1990s Movies: 101 Interesting Facts You Might Not Know

It’s a fact that 1990s Movies were really great. Just think back to the films that were released in that decade and you’ll probably agree with me.

There were so many great films that were released in that decade and if you’re feeling nostalgic and you want to find out more about them, you’ve come to the right place.

Here are 101 Interesting Facts about 1990s Movies:

1. The “Dark Shadows” sounded creepy for a reason in Ghost 

The horrific sounds made by the “Dark Shadows” in the 1990 film are the sounds of babies’ cries. They’re played at extremely slow speed backwards. That’s creep AF in my books.

2. Joe Pesci got all method on Macauly Culkin on the set of Home Alone

In order to get the most authentic performance possible, Joe Pesci did his best to avoid Macaulay Culkin on the set so that the 9 year old actor would be afraid of him.

3. Pretty Woman was originally titled ‘3000’

The film was named after the amount of money Vivian (Julia Roberts) & Edward (Richard Gere) finally agree upon for her week of service. It was later changed to the title of the Roy Orbison song on the film’s soundtrack.

4. Dances with Wolves could’ve been five and a half hours long

Yes folks, the first cut of the 1990 blockbuster was THAT long. It required massive cuts. You still have to sit still for 3 hours and 1 minute if you’re watching it though.

5. Total Recall marked the transition from old to new special effects

The 1990 film was both one of the final movies to heavily utilize miniature effects and one of the first to employ computer-generated imagery. The former camp, which involves the projection of filmed shots inside miniature scale model sets, includes a number of Total Recall’s Mars scenes. In the latter category are only sequences featuring Schwarzenegger’s passage through a transit station’s X-ray machine.

The coming years would see CGI quickly become the predominant form of special effects used in Hollywood filmmaking, with the miniature method all but losing its place to more advanced techniques following Total Recall.

6. Black & Decker paid to have its cordless drill featured in Die Hard 2

When the scene was cut, the company sued 20th Century Fox in the first-ever product placement lawsuit for a film. The $150,000 claim was settled out of court.

7. ZZ Top had a cameo in Back To The Future Part 3

They played an old-timey version of the song “Doubleback,” which later appeared on their Recycler album. As legend has it, Michael J. Fox asked them if they would play a rendition of “Hey Good Lookin'” while the production waited for a camera to be repaired. ZZ Top obliged and it turned into a bit of an on-set party, as song after song followed.

8. Harrison Ford had a different haircut in Presumed Innocent for a reason

His hair was cut in such a way to make him look “wimpier” than his previous brave leading man roles. He really does look like Indiana Jones‘ sidekick in the film if you ask me.

9.  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ costumes were developed by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop

It was one of Jim Henson’s last projects. He died shortly after the premiere of this film. Jim Henson’s Creature shop also worked on Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, etc.

10. More than 2,000 children auditioned for roles in 1990’s Kindergarten Cop

In the end, only 30 kids were selected to be part of John Kimble’s class. That sounds like a lot of work.

11. Terminator 2: Judgment Day won 4 Oscars

This is definitely one of my favourite 1990s movies. Until The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), this was the only sequel to win an Oscar when the previous installment(s) received no nominations.

The film was also the biggest grossing film at the US Box Office in 1991. It raked in more than $500 million in the USA alone. That’s a nice profit for a film that had a budget of $94-$102 million.

12. Kevin Costner won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

This was despite the fact that the film made more than $390 million worldwide. I think he got the Razzie played Robin Hood with an American accent. In case you did not know, that’s inaccurate. Robin Hood is an outlaw depicted in English folklore (which originated in the 12th Century).

13. 370 men and women were involved in the production of 1991’s Beauty & The Beast

Forty-three of them were animators. This movie used 1,295 painted backgrounds and 120,000 drawings. Computer technology was considered for the rooftop fight and the forest chase, but the primitive state of the technology only allowed time to use it for the ballroom scene.

14. Anthony Hopkins improvised the fast slurping-type sound that Hannibal Lecter does in The Silence of The Lambs

He did it spontaneously during filming, and everyone thought it was great. Hopkins studied files of serial killers to prepare for his role. He also visited prisons and studied convicted murderers and was present during some court hearings concerning gruesome murderers and serial killings.

15. The film makers made Dealey Plaza look the same as it did in 1963 for Oliver Stone’s JFK

It cost $4 million to do this. US President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed at this location in Dallas, Texas on the 22nd November 1963. This film was shot in only seventy-two days.

