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Question: This may be weirdly specific, but does anyone know what the two background music clips from the Region 1 DVD menu are from? There's two different songs - one is a short, creepy 5-second clip that plays when you hit "Play Movie," and the other is the general background music from the DVD menu, which is a sort-of slow, sad guitar piece. I'm assuming they're just royalty free music from a collection of some sort, but I quite enjoy them.

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Trivia: Most movies film night scenes with a technique called "day for night," in which nighttime scenes are shot during the day, but are filmed and color-corrected in such a way as to make the footage look like it was filmed during the night. "Ginger Snaps" had the opposite problem. Several of the scenes set during the day actually had to be filmed at night due to scheduling issues. The production had to use massive floodlights to simulate daylight in the background. The lights were so powerful, they were easily visible to airplanes flying several miles above the filming location.

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Trivia: The opening credits, in which we see Ginger and Brigitte doing "mock suicides" in increasingly grisly fashion, was filmed in a young family's house in Canada... while the family - including a four-year-old child - was home. Various crew members had to spend the day playing with or otherwise distracting the child so she wouldn't see the gory scenes being filmed outside.

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Trivia: Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins, whom play Ginger and Brigitte, also played sisters in the family film "Another Cinderella Story," and both have also guest-starred on a number of common TV shows, including "Supernatural", albeit in different episodes.

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Trivia: Director John Fawcett refused to use CG on the werewolves, wanting to do the effects using old-fashioned prosthetics and animatronics as a tribute to classic werewolf films of the past.

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Trivia: The live-action footage was shot in less than two weeks. However, the film itself took nearly two years to complete start-to-finish due to the extensive animation and licensing needed, and the complex editing processes.

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Trivia: Even though (mostly) real web-sites are used for the majority of the film, in order to make them look "correct" on-screen and allow for subtle manipulation to build drama, the animators had to re-create the websites from scratch in their animation software and then animate everything individually, right down to the movements of the mouse-cursor.

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Trivia: Spoilers. You can briefly see at one point that Margot's high school mascot is an anthropomorphic catfish. In internet slang, "catfishing" is when someone pretends to be someone else online in order to "lure in" others. This is a very subtle clue to the ending, in which it is revealed that the user "fish_n_chips" was a boy who was "catfishing" Margot online.

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Trivia: The film is produced by Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, whom also produced the similarly-made "Unfriended." As a nod, the name "Laura Barnes" (the girl who becomes the evil spirit in "Unfriended") appears very briefly near the beginning of the film under the "trending" words during the first Facebook scene.

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Trivia: Both Heather Graham and Will Ferrell reprised their roles from prior films, with each getting a cameo explaining what happened to their characters, but both had to be cut for timing and pacing reasons.

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Trivia: The "movie within a movie" is entitled "Austinpussy." This was one of the original working titles for the second film. It ended up being dropped because it sounded too dirty.

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Trivia: Mike Myers has stated that he would love to do a fourth film in the Austin Powers series, although as of 2018, a fourth film has not been released. Myers stated that after the death of co-star Verne Troyer in 2018, he would like to include a tribute to Troyer in a potential fourth film, should it ever be made.

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Trivia: MGM, the company that releases the James Bond films, successfully halted the release of posters and promotional materials for this film a few months before release, arguing that the Austin Powers series was profiting off the James Bond name. This is despite the fact that parodies such as Austin Powers are traditionally protected by copyright law. MGM and New Line (the company that produced "Austin Powers") eventually settled their differences when New Line agreed to attach trailers for the next Bond film ("Die Another Day") to this movie.

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Trivia: The prior film was released the same year as Star Wars: Episode I. Early trailers for that movie had the humorous tagline "If you see one movie this year... see Star Wars! But if you see two movies, see Austin Powers!" As a nod to that, trailers for this film (which was released the same year as Star Wars: Episode II) stated "If you see one movie this year, see Austin Powers! If you see two movies... see Austin Powers again!"

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Trivia: The bit where Basil and Austin break the fourth wall and tell the audience to "not worry" about the time travel element and to "just enjoy yourselves" was evidently a spur-of-the-moment improv by Mike Myers and Michael York.

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Trivia: Everyone on the cast and crew knew that the time travel mechanics seen in the film made no sense and created several large plot-holes. But they chose to ignore logic and just do whatever was funniest in a specific scene.

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Trivia: This sequel made more in its US opening weekend ($54 million) than the entire domestic gross of the first film, which came in at $53 million.

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Trivia: The original film had not yet been released in South Korea when this sequel was released. In order to compensate for this fact, South Korean prints of this movie were accompanied by a music video that had a subtitled summary of the events from the first movie. The original film was finally released the following year as a "prequel" entitled "Austin Powers Zero."

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Trivia: As is often the case, the title for the film was changed in different countries, with some being humorously much more or much less "dirty" than the original title. Most notably, the title of the film in Singapore was briefly changed to "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shoiked Me" (which basically means "The Spy who Made Me Feel Good"), while Norway's title for the film translates to "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Ejaculated on Me."

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Trivia: Austin Powers is evidently to blame for the more grounded and grim approach of the Daniel Craig Bond films. Craig once quipped in an interview that while he was a fan of creator Mike Myers and the character, the Austin Powers series "f**ked" the Bond franchise with its heavy satire. As a result, he and the producers had to rebuild the franchise, feeling that modern audiences would no longer accept the classic Bond tropes and cliches that Myers had lampooned with the three Austin Powers films.

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