Joey runs into a liquor store called Samsa's in order to help Bart. Gregor Samsa is the name of the main character in Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis; he awakes one morning to find that he has transformed into a monstrous creature and is subsequently forced to reassess his life.
The poem that is attributed to "Anonymous Tombstone" at the beginning of the movie is actually the first stanza of a poem entitled "There Is No Death" by J.L. McCreery.
On April 19, 2009, The Revenant won the "Best Feature Film 2009" award at the Xanadu Las Vegas Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Convention during its closing ceremonies.
Yvette Freeman, who plays the nurse at the blood bank, plays also Nurse Haleh Adams in the TV-series ER (1994)