20 Things You Didn't Know About High Fidelity

12. In The Hungarian Dub, Barry & Rob Discuss Reservoir Dogs Instead Of Evil Dead II

High Fidelity John Cusack
Touchstone Pictures

Mid-way through the movie, Rob and Barry have a memorable exchange revolving around the splatter movie classic Evil Dead II, but for the dubbed Hungarian release of the movie, this conversation was actually changed to Quentin Tarantino's heist masterpiece Reservoir Dogs, because Hungarian audiences weren't much aware of Evil Dead II.

This wasn't just a random change, though: Reservoir Dogs is actually the film name-dropped in the book version of the scene, so the dub was ultimately more faithful to Hornby's source material. We'll assume that Cusack and his co-writers are just huge Evil Dead fans, then.

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