16.  It was running joke that Saddam Hussein played himself in Hot Shots!

Obviously this wasn’t the case but at the time Saddam Hussein was such a hated figure throughout the world that it was funny to think about. The film was a parody of Top Gun. The sequel was a parody to Rambo III.

17. Madonna liked Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs

She was the main topic for the opening conversation in the film, but she refuted Tarantino’s interpretation of her song “Like a Virgin”. She gave him a copy of her “Erotica” album, signed, “To Quentin. It’s not about dick, it’s about love. Madonna.”

18. Robin Williams improvised a lot when he was doing the voice of the Genie in 1992’s Aladdin

During the course of recording the voices he improvised so much that the film makers had almost sixteen hours of material to work with. Gilbert Gottfried (who did the voice of Iago) and Robin Williams actually recorded their parts separately and did not once bump into each other during the film’s production.

19. My Cousin Vinny‘s “two yutes” conversation actually happened in real life

Joe Pesci and the director had this conversation in real life, and the director felt it would make for a great scene (and it was).

20. The “F” word and its dirritives was used 321 times in Goodfellas

In case you did not know, That’s an average of 2.04 times per minute. About half of them are said by Joe Pesci. At the time of the films’ release, this was the most profanity of any movie in history. It is currently the fifteenth most f-bomb laden film ever released.

Goodfellas is one of the 1990s movies that I’ve probably watched more than 10 times. It’s still one of my favourites.

21. A Guns N’ Roses track was almost used for the headbanging scene in Wayne’s World

The studio wanted to use a Guns N’ Roses track instead of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but Mike Myers fought for the inclusion of the Queen song.

Myers even threatened to quit the production if he didn’t get what he wanted, and eventually the studio gave in to his demand.

22. Francis Ford Coppola insisted on using in-camera effects for Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Audiences today have grown used to the constant presence of CGI in even the most quiet dramas. In 1992, just one year after the computer effects of Terminator 2 took the film world by storm, post-production tricks were becoming all the rage.

Not all were particularly spectacular. Most are implemented to make the filmmaker’s life easier. However, Coppola insisted that all the film’s special effects be done “in-camera,” meaning live on set (and he hired his own son to fulfill this difficult task).

He went so far as to use a hand-cranked Pathe for the scene of Dracula walking through London. These effects made Bram Stoker’s Dracula appear “both opulent and handmade.”

23. Daniel Day-Lewis took his first Hollywood film seriously

He lived as an 18th century American Indian for weeks before production of The Last of The Mohicans commenced. According to director Michael Mann: “If he didn’t shoot it, he didn’t eat it.”

24. Nelson Mandela had a small role in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X

This was in 1992 before Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Madiba had a small role as a Soweto school teacher delivering a lecture on Malcolm X.

25. The White Men Can’t Jump Crew needed protection whilst shooting in some of the Los Angeles neighbourhoods

Before filming, the Fruit of Islam went to neighborhoods to negotiate with various gangs to ensure the cast and crew’s safety.

According to writer-director Ron Shelton: “They would go into neighborhoods ahead of us and navigate the gang turf wars and all that so we would know exactly where we could shoot safely. They were terrific.”

26. Michael Keaton has never watched Batman Returns

During a guest appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Michael Keaton admitted he’d never seen the full finished version of the 1992 film. The actor claimed he only took the role as he needed money at the time for a real-estate deal. Keaton was paid a whopping $10 million for his efforts.

27. Anthony Kiedis had a small role in 1991’s Point Break

In the movie he plays one of the members of the surf gang. The Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman actually started acting in 1978 under the pseudonym “Cole Dammett”. He played Sylvester Stallone’s son in the movie F.I.S.T.

28. A King Kong Ride inspired Steven Spielberg’s plan for building the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park

The logistics of his original plans to bring the dinosaurs to life were inspired by the Universal Studios “King Kong Encounter” ride. Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr designed Kong as a full-size animatronic with an inflatable balloon-like skin surrounding a wire frame. Unfortunately, the plans to build all of Jurassic Park‘s dinosaurs as similarly full-size animatronics proved too costly.

29. Bill Murray was supposed to hunt down the groundhog in his lair in Groundhog Day

This was changed because it seemed too much like 1980’s Caddyshack. This is sad, because it would’ve been awesome.

