Trivia: The "smoking man" at the Shangri-La tower who bumps into Sam is the film's director, Terry Gilliam.
Trivia: Director Jeannot Szwarc has a cameo in this movie as a cameraman during B.Z.'s hearing.
Trivia: Director Norman Jewison's daughter Jennifer appears as a female patient.
Trivia: Real counterfeit bills were printed during principal photography. The prop master got in some hot water for this, even though the bills were created specifically for a scene in which Willem Dafoe burns them in a fireplace.
Trivia: The bad guy, Fraker, real name Gavan O'Herlihy, is the lost son "Chuck Cunningham" on the first season of Happy Days in 1974.
Trivia: Mare Winningham, whose storyline revolves around the fact that she's a virgin, was pregnant throughout the filming of the movie. This is the reason she's wearing those baggy clothes.
Trivia: The evil count is named "Magnus Lee." His surname is nod to famed actor Christopher Lee, who portrayed Dracula in a number of horror films.
Trivia: Aunty Entity's name is never mentioned in the film. She is only referred to as just "Aunty."
Trivia: The hat that Fletch wears at the end of the movie is the same hat that Harry Dean Stanton wore in the 1979 movie "Alien."
Trivia: Despite being considered an important piece of film history and being an Academy Award-winning film, "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is notoriously hard to find in many countries (including the US) due to nightmarish rights disputes. It was only available on disc for a brief window, has gone through multiple decade-or-more stretches without any official release and is unavailable to stream legally.
Trivia: Some of the cloud effects were created by dumping colored dyes in tanks of water which were then superimposed into the shot.
Trivia: When Hooks punches Procter, Marion Ramsey actually hit Lance Kinsey in his jaw.
Trivia: The role of Eddie Cusack was originally written for Clint Eastwood.
Trivia: Christopher Lee agreed to appear in the film because he had never made a werewolf movie and wanted to make one. However, he absolutely hated the finished film. He later personally apologized to original "Howling" director Joe Dante (who had no involvement in this sequel) for making the film.