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Trivia: Mystique's initial appearance required Rebecca Romijn-Stamos to wear yellow contact lenses, dozens of rubber "scales" strategically placed on her body, blue paint and not much else.

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Trivia: The character of Mrs. Coulter is described in the book series as a brunette; upon seeing actress Nicole Kidman portray her for the film, author Philip Pullman declared, "I got it wrong; she should have been blonde."

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Trivia: One of Billy's foster siblings, after gaining the Shazam powers, tries to fire a bolt of energy from his hands. He says, "Hadouken" as he attempts the attack-a reference to Capcom's Street Fighter series of video games. Later, one of the others says, "Finish him" upon the defeat of the main villain-a reference to the rival game, Mortal Kombat and the signature phrase of its main boss, Shao Khan.

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Trivia: Gheorghe Mureșan, who plays the giant "Max", is the tallest person to ever play for the NBA, at 7 feet, 7.5 inches tall.

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Trivia: Spoiler: At the very end of the movie, Superman makes an appearance at the school cafeteria. He is referenced many times throughout the film.

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Question: Spoiler: The project behind The Tethered (and the rabbits) was said to have been abandoned for generations and the subjects left directionless. How, then, did that still have water, power, etc.?

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Trivia: One of the ghosts appears to be bleeding from her head upwards, the fluid defying gravity. Del Toro used this visual clue for death underwater in one of his earlier works entitled The Devil's Backbone (Spanish: El espinazo del diablo) where a bleeding orphan boy was drowned.

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Trivia: Both Emma Stone and Benedict Cumberbach were originally cast for the lead roles, but both left the production.

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Trivia: Creature actor Doug Jones, who is known for playing Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies directed by del Toro as well as the Gill-man in The Shape of Water, portrayed several of the gruesome ghosts haunting Crimson Peak.

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Trivia: Actress Jessica Chastain went through a full-body cast for this film for her role as Lucille.

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Trivia: Mitch's sister, Cathy Brenner, is played by a then very young Veronica Cartwright in her first horror role, who went on to star in other horrors, often alien-related: the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers as the sole surviving human, Nancy, in Alien as the character of Lambert and play a recurring abductee character on the long running series, The X-Files.

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Trivia: Meg Tilly is sister to Jennifer Tilly, who famously played Tiffany Valentine in the Chucky horror franchise.

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Trivia: The inhuman shriek that the pod people use to alert their brethren of unduplicated humans present was invented for the 2nd film adaptation and carried into this, the 3rd - it is not part of the book, but remains very effective, hence its continued inclusion in film.

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Audio problem: While Lynda is filing her nails just as Michael enters the scene wearing a sheet and glasses, the sound of her filing continues despite her pausing.

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Trivia: During the visit to Paradise Alley, watch for an alien that suspiciously looks like Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Trivia: The landstriders - large quadruped beings that are able to run fast and for vast distances without tiring, sometimes used as mounts - were actually professional stiltwalkers who used extensions on their arms and legs and were in costume. Wires removed in post-production helped hold them up and prevent serious falls.

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Trivia: The Skeksis may seem to have different genders by their voices and behaviors, but are in fact something of both male and female genders. Jim Henson thought that having a world where gender was more ambiguous would be more interesting in general, and for Skeksis, more disconcerting.

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Trivia: The Garthim costumes were so heavy and hard to get in and out of that oftentimes the costumed actors were suspended on a rig to allow them to take breaks between takes according to The Making Of The Dark Crystal Feature on the DVD.

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Trivia: Augra, the horned being with curly hair, is the guardian of Thra who was initially possessing both male and female attributes-but most of the male part of her was lost while viewing the Universe. She still sports some whiskers on her face to show that she's still not entirely either gender.

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Trivia: The film has Joel and Clementine meeting in Montauk, NY. The Montauk Project is known among conspiracy theorists as the alleged site of experiments in, among other things, mind control and memory manipulation.

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