Horror Movies That Nod To Other Movies

[Wrath]

Have you noticed it? I was watching Jason Takes Manhattan, and then I watched Jason X. While viewing Jason X, I caught something. In JTM, Tamra makes out with the principle guy, Charles. In Jason X Janessa[i think] is playing with the teachers nipple to pass the her mid-term. Is this a coincidence? ;x! Give some other examples of anything you've seen.

[the night watchman]

"FearDotCom." Oops. Sorry. That rips off other movies.

[Duke Nukem]

I think it's more than a coincidence. The makers of "Jason X" were trying to make a "Friday" entry that would continue to have Jason as "friendly" as ever with surrounding people, and also have some fun with it by sort of poking fun at the series itself, witch is partly why there's divisioned fans with this film. Seeing how they had grunts, students, and instructor on the space ship, they probably had two students obviously be horny, and have a student/teacher relationship just to keep up with series own hornyness for "naughtyness." Personally, I think they went the wrong way for the student/teacher thing. Am I supposed to believe that in the future, one of the ways to turn on guys (or teachers) is that whole nipple thing? That scene should be dropped or changed.

[spacemonkey]

Yeah a lot of directors will do stuff like this to make their influences obvious....for example:

I was watching the masterpiece that is Bram Stokers Dracula, and in a scene were Van Helsings going to Lucys house and stands in front of it....that scenes looks exactly like the scene in the exorcist when the fathers going to visit Linda Blairs house...

Ill think of other ones..

[thebloodfeaster]

Originally posted by Duke Nukem
Am I supposed to believe that in the future, one of the ways to turn on guys (or teachers) is that whole nipple thing? That scene should be dropped or changed.

No, I don't think they were implying that that is a typical sexual technique in the future, but rather that the professor simply has that fetish. People have fetishes like that today also.

[Luke-Abbott]

The Evil Dead
When Scott and Ash go into the cellar theres a torn up poster of "The Hills have Eyes"

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
In the workshed, Ash cuts his possessed girlfiend's (Linda) head off and when it cuts to Ash's shadow you can see Freddy's glove hanging from the ceiling. And also in the cellar when Ash goes in search for the missing pages we see Freddy's glove making another appearance.

A Nightmare on elm street
Toward's Glen's death, Nancy is watching The Evil Dead on her tv.

[the night watchman]

John Carpenter referenced Howard Hawk's "The Thing From Another World" in his own "The Thing" twice ...

**SPOILERS (highlight)**
1) The tapes from the Norwegian camp strongly echo the scene in TFAW when the flying saucer is found under the ice, and the team spreads out in a circle to estimate its size and shape.

2)The scene in which the Palmer-Thing is torched after being revealed by the blood test echoes a scene in TFAW when the Thing breaks down a door, is doused with gasoline, and set afire.

**END SPOILERS**

[DoubleDown11]

John Carpenter had Laurie Strode and the kids watch 'The Thing'. I find it kind of ironic that he went on to remake this movie years later. Anyone else,
2xDown

[Fisting Ackbar]

Obvious 'SCREAM' post.

[VicVega]

Dog Soldiers is just like a Night Of The Living Dead with werewolves instead of zombies. A bunch of people trap themselves in a farmhouse and try to defend themselves from the things that lurk outside.

[spacemonkey]

Theres a scene in Evil Dead and Evil Dead II in wich Ash cuts his zombie girlfriends head off with a shovel...theres a scene exactly like that one on Hammer films Plague of the Zombies...and i mean exactly the same! I guess Raimi was saying he likes Hammer films when he put that in there...

Also in one of the best vampire flicks of the 80s ;) Fright Night theres a scene where Peter Vincent puts a cross on Evil Eds forehead and burns his skin in the form of the cross...theres a scene exactly like that one in another great vampire flick Hammer films Horror of Dracula, its shocking how much these two scene look alike, even on the expressions on the actors faces..

Again in Fright Night theres a reference to The Exorcist, in that scene where Peter Vincents standing outside of the house with his little bag and he looks up at it and the house looks all spooky with mist coming out of it...it looks exactly like the same scene in the exorcist...

[Klownzilla]

In Fright Night, Peter Vincent's whole apartment is an homage to classic horror films! You can clearly see a Klaus Kinski Nosferatu head and hands in a glass case. And in Evil Ed's room, he has some nick-nacks on his shelf that include a Bandai Godzilla toy!

In Evil Dead II, the scenes of decapitating Linda with a shovel, and her headless torso coming from behind Ash are an homage to Re-Animator. The KNB FX guys even said that they wanted the workshed scene to be more like the Re-Animator scene, but the torso was acting too muppet-like. Also having Linda's head in the vicegrip was similar to Dr. Hill's head lying in the dish.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space nods to 50's B-movies. The scene where Mike and Debbie see the shooting star is like The Blob.

People have said that Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters has Lovecraftian elements, but that's something completely different...

[Razorblade Smile]

In Wishmaster, Robert Englunds character has the Pazzuzu statue from the Exorcist

In Jason Goes to Hell, there's a scene including the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead Movies. And of course there is a very infamous cameo in that same movie.

In Halloween III, the main character is watching Halloween I on television

(Not Horror Related but funny nonetheless) In X-Files: Fight the Future, Mulder pisses on an ID4 poster in an alley-way.

In the Dead Hate the Living there are numerous references to Bruce Campbell and Lucio Fulci

When a Stranger Calls makes an homage [coughcough*ripoff*coughcough] to Black Christmas by way of the obscene phone caller gimmick.

Phantasm has several references to the novel Dune. ie: The bar is called Dune. The fortune teller makes Michael stick his hand into a spooky box; she says "Fear is the mind-killer" -- all Dune references)

[spacemonkey]

Originally posted by Razorblade Smile
Phantasm has several references to the novel Dune. ie: The bar is called Dune. The fortune teller makes Michael stick his hand into a spooky box; she says "Fear is the mind-killer" -- all Dune references)

Yeah, I heard about this on the audio commentary, it was cool to see Don cocarelli saying he did this cause he loved the Dune novels. I noticed it right away too. Specially with the black box scene, that was almost too obvious.

Also in a film called Shallow Grave in one scene, Ewan Mc Gregors characters watching tv, and guess what cool horror movie his watching non other than THe Wicker Man!