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Best Soundtrack | 1996
Worst Remake or Sequel | 1996
1995 | John
Budget 22,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 9,418,365 USD
In a 2011 interview, John Carpenter described the film as a "contractual assignment" which he was "really not passionate about".
This was the final feature film completed by Christopher Reeve before a horse riding accident on May 27, 1995 which left him paralyzed.
The film was shot in western Marin County, California. Director John Carpenter had a house in Inverness for several years, so the location was essentially his second home at that time (as the director puts it, "his own backyard"). However, the locals were not happy to see the film crew in the area so they made the shoot very difficult by harassment and vandalism. Carpenter tells that while they were filming, for example, a sound take, a neighbor would start mowing his lawn or start up a chainsaw until he was paid to stop. Some of the people even tried to break into the equipment trucks. The whole experience essentially soured Carpenter on living in the area, where several scenes of his earlier film "The Fog (1980)" were also filmed.
According to Lindsey Haun in an online interview Christopher Reeve, who was incredibly kind and friendly to all, would keep his distance from the child actors to help portray the friction between their characters on screen.
Two of the male children were played by female actors.
"Dr. Alan Chaffee: [walks into the barn where the children are] Another man is dead. Why do you hate us so much, Mara? Mara Chaffee: It isn't a matter of hate. It is a biological obligation. [short pause] Mara Chaffee: You are thinking of what happened to the others. Then our actions shouldn't surprise you. We have to survive no matter what the cost; we are the only ones left now. Dr. Alan Chaffee: I don't see why we can't reach an understanding. Why can't we just live together? Mara Chaffee: If we coexist, we shall dominate you. That is inevitable. Eventually you will try to eliminate us. We are all creatures of the life force. Now it was set us at one another to see who will survive. Dr. Alan Chaffee: That's a cruel sport. Mara Chaffee: Life is cruelty. We all feed on each other, exploit each other in some way to survive. Dr. Alan Chaffee: [shakes his head] I don't agree with you. [walks over to where Mara is sitting] Dr. Alan Chaffee: I think that adaptation is the key to survival. Cooperation and symbiosis... [kneels by Mara's desk] Dr. Alan Chaffee: and compassion. Mara Chaffee: Why do you think your own survival depends upon emotion from us? Shoul we pity you? Empathize with your plight? Dr. Alan Chaffee: [bangs his fist on Mara's desk] [shouting] Dr. Alan Chaffee: You should feel! You should feel something! [stands up] Dr. Alan Chaffee: Without feelings, you're nothing. You're just second-rate mimics of a higher organism. That's right, higher organisms. We're your superiors in our capacity to love. Without compassion you're a doomed species. Mara Chaffee: Emotion is irrelevant. It is not our nature. Dr. Alan Chaffee: [looks back at David] Well, I'm not so sure you're right about that, Mara."
"Dr. Susan Verner: What can you read that's in my head? Mara Chaffee: Everything that is active in your mind. However, the path that leads to the speaking process eludes us. Why to you speak some thoughts but not others? Dr. Susan Verner: Wouldn't it be a noisy world if we all said what we thought?"
