‘Premonition 2’ turns 21 YEARS OLD; Check out interesting facts about the underrated sequel!

If there’s a franchise that deserved more recognition, it’s this franchise. ‘Premonition’. And, among the five films released, the second chapter is the one that most needed to be rediscovered, as it functions as a great and underrated sequel to the initial iteration.

In the plot, Kimberly (AJ Cook) has a premonition that a horrible road accident will kill many people, including her and her friends. Frightened by the sight, she stops the car and stops those behind from passing. Soon, a highway police officer arrives and the accident actually happens. Now, death is stalking this group of survivors, and one by one, they are dying as they should: on the road.

Also counting on Michael Landes, David Paetkau, James Kirk, Keegan Connor Tracy It is Ali Larter (reprising his role as Clear Rivers, from the previous film) in the cast, the film had a very unfavorable reception from critics and grossed only US$90 million worldwide. However, it gained a legion of fans and became a classic. cult It is gore which is remembered as one of the most underrated works of the 2000s.

To celebrate its two-decade anniversary, we have prepared a brief list featuring behind-the-scenes facts about the film.

Check it out below:

• Real wooden logs were tested for the failure sequence, but they “didn’t bounce enough”; therefore, the logs in the films are made with CGI.
• The highway accident was based on the 125-car pileup on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Georgia on March 14, 2002.
• An instrumental version of “Rocky Mountain High”in John Denver – the music that accompanies most deaths in ‘Premonition’ -, plays in the dentist’s waiting room.
• Around the five-minute mark, we see a school bus full of teenagers shouting “pile-up.” The students are from Mt. Abraham, the same school as all the victims in the first feature film.
• The Stonybrook Institution sanatorium that Clear is admitted to is the same one used in the opening sequence of ‘Halloween: Resurrection’2002.
• In the first feature, several characters have names that pay homage to various horror film directors. In this, Kimberly Corman’s name refers to the filmmaker Roger Corman (‘Horror in the Castle’, ‘Frankenstein’).
• Tim’s character was supposed to be nine and then thirteen, but the New Line Cinema decided that it would not be good to kill a child; so, they ended up deciding to be fifteen.
• When Evan is examining his new ring, the horseshoe shape is pointing downwards – which superstition portends bad luck. The chain of events that culminates in his death begins moments later.
• When Nora puts Tim to sleep by dimming the lights, his face is illuminated with a kind of skull-shaped outline – premeditating his death.
• In the film, a pigeon breaks the window and enters the waiting room of the dentist’s office. According to some superstitions, a bird inside a building means that someone there will die.
• This disaster has the exception of being the only one in the series in which the order of deaths was reversed, as Death did it to start his list over again – due to one of the victims of Flight 180 still being alive (Claire).