FILM 1710: THE WAILING

TRIVIA: For his ceremony scene, actor Jung-min Hwang filmed for 15 minutes without break. It was one long-take scene.

The Wailing is Jun Kunimura's first Korean film in his 35 years of acting career.

The movie contains many themes, but mainly based on folk religions in Korea.

FILM 1581: THE CONJURING 2 

TRIVIA: James Wan was offered a "life-altering" amount of money in order to direct Fast 8 (2017). However, he turned that opportunity down to direct The Conjuring 2 (2016) instead. "I feel rejuvenated to tell a scary story one more time," Wan wrote on Instagram.

The remaining members of the Hodgson family visited the set. Frances O'Connor, who portrays their late mother, refused to meet them, as she feared it would affect her performance.

Patrick Wilson did his own singing.

On the first day of shooting, a priest was brought in to bless the set.

One of the real-life allegations that didn't feature in the movie, was that the Hodgson children's toys were thrown around and were too hot to touch.

Some have claimed that the real Janet is a gifted ventriloquist or the power to manipulate voices and she admitted faking some events. She revealed that around two percent of the haunting was phony during an interview with The Telegraph.

The opening scene where the Warrens are seen partaking in a séance in the Amityville Horror House, Lorraine is seen wearing a trenchcoat and a skirt. Inspiration for this costume was taken from what the real Lorraine Warren wore during a séance in real life during the Amityville case. She wore a replica of the outfit right down to the styling of her hair.

The ghost boy that Lorraine sees when astral projecting is based on the infamous Amityville photo supposedly taken by Gene Campbell, a professional photographer who was part of the team who worked with paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The Society of Psychical Research in England researched this case long before The Warrens, and it was determined it was Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis. Grosse and Playfaire moved into the house at one point and investigated this case for over a year. The Warrens just showed up and stayed for a couple of days.

FILM 1580: FRIEND REQUEST

TRIVIA: The film was shot in Cape Town, South Africa. Although the film was produced by the German director Simon Verhoeven and German production companies, the largely English-speaking cast required that the film be shot in English. Filming ended in March 2014.

Even though the whole movie revolves around Facebook, it is not actually mentioned explicitly.

FILM 1398: THE BABADOOK

TRIVIA: The movie had a campaign where you could buy a copy of 'The Babadook Popup Book' for $80.00. The first 2000 copies are numbered and signed by the director, Jennifer Kent. The book contains popup pictures as well as additional pages not seen in the movie. (The campaign was only opened for a limited amount of time and is no longer available).

Babadook is an anagram of "A bad book"

William Friedkin (director of The Exorcist (1973)) said "I've never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Babadook'".

Of the film's total budget of $2.5 million, $30,071 was raised via Kickstarter. Most of the funds raised from Kickstarter were channeled toward the art department.

Coincidentally the words "Baba-Dookh" in Urdu/Hindi mean "Father-Grief" referring to the fact that Amelia's husband passed away before the events depicted in the film.

The name Babadook was inspired by the Serbian word for boogeyman, babaroga.

According to writer and director Jennifer Kent, the Babadook was designed based on stills from the lost film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney Sr.

Jennifer Kent holds the rights to the film, when asked if there would be a sequel she said, "I will never allow any sequel to be made, because it's not that kind of film. I don't care how much I'm offered, it's just not going to happen."

FILM 1331: IT FOLLOWS

TRIVIA: The poem that Kelly's English teacher reads out loud is TS Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". The poem seems to share some commonalities with the film.

The theatre featured at the beginning of the film is the Redford Theatre, a historic Japanese style theatre with a fully functioning Wurlitzer organ, in the Old Redford neighborhood of Detroit, MI. The Evil Dead (1981) premiered there.

The dilapidated house that Hugh hid out in and that Jay and her friends explored is a house style called the American Foursquare. This style was popular from the 1890s through the 1930s. Many floor plans for the foursquare feature "circular" traffic patters where one can proceed through several rooms and return to the starting point without ever reversing the path: kitchen, vestibule, living room, dining room, and kitchen, for instance. In some homes, adjoining bedrooms shared closets and bathrooms. This kind of "fluid" floor plan would make this style of house particularly desirable if an escape from "It" was needed.

Some of the cars shown are from more recent times. Some are shown to be from the 60s to late 70s era. The time frame in which this movie is actually set is unknown as some of the technology does not exist, let alone could exist in the supposed "retro" area.