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* From the outset Alan quotes [[Stephen King]] and often mentions his work, which justifies the animated objects you encounter. Turns out he's a fan.

* While hiding in a trailer, Alan makes a reference to ''[[The Shining]]'' when a Taken begins chopping through the door with an axe.

* Crossing over with product placement, but in Hartman's clinic, you can find an Xbox 360 next to a 360 game version of... no, not ''Alan Wake'', that'd be too easy. It's a copy of ''Night Springs''. Which no, of course, doesn't actually exist.

* You can drive a car that, sans some cosmetics, could be the General Lee. They even offer a few ramps for you to jump off, though doing so does nothing other than give you the opportunity to yell "Yeehaw!" More obviously, though, the car is the right model and color to be the "Classic" from the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' series (a 1973 yellow Oldsmobile Delta 88), which also appears in most of Sam Raimi's other movies as a cameo.

* Following the Evil Dead car reference is the windmill at the Anderson farm, which looks like the windmill Ash finds himself in in Army of Darkness. Against a backdrop of a dark stormy sky, like in said movie.

* There's a mode where you can play back cutscenes. Naturally, they have names to help differentiate between them. One of them is named, "[[Memetic Mutation|It's a]] [[Star Wars|Trap]]."

* In the new downloadable chapter "The Signal" Alan answers a call from Zane, who has been trying to make contact with him. Zane asks Alan over the phone "I am trying to reach you. Can you hear me? Can you hear me now?" This last question is the line best known in the older Verizon commercials. This could be considered an [[Enforced Plug]] since, incidentally, there are constant reminders of Verizon throughout the game. There are road billboards, an in-game television commercial, and the phone Alan acquires in "The Signal" is Verizon brand, which happens to show itself very obviously on screen. Particularly amusing when you consider the fact that Zane left the mortal world long before modern cell phones were invented.

* When Alan saves Barry and Sarah from a swarm of Taken in Episode 5, Sarah comments, "You sure know how to make an entrance. We were just about to make like [[Bolivian Army Ending|Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]."

* Barry and Alan get separated in Episode 4, with Alan at the top of a cliff and Barry at the bottom. When Barry proclaims that he can make it alone, Alan mutters, "Now he's [[Rambo]]."

* Occasionally you'll hear long air-raid like sirens, ala ''[[Silent Hill]]''.

 

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