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- #001
Both Jennifer Lynch and Vincent D'Onofrio stated that they would have preferred the film to be titled "Rabbit".
- #002
Although the runtime is not explicitly stated in the film, by the end of the story Rabbit has been held captive for 10 years.
- #003
In the original script, Rabbit left the house and discovered that, without his knowledge, a sublevel had been built inside the house filled with children and families unaware of the horrors taking place within it.
- #004
Asked about her favorite scene in the film, director Jennifer Lynch said it was a driving-license game that was initially much longer and was partly improvised by the actors.
- #005
The story's original focus was on detectives actively pursuing Bob, whom they nicknamed "The Dicer" because of his habit of dismembering women before killing them. The relationship between Bob and Rabbit was secondary.
- #006
In the scene where Bob throws stones at Rabbit, Vincent D'Onofrio actually threw sponge stones at Evan Bird.
- #007
Vincent D'Onofrio won the 2012 Best Actor Fright Meter Award for his performance. That year he played a small but significant role in Sinister (2012), was nominated in various Fright Meter Award categories, won Best Score, and won the United Kingdom's Empire Award for Best Horror (2013).
- #008
Some viewers complained that the film's ending felt rushed. Jennifer Lynch said the ending was more meaningful in the script but could not be properly executed due to time and budget constraints.
- #009
The original script called for Bob to keep parts of his victims in jars and to cut off Rabbit's thumbs. When Jennifer Lynch took on the project, she made some rewrites to reduce the film's violent nature.
- #010
Vincent D'Onofrio and Julia Ormond had previously worked together on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), where Ormond played Bobby Goren's (D'Onofrio) therapist Paula Gyson in seven episodes; D'Onofrio appeared in 141 of the series' 195 episodes.
- #011
It was filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- #012
Julia Ormond has only five minutes of screen time, but most of that time she was off-screen.
- #013
Julia Ormond had previously appeared in Surveillance (2008), also directed by Jennifer Lynch.
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