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Trivia: Despite being a cult favourite, the film was notoriously out of print for nearly 20 years and not available to stream due to rights issues, causing existing Blu-Rays to be scalped for hundreds of dollars. Rumour has it director Kevin Smith even purposely leaked the 1080p Blu-Ray version of the film online because he felt bad about it. In 2024, Smith was finally able to supervise a deal to get it a new re-release on 4K, Blu-Ray and digital in 2025 for a belated "25th anniversary" rerelease.

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Trivia: Director John Boorman initially didn't want to make the movie as he found the first film distasteful. However, when he saw the story treatment, his perspective changed and he viewed "Exorcist II" as a rebuttal to his perception of the original film's darkness and a tale about "goodness" winning. Boorman subsequently admitted that his views were wrong and that the movie didn't work, and that he shouldn't have made it since he "denied what the audience wanted."

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Trivia: Despite the film's negative reception, star Brendan Fraser has lightly defended it in interviews. In a 2025 interview, he stated that while it wasn't a good "Mummy" movie, he thought it was a decent stand-alone adventure movie and said that the experience of making it and working in China was fantastic. (Though he promised the announced fourth film would be the movie that both he and the fans "have been wanting," hinting at a return to the tone and Egyptian mythology of the first two movies.)

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Trivia: In a 2025 interview, star Brendan Fraser stated that the main reason for the scenery change from Egypt to China was business-related. NBC Universal wanted to do cross-promotion with the 2008 Olympics, which were being held in China, and asked for the film to be based around Chinese mythology.

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Trivia: After the release of this film, Brendan Fraser repeatedly floated the idea of a fourth film, often saying in interviews that he'd love to play Rick O'Connell again. However, the series was rebooted in 2017 instead, apparently dashing all hopes. However, in late 2025, it was revealed that a fourth film was greenlit with Fraser and original co-star Rachel Weisz (who sat this film out) both set to return.

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Revealing mistake: When Holmes kills the guineapig-human hybrid, the entire scene is ridiculous. In the first shot, the guineapig has tiny human hands that look to be about a half-inch at most. Holmes then steps on it, and in that shot it appears to be a different type of rodent entirely. Then we see the human hands under his shoe flexing in pain, and they look to be significantly bigger than before based on the scale of his shoe... at least 5X bigger than they were.

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Trivia: Despite the movie being a fan-favourite that's still loved over 25 years later, the film had one particularly noteworthy critic... its composer, Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith reportedly despised the film (possibly in part due to bad accommodations the studio gave him), and even once refused to refer to it by name during a concert where he performed selections of his work, referring to it only as a "piece of shit" he wrote music for. This is the main reason he didn't come back for the sequel.

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Trivia: Director Gints Zilbalodis has stated that part of the inspiration for the film was completing his first feature, which he largely made by himself, and being given access to more time, money and crew to collaborate with on his second film, which became "Flow." The cat represents his own need to learn how to work with others. He also wanted the film to be a statement on how to become braver and live with fear and insecurity both on your own and with the help of others.

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Trivia: The entire film was made with free open-source animation software (primarily Blender) due to the tight budget.

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Trivia: Charles Band, co-creator of both franchises, sold the rights to this crossover film to the Sci-Fi Channel so it could be made. He primarily did it for the money because his studio, Full Moon, was struggling financially. Band later expressed regret for this decision, as the film is of a noticeably poor quality. Additionally, director Ted Nicolaou has said he regrets making the film and feels it turned out poorly. He wasn't a fan of the franchises and only took the job to get much-needed work.

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Audio problem: Throughout the entire film, many of the supporting characters are noticeably and distractingly overdubbed. It's often most noticeable with the police officer Jessica, who is one of the main characters. The movie was shot in Bulgaria primarily with European actors and had most of their dialogue replaced in post-production, presumably to cover up accents.

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Revealing mistake: When the demon is dressed up as Santa Claus, watch closely. Every time you can see under his sleeves, you can see where the monster makeup on his arms ends, and the normal human skin behind it.

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Revealing mistake: In the widescreen Blu-Ray, when Gallagher dies, his head twists to the side. When this happens, you can see that Blade's arm, which is hooked into his cheek, isn't attached to anything. His body isn't there. Likely, it was easier for them to just stick one of his arms into the actor's mouth than to attach the whole puppet. (The film was shot for video with the intention of being cropped down to fullscreen. The Blu-Ray presents the original, uncropped widescreen image, causing this mistake.)

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Revealing mistake: When the sorcerer is about to show Toulon his magic for the first time, Toulon picks up one of the puppets. A few moments later, the sorcerer tells him to put it back down, so he does. Both times this happens, you can tell they used the exact same cutaway shot of Toulon picking up the puppet. They simply reversed the footage in the second take to make it look like he’s putting the puppet down. The distinct movement gives it away.

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Revealing mistake: In the widescreen Blu-ray version, when Pinhead is brought to life, you can see the side of the puppeteer's hand tilting him up. The movie was originally shot for home video with the intent of being cropped down to fullscreen. The Blu-ray version presents the original uncropped widescreen version, unfortunately causing this mistake to be caught in shot.

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Trivia: Peter Dinklage plays Toxie's human form Winston and also recorded all the character's dialogue as the "Toxic Avenger." But Toxie, in his final "Toxic Avenger" form, is physically played by a woman named Luisa Guerreiro under heavy makeup, as Dinklage was very uncomfortable with the excessive prosthetics. Guerreiro and Dinklage worked closely together to create the physical mannerisms of Toxie so their performances would match, and so Guerreiro could more naturally lip-sync Dinklage's dialogue.

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Trivia: Despite being completed in 2023 and screened at several festivals, the film was dubbed "unreleasable" due to its gory content and shelved indefinitely. It was finally acquired by another company and given a theatrical release in 2025 after the success of films like the "Terrifier" movies, which were box-office hits despite being released unrated.

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Trivia: NFL star Travis Kelce has a cameo as Oscar's snooty boss who fires him. Oscar later imagines watching a bear eat him. Kelce is also popular in the pop music scene for being Taylor Swift's then-boyfriend-now-fiancé. As a result, rumours swirled that Swift was the person in the bear costume in an unconventional cameo. The two eventually put the rumour to bed in a podcast, confirming she was not the person in the bear costume.

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Trivia: In 2025, one of the writers, Adam Rifkin, was asked on Twitter/X if the Gorgonites ever found Gorgon, to which he enthusiastically replied, "Absolutely!"

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Trivia: With the exception of the attic scenes, all the scenes set in the Marrowbone estate house were filmed in a real house, almost exclusively with natural lighting.

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