Vanessa Chester previously played the daughter of Jeff Goldblum's character, Ian Malcolm, in 1997's Jurassic Park: The Lost World. In Jurassic Park: The Lost World, she gets the attention of a raptor by saying: "Hey, you!", right before using her gymnastics skills to kick the raptor out of a window. In this film, she plays the DJ at the house party and her only line is: "Hey, you! Let's kick it!"
The speech that Dr Walker gives to the children near the beginning is very similar to the speech Dr Grant gives the child at the beginning of Jurassic Park, right down to showing the raptor claw.
Throughout the film Denny makes multiple references to Predator. On two occasions he covers himself in mud thinking the raptor won't be able to see him, and at another point he puts Dr Walker's blood on his face and says "if it bleeds, we can kill it".
When in the van questioning the scientist, it's mentioned "what happens if it gets wet or we feed it after midnight?" This is a reference to Gremlins.
McCluckskey waves a flare to distract the raptor just like Dr Ian does in Jurassic Park.