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Trivia: The pizza shop is called "Punch-Out Pizza" as a reference to the popular Nintendo game "Punch-Out!" Inside the pizza-shop is an arcade cabinet called "Jump-Man." "Jump-Man" was one of the early names used for Mario before they settled on the name "Mario."

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Trivia: Charles Martinet, who has voiced Mario in the games since the early 90's, has two cameos in the film. First is as an Italian man who talks to the Mario brothers at the pizza shop and whose voice is almost exactly like his Mario voice from the games. (He even lets out a classic "Woo-hoo!" just like Mario.) Second and much more subtly, he also voices Mario and Luigi's father, who appears at the beginning and ending of the film.

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Trivia: When Luigi is wandering through the bad lands before being attacked by the Dry Bones, you briefly hear a creepy piece of music for just a few seconds. It's actually a piece of music from the game "Luigi's Mansion," which focused on Luigi catching ghosts inside of a giant haunted house.

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Trivia: When Mario and Luigi are racing to their first plumbing job at the start of the film, there's two really fun easter eggs. First, the entire scene is shown from a profile perspective to emulate the look of the classic side-scrolling Mario games. And second, the construction equipment and supplies they are running past are arranged to look almost exactly like the layout of World 1-1 from the original "Super Mario Bros." video-game. It's subtle and easy to miss, but once you see it, it's obvious.

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Trivia: Luigi's cellphone ringtone is a slightly modified version of the startup sound for Nintendo's Gamecube console.

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Trivia: Nintendo originally started out in the late 1800's as a company that produced a style of playing cards called "hanafuda." In the scenes taking place in Brooklyn, you can see a billboard for hanafuda playing cards as a reference to Nintendo's more humble beginning.

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Trivia: The studio was unhappy with the first cut of the film, as it was more character-driven and would have got an R-rating, whereas they wanted a dumbed-down PG-13 action movie. The studio forcibly cut about 30 minutes of character and story development scenes out, and dumped it into theaters as quickly as possible. This forced the effects teams to use unfinished renders and animatics in many scenes, which explains why the effects are so bad... the studio didn't give them time to finish them.

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Trivia: Keanu Reeves remained friends with Laurence Fishburne after the original "Matrix" trilogy concluded. One day they meet for dinner and Fishburne talked about how much he loved the first "John Wick." Reeves had a script for the sequel sent to him shortly after. In less than 24 hours, Fishburne responded by saying "I'm in!"

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Trivia: Grossed more in its domestic opening weekend ($56 million) than the first film made in its entire domestic release ($43 million).

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Trivia: In the original ending, Mrs. Tingle didn't go to jail, and eventually made a truce with the students who were holding her captive, with everyone going free. This was changed in reshoots, as audiences felt she was so unlikeable, she needed to be "punished."

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Trivia: The movie was originally shot as an R-rated movie, but was cut down to PG-13 before release. It's most notable in the scene where Jo-Lynn re-enacts scenes from "The Exorcist." The actress had to re-dub herself screaming "F*** me!" with "Take me!" over and over again.

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Trivia: Helen Mirren has given different reasons for taking the part of Mrs. Tingle. She was reportedly intrigued by the devilish role because it was unlike anything else she had ever played, and she enjoyed how the film showed the turbulence of adolescence. She also quipped that she got paid a "shitload of money" and that it was an easy job because she spend most of the film tied to a bed in a comfy nightgown making catty comments.

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Trivia: The film was originally titled "Killing Mrs. Tingle" and was set to premiere earlier. After the Columbine Shooting, the film was retitled "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" due to fears that it would feel too exploitive following the tragedy. Its release date was also shifted back slightly.

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Trivia: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" star Heather Langenkamp has a cameo as one of the dead bodies you see on the TV news broadcast during the opening credits. (She's only on-screen for a few seconds).

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Trivia: Reportedly, late in post-production, the lead effects artist had a mental breakdown because he realised he had bitten off more than he could chew and couldn't deliver the effects on time. Director Wes Craven had to rush to locate all the negatives (which were scattered all over LA) and hire more effects artists to try and get the effects done as quickly as possible. Craven has said this is why some of the effects shots are "pretty sketchy" - there was no time to properly finish them.

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Trivia: Wes Craven said before he passed away that out of all his films, "Shocker" is the one movie he would have liked to have remade himself because the effects weren't quite good enough due to technical limitations and issues with the effects artists.

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Trivia: Wes Craven originally intended for "Shocker" to become a franchise, with Horace Pinker becoming the next big slasher-star. However, the studio wasn't happy with the film's mediocre box office returns, and a sequel was never made.

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Trivia: Like other films in the series, "Scream VI" is loaded with "easter eggs" for horror fans. One extremely subtle one you may not notice... when the psychologist is attacked at his office by Ghostface, the door-knocking sound effect is actually taken directly from the 2022 slasher-movie "X," which featured "Scream VI" co-star Jenna Ortega.

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Trivia: When Kirby and Mindy sit down and talk about horror movies, and Mindy alludes to the idea that some people think Stu Macher is really still alive. This is a reference to an extremely popular fan theory that Stu Macher, one of the original two "Ghostface" killers, is still alive and will return in a future film.

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Trivia: After co-creator Justin Roiland was fired, it was revealed that his relationship with fellow co-creator Dan Harmon had broken down during season 2 when Harmon pushed for the show to be more ambitious. By season 3, Roiland made little creative input, was rude and inappropriate to the staff, and would often abandon work. By season 4, he would just record his lines from home and never come into work, exploiting the fact he was voicing the leads because he thought it meant he could never be fired.

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