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Trivia: The film's controversial ending was the source of great struggle. Writer/director Frank Darabont was approached by several different studios who wanted to make the film, but only on the condition that Darabont changed the ending. Darabont refused over and over until he found a studio that would let him keep it. "The Mist" author Stephen King has commented that he absolutely loved the film's ending, which divulged from his novella, and wishes he had thought of it when he was writing the original story.

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Trivia: Technically this wouldn't count as a mistake since it requires going through frame-by-frame, but there's an amusing little flub in the pod-race. When Sebulba's craft crashes, go through frame-by-frame when his one engine hits the rock formation. The rock formation actually begins to explode a frame or two before the engine strikes it. It's hard to tell it's happening when viewing the movie at normal speed, but you can catch it going frame-by-frame. Just an amusing little slip-up in the rendering.

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Trivia: The "shemale" who frightens away Raymond was a friend of John Waters who was transgender and was about to have reassignment surgery. Waters put them in the film because they had developed female characteristics such as breasts and looked like a woman, but still had male genitalia. They subsequently had the surgery one week later and appeared in Waters' next film as a fully female character.

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Trivia: The infamous closing scene in which Divine eats dog feces was completely real. The dog was fed steak before filming, and his owner wouldn't let it outside to "go" until they were ready to film. Divine later called a hospital to see if he could get sick from the stunt, pretending to be a concerned parent whose "retarded child ate dog poop" because he was too embarrassed to admit he did it.

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Trivia: Director John Waters provides the voice of the narrator. He attempted to get a local Baltimore media personality named "Mr. Ray" to do the voice over, but he refused. Mr. Ray was notorious in the area for producing commercials that came across as clueless and even racist at times, and Waters thought it would be hilarious to have him do the voiceover.

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Trivia: John Waters tried to get Mink Stole to let him set her hair on fire for the movie, but she (wisely) declined. Waters has since admitted that it was for the best, as it would have likely ended in disaster. Waters did eventually get the gag of a woman's hair being set on fire accomplished in his film "Cecil B. Demented," albeit using special effects.

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Trivia: John Waters attempted for some time to produce a sequel, titled "Flamingos Forever," but he never went ahead due to the deaths of co-stars Edith Massey and Divine.

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Trivia: Matthew Lillard plays the titular "Serial Mom's" son. Two years later, he would go on to play one of the serial killers in the famous slasher-satire "Scream."

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Trivia: John Waters has admitted to being high on drugs while writing "Pink Flamingos," though he is adamant he was not high while shooting it.

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Trivia: Director John Waters has a voice-over cameo as the voice of Ted Bundy in the tape that's found.

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Trivia: Both Julie Andrews and Susan Sarandon were considered for the titular character.

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Trivia: Star Fairuza Balk used to visit an occult store to research her role in the film. She fell in love with the store and ended up purchasing it from the owners (who were retiring) during production. (She subsequently sold the store six years later.) This ended up making rumors spiral out of control that she was actually a practicing witch in real life, but she has since clarified that the rumors were not true. She merely finds the subject fascinating.

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Trivia: The movie was made with the intention of being aimed towards teenagers and being rated PG-13. However, the ratings board took a rather puritanical approach and slapped it with an R rating due to all of the occult elements. Because the film was so steeped in witchcraft, the director was unable to make any cuts to get the lower rating he and the studio desired.

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Trivia: During the beginning of the film, when we are re-introduced to Billy and Kate, if you look very closely, there's a theater in the background of one shot. And on the theater marquee is the fictitious sequel "The Howling XI." This is a nod to the film "The Howling," which was directed by "Gremlins 2" director Joe Dante. (It can be hard to see on VHS and DVD copies as it's far in the background and slightly out of focus, but it can be made out on the Blu-Ray version of the film).

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Trivia: The film originally began production with Dan Castellaneta in the role of the Genie. Castellaneta had previously replaced Robin Williams in the role for the second film. Williams had a falling out with the producers of the original film over the use of his voice and name in production and merchandising, and refused to appear in the first sequel. Williams patched things up with Disney during production of this film, and he was quickly rehired. The script was slightly re-written to accommodate Williams' style of humor, and some completed footage of Castellaneta's Genie was thrown out.

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Trivia: The only "Aladdin" film out of the original trilogy to not feature Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie. Williams had a falling out with the producers of the first film, and refused to return to voice the character. He did, however, act as an adviser for the role during pre-production and helped the producers find his replacement, Dan Castellaneta. Eventually, Williams and the producers settled their differences, and he returned to voice the Genie in the third film.

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Trivia: "The Return of Jafar" is notable for being Disney's first direct-to-video animated sequel, and it served as the start a long line of such films in the '90s and 2000s. Though oddly, it wasn't originally meant to be a feature film. The movie instead began as an hour-long pilot for the "Aladdin" television series and was meant to air as a TV-special. But "Aladdin" series producer and co-director Tad Stones liked the story and characters so much, he pushed to expand the story and release it on VHS as a proper "sequel" to the first movie. It took some convincing, but eventually Disney executives fell in love with the idea and agreed.

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Trivia: Part of the inspiration for the film came from a friend of writer/director Jennifer Kent. Her friend, a single mother, had a young son who like many children was terrified of non-existent "monsters" he thought were lurking in his home. Kent then had the idea to turn this into a film. What if a child was terrified of monsters lurking in their closet, under their beds, etc... except they were real?

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Trivia: Reportedly, the main character Frank Martin was originally written to be subtly implied to be gay, but this idea was dropped early on. Despite the script changes, Louis Letterier, who co-directed this film and directed "Transporter 2," has said that he still considers the character to be gay (even though the films show him having sex with women), as he finds it makes the character more interesting. (Letterier even likes to claim that Martin is one of the first gay action heroes).

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Trivia: Writer Jeffrey Boam is strangely credited three times in the writing credits. The credits read: "Story by Jeffrey Boam," and "Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam and Jeffrey Boam and Robert Mark Kamen." This is because of some strange rules among the studio and writers guild about how writers are credited. Boam was initially hired just to write the story and the first draft of the screenplay... but then he was re-hired by the studio later on to re-write his script with Kamen. Because he was technically hired twice (first as a solo writer than as a co-writer), the studio was required to give him multiple screenplay credits.

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