio of children wearing the three "Silver Shamrock" masks from "Halloween III: Season of the Witch." (A skull, a witch and a jack-o-lantern).

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Trivia: Prior to production on this film beginning, there were a number of other "Halloween" films that were considered. A third film in the remake series under the working title "Halloween 3D" was considered with director Patrick Lussier at one point. After the production fell apart, writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan began work on a film set in the original series continuity entitled "Halloween Returns," which would follow Michael escaping from prison during an attempted execution and tracking down two specific targets with ties to his past. However, when Blumhouse got the rights to the series, this project was dropped in favor of a more direct sequel to the original film.

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Continuity mistake: When Priest and Georgina throw the molotov cocktails at Juju from the balcony, watch closely - right as Priest throws the second molotov cocktail and the camera cuts from a bird's eye to a ground-level angle, the position of the two men and the carpet they're standing on changes between cuts.

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Trivia: In the opening scene, when Rose runs under the bridge, she passes some graffiti tags. One of the tags has the name "Cheryl." In the original video game, Cheryl was the name of the daughter the main character is trying to find. For whatever reason, the name was changed to "Sharon" for the movie adaptation, but they threw in the graffiti tag as a nod to the game.

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Trivia: The character Alessa in the original video-game is often theorized to be a reference to Stephen King's "Carrie," as Alessa possesses some psychic abilities similar to the titular character of that novel, and the game has a number of other King-related references. Jodelle Ferland, who portrays Alessa as a child in this film, coincidentally also briefly portrayed a younger Carrie White in flashbacks in the 2002 TV-movie adaptation of "Carrie."

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Trivia: Director Christophe Gans is friends with actress Deborah Kara Unger in real life, and desperately wanted her to play Dahlia. When he approached her for the role of Dahlia, he was sure she would be offended, as Dahlia is meant to be frail, older and in poor shape. He lead the conversation with "Please don't slap me." To his surprise, Unger was delighted by the role, as she'd been wanting to play an odd, eerie character like Dahlia for some time.

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Trivia: In the original ending, rather than Alessa killing off the cult with the living strands of barbed wire, dozens of "Red Pyramids" were going to appear inside the church and slaughter them, as they are meant to represent the town's old executioners in the context of the film. This idea was scrapped early on for practicality and budgetary reasons.

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Trivia: Early on in production, this was intended to be the final "Halloween" film, with director Steve Miner and star Jamie Lee Curtis wanting to give the series a definitive ending in which Laurie triumphs over the "boogeyman" Michael Myers. Shortly before filming began, one of the producers exercised a clause in his contract for the series and informed Miner and Curtis that he would not allow them to kill off the Michael Myers character. Both Miner and Curtis nearly left the project, with Curtis in particular voicing her disdain over the decision. But eventually both chose to stay on, with Curtis reasoning that as far as her character Laurie was concerned, she kills the "real" Michael Myers in the end. Curtis only appeared in the following film "Resurrection" out of a begrudging respect for the series, wanting to give the character a proper send-off. Curtis has subsequently stated that 2018's "Halloween," a direct sequel to the original that ignores every other sequel including "H20" and "Resurrection," felt like a much more appropriate way to bring her character back into the "Halloween" universe, and is her preferred follow-up to the original.

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Trivia: Originally, this sequel was going to include all three main characters from the first film. However, due to scheduling conflicts with actors Jack Black, Dylan Minette and Odeya Rush, none were available and the script was re-written to focus on new characters. Black was later able to eventually free up enough time to appear in an extended cameo role, with several short scenes in the film's second half.

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Trivia: Co-stars Jack Black and Madison Iseman both appeared in 2017's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," playing the exact same character oddly enough.

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Trivia: In the original script, the Dude's source of income (in order to explain his nice apartment despite being unemployed) was going to be briefly explained - he was related to the inventor of the Rubick's Cube, and was living off an inheritance. It was eventually deemed unnecessary, and thus removed.

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Trivia: Walter's look and personality is based on director John Milius, who helmed the original "Conan the Barbarian." He's a friend of the Cohen brothers, and evidently is as loud-mouthed, bombastic, overbearing and loyal as Walter in real life.

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Trivia: The Dude is kicked out of the cabbie's car because he hates the band "The Eagles." The Dude's bowling rival Jesus was introduced much earlier in the film with a Spanish-language version of The Eagles song "Hotel California" playing in the background. One of those many nice details you don't necessarily notice the first time you watch that subtly ties the movie together.

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Trivia: Spoilers. Originally, Shane Black wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger to make a cameo in the end - he would have been the "Predator Killer" that rises from the device right before the credits. When he decided not to return, the "Predator Killer" was changed into a highly advanced suit of armor.

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Trivia: The film initially had a rather lucrative McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in which included "Batman Returns" toys with every meal. After the film was released, parents complained about its dark imagery and cynical themes, and McDonald's began to re-market the toys as simply general "Batman" toys as opposed to "Batman Returns" toys. The toys themselves were considered something of a rarity for some time, as a rumor was started that McDonald's pulled the toys from market.

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Trivia: Joss Whedon's original script followed a cloned Newt (from "Aliens") instead of a cloned Ripley. Newt was going to have much more overt gifts and abilities thanks to the cloning process, and would have single-handedly fought off the new alien threat. Many who read the script compared the story and Clone-Newt character to Whedon's TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - just with xenomorphs and a future setting instead of vampires in the modern day. Eventually, it was decided to swap out Newt for Ripley, given she was the star of the series.

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Trivia: An early concept for the film was to make a more direct follow-up to the original's climax, where we see a rat become infected by the alien DNA. The film would have revolved around an army of alien-rat hybrid monsters that must be exterminated. This idea was eventually dropped in favor of a different script.

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