Trivia / Tower of Terror

• California Doubling: Weird, albeit justified, example. Most of the scenes involving the hotel were filmed at the actual attraction in Disney World, which was the only version of the ride in existence at the time. Thus, although the movie is set and mostly filmed in Los Angeles, it switches to Florida whenever anyone gets close to the tower. Fortunately, Florida and southern California have a similar climate and the area around the attraction was made up to look like Hollywood anyway. The Florida scenes were filmed first, in case you were wondering.
• Divorced Installment: The theme park ride is based on The Twilight Zone (1959), complete with the Fake Shemp being used to feature the late Rod Serling hosting the pre-show introduction. The movie drops the Twilight Zone connection, probably to avoid paying royalties to CBS. (The version of the ride at Tokyo DisneySea also drops the connection to The Twilight Zone, though partly because the TV show isn't well-known in Japan, and partly because of the fact that the Japanese have different beliefs and customs in regards to the occult and the supernatural.)
• Recursive Adaptation: This is the best ever TV movie based on a theme park ride based on a TV show.
• Role Reprise: Lindsay Ridgeway reprised her role as Sally in the film, a few years after she appeared in the Tower of Terror ride's pre-show video.^note Ridgeway's character wasn't officially given a name in the original attraction, but has since been retroactively referred to by fans as the same Sally Shine from the film, despite the latter being a more or less an In Name Only adaptation due to the lack of Twilight Zone references.

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