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Identity

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1. #001

   The naked businessman tied to the bed at the start of the film is one of Malcolm's identities; he is also the agent Caroline Suzanne speaks to on the phone. He was written as the first identity to die in the film, but those scenes were cut.

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2. #002

   The killer can be seen reflected in the muslin curtain at the window of Caroline Suzanne's motel room as she stands in front of the mirror.

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3. #003

   Several endings were filmed to keep the true outcome under wraps.

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4. #004

   "As I was going up the stairs / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away." One character claims to have written this poem. It is actually a poem by William Hughes Mearns titled 'Antigonish'. The poem was also turned into a popular song that drew great attention.

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5. #005

   A life-size dummy was created to depict the murdered character played by Jake Busey with a baseball bat driven through his throat. One of the studio executives wanted to keep the dummy as a souvenir and stored it in his office closet. One night a cleaning woman opened the closet and was horrified. After the incident, the dummy was immediately removed from the offices.

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6. #006

   The full names of the characters at the motel are: Edward 'Ed' Dakota, Samuel Rhodes, Paris Nevada, George York, Alice York, Timmy York, Larry Washington, Caroline Suzanne, Virginia "Ginny" Isiana, Lou Isiana, Robert Maine.

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7. #007

   The motel manager's corpse that Larry hides in the freezer is played by the film's executive producer and unit production manager, Stuart M. Besser.

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8. #008

   In the first draft, the killer was an expatriate Australian woman teacher. However, it was decided that a female teacher who was a serial killer would not go over well with parent groups, and the idea was dropped.

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9. #009

   Bret Loehr has only one line of dialogue in the entire film. And even then, part of it was first spoken by Pruitt Taylor Vince.

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10. #010

    This was the second time composer Alan Silvestri swapped a note with Angelo Badalamenti. The first was Shattered (1991).

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11. #011

    Marshall Bell and John Cusack had previously played father and son in Stand by Me (1986).

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12. #012

    Identity has several connections to Alfred Hitchcock and his film Psycho (1960). First, the film is largely set in a motel resembling the Bates Motel. Second, as in Psycho, it was raining. Third and biggest: the shower curtain scene. Hitchcock's classic has rain falling on the first victim; the curtain rod is torn from the wall. In Identity, the curtain is torn down and used against the rain outside, and the first victim dies.

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13. #013

    Marshall Bell and Jake Busey appeared in the film Starship Troopers (1997).

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