10 Horror Movie Props You Didn't Know Were Reused

Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers may have received largely negative reviews upon its release in 1997, but the picture has gone on to become quite the cult favourite.

That film famously saw a future where the Mobile Infantry military unit were in an intergalactic war with the insectoid Arachnids. And in a fun piece of trivia, the helmets used by Casper Van Dien and his cohorts would be given a lick of paint and some modifications to be used four years later in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.

While realising that the Starship Troopers and Planet of the Apes headgear is the same prop is something that isn't immediately noticeable, that's not the case where Firefly was concerned.

Josh Whedon's beloved one-season TV series is another project that used the Starship Troopers gear. Here, though, it's a lot clearer to see that the Alliance has borrowed their uniforms from that 1997 movie. As Whedon has explained in the years since, a lack of budget saw the Starship Troopers outfits rented rather than having the show splash out on creating new designs.

On the flip side of all of this, of course, Starship Troopers is a movie that reused several sets from 1990's Total Recall.