20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Mask

5. The Freddy Krueger Callback

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A more adult-skewing Easter egg now and one clearly close to the heart of director Chuck Russell. After Dorian puts on the mask for the first time and transforms, he says, "What a rush."

While wrestling fans might assume that this was a cheeky nod to WWE tag team The Legion of Doom and their identical catchphrase, its origins actually date back to a classic horror sequel - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) birthed the one-liner while killing Taryn (Jennifer Rubin), and if you're still not convinced that The Mask was directly nodding to that movie, it was also directed by none other than Russell himself.

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