A Shot in the Night: The trivia

The script wasn't finished when the first scenes in the film were shot.

The magazine read by the man has Kirsten Dunst on the cover. The article that the man reads is about Jake Gyllenhaal. Dunst and Gyllenhaal used to be a couple but split up two days after the shooting of this film began.

The book read by the man is "The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams" by J. O' Barr and Ed Kramer.

The orange booklet that the man keeps in his "The Crow" book has a small cartooned dragon on it. This is the logo for the videofilm festival in which the BMP won an award for Best Special Effects with the film KtZ: Kill the Zombies II.

Actor Karl Baron didn't do all of the driving that his character demanded, only when we see him inside the car. Why didn't he do all the driving? He doesn't have a driver's licence.

The film contains a number of references to other movies. Spider Man 2 (The title is shown on a magazine), The House of the Dead (The film is mentioned in the phonecall), The Matrix (The killer very much resembles Agent Smith), Psycho (The stabbing scene in the bathroom), The Crow (The title of the book) and Terminator 3 (The silent killer also resembles the T-X).

Other references might not be as easy to spot. The director(s) wanted the wide shot of the killers pointing guns at eachother to be "like a stand-off from a western movie". A scene at the end was inspired by a scene in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre where the hitchhiker gets hit by a truck. Some of the editing with fast cuts and close-ups was inspired by the editing of Shaun of the Dead.

And even more references are found in the music. When the killer appears there is an excerpt from Escape for the Planet of the Apes. The music used during the chase is from the movie Lola Rennt.

When the man screams near the end of the film, the directors thought of using the infamous "Willhelm Scream" but instead they decided to start a new tradition and use the same obviously dubbed "Baron scream" that they used in KtZ: Kill the Zombies II.

The title of the film actually comes from the fact that parts of the film uses the camera's Nightshot fuction.

The gun used by the killer is the same gun used by Robert in "KtZ: Kill the Zombies II" and Mr. Steel in "Cold Steel".

SPOILER WARNING! The original idea was just for the killer inside the house to appear outside driving the car, making him supernatural since no man could ever move that fast. But the script was changed and let the killer from inside the house run out to the parking-lot, facing the driver, a man looking exactly as himself. To add even more to the confusion writer/director Filip Carlson let the two "twins" shoot eachother in the end, leaving no explaination what so ever.

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