30. A real train hit a real bus in 1993’s The Fugitive

No miniatures were used. A total of 27 cameras were used in the scene and it was done in ONE take. Harrison Ford jumping free from it was a superimposed image. The scene was filmed in Sylva and Dillsboro, North Carolina. The wreckage is now a tourist attraction.

31. The word “man” is said 203 times in Dazed and Confused

Despite this fact and the fact that this film only earned $8 million at the box office, the film has enjoyed critical and commercial success over the years. It’s definitely one of my favourite 1990s movies.

32. Schindler’s List is the most-expensive black & white movie ever made

The previous record was held for over thirty years by another film set during World War II, 1962’s The Longest Day. Schindler’s List had a budget of $25 million.

33. Holly Hunter had one of shortest performances that was nominated for an Oscar

She is on screen for a total of 5 minutes and 59 seconds in the 1993 film, The Firm. She is in twenty scenes, for an average of eighteen seconds per scene. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

34. Cliffhanger is in the Guinness Book of World Records

The 1993 film holds the record for the costliest aerial stunt ever performed. Stuntman was paid $1 million to cross once between two planes at fifteen thousand feet, without the aid of any safety devices or trick photography. The stunt was filmed in the United States. Stunts like these are illegal in Europe (where most of the film was shot).

35. True Romance is considered to be part of the Tarantino Universe

This is even though the 1993 film was not directed by him. He wrote the script though. Lee Donowitz is the grandson of Sergeant Donnie Donowitz from Inglourious Basterds. Mr. White from Reservoir Dogs mentions working with a girl named “Alabama”.

36. The real-life Secret Service served as consultants for In The Line of Fire

This marked the first time that the Secret Service offered its full cooperation in the making of a movie.

37. The last film that Kurt Cobain watched before he died was The Piano

The Nirvana rocker saw this movie with a couple of friends one day before he committed suicide. It’s very likely that it was the last film he watched before he died.

38. Iron Maiden‘s “Man On The Edge” is based on Falling Down

“Man on the Edge” was released on the 1995 album The X Factor. It was the first single Iron Maiden released with Blaze Bayley on vocals.

39. Leonardo DiCaprio got his first Oscar nomination for the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

It was also the film’s sole nomination. DiCaprio chose to do this movie over Hocus Pocus. He played the part of Arnie Grape so well that when he showed up for the film’s premiere, many people were shocked and astonished to learn that the young actor was not actually mentally disabled.

40. Disney envisioned a different cast for Cool Runnings

Denzel Washington was considered as Derice, Eddie Murphy as Sanka, Wesley Snipes as Yul, Marlon Wayans as Junior and  as Irving Blitzer. Only Candy had a role in the film (which turned out the last film featuring him that was released before he died).

41. Tom Hanks was not paid for Forrest Gump

Instead he opted to take percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of $40 million.

The film was made on a budget of $55 million and raked in $142 million at the box office.

42. The Shawshank Redemption failed at the box office

The 1994 film’s initial gross of $18 million could not even cover the cost of its production. It did another $10 million in the wake of its 7 Oscar nominations, but it was still deemed to be a box-office failure.

43. Vincent Vega is Vick Vega‘s brother

Mr. Blonde (a.k.a. Vick Vega) is played by Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs. Vincent Vega is played by John Travolta in 1994’s Pulp Fiction.

Quentin Tarantino even had a spin-off film in development, titled the “Vega Brothers”, which was a prequel to both movies. This film was scrapped because both actors were too old to play younger versions of themselves.

44. Several character names from The Lion King are based on Swahili words

Simba – “lion”, Nala – “gift”, Sarabi – “mirage”, Rafiki – “friend”, Pumbaa – “simpleton / weak-minded”, Shenzi – “barbarous / uncouth / uncivilized / savage”. Despite the fact that Zawadi is the Swahili word for “gift”, Nala’s name also means gift.

45. Natalie Portman made her film debut in Leon: The Professional

She was 11 years old when she was cast as Mathilda for the 1994 film.

46. Kevin Smith worked in the store where they shot Clerks

They shot for 21 straight nights. Smith would clock in at 6 AM and finish at 11 PM. They would then shoot till 4 AM, after which he would try to grab an hour or two’s sleep before getting ready to go back to work.

