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References to other Stephen King works:
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- James Woods watches The Dead Zone and inquires, "Who writes this crap?"
- The cat is chased by a St. Bernard, a reference to Cujo.
- The cat is almost run over by a red Plymouth Fury with a bumper sticker saying, "I am Christine," a reference to Christine.
- Amanda's mother is reading Stephen King's book "Pet Semetary" in bed.
Cressner promises Robert Hays's character that if he wins their bet he'll get, "the girl, the gold watch, and everything," a reference to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, which starred Hays.
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Stephen King wrote this script with Drew Barrymore in mind because of her performance in Firestarter.
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Against the director's wishes, the studio cut out a prologue that explained the cat's motivations. They considered it "too silly". As a result, many viewers were confused by the connection between the three stories.
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In "The Ledge", Cressner flips through a magazine on the coffee table. That magazine is the July 1976 issue of "Penthouse", which featured the short story the segment was based on.
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The drawbridge scene in the movie is the Isabel Holmes Bridge located in Wilmington, North Carolina just off of Highway 421 North. The Isabel Holmes Bridge was also used in Stephen King's (1986) film, Maximum Overdrive.
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The Stephen King short story "Sometimes They Come Back" (1991) was originally planned to be adapted as a segment in this movie, but Dino De Laurentiis felt the story was strong enough to have its own movie.
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