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* [[Dies Wide Open]]: The late Ray Brower is found by the boys this way. They cover his face with debris.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: This film cracks the mask of the seemingly picture-perfect and wholesome [[Everytown, America]] of the 1950s open with a baseball bat.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Wil Wheaton has written several times on his experiences making the movie. In one scene that involved the boys running from a train, Wheaton and Jerry O'Connell didn't look scared enough, so Reiner started screaming at them to make them cry. Afterwards, he felt terrible about it and comforted both of them. And to ensure that the child actors really looked intimidated by his character, Kiefer Sutherland supposedly bullied them in real life (although Wheaton doesn't recall it happening to him). The scene with the leeches in Wheaton's hand and...[[Groin Attack|other]] [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|places]], however, was not real.
** Reiner also asked River Phoenix to think about the biggest moment an adult had let him down when he had to cry during the campfire scene. He got very emotional and Reiner comforted him for long afterwards, but it paid off: The take was by far the best and the one used in the final film.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: They're 12, but all of the main four smoke. Even the generally wholesome lead, and the timid chubby one.
* [[The Fifties]]
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