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Trivia: During the scenes in New York City, you can briefly see a restaurant called "Chasse du Canard." This is French for "Duck Hunting," and is a reference to the Nintendo game "Duck Hunt," which often came paired on a cartridge with the original "Super Mario Bros." on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Trivia: When Mario and Luigi get the Super Star and become invincible, at one point they grab Bowser by the tail and swing him around before throwing him through the air. This is a reference to the video game "Super Mario 64," in which Mario defeats Bowser by swinging him around by the tail and hurling him through the air into bombs.

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Trivia: For a period of time in the 90s, the film was distributed through bootlegs that had the logos, titles, and credits cut out, often at UFO and paranormal conferences and sci-fi conventions. This led many people to think the footage was real, especially given its extremely low budget and low-quality footage that looks like a real home movie.

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Trivia: The film is also widely known as "The McPherson Tape." However, this was never the official title, and is seemingly based on a misconception since the film was often circulated without the title attached in the 90s. Regardless, this incorrect title became so well-known that the film's 2020 Blu-Ray by American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) contains a double-sided cover... one with the correct title "U.F.O. Abduction," and the other with the misnomer title "The McPherson Tape."

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Trivia: Often credited as the first feature-length film to be shot, edited, and screened entirely digitally.

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Trivia: The production budget was reportedly only $900. $300 of this was spent on video stock and tapes, while the remaining $600 was spent on other production costs.

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Trivia: The earliest verifiable feature film to utilize the "found-footage" technique, that was later popularised by horror movies such as "Cannibal Holocaust", "The Blair Witch Project", and "Paranormal Activity".

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Trivia: Director Joe Johnston almost didn't cast Robin Williams because he was worried about Williams' knack for constantly improvising. However, Williams convinced Johnston that he understood that the film's tight pacing and special effects meant he couldn't improvise as much as normal, and gave Johnston the confidence to hire him. Johnston ended up letting Williams improvise fairly often, but only after filming scenes as written.

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Trivia: The directorial debut of series co-star Patrick Wilson.

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Trivia: The final film Hollywood legend Gene Kelly was involved with before his death in 1996. He served as a consultant for the choreography of the musical numbers. The film was also reportedly somewhat inspired by his life.

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Trivia: Originally intended to be a major theatrical release. However, after production company Turner Broadcasting was merged with Time Warner, the latter decided to simply burn off the film by releasing it into theaters with little promotion. As a result, despite receiving good reviews, the movie bombed in theaters. However, it has gained a cult following in the years since its release.

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Trivia: The subtitle "Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman" was reportedly added because the first movie was often confused for the family friendly "Jack Frost" film from 1998. The filmmakers wanted to make sure audiences knew this film was not related to that movie at all.

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Trivia: While the first movie was shot on film, this sequel was shot on digital video, given the extremely low budget. Writer/director Michael Cooney embraced the digital video look, but some distributors later tried to create the illusion that it was shot on film by adding subtle grain filters and artificially lowering the frame rate. Cooney has gone on record saying that the original "video look" is his preferred viewing method.

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Trivia: Ironically, much like the first film was shot in an unseasonably warm winter with little snow, this film was shot during an unseasonably rainy summer at a tropical island, resulting in little actual sunshine.

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Trivia: The movie was shot in 1994, but not released until 1997 because the original distributor went bankrupt.

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Trivia: Film debut of Shannon Elizabeth.

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Trivia: Ironically, the winter was unseasonably warm when the film was shot, with some days hitting 70 degrees, so most of the snow seen on the ground is completely fake.

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Trivia: Writer/director Michael Cooney has said that the budget for the entire film was roughly equal to just the catering budget for the 2003 film "Identity," which he also wrote.

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Trivia: In a tragic bit of irony, star Christopher Allport was killed in a freak avalanche in 2008.

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Trivia: The movie was inspired by a time writer/director Michael Cooney and some friends built a snowman while on vacation. The following morning, one of his friends told him she couldn't sleep because the snowman outside looked like it was eerily staring in her window, and it freaked her out. Cooney thought that, given the popularity of slasher and monster movies, a movie about a killer snowman could be fun, and he started developing the story.

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