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The British Family You Could Pay To Learn What Time It Was

You could pay Ruth to look at her watch.

Authors: By Ryan Menezes
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The Bonkers Movie That Cost Zero Dollars: 'Attack Of The Giant Blurry Finger'

There’s an obscure little movie you can find hiding out on streaming services called "Attack of the Giant Blurry Finger." It's-- something else.

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4 Fictional Characters That Are Secretly Dark As Hell

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'Clone High' Is Coming Back (And Deserves More Love This Time )

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14 Clever Details And Secret Homages In Your Favorite Scary Movies

By:: Zanandi Botes

October 30, 2021

14 Clever Details And Secret Homages In Your Favorite Scary Movies

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.

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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 — Source: Looper

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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Get OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM — Source: Looper

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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SAINT MAUO God only talks to the character Maud once... and it's the actress's voice doing the talking. CRACKED.COM — Source: Mashable

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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 — Source: WhatCulture

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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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 — Source: Cinemablend

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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 — Source: Film School Rejects

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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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 — Source: Film School Rejects

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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 — Source: Screen Rant

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