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Trivia: Bill Skarsgård has a lazy eye that he was able to train himself to focus in the same direction as his other eye. Thus, when Pennywise's eyes look in different directions, it's not an effect... Skarsgård is just letting his lazy eye naturally drift. His co-star Billy Hader didn't realise this and asked Skarsgård how the effect of his eyes focusing in different directions was achieved, assuming it was CGI. Skarsgård replied, "Oh, you mean this?" and let his drift sideways, horrifying Hader.

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Trivia: Star Dwayne Johnson reportedly pushed to have the film be shown in IMAX theatres after seeing Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" in IMAX. Johnson reasoned that "Red One" in IMAX would be "game over," and would make the film a huge hit. The film ended up bombing, and Johnson's comments were widely mocked online, with some labelling him "delusional" for trying to compare the releases of "Red One" and "Oppenheimer." (Though in his defence, he never directly compared the films themselves.)

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Trivia: Before release, the film became symbolic of a strange issue for cinema-goers, with many cinemas stating that singing along with the film wasn't allowed as it's disruptive to other people who came to watch the movie. "Wicked" co-star Cynthia Erivo and action-movie star Dwayne Johnson stated that they support singing along with movies, drawing extremely mixed responses, with some praising them, but many more harshly criticizing them for supporting behaviour that could be seen as extremely rude.

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Trivia: Star Ariana Richards is given an "introducing" credit despite it being the fifth film to feature her. She later clarified that it technically was her first film, but the production ran long in part due to the effects, and four other films she worked on came out first.

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Trivia: Royal Dano plays a goofy old man who encounters aliens with his dog. Two years prior, in "Killer Klowns from Outer Space," he similarly played a goofy old man who encounters aliens with his dog. (Albeit, his fate in that film was much different than in this film.)

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Trivia: The writer stated on his Letterboxd account that the movie started out as a joke, where he'd pitch a movie to friends as "What if Frosty the Snowman came to life, but was a super-hot dude?" before hitting them with the punchline, "It's called 'Hot Frosty!'" But after repeatedly telling the joke, he fell in love with the idea despite how absurd it was and ended up writing it as a script.

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Continuity mistake: When Jack has his temperature taken near the start of the film, the thermometer in his mouth goes from right-side up to upside down, then back to right-side up between cuts.

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Trivia: The final film directed by legendary actor, comedian, and filmmaker Carl Reiner (he continued to work, albeit primarily as an actor and writer).

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Trivia: Co-star Danielle Bisutti was related to a studio executive at United Artists. When she was a kid, she visited the studio and saw the poster for the original "Child's Play" and was horrified by it, saying that it "haunted" her. This makes it all the more ironic that she would go on to star in "Curse of Chucky," one of its many sequels.

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Trivia: Christine Elise, who previously played Kyle in "Child's Play 2", was originally meant to play Nica's mother in a cameo, as director Don Mancini wanted to work with her, but due to casting laws in Canada, where the film was shot, Elise wasn't able to be cast. Mancini later brought her back as her original character Kyle in "Cult of Chucky" and the "Chucky" TV series.

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Trivia: Lead effects artist Tony Gardner actually filmed Chucky's voice actor, Brad Dourif, when he was recording his lines to use as reference, since Dourif had a tendency to move and gesture a lot when recording his lines. Gardner then had the puppeteers replicate Dourif's mannerisms as closely as they could with the Chucky doll. Dourif's daughter, Fiona, who stars in the film, was very amused by the fact Chucky was moving almost exactly like her father does in real life.

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Trivia: The elevator seen throughout the movie wasn't actually properly functional, since building a functional elevator would have been prohibitively expensive. In order to make it move, it was rigged to a forklift via a concealed winch. The forklift would drive back and forth, pulling the winch and making the elevator move up and down.

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Trivia: The interior of the house is actually the same indoor set used for the 2012 TV movie "Home Alone: The Holiday Heist." Since it was already built, it saved the production a ton of money. All they had to do was modify it to look more gothic and add the elevator, and it suddenly looked like a completely different "house."

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Trivia: In the original draft of the script, rather than looking for the amulet, Chucky and Tiffany had to drive to Hackensack to find a voodoo witch-doctor to transfer their souls into human hosts, but this was changed during the writing process.

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Trivia: In the first cut of the film, Alice was actually killed by Chucky right after he comes to life, and she would have been the first victim, as well as Chucky's youngest victim at that point in the franchise. However, due to the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, the studio and director Don Mancini decided to change her fate and instead have Chucky possess her. The scene of Chucky locking her in the closet and the final scene of her being possessed were added during post-production.

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Trivia: The film was originally more intricate and had more going on, but much of the material was cut due to budgetary constraints. A few plot-centric scenes were also cut during editing, with Vincent Price needing to record new voice-over to deliver plot exposition. (This is why it appears that Phibes sometimes talks without having his voice box plugged in.)

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Trivia: The abrupt resurrection of Vulnavia, who was apparently killed by acid in the previous film, is never explained. Originally, it was meant to be a different assistant helping Phibes in this film, but it was changed to be Vulnavia once again. The scrapped third film would have reportedly revealed she was actually the physical embodiment of the Goddess Athena, hence her ability to reconstitute a physical form.

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Trivia: A third film was planned that would have either seen Phibes battling Nazis or trying to discover the gods of Mount Olympus, but due to a variety of business reasons, it never happened.

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Trivia: The film was shot in 4:3 fullscreen in an attempt to accent the cramped confines of Charlie's apartment and drive home his isolation by limiting the size of the frame.

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Trivia: The film was widely hailed as the peak of the "Brenaissance," a bit of a meme about the career resurgence for star Brendan Fraser, who was a mainstay in Hollywood in the 90s and early 2000s before his career began to dry up due to a variety of factors. Fraser is widely beloved by audiences and many of his former co-stars, and he was cheered on by them when the film was released.

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