History Trivia / HouseOfWax2005

* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: Even the soundtrack (the score album on Creator/VareseSarabande, NOT the song album) gets in on this. There's a track titled 'Paris Gets It', even though the character she plays is called Paige.

* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: Even the soundtrack gets in on this. There's a track titled 'Paris Gets It', even though the character she plays is called Paige.

* DyeingForYourArt: Elisha Cuthbert dyed her hair brunette for this role.

* ReferencedBy: In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'', when Formaggio is talking about how Narancia is going to get eaten by the spider, there is an ImagineSpot of Narancia's body dripping with the spider's digestive juices, drawn to look like the movie poster.

** Elisha Cuthbert was infamously a DamselInDistress in the wilderness in ''Series/TwentyFour''.
** A few characters say "that's hot", the famous CatchPhrase of Paris Hilton.

** Chad Michael Murray had initially only really played teen heartthrobs in movies and of course his ''Series/OneTreeHill'' role so it was quite difficult for him to play bad boy Nick.

** Elisha Cuthbert's most well [[Film/TheGirlNextDoor2004 known role]] was as a MsFanservice, almost the complete opposite of a FinalGirl.

** Averted with their younger selves however, as they are played by different actors.
* ReferencedBy: In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'', when Formaggio is talking about how Narancia is going to get eaten by the spider, there is an ImagineSpot of Narancia's body dripping with the spider's digestive juices, drawn to look like the movie poster.
* ScullyBox: As Jared Padalecki is a whole foot taller than her, Elisha Cuthbert taped two-inch blocks of wood to her boots whenever they were filmed from the knee up.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: All the cellphones on display are flip phones and early 2000s era Nokias and Samsungs. Dalton also films everyone with a video camera as opposed to smartphone.

* {{Jossed}}: Paris Hilton was asked if Dalton's filming Paige against her will was a nod to her sex tape. She said it was already in the script.

** Brian Van Holt plays both Bo and Vincent.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The movie is set in the American south, but was filmed entirely in Australia.

** Elisha Cuthbert was infamously a DamselInDistress in the wilderness in ''{{Series/TwentyFour}}''.

** Elisha Cuthbert's most well [[TheGirlNextDoor known role]] was as a MsFanservice, almost the complete opposite of a FinalGirl.

* PlayingTheirOwnTwin: Brian Van Holt plays both Bo and Vincent.

* ActorAllusion:
** The friends catch Paige apparently giving Blake a blow job - though she claims she just dropped her lib balm. It's caught on video, possibly as a nod to Paris Hilton's sex tape.
** Blake really wants to make it to a college football game, a possible reference to Robert Ri'chard's role in ''Film/CoachCarter''.

* ActorAllusion: The entire point of Paris Hilton's character. In fact, the music for the scene where her character is killed (it's not a spoiler - it's even signposted on the poster art opposite) is called "Paris Gets It" on the score album... even though her character's called Paige.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester]] gets turned into a wax sculpture.
** [[Series/TwentyFour Kim Bauer]] is the heroine.

** [[Series/TwentyFour Kim Bauer]] is the heroine.

** [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Sam Winchester]] gets turned into a wax sculpture in the remake.