Writer and Director Mike Judge came up with the idea for the film while he was visiting Disneyland with his family and saw two mothers, with kids in strollers, fighting and cursing at each other. He thought it would be horrible if humanity was like this in the future.
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Sharon Stone had an acting coach present on the set throughout the shooting of this film.
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'Sharon Stone (I)''s first big speaking role in a theatrical feature.
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One of six movie music scores composed by James Horner from films first released in 1981. Two of the others from 1981 were also for horror pictures, they being Wolfen (1981) and The Hand (1981).
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According to website 'DVD Verdict', director Wes Craven "...was born into a strict Baptist household and attended conservative Christian Wheaton College" with this movie "clearly rooted in Craven's own religious upbringing".
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When Jeff East meets Susan Buckner in town, the marquee at the theatre shows the title "Summer of Fear" (aka Summer of Fear (1978)), a made-for-TV movie by Wes Craven in which East also starred.
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Ernest Borgnine had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for a head injury following a mishap involving a horse and buggy. Moreover, Borgnine returned to the set to continue acting in the film three days later.
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Actor Ernest Borgnine, who had won a Best Actor Academy Award for Marty (1955), which also was Borgnine's only ever Oscar nomination, was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for Deadly Blessing (1981), but lost out on the Razzie to Steve Forrest for Mommie Dearest (1981).
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Co-screenwriter Glenn M. Benest came up with the idea for the strict Hittite religious sect after reading an article on the Amish in National Geographic.
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Wes Craven compared his work with actor Ernest Borgnine to John Carpenter's work with Donald Pleasance in the original "Halloween". He states that Borgnine was the first "big name actor" he had worked with and was at first intimadated by the actor.
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The name of the isolated rural farm where the farmers and Hittites lived and worked was "Our Blessing".
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2 years prior to "Sleepaway Camp" (1983), this slasher movie contained a twist in which a female killer is revealed to actually be a man.
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Maren Jensen used a body double for her nude scenes.
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The name of the fictitious rural religious sect living in a farming community in Pennsylvania were the "Hittites". The religious group were allegedly based on the Amish Community who would find popular cinema fame about four years later with their central inclusion in the major motion picture Witness (1985). It is stated at one point in Deadly Blessing (1981) that the Hittites "make the Amish look like swingers".
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First of two cinema movies with the word "deadly" in the title for director Wes Craven who around five years later would direct Deadly Friend (1986).
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Final film and television credit of actress Maren Jensen.
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Susan Buckner was pregnant when she acted in this film.
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Deadly Blessing - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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