Trivia: Paul Reiser's character Carter Burke was so immediately hated that during the movie's premiere his sister hit him, and when Burke's death occurred, his mom's response was simply "good."
Trivia: In the final confrontation between Dollarhyde and Graham, Tom Noonan had to lie in a pool of stage blood for several hours as the crew worked on other shots. After all this time, the stage blood dried into a thick, cement-like adhesive that all but fused Noonan to the carpet.
Trivia: The film's director, David Cronenberg, has a cameo in this film as the doctor who helps Ronnie deliver her maggot baby.
Trivia: As an homage to a certain legendary horror actor, the cornershop at which Tommy phones Megan Garris (Jennifer Cooke) is called Karloff's General Store, after Boris Karloff.
Trivia: Will Sampson, who portrays Tyler, had previously starred in "One Flew Over the Cuccoo's Nest", where he famously escaped the hospital at the end of the movie. There is a sly reference to that film here, when Steven briefly mentions the idea that Tyler is an escaped patient from a asylum.
Trivia: To make the effects of Audrey II look convincing, the animatronic was usually shot at a lower frame-rate, such as 12 frames per second, and then played back at the standard 24fps. This sped-up the shots and made the animatronic's motions look more fluid and lifelike. In order to compensate, whenever a human actor would be in-shot with Audrey II, they would have to act in "slow motion" in order for their movement to look right at 24fps. (You can kinda tell in a few shots if you look closely).
Trivia: After the six wires are cut to defuse the weapon, you can see the amount of time left on the clock is 07:16:45, which is the date of the first successful test of the Atomic Bomb.
Trivia: The Krite that grows to human size is usually obscured, shot from a distance, or only seen for brief instances. This is because the crew wasn't happy with the way the costume looked. While the Krites looked great as tiny creatures, once they reached human-sized, they looked unintentionally hilarious. The crew had to shoot it in such a way to make it feel like a threat without directly showing it too much. This is also why the Krites don't grow that large in any of the sequels.
Trivia: Diana Scarwid ab-libbed the famous opening line, "There is no God!".
Trivia: When Noah Hathaway goes to check on his sister Wendy in the basement, if you look at Wendy's shadow near the washing machines it shows the Troll's shadow (since he has taken over her body).
Trivia: Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov play Paul and Mary Bland in this film. These are the characters they played in the film "Eating Raoul."
Trivia: Bill Moseley got the role of Chop-Top because he made a parody short film of the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Moseley's film was called "The Texas Chainsaw Manicure". Series co-creator Tobe Hooper saw the short and loved it so much that he cast Moseley in a major part when "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" went into production.
Trivia: Kristy Swanson received coaching from a professional mime in order to properly move like a cyborg.