Urban Legends Used in The Film
The following urban legends are mentioned or depicted in the film:
- Martha introduces the 1969 homecoming kidnappings as an urban legend.
- Samantha refers to the legend suggesting that eating Pop Rocks and drinking soda explodes your stomach.
- Martha refers to the tale about a guy getting his arm stuck in a soda machine and then being buried under the machine. This later almost happens to Buck.
- Samantha, Martha and Mindy conjure up Bloody Mary.
- Roger is burned on a sunbed.
- Heather wakes up and discovers a swelling on her cheek. After she pops it, hundreds of spiders emerge from her cheek.
- Tom is electrocuted when urinating on an electrical fence.
- Buck's bottle contains the finger cut off from Tom's body.
- Buck is soothed by his dog licking his fingers but later finds its corpse with the note "People can lick too".
- Buck is attacked by Mary who is hiding under his bed.
- David jokingly suggests that somebody removed Buck's kidneys.
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