Tusk

Trivia: The profuse drooling that Wallace suffers once he has been "transformed" into the walrus could not be helped - actor Justin Long was constantly drooling due to the heavy prosthetic makeup, and the fact he had to hold his tongue back to simulate the fact that his character's tongue had been cut out.

Trivia: Director Kevin Smith originally wanted Quentin Tarantino to portray the character Guy, though Tarantino had to turn it down. Smith then asked famed actor Johnny Depp to take the role, as he had recently become friends with Depp. Depp immediately accepted, finding the role and the entire script intriguing and amusing. Depp's daughter Lily-Rose also appears in the film (alongside Smith's own daughter) as one of the two clerks at the "Eh-to-Zed" convenience store.

Trivia: During the flashbacks of Howe stranded on the island, in one brief shot we see the carcass of the dead "Mr. Tusk" after he has killed it - the deceased walrus's body wasn't originally planned to be on-camera, and was constructed by the prop and makeup crew in less than an hour using bits of fabric, pieces of filming equipment and any other odds and ends they could find lying about on or near set.

Trivia: This entire film was inspired by a podcast given by director Kevin Smith. Smith was emailed a copy of an ad placed on a Canadian website which he read during the cast, in which a man was searching for a lodger at his large home, and offered to allow one to stay for free on the condition that they dress in a "realistic walrus suit" for 1-2 hours a day. (As the man allegedly missed a walrus that he had befriended some years earlier.) While the ad ended up being a prank, Smith was so amused by the idea, that he immediately spit-balled a rough outline of a horror film that would eventually become "Tusk."

Factual error: At the diner scene at the Gimli Slider, there's an ashtray with a lit cigarette on the table. Manitoba has had a smoking ban in all enclosed public spaces for over a decade.

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Howard Howe: We survive at all costs. Only to butcher again. And again. Until we ourselves are at last butchered in turn.

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Question: After Wallace was found as a walrus, why couldn't his friends get him to a hospital to surgically make him human again?

Answer: There's no clear answer but after defeating and killing Howe, Wallace seemed resigned to his fate that he was now living as a walrus and may have refused corrective surgery. It wasn't until the end when Ally said that she still loved him that his humanity began to resurface.

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I agree with this, and I also think it wouldn't be worth correcting. He would still not look human.

Answer: They left him as a walrus because Kevin Smith wanted to leave the possibility for a sequel; which is slated for 2024 as "Tusks."

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