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Revealing mistake: When the former bartender-turned-Cenobite blows a hole through the brick wall and comes out, you can see the "brick wall" bend like foam or rubber as he comes through, revealing it's a fake prop wall.

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Revealing mistake: When Joey is running around the streets with the box, the former bartender Cenobite blows a hole through the wall and comes out. There's a brief shot of Joey cowering with her back to him, and you can plainly see one of the supposed "bricks" from the wall literally smack her on the side of the head and harmlessly bounce off, revealing it's a lightweight foam replica. The scene tries to cover by adding in her grunting "Ugh!", but if it was a real brick, it would have knocked her right out.

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Audio problem: When Joey sees Doc as a Cenobite and flees as he blows up the storefront, she bumps into a random guy who is seemingly somehow missed the explosion that happened about 20 feet in front of him. Not only is it ludicrous he isn't fleeing, but his dialogue is also painfully obviously overdubbed.

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Continuity mistake: When Pinhead pushes the second nail/worm into his hand, the camera cuts to an extreme close-up. In between shots, suddenly there's more blood on his hand.

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Revealing mistake: When Pinhead pulls the pins (with attached worms) out of his head, there are two brief flubs. In the first close-up, you can see several of the pins on his head "wobble" unnaturally, revealing that it's likely some sort of rubber prop head. When he pulls the second pin out, the camera is in almost the exact same position, and he appears to pull the second pin out of the exact same spot, so it's likely just two different takes of the exact same effect.

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Revealing mistake: When Pinhead is walking into the church, the stained-glass windows start to explode. In several of the close-up shots, you can see the supposedly stone walls of the church "wobble" as the windows explode, revealing they're just painted set walls.

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Revealing mistake: When Joey sees the man's head explode in the hospital at the beginning of the film, pay attention. You can tell that the head was sculpted out of rigid foam (likely something similar to Styrofoam), painted, filled with fake blood, and then blown up. What gives it away is that you can see some of the unpainted white foam on some of the "chunks" of his head.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Terri is attacked by JP, after she knocks him, there's a shot of her scurrying towards the door. At the bottom left of the screen, you can see a boom mic quite prominently for almost two full seconds. (Seen in the 16:9 Blu-Ray from Arrow Video. Some versions of the film appear to be somewhat cropped, so it may not be visible in all versions.)

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Trivia: The film was inspired by director/co-writer/star Vera Drew being commissioned to create a fan edit of the 2019 film "Joker." While working on the fan-edit, she began to think about her own life and ended up coming up with the idea of re-contextualizing "Batman" characters in order to tell a semi auto-biographical story about what she refers to as the "Holy Trinity" - gender, comedy, and mommy issues.

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Trivia: Was pulled from TIFF after a single showing because director/co-writer/star Vera Drew got a warning letter from an "unnamed" massive media conglomerate. (Widely believed to be Warner Bros./Discovery.) Eventually the movie was able to be released legally because, as a parody, its content falls squarely under fair-use laws.

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10th Aug 2024

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Trivia: Chucky's body in this film is the longest one he's inhabited. His body from this film gets stitched back together and is the same body he uses in "Bride of Chucky." "Seed of Chucky" mentions that it's the same body from "Bride." "Curse of Chucky" reveals that he's still using the same body, albeit with "prosthetics" covering his scars. And the doll's head is also seen still alive in "Cult of Chucky." The TV show implies it has finally been destroyed... 30 years after "Child's Play 3" came out.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: The interior of the house wasn't real, but was rather a full-scale set built in a studio.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: Jill's eyeball burning up was added in using CGI in post-production, as they worried her death wasn't gory enough.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: Officer Stanton being killed by Tiffany is an almost exact duplicate of the opening scene of "Bride of Chucky." The dialogue he says on the phone is exactly the same dialogue that Officer Bailey says. Tiffany dispatches both men in the same way. Chucky is inside a black plastic bag in both scenes, and both scenes even have a steely blue due to the lighting.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: The first film in the franchise where Chucky (or a Chucky duplicate) is not killed during the climax. Up until this point, every film followed the classic slasher trope of the killer dying and being resurrected in the next movie. (Technically, a Chucky is shot but not killed in a post-credits scene).

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: Summer H. Howell, the little girl who plays Alice, had to be filmed separately from the "stitched up Chucky" in the final scene because she was too scared of his creepy, scarred face. Her lines and Chucky's lines were shot separately, and then simple split-screen effects were used to put them together.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif suggested his daughter Fiona to series creator Don Mancini for a role. She originally auditioned for the part of Barb, but Mancini felt she would be a perfect lead. However, he then became incredibly apprehensive to cast her, as he worried it might feel too much like stunt-casting. He also worried it would seem like he was trying to, as he put it, "kiss Brad's ass by casting his daughter." Mancini eventually went with his gut feeling and cast her.

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4th Aug 2024

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Trivia: The lead character is played by Fiona Dourif, daughter of Chucky voice-actor Brad Dourif. She has jokingly referred to herself as the "real 'Seed of Chucky'", and admitted that she exploited the fact that her father voiced Chucky to get dates with cute boys in high school, since it made her one of the "cool kids." But as happy as she was to be part of the franchise, her father Brad was even happier - he often proclaimed that Fiona's participation was the most exciting part of the film for him.

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2nd Aug 2024

Chucky (2021)

Final Destination - S3-E8

Revealing mistake: The gun that Wendall Wilkins pulls on the kids during the climax of the episode is noticeably a fake prop gun. If you look, you can tell that the barrel is not hollow, but is just a solid piece with a circular indent on the end. It's most noticeable when he says "Hail, Damballa!"

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