| 1 | * HilariousInHindsight: Trevor Bardette's character's last name is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Flanders, and the little girl's last name is Simpson]]. |
| 2 | * NightmareFuel: |
| 3 | ** The monoliths aren't viscerally scary, but they're ''absolutely relentless.'' It's surprisingly effective. |
| 4 | ** The various scenes in which people being essentially [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] by the space rocks is compared to [[AFateWorseThanDeath the effects of polio]]. This might take some explaining, but even as late as the 50's polio was ''scary''. At best it left you partially paralyzed; at worst, you were [[AndIMustScream trapped in an iron lung, unable to move, for the rest of your life]]. To the generation that first saw this film, this was pure undiluted horror. |
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