ParaNorman/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: Kodi Smit-McPhee seems to have made a name for himself as a kid in danger with the unknown.
• Enforced Method Acting: Norman's voice actor, Kodi, recalled in interviews that for certain scenes (i.e. the bathroom scene and the car chase sequence) he has to shake himself in his chair or stand up to get the desired effect.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: John Goodman as Uncle Penderghast.
  • Mitch is part of a group of thieves that planned the coolest heist.
  • Alvin's previous life was a Viking geek.
  • Anna Kendrick as Courtney.
  • King Theoden is Judge Hopkins.
  • The Captain of the Axiom is Norman's father.
  • Jack's Mom is nicer after she died.
  • Before settling down and having Courtney and Norman, Sandra was saving her boyfriend from a crazy lonely stalker with a crush.
  • When she's not cursing those that wronged her, Agatha Penderghast is either Mary Jenson, a ghost of a murdered girl and haunting a ficitonal hospital in Maine or a vampire, Bree Tanner, created by Victoria to be part of a newborn army.
  • Neil traded in his kite with another Alvin just for donuts while vacationing on the cruise ship, the Carnival Dream.
  • Aracula somehow turned into a low-grade zombie flick.
  • Bridget Hoffman, Ariel Winter, Cam Clarke, and Scott Menville voices some of the Blithe Hollow townspeople.
  • Nicholas Guest is both the hippie guest and greaser ghost.
• Playing Against Type: Christopher Mintz Plasse, who is best known for playing nerdy outcasts in movies like Superbad and Role Models, voices the school bully in this one.
  • Kodi's favorite genre is comedy, despite being cast in tons of horror and drama films.
• All There in the Manual: The seven cursed zombies are not called by their real names, except for Judge Hopkins. Their names are: Amelia Wilcot, Eben Hardwick, Lemuel Spalding, Goodie Temper, Thaddeus Blackton, and Wile London.
• In the early production, Laika invited Tomm Moore, the director of The Secret of Kells, just to offer some input on the film's visual aspects.
• This was the last film that Elaine Stritch did before her death on July 17, 2014.
• This is Leslie Mann's second animated film, after Rio.
• When Neil watches his mother's aerobics DVD and he pauses it, white lines go across the screen. VHS tapes did this, but DVDs don't.
• The Wiki Rule: Welcome to Blithe Hollow.