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• Marlon Brando was paid $1 million to play Father McFeely in the The Exorcist (1973) spoof at the beginning of the film. He took the money and accepted the role, but got pneumonia a few days before shooting his scenes. He dropped out of the project, but was still allowed to keep the money, and was replaced by James Woods.
  
  
• The tongue used in the spoof of The Exorcist (1973) is the tongue used in the original Exorcist movie.
  
  
• The mansion exteriors used for the house were filmed at the same house used in the movie Delirious (1991) and the TV Series _"Batman" (1966)_.
  
  
• The song that Hanson sings to Cindy is the same song the Reverend sings in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
  
  
• The tagline for Scary Movie (2000) was "No Mercy. No Shame. No sequel." The original tagline for this film is "We lied," but was changed to "More merciless. More Shameless."
  
  
• Many people bought tickets for the film during its US theatrical run simply to see the trailer for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). After the trailer ran, many movie-goers left the theatre.
  
  
• There is a character named Megan Voorhees, whose last name comes from the killer in Friday the 13th (1980) and its sequels, Jason Voorhees.
  
  
• The map Cindy reads in the car has the following text on the bottom: "Directions: If you had any brains you would take your ass home. But since you don't, head North 2 miles on Hades Divide. You will pass Elm St. on your left. Whatever you do, KEEP MOVING! 6 Miles to Kane Manor. If you reach Compton, lock your door, bend over, and kiss your ass goodbye!"
  
  
• When editing the movie, they forgot that they had removed the "did you hear something" ending from the first movie (which was a callback to the beginning) and mistakenly left it in this one.
  
  
• Composer George S. Clinton originally wrote a 70-minute, full orchestral score for the film but it was ultimately rejected in favor of the style of the temp score. Most of the temp score was compiled from recordings of Marco Beltrami's work, and he was asked to score the film. However, Beltrami did not have the time to do it, and thus hired 11 other people to write music.
  
  
• Charlton Heston turned down the James Woods part
  
  
• The "basketball dance scene" is a parody of a Nike commercial that was popular around the time of the movie's release.
  
  
• The wheelchair squeaking noises mimic the "Torgo Theme" in Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966). Both movies feature a strange housekeeper with an equally strange disfigurement.
  
  
• An alternate ending was filmed, with James Woods reappearing as Father McFeely. It was a twist ending, and had Cindy discovering that all of her friends were dead. This ending was ultimately rejected.
  
  
• Chris Elliott's character Hansen uses the same voice and speech patterns as the priest Kane from the films "Poltergeist 2: The Other Side" and "Poltergeist 3".
  
  
• Tori Spelling's character's name is Alex Monday. This is to be an intended spoof of "Charlie's Angels" as Lucy Liu's name in the film is Alex Munday.
  
  
• The scene where the two characters read each others vulgar tattoos is a take on the movie Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), during which Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott go back and forth reading the tattoos "Dude" and "Sweet".
  
  
• The MPAA originally gave the film an NC-17 rating as they considered a scene where Tori Spelling's character gives the Invisible Man oral sex as too graphic. So the scene was cut from the movie to get an R rating.
  
  
• According to Tori Spelling, her character, Alex Monday, was originally one of the leads. However, after refusing to do a scene where she had to be topless, Dimension Studios cut her out of more than half the movie. After that, her role was simply known as a "cameo", even though she was originally in 3/4 of the film.
  
  
• The streets and names on the map that Cindy reads are all significant to horror films or horror lore. Hades Dr. is a reference to Hades, Greek God of the Underworld; Elm St. is an obvious reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984); and Kane Manor is either a reference to Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four Friday the 13th films or the character Kane, from Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and Poltergeist III (1988).
  
  
• The Wayans have said that this sequel wasn't as strong of a film because the studio wanted it released within a year after the first film's release. They felt it was too rushed.
  
  

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