47. Andie MacDowell waived a fee for appearing in Four Weddings and a Funeral

She opted to take percentage points instead. This netted her an eventual $2 million, compared with Hugh Grant’s salary of $100,000.

48. Interview with the Vampire inspired a real life crime

On November 17, 1994, a man named Daniel Sterling and his girlfriend Lisa Stellwagen watched the film together. The next day, Sterling stabbed Stellwagen seven times in her chest and back and sucked the blood from her wounds.

Fortunately, Stellwagen survived the multiple stab wounds and Sterling was arrested. He claimed in court that the film influenced his plan and the jury convicted him of attempted first-degree murder, among several other charges.

49. Dumb & Dumber‘s “Most Annoying Sound In The World” was improvised

When Harry and Lloyd are in the car, Lloyd asks if Harry wants to hear the most annoying sound in the world. This was not originally in the script. You can tell by the look on ‘ face.

50. Cannibal Corpse made a guest appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in 1994

The song that they were playing was “Hammer Smashed Face”, one of their most famous songs.

51. Natural Born Killers took only 56 days to shoot

This is impressive, but the fact that it took eleven months to edit is insane. The 1994 film is considered to be one of the most-disturbing films of the 1990s.

52. The bus jump scene was not in the original script for Speed

Director Jan de Bont came up with the idea one day when he was driving around Los Angeles, and noticed one section of I-105 was missing.

53. Brandon Lee had somewhat of a morbid fascination with death before filiming of The Crow started

He would often drive around in a hearse he owned, visit famous graves, and listened to The Doors. Lee was killed in a shooting accident on the set of the movie.

54. Heat was the first film to feature Robert De Niro and Al Pacino acting together

They both starred in The Godfather: Part II in 1974, but never shared the screen together as the split chronology prevented this. When Heat was finally released, even its advertising material promoted the film as a De Niro and Pacino “showdown”.

55. The SWAT officers were not told that the victim was still alive when they were shooting the scene in Se7en

When the victim coughs and scares the SWAT officers, that reaction is real. That would freak me out too, to be honest.

56. The Usual Suspects contains three references to Pulp Fiction

Peter Greene was Zed and appears here as Redfoot. Verbal is referred to as “The Gimp”. There are two occurrences where someone looks into a briefcase. When Kobayashi gives the crew a briefcase to the crew in their initial meeting, and when Hockney looks into the case in the back of the van during the burning of the boat.

57. Toy Story was the world’s first computer animated film

The 1995 film was also the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Academy Award (Adapted or Original). It was also the biggest grossing film of 1995.

58. Three future Sopranos stars appeared in The Basketball Diaries

Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi) played Jim’s mom; Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) portrayed Bobby, Carroll’s friend with leukemia; and Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy) had the honor of getting vomited on while riding the ferry.  The same three actors were also in Goodfellas.

59. Mel Gibson accidentally hanged himself for a moment during his death scene in Braveheart

Gibson blacked out, and had to be cut down by the crew. He remembers waking up and seeing a whole bunch of people around him.

60. The costume budget for Casino was $1 million

Robert De Niro wore 70 different costumes. Sharon Stone wore 30 vintage and bespoke outfits. The actors were also allowed to keep their costumes afterwards.

61. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones appeared in Clueless

The Boston-based Ska punk band is the band playing during the party scene in the 1995 film.

Before this they made their network TV debut on the Jon Stewart Show and hosted 120 minutes on MTV.

62. Die Hard With a Vengeance originally had a different title

The film was originally entitled “Simon Says” and was even touted as a third movie in the Lethal Weapon series.

63. Michael Bay funded one scene of Bad Boys with his own money

In light of the $19 million budget, the director recalls having to pay for the final action set piece himself. After the studio refused to fund the sequence, which features Smith and Lawrence enduring a high-speed chase and explosion-laden shootout in an airport hangar, Bay later admitted to paying the studio $25,000 to shoot the scene.

64. Oasis were asked to contribute to the Trainspotting soundtrack

Sadly Noel Gallagher declined the offer. He thought the 1996 film was actually about trainspotters.

65. Most of the snow in Fargo was fake

It was not snowing in Minnesota when the crew were filming the movie, so they had to improvise.

66. Three women started crying on the set of Jerry Maguire

This happened while the “You had me at ‘Hello'” scene was being filmed.

67. Bob Barker insisted on doing his own stunts for Happy Gilmore

When director Dennis Dugan told Barker that a stunt double would be used in the fight scene, he said “Wait a minute, I know how to fight.”

