14 Clever Details And Secret Homages In Your Favorite Scary Movies
Because sometimes malevolent ghosts totally sound like lions.
![14 Clever Details And Secret Homages In Your Favorite Scary Movies](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/2/798872_320x180.jpg)
From homages to poltergeist sounding like lions roaring, here are a bunch of details and references in some of the most famous horror movies in horror history.
![CARRIE (1976) Carrie's whole vibe at the end of the film was modeled after Gustave Moreau's 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/7/798887.jpg)
Source: Looper
![POLTERGEIST UKAILA The movie was made by MGM, and the famous MGM lion roar can be heard around 100 minutes into the film when the ghost attacks the house. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/4/798884.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![Get OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/6/798886.jpg)
Source: Looper
![The CABIN IN THE Woods The caged underground monsters include a bunch of characters from the game Left 4 Dead. The Easter egg was added because there were plans to have a tie-ii between the game and the movie, but then MGM went out of business. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/5/798885.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/3/798883.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![SAINT MAUO God only talks to the character Maud once... and it's the actress's voice doing the talking. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/2/798882.jpg)
Source: Mashable
![ITEXAS TURNPIKE IOS dalavida RESERYED Como FOR TO SLERGY 19 DEATH PROOF Kurt Russell's shirt from Big Trouble in Little China hangs on the bar wall. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/1/798881.jpg)
Source: WhatCulture
![ELECTA I DEAD SILENCE Billy the Puppet from Saw, James Wan other movie that involves a doll and some murder, can be spotted in Wan's 2007 movie too. Billy makes an appearance in most of Wan's movies. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/5/798875.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![READY OR NOT The Le Domas' traditional masks mirror those in the 1965 The Twilight Zone episode, The Masks. The episode sees a dying rich man forcing his greedy children to wear masks representing their gross personalities if they want their inheritance. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/8/0/798880.jpg)
Source: Cinemablend
![TRICK R TREAT The school bus story is a homage to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and would originally have featured a cemetery with overgrown pumpkins. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/8/798878.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects
![The InvisiBle MAN 193 +is go - the should tasa 48(c) with H ID: In one scene James is wearing a shirt that says Prestige Records 1949. It's a nod to the year of the Japanese film The Invisible Man Appears that was based on H.G. Wells' novel. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/7/798877.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant
![THE STRANGEST VENGEANCE EVER PLANNED! Ahance Informational CHARLTON JANET ORSON HESTON LEIGH-WELLES TOUCH OF FVIL HALLOWEEN (1978) The opening of the movie was inspired by the opening of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/9/798879.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects
![CLOVERFIELD DO NOT DUPLICATE 6613866 6-12 00 :04:03:09 RPA 05 cop 00: :18:21:17 The DHARMA logo from the Lost series appears in the movie during the opening. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/4/798874.jpg)
Source: WhatCulture
![GO MONSTER SQUAD/ NIGHT OF The MONSTER THE CREEPS SQUAD There's a shout-out to The Monster Squad... that came out a year later. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/6/798876.jpg)
Source: Screen Rant