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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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Trivia: According to director Sia, star Maddie Ziegler broke down crying on set one day because she was worried that autistic people would think she was "making fun" of them.

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Trivia: The film became infamous for its portrayal of autism, the casting of a neurotypical actor in the lead role, and for director Sia working with Autism Speaks, a highly controversial group. Sia initially fought back against the criticism, but later relented and apologised for the mistakes she made making the film.

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Trivia: A video-game adaptation for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance was being made alongside the film. However, the movie was held up in production, and the game ended up being released a year before the movie. It was also based on an earlier draft of the script and was thus quite different plot-wise. A "sequel" game following the movie much more closely was subsequently released after the movie. The games were notable for being first-person shooters that pushed the GBA's hardware to its limits.

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Revealing mistake: Phibes' "real" face is a mask. Not only can you see the edges of it around his eyes, but his mouth and teeth look fairly unnatural and like a "solid" piece.

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Trivia: Phibes was originally much more devious and unlikeable in the original script, but his character was slightly mellowed out in subsequent drafts, which made his motives clearer and based on losing his wife, and removed any violence not aimed at his targets.

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Trivia: The bats that eat one of Phibes' victims are actually "played" by flying foxes, which are a very peaceful type of fruit bat that don't eat meat (outside of some insects) and are typically very docile.

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Trivia: The film's original tagline was "Love means never having to say you're ugly!" in a play on the famous line "Love means never having to say you're sorry..." from the film "Love Story."

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Trivia: The characters Molly and Joey, played by Paula Marshall and Danny Nucci, end up falling in love and getting together by the end of the movie. In a case of real life imitating art, a few years after this movie came out, Marshall and Nucci reconnected, fell in love, and got married.

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Trivia: SPOILERS: Director Todd Phillips has defended the controversial ending, in which it is revealed that Arthur is not the Joker who would go on to fight Batman when he is stabbed and killed by another inmate, who then carves a smile onto his face. Phillips noted that the two films were called "Joker," and not "THE Joker," and stated that Arthur was the person who inspired the real Joker—presumably the inmate who killed him. However, this explanation was poorly received by fans, who felt duped.

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Trivia: Despite the first film being a billion-dollar hit, within days of opening, "Joker: Folie à Deux" was already considered a bomb. Its domestic total was less than the first film's domestic opening weekend, and by the start of its fourth weekend, it had been removed from roughly 90% of theatres. At just over $200 million, the worldwide gross is only about 1/5 the original's. It is estimated that it will lose the studio $150-200 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.

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Trivia: There were less than two days left of principal photography when the 2023 actors' strike occurred. It wasn't able to finish until the strike was resolved.

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Trivia: Reportedly, Barbara and Adam from the original were going to have a cameo, but it was cut, as Tim Burton doesn't believe current digital de-aging technology is believable enough.

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Trivia: One of the conditions Tim Burton and Michael Keaton set for directing and appearing in the film is that they would only make it if they could use practical effects in place of CGI as much as possible, just like the original. This is why the film makes heavy use of things like old-school stop-motion animation and animatronics... CGI was only used when necessary.

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Trivia: The music during the final dream sequence is the music from the ending of the original version of "Carrie."

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Trivia: Brad Pitt, who is a producer on the film, was reportedly going to have a cameo in the afterlife waiting room as a character who was shot in the head (possibly implied to be his character Chad from "Burn After Reading"), but it was cut for one reason or another.

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Trivia: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wearing a hockey mask in the opening scene, which frightens Marion. This is a nod to the character Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" film series. "Halloween: H20" director Steve Miner got his start working on the early "Friday the 13th" movies and even directed the second and third films.

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Trivia: The film was originally written to be a low-budget, direct-to-video feature, with Michael being the only returning character. When Jamie Lee Curtis expressed interest in returning to the "Halloween" franchise in honour of the first film's 20th anniversary, the script was drastically re-written to include her character Laurie Strode, and the movie was upgraded to a theatrical release. It paid off, with "H20" becoming the highest-grossing film in the series to that point (in unadjusted dollars).

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Trivia: The film had several different working titles, including "Halloween: The Revenge of Laurie Strode."

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