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FILM · 1997 · USA

Campfire Tales

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  1. #001

    The end credits sequence features a cover of Bobsled's 1962 song "Monster Mash" by a female-fronted punk rock band. Their cover was never released anywhere else, and the band had already broken up by the time the film came out in 1997.

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  2. #002

    Christopher Masterson was the only actor in the wraparound segment who was actually a teenager when the film was shot; he was 6 years younger than Jay R. Ferguson and Kim Murphy and 9 years younger than Christine Taylor.

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  3. #003

    It was originally conceived for a theatrical release and even received a one-off screening in the United States in 1997. Ultimately, however, the film would become a direct-to-video title, released in Australia and some European countries in late 1997 and then in the United States in late 1998.

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  4. #004

    Coincidentally, two of the urban legends in the film ("The Hook" and the more obscure "People Can Lick Too") also appeared in the Canadian animated anthology series Freaky Stories (1997), which premiered the same year as Campfire Tales.

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  5. #005

    The producers of this film had to pay a sum to the people behind the earlier, similarly titled horror anthology Campfire Tales (1991) for the right to reuse the film's title.

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  6. #006

    In the "People Can Lick Too" segment, Suzanne Goddard-Smythe plays her character's mother even though she is only 14 years older than Devon Odessa.

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  7. #007

    It was Jacinda Barrett's first film.

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  8. #008

    Jacinda Barrett later appeared in Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), which also references the "Humans Can Lick Too" legend.

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  9. #009

    Heather, the mute woman in the fourth story, is played by Australian Jacinda Barrett, who in real life speaks with a distinctive accent. The male lead in the story is played by Irish actor Glenn Quinn, who uses a fake American accent.

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