: At the time of its release, it was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest rate of violence in any film to date, with an average of 134 acts of violence per hour.
: The film follows a group of high school students in Colorado who form a resistance group called the Wolverines to fight back against a Soviet-Latin American invasion.
: In 2003, the U.S. military operation to capture Saddam Hussein was named "Operation Red Dawn" in honor of the movie. The two locations where they searched for him were named "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2," after the teenage guerrilla group in the film.
: At the time of its release, it was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest rate of violence in any film to date, with an average of 134 acts of violence per hour.
: The film follows a group of high school students in Colorado who form a resistance group called the Wolverines to fight back against a Soviet-Latin American invasion.
: In 2003, the U.S. military operation to capture Saddam Hussein was named "Operation Red Dawn" in honor of the movie. The two locations where they searched for him were named "Wolverine 1" and "Wolverine 2," after the teenage guerrilla group in the film.