68. Apple Computer had a $15 promotion linked to the first Mission Impossible film

This included a game, print ads, and a TV spot featuring scenes from the TV show turned into a feature film; dealer and in-theater promos; and a placement of Apple personal computers. This was an attempt on Apple’s part to improve their image after posting a $740 million dollar loss in its fiscal second quarter.

69. The use of caller ID increased after Scream was released

Use of this phone featured increased threefold. I have to be honest, it wasn’t available in South Africa at that time, but I would’ve activated it if it was available here.

70.  John Travolta almost appeared in From Dusk Till Dawn

Quentin Tarantino (who wrote the script) pitched this to him the same time that he was preparing to film Pulp Fiction. Travolta was not interested in working on a vampire movie, so declined.

71. Independence Day was banned in Lebanon

The Lebanese government was under pressure from Hezbollah because the film included scenes where Israeli and Iraqi soldiers joined forces (in the montage where militaries around the world signed onto the U.S. plan to counter-attack the alien forces). For the last few decades, Lebanon officially boycotts any form of entertainment that features Israelis.

72. The Craft inspired a Katy Perry song

There would be no “Dark Horse” without this movie. The song was released on Perry’s 2013 album, Prism.

73. There are various billboards, advertisements and magazines throughout Romeo & Juliet that contain quotes from other Shakespeare plays

‘Shoot forth thunder’ (the gun advert) is from ‘The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth’, IV.i.109. ‘

Add more fuel to your fire’ (sign at gas station) is from ‘The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth’ V.iv.70

‘I am thy pistol and thy friend’ (gun poster in the pool hall, which is named the Globe after after the Globe Theatre in London where Shakespeare’s plays were first performed) is from ‘The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth’ V.iii.85

74. As Good As It Gets‘ title was translated as “Mr. Cat Poop” in Hong Kong

Apparently, it came from the name “Melvin”, which is pronounced very similarly to the Cantonese colloquial word for “cat poop”.

75. The real Lefty Ruggiero was arrested before he could be killed

Lefty went to prison but never ratted anyone out. The contract on his life was taken off after this, and he passed away in 1994, 3 years before Donnie Brasco was released.

76. Will Hunting was maybe going to die at the end of Good Will Hunting

Matt Damon has said one of the endings he and co-writer Ben Affleck toyed with was where “Carmine came back with his boys and a baseball bat to kill Will Hunting, who deep down actually wanted to be killed. It was his way of getting out.”

77. Kate Winslet broke the ice with Leonardo DiCaprio when they started working on Titanic

This happened after Winslet found out that she had to be naked in front of him in the film. When they first met, she flashed him.

78. A 45 sequence in Event Horizon cost $12 million to produce

Early on in the 1997 Science Fiction / Horror film, there is a shot of the space station above the Earth, which pulls back further and further to show the full structure. This shot took 10 weeks to achieve and used almost a third of the special effects budget for the movie.

79. The wonder on Bruce Willis’ face when the Diva sings in The Fifth Element is real

This is because it was the first time Bruce Willis had heard it and seen the actress in full make-up.

80.  Jim Carrey almost played the part of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films

Jim Carrey was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with Liar Liar, so Mike Myers decided to simply play the iconic character himself.

81. Tenacious D appeared in Bio-Dome

Jack Black and Kyle Gass were invited to perform a short song in the film. The two wrote the song “5 Needs”, and this was their first on-screen appearance as Tenacious D.

Tenacious D only released their first album in 2001. They did open for Beck, Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters in the late 1990s though.

82. The Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan cost $11 million to shoot

The scene involved up to 1,000 extras. Some of them were members of the Irish Army Reserve. Twenty to thirty of them were amputees, issued with prosthetic limbs, to simulate soldiers having their limbs blown off.

83. There’s Something About Mary almost had a sequel

According to Peter Farrelly, 20th Century Fox wanted a There’s Something About Mary 2, or a There’s Something More About Mary. The Farelly brothers felt that a sequel wouldn’t make sense.

84. The initial Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels budget was £20,000,000

It was reduced to £800,000, Although the big figure reflects how highly regarded Ritchie’s screenplay was, it was probably also  very unrealistic for a first-time filmmaker. Guy Ritchie made cuts (which included everyone’s salaries). His vision had turned into a scappy, low-budget production. This probably benefited the underdog tone of the story.

