15 Friendly Facts About "Casper"

Call me basic but I love when it’s fall! You get to pull out your cute sweaters and scarves, you can order Pumpkin Spice Lattes and it’s also just the best time of the year! Everybody should also love fall because of Halloween! Dressing up might not be your thing but who doesn’t love eating the candy and watching the movies? And eating the candy WHILE you watch the amazing Halloween movies? My favorite Halloween movie is Casper. I used to watch it all month when I was a kid! So here are some facts about the movie that will make you wish you knew a friendly ghost!

1. Believe it or not this is the first feature film to have a computer-animated lead character!

2. Remember the scene where Casper is fooling around and is writing on the chalkboard? If you pause the movie and look closely, the sentence says: “Paul Revere and William Dowes saw and warned.”

3. When Casper is dragging Kat out the window and takes her to the lighthouse, the producers tied a piece of fishing line to Christina Ricci’s wrist so it would look like she was being pulled by a ghost. 

4.  There was supposed to be a musical scene in the movie called “Lucky Enough To Be A Ghost.” It was even filmed! The three ghosts sang about their mental problems during a session with Dr. Harvey. 

Unfortunately, the scene had to be cut because of cost. Apparently, the animation for the scene would’ve cost a few million dollars!