Trivia: John Cleese and Ann Way both starred in the Fawlty Towers episode "Gourmet Night", in which Cleese played his recurring role of Basil Fawlty and Way played the guest Mrs Hall.
Trivia: Tobe Hooper played up the black comedy in this sequel as he felt that all the dark humor in the original had been ignored by audiences due to the film's shocking content. He wanted to make sure that audiences knew the film was meant to be scary AND funny.
Trivia: The scene where Douglas Fackler tries to stop his wife Violet from joining the police academy and ends up riding on the hood of the car while she drives there mirrors the scene from the first film, where she tries to stop him from joining the academy, and ends up riding on the hood of the car while he drives there.