85. The word “Man” is said 147 times in The Big Lebowski

This is said by Jeff Bridges’ character (The Dude) That’s nearly one and a half times a minute.

86. Pleasantville was the movie with the most digital effects before Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released

This was because every single scene had to be digitally altered to have all the black and white TV characters interact with the people who were in colour.

87. American History X was partly based on the life of reformed Skinhead Frank Meeink

Meeink served three years in prison for charges related to white supremacist beliefs and is an accomplished anti-skinhead author and lecturer now.

88. The first draft of the Dark City script by Alex Proyas was vastly different from the finished film

The script included the appearance of the Strangers, the setting of a perennial Dark City, and the fact that John Murdoch is wanted for a series of murders that he does not recall committing.

Notable aspects of the initial script include an evil robotic puppy accompanying the Strangers (which would attack savagely with its steel jaws) and a climactic trial for John Murdoch. The reanimated corpses of the victims would testify against Murdoch in the trial, and even John’s wife would be a witness.

89. The portable video game system in Enemy of The State was a NEC Turbo Express

The video game system is used by Will Smith’s character’s son. It was a Nintendo GameBoy competitor with the ability to play TurboGrafx-16 games on a color screen. By the time the film premiered, it had faded into relative obscurity, making it the perfect piece of tech.

90. The film makers of Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas could not afford the rights to use “Sympathy For The Devil”

In the book, Hunter S. Thompson listens to the song by The Rolling Stones. The rights to play it in the film were too expensive.

91. Annette Bening and Thora Birch’s reaction to Kevin Spacey throwing a plate were real in American Beauty

That epic scene where he hurls a plate of asparagus at the wall was actually intended to be thrown at the floor. His wall-throwing-antics were improvised.

92. Fifteen mice were used in The Green Mile

Each mouse spent months being trained to do different tricks.

93. Will Smith was almost cast as Neo in The Matrix

He turned down the offer in order to star in Wild Wild West (1999). He later admitted that, at the time, he was “not mature enough as an actor” and that, if given the role, he “would have messed it up”. He had no regrets, saying that “Keanu was brilliant as Neo.”

I agree with him. This would probably not be one of my favourite 1990s Movies if Will Smith was in it.

94. Bruce Willis was the reason why Haley Joel Osment cried in a scene in The Sixth Sense

Haley couldn’t manage to cry in a scene where he was supposed to, so his father suggested to Willis that he yell his lines off-camera to his son to get the waterworks going. It worked.

95. Johnny Depp adopted the horse that was used in Sleepy Hollow

Depp did this when he found out that Goldeneye (Ichabod Crane‘s horse Gunpowder) was going to be put down.

96. The Blair Witch Project had a budget of only $60,000

This film was in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Top Budget: Box Office Ratio” (for a mainstream feature film). The film grossed $248 million (a ratio of $1 spent for every $10,931 made).

97. Paul Thomas Anderson designed the poster and edited the trailer for Magnolia

New Line Cinema wanted to push the film as a Tom Cruise movie but he refused, saying that it was an ensemble piece, so he did it himself.

98. The Faculty was a fresh adaptation of The Puppet Masters

The Puppet Masters (a 1951 Science Fiction novel) has been retold through film countless times: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (in 1956), The Brain Eaters (in 1958), a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (in 1978), Body Snatchers (in 1993), The Puppet Masters (in 1994) and The Invasion (in 2007) – to name just a few. The Faculty was a fresh take on it when it was released in 1999.

99. Stir of Echoes was based on a Richard Matheson novel of the same name

The 1998 film What Dreams My Come and the 2007 film I am Legend is also based on novels that were written by him.

100. Meat Loaf wore a fat suit in Fight Club

To ensure that his breasts and love handles hung correctly, his fat suit was filled with birdseed, so that it would ‘spill’ over his pants and give the impression of sagging flesh. Altogether, the suit plus the seed weighed more than 100 pounds (45 kilograms).

101. Blink-182 appeared in first American Pie film

Members of the California punk band are shown during the Internet broadcast scene. The Blink-182 song “Mutt” is playing in the background.

Well, there you have it, 101 Interesting facts about 1990s Movies that you might not have not known. Which one of these facts did you find the most interesting? Leave a comment below if you want to.

Feeling nostalgic? Feel free to check out my post featuring 101 Interesting 1990s Music Facts.

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