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Trivia: The mask featured in the film is actually the exact same mask from the first movie. It looks different for two reasons... first, because the actor portraying Michael had a wider head, which stretched it out slightly, and second, because it had started to fade and also got a yellowish hue due to being stored in writer Debra Hill's home. Hill was a chain-smoker, and suspected that constant smoke in the air gave the mask a slight yellowish stain.

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Trivia: The hot therapy tub where two characters have sex and one is killed was actually freezing behind the scenes and also got very dirty and unsterile just sitting around. Actress Pamela Shoop said that she and Leo Rossi were literally shivering, and that she ended up getting an ear infection due to having her head repeatedly dunked in the dirty, freezing water.

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Trivia: John Carpenter has said that the writing process for the film mostly involved him sitting in front of a typewriter drinking beer and not being sure what to write. Key plot points, such as Michael and Laurie being brother and sister, were just things he came up with on the fly because he was trying to think of ways to justify a sequel even existing, since he felt there was no more story to tell.

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Trivia: The sets were built with a technique called "forced perspective." Only some of the buildings and streets were standard sized, but as they went further into the distance, they became smaller and smaller. When viewed through the camera, this creates the illusion that the sets are larger than they actually were. It's very noticeable during the song "Feels Like Christmas." When the camera cranes up at the end, you can actually see some of the actors are almost as tall as the background "houses."

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Trivia: It was Margot Robbie's idea to appear nude in the doorway. She was scripted to be wearing a slinky robe, but Robbie felt that her character would not wear a robe, reasoning that her character's body was her "form of currency" and that she'd exploit that to "lay her cards on the table."

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Trivia: Director John Landis had issues with the script, but felt he and Eddie Murphy could make it work through comedy. However, Landis was shocked to learn that Murphy wanted to play Axel much straighter-edge, reasoning that he was older and less risky and rambunctious. Thus, Murphy would side step around comedic bits rather than play them up. Landis has said that Murphy was very professional and that he likes parts of the movie, but sees it as an "odd film" since it just wasn't very funny.

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Trivia: Alan Tudyk had pitched an idea for an episode where his character Wash, who was essentially the comic relief, would be revealed to be covered in prison tattoos, implying him to be quite a badass warrior. But it would then humorously later be explained that he actually accidentally got imprisoned due to his own mistake, and had a good time there, where he would entertain other inmates by telling stories with shadow-puppets. And he just got the tattoos on a lark while imprisoned.

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Trivia: Robert Eggers often had co-star Ralph Ineson direct child actor Harvey Scrimshaw during filming. Eggers has no children of his own, and wasn't sure how to communicate with the young actor. So Eggers would describe the scene, and Ineson, a father with two children, would then reinterpret his direction in a way Scrimshaw could understand. (Often by relating it to sports, since Scrimshaw is a huge soccer fan, and literally "coaching" him like a soccer coach).

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Trivia: It's shown that there is mold growing on the family's corn. If you look close, the mold is a specific type called ergot. Ergot poisoning can cause severe symptoms including hallucinations, irrational behavior and death. Director Robert Eggers has said this was a purposeful choice, as he left clues for different possible interpretations of the film. If audiences want to believe the supernatural elements, they can. Alternately, they could chalk it up to ergot poisoning driving the family insane.

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Trivia: While Christine is a Plymouth Fury, many of the cars used on the production weren't. Many of them were similar-looking cars that were simply made up to resemble a Fury. Only a few actual Plymouth Fury's were used. (Mostly for glory-shots, closeups, etc).

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Trivia: Only three known "Christine" cars still exist, and only one of them is a proper Plymouth Fury. The lone Fury currently resides at the Rochester Auto Museum in Upstate, New York. It is valued as high as $500,000 due to its notoriety.

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Trivia: One of the major issues that stalled this reboot and kept it from being made earlier was that executives at Miramax, who owned the rights at the time, wanted to tone the franchise down and make the movie PG-13 so it could appeal to teenagers. None of the writers or directors attached wanted to make a PG-13 "Hellraiser," and many exited the project over this bizarre and insane mandate. Once Clive Barker got the rights back, production moved forward on this (very) R-rated installment.

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Trivia: Originally, there were going to be several scenes with graphic male nudity, including a scene that match-cut the lighthouse and the erect penis of one of the lead characters. The producers were able to use these as a bargaining chip... they would let Robert Eggers shoot the film in full-frame black-and-white as he envisioned... as long as he cut the nudity, since it would get them an NC-17 rating. Eggers has since admitted the scenes involving male nudity were misjudged and "juvenile."

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Trivia: An alternate ending was written where, in the final moments of the movie, the scene would suddenly cut to the Silver Shamrock Factory from "Halloween III: Season of the Witch." You'd see the witch, pumpkin and skeleton masks being produced... then suddenly, you'd see dozens of Michael Myers masks on an assembly-line, implying some sort-of connection between Michael and Silver Shamrock. This ending was ultimately thrown out because it was deemed to be too weird and fan-servicey.

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Trivia: The movie originally began as a modern day "reinterpretation" of an unfinished Edgar Allan Poe story called "The Light-House." The project stalled, and was eventually retooled as a stand-alone period film, with any references to Poe's work removed.

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Trivia: Willem Dafoe originally was meant to be missing an eye and several fingers, and have an old-fashioned peg-leg. This was changed because director Robert Eggers worried people would assume he was a pirate giving the film's nautical themes.

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Trivia: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson had both reached out to director Robert Eggers after seeing his film "The Witch," wanting to work with him. Dafoe even saw "The Witch" two days in a row... going once by himself, then forcing his wife to come with him to see it the following day because he loved it so much. It just-so-happened that Eggers was a fan of both actors and wanted to work with them... and he realised they would be a perfect fit for the two lead characters in "The Lighthouse."

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Trivia: Actress Anya Taylor-Joy had become good friends with director Robert Eggers after they made "The Witch" together. Taylor-Joy has said she begged Eggers to be in "The Lighthouse" so they could work together again, and wanted to play the mermaid. Eggers told her she wasn't right for the part. Taylor-Joy then jokingly exclaimed that she'd "play a seagull" if it meant she could be in the movie. Needless to say, that didn't happen. (Although she was in Eggers' next film, "The Northman.").

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Trivia: The film was originally budgeted at $70 million, but this was lowered to $55 million because the studio got cold feet after one of Eddie Murphy's movies, "The Distinguished Gentleman," was a critical failure and performed below expectations. However, due to issues and delays during the filming, the budget ended up ballooning to well over the original $70 million budget.

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Trivia: The film was originally meant to take place in England, with several co-stars such as Sean Connery or John Cleese being suggested for Axel's new partner. However, this idea was dropped since it was deemed too similar to the movie "Black Rain," about an American cop who goes to Japan. "Die Hard" writer Steven E. De Souza was then hired, based on an idea he had that was pitched as "'Die Hard' in an amusement park." This became the basis for the script.

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