Evil Things

The group was last seen at 23 Muskeegee Road in Woodstock, NY, according to the letter sent with screeners (movie is not in release yet). See also the picture.

The Vanishing (1988)

2314SM30 is the license plate number of the killer.

Up in the Air

George Clooney's company keeps 23 people on the road at all times.

Submitted by Brian

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

The sleepwalker, Cesare, has been sleepwalking for 23 years

1919 people!

P2

The address for the girl's character (I missed her name)'s work is given as "23- 70 Park Avenue".

Scrooged

When Frank is in the elevator with Death, the buttons begin to smoke, but only floor 23's button burts.

The Lovely Bones

The killers house is number 23.

ELF

The meeting room is 37523.

Daybreakers

Ethan Hawke's villanous brother is a member of the 23rd regimen.

Death Note

Light causes 23 heart attacks among criminals.

Alice

Alice's dad disappeared on March 23rd.

Into the Wild

Chris/Alex states he is 23 years old.

Bruno

Timestamp during the camping scene reads 2:23 a.m.

2012

the earth's crust shifts 23 degrees

submitted by brian

Jerkbeast

A red 23 plaque is hanging from the rearview mirror of the van.

Wind Chill

takes place on the 23rd.

Submitted by Brian.

Saw V

Jigsaw is featured in issue 23 of a magazine. Submitted by Brian.

Superbeasto

Rosario Dawson is the 23rd wife. Submitted by Brian.

Paranormal Activity

There are several 23's throughout the movie.

The Dark Half

Ray's apartment is 23D.

Wrong Turn 2

There are several 23s throughout on the video cameras.

Cape Fear (1991)

Max Cady has $23,000 in his bank account upon his release.

Whip It

The referee says "23" in the trailer, calling in a rollergirl.

Chicken Run

One of the Chicken Coops is #23.

Real Genius

Several 23s on paperwork in the opening sequence and throughout the movie.

The Secret Lives of Bees

There is a 23 on the Calender.

Submitted by Candi

There Will Be Blood

When Daniel Plainview leaves his son on the train, the last 2 numbers of his license plate are 23.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles

The title says it all!

BASEketball

Little Bitch wears #23

Whisper of the Heart

The library card has the return date 7-23 on it.

Submitted by Candi.

My Neighbor Toturo

The calendar has the number 23.

Submitted by Candi.

The Time Traveler's Wife

One of the lottery numbers is 23.

Puppet Master 3

The train cars at the end are train 2-3, making a 23.

The Baby's Room

Juan checks into a hotel-- the row over the bellhops' shoulder starts at 23.

Bedtime Stories

The Hotel Guy owns 23 hotels

submitted by Brian

Black Roses

The main house in Black Roses is number 23.

Submitted by Brian. Read the review on Horror Movie a Day.

INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

Eli Roth's characters seat number is 023

submitted by Brian.

Red Mist

In Catherine's surveillance video, the date reads 1-23-08.

Haunting In CT

The son is wearing a Number 23 jersey in the previews.

12 ROUNDS

Danny Fisher has to go 23 blocks to get a bomb to its destination.

Submitted by Brian.

TH E FRIGHTENERS

A key event happens at 12:23.

Submitted by Brian. Read the review for this movie at Horror Movie a Day.

Blindness

There are 23 casualties in the bus crash that Danny Glover's character describes.

Alice (1988)

At the beginning, as the White Rabbit is being introduced, there is a 23 on a card (it is written in Czech, I do not know what it says beyond No. 23).

Babe

Babe is contestant # 23.

Submitted by Jay.

Girl, Interrupted

Daisy Randone (Brittany Murphy) lives at 23 Vicor Street.

Enemy of the State

"There are 23 Brills in the phone book!"

Said after an emergency vehicle with the number 23 on it drives by

submitted by Brian

Toy Story 2

Al The Toy Collector lives on the 23rd floor, which is more prominently displayed on the elevator grid than the other numbers.

Submitted by Brian

Con Air

Danny Trejo's character is named Johnny 23, though he comes dangerously close to becoming Johnny 24!

Fight Club

The firefighter's helmet when Jack's apartment explodes is A-23.

WELCOME!

A little on the number 23, ganked from Wiki:

The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.

Origins

William S. Burroughs was cited by Robert Anton Wilson as being the first person to notice the 23 enigma:^[1][2] Wilson, in an article in Fortean Times, related the following story:

I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.^[3]

Discordianism

The Principia Discordia states that "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropritate to 5"^[4] - this is referred to as the Law of Fives. Discordians regard the 23 Enigma as a corollary of this law. It can be seen in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus! Trilogy (therein called the "23/17 phenomenon"), Wilson's Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (therein called "The Law of fives" and "The 23 Enigma"), Arthur Koestler's Challenge of Chance, as well as the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23 is considered lucky, unlucky, sacred to the goddess Eris, sinister, sacred to the unholy gods of the Cthulhu Mythos, or strange.

As with most numerological claims, the 23 enigma can be viewed as an example of apophenia, selection bias, and confirmation bias. In interviews, Wilson acknowledged the self-fulfilling nature of the 23 enigma, implying that the real value of the Laws of Fives and Twenty-threes lies in their demonstration of the mind's power to perceive "truth" in nearly anything.

"When you start looking for something you tend to find it. This wouldn't be like Simon Newcomb, the great astronomer, who wrote a mathematical proof that heavier than air flight was impossible and published it a day before the Wright brothers took off. I'm talking about people who found a pattern in nature and wrote several scientific articles and got it accepted by a large part of the scientific community before it was generally agreed that there was no such pattern, it was all just selective perception."^[5]

In the Illuminatus! Trilogy, he expresses the same view: that one can find a numerological significance to anything, provided "sufficient cleverness."^[6]

WHAT IT MEANS TO THIS BLOG

As a teen my friends and I were obsessed with the number 23. We noticed that it can be found in almost every movie. This blog serves as a master list of every 23 in every movie I watch. If I can screen cap the 23 I will. If you notice a 23 in a movie please submit it to this blog by emailing scooterandjinx@gmail.com.

PREVIOUS FINDINGS (VIA THE INTERNET)

From this site:

In the film Airport, the mad bomber has seat 23.
In the film Airplane II, the name of the spaceship is XR-2300
In Star Wars Princess Leia was held in cell AA-23
In a recent film version of Alice in Wonderland a stuffed Rabbit comes alive and runs away from a case numbered 23.


From this site

• In the movie Jeepers Creepers the creature gets to feed every 23 years for 23 days.

In the movie PROPHECY starring Christopher Walken, it tells of a second war in Heaven as transcribed in an ancient bible in the 23rd chapter of Revelations


And of course I shouldn't even have to mention The Number 23.