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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

October 30, 2021

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

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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Source: WhatCulture

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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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