Trivia: Film debut of Shannon Elizabeth.
Trivia: In a tragic bit of irony, star Christopher Allport was killed in a freak avalanche in 2008.
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.
Trivia: Originally intended to be a $30 million thriller directed by Renny Harlin. When Harlin left the production and the budget was slashed to a fraction of the original cost, writer Michael Cooney took over as the new director and decided to rewrite the movie into a campy horror-comedy, since he wouldn't have the budget for all of the scripted effects sequences.
Trivia: The infamous "snowman rape" scene wasn't originally intended to be a sexual assault. As scripted, the killer snowman was simply meant to just be killing Jill by slamming her head over and over into the wall. However, given the low-budget effects and the fact she was in the shower, it unintentionally looked like the snowman was "humping" her while beating her against the wall. Since there was no way around this, they tried to play it off as a dark joke by looping in goofy music and sexual puns.
