Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett, who played Tanya's parents, were also married in real life at the time of filming. (They had met when they appeared in Ferris macht blau (1986), where they also played a married couple).
According to director Mick Garris, Stephen King's wife Tabitha King wrote a treatment for a sequel that would have involved a women's basketball team.
Both Mick Garris and Mädchen Amick are allergic to cats, as revealed in the recent Scream Factory Blu-ray release. Amick didn't reveal this to anyone until right as the film went into production.
During a Q&A celebrating the film's 25th anniversary, director Mick Garris revealed the Enya song "Boadicea" was chosen for the film only because, of all the songs provided to him by Sony Music at the time for cross-promotion, it was the one song he felt fit the tone of the film.
Mick Garris cast Alice Krige as Mary Brady after remembering her appearance in Zurück bleibt die Angst (1981), which he had publicized when he worked as a publicist for Universal Pictures.