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Trivia: The various elementals are homages to classic Spider-Man enemies Cyclone, Hydro-Man, Molten-Man, and Sandman.

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Trivia: Sandra Bullock was originally cast to play the lead, Slim, but was unavailable due to another film's schedule.

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Trivia: During the filming of Enough, Jennifer Lopez herself admitted in 2008 that she suffered a nervous breakdown related to overworking.

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Trivia: John Wick's fights while ascending the Continental in New York are reminiscent of Bruce Lee's Game of Death, where he too had to fight varied opponents as he approached the showdown.

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Trivia: Special Effects legend Stan Winston helped design and led the crew that operated the dog-thing, insisting that he was just assisting Rob Bottin on set.

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Trivia: When Dr. Cooper loses both his arms after the Norris-Thing's chest opens into a mouth and bites him, that's really a double-amputee wearing a mask to resemble the actor.

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Trivia: The idea of the Statue of Liberty's head ending up on the street signaling the approach of the monster was inspired by J. J. Abrams recalling the poster for the film Escape from New York (1981).

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Trivia: Originally the fate of Louis Creed was meant to be more subtle and open - his deceased wife Rachel was to walk into the kitchen and discover him alone and end there; in the film, a grotesque Rachel embraces him while grabbing a knife and we hear his scream just when the screen fades to black.

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Trivia: Fred Gwynne, who had played the lovable monster dad Herman Munster on The Munsters, here plays the huge elderly neighbor Jud Crandall, who is well aware of the strangeness of the cemetery.

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Trivia: When King Ghidorah first appears, one of the soldiers says, "You gotta be f***ing kidding." This same line is said by Palmer as he saw the Norris spider-head thing skittering on the floor in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).

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Trivia: The film is a remake of a 2010 Uruguayan film, La casa muda, which was supposedly based upon an actual incident that occurred in the 1940s in a village in Uruguay where murders and incest were reported.

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Trivia: The film is shot as if done in a continuous single take as it follows the tormented protagonist, Sarah.

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Trivia: Ben Kingsley's Maori facial tattoos took about an hour to apply for the character Mazer Rackham.

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Trivia: Director Vincenzo Natali had wanted to explore themes of family and the powerful potential of genetics on the heels of the success of Cube (1997).

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Trivia: French model Delphine Chanéac, who played the adult form of Dren (the monster), had shaved her head for the role.

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Trivia: The director actually cast as many actual Norwegian actors as he could for authenticity, commenting that he assembled some of the best and most recognizable stars from there.

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Trivia: The showdown with the Dr. Sander Halvorson-thing was done as a disappointing rush job when the ending was hastily replaced - Kate Lloyd was meant to encounter the spaceship's pilots and a whole other confrontation was devised, along with Dr. Halvorson being dead.

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Trivia: Poor Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr.'s practical creature effects were nearly all replaced or so digitally-composited that, in frustration, they started a Kickstarter campaign that led to the film Harbinger Down.

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Trivia: Early script ideas for the plot included having MacReady and Childs rescued but frostbitten and then the horrid truth about one (or both) revealed, or having MacReady's helicopter pilot brother come by the camp and discover the disaster there. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. wanted to remind the audience of MacReady with the character of helicopter pilot Sam Carter (played by Joel Edgerton).

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Trivia: The fire effects throughout were done practically instead of digitally via clever in-camera effects and the use of special suits, gels and rigs allowing for precisely-controlled burns and for stuntmen to remain aflame longer.

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