No, you’re not dreaming… you’ve seen Pennywise in a children’s movie or Nosferatu in Spongebob, and some other terrible characters even made appearances on the big screen. Overview of this month of October, which leads to terrible demonstrations…
Pennywise in Space Basketball: A New Era
To everyone’s surprise, the famous clown Pennywise, known as It – after the title of Stephen King’s novel – or Pennywise the Cabrioling Clown, can be found right behind Don Cheadle in the trailer for Space Basketball: A New Era , commentating on a game with LeBron James. Actually, that’s no coincidence, because the basketball player, who is also the producer of this 2021 feature film that mixes animation and live action, is a big fan of horror films. In fact, LeBron James dressed up as Pennywise for Halloween in 2017 and his photo was widely circulated on the social network X (formerly Twitter); The following year he appeared as Jason Voorhees at a Lakers game and there have been rumors for some time that he was very interested in producing a new version of Friday the 13th through his production company SpringHill Entertainment!
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To everyone’s surprise, the famous clown Pennywise, known as It, can be seen behind Don Cheadle commentating on a match with LeBron James in the trailer for Space Basketball – A New Era.
Nosferatu, the vampire in SpongeBob
Count Orlok, better known as Nosferatu, is the character in the black and white silent film of the same name by FW Murnau from 1922. The allusion to the classic horror film is the work of screenwriter and animator Jay Lender, who as a child took a photo of Nosferatu in the Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. “The photo showed Nosferatu standing motionless in the doorway,” he said. And as a nod, Count Orlok can be seen turning the lights on and off for a few seconds in the episode Graveyard Shift from the second season of the children’s cartoon.
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Count Orlok, better known as Nosferatu, played by Max Schreck.
Ghostface in Jay and Bob fight back
In Jay and Bob Strike Back, Kevin Smith had fun with Ghostface and even Wes Craven. In fact, the writer and director, who shares the poster with Jason Mewes, enjoys the Frissons series. Your characters head to the set of Frissons 4 to rescue Suzanne, the orangutan they rescued from a laboratory. Shannen Doherty also lends herself to the game by filming a fake scene and revealing Ghostface’s identity before complaining about the scenario to… Wes Craven (who included a copy of Clerks in Madness in the first 1996 Shivers had decor). And as for Frissons, you know that Linda Blair, the actress who plays the little girl in The Exorcist, makes a brief appearance in the first part, playing the role of a journalist desperate to write a report.
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Director Wes Craven and actress Shannen Doherty in “Jay and Bob Strike Back.”
Alien in the crazy space story Friday the 13th
Mel Brooks’ 1987 satirical comedy stars Bill Pullman and John Candy. The two men meet at an interstellar café and order a meal. Then a customer, played by John Hurt – who was part of the cast of the Ridley Scott film “Alien” – sees a xenomorph emerge from his torso… to dance and sing like in a musical at the café counter beneath the amazed looks from customers.
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Bill Pullman and John Candy in the 1987 satirical comedy The Mad Space Story.