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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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Revealing mistake: Throughout the entire film, it's quite obvious that most of the "snow" is fake. It just doesn't quite look right. It often resembles mashed potato flakes or Christmas tree flocking instead of real snow.

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Continuity mistake: When Sam walks into his kitchen at the beginning after cleaning his driveway, he walks past his son. His son goes from having his right hand down on the counter to up, holding a ladle between cuts.

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Revealing mistake: When Jack is melting after being showered with acid, at one point, there's a very obvious cross-dissolve used to blend two shots into one as Jack is reduced into a skeleton. It almost works, except suddenly, the snow around him is slightly different. (Some impressions into the snow and whatnot appear during the fade that shouldn't, as does a few pieces of debris.)

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Revealing mistake: When Jack is being showered with the acid, you can tell that they had the actor lying down, dropped the liquid on him from above, and simply tilted the camera onto its side. The way it sprays "sideways" is incredibly unnatural.

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Revealing mistake: In the beginning, when Jack kills the guard then puts the cigarette out on his face, watch closely. As the camera pans down, you can see him starting to switch the lit cigarette in his right hand with an unlit cigarette hidden in his left hand so he doesn't actually burn the actor playing the guard when he "puts it out" on his face. It can be hard to notice at first, but once you see it, it's super obvious.

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Revealing mistake: At the very beginning of the film, we see the transfer vehicle carrying Jack driving down the road. You can tell in several shots that the (fake) snow isn't really falling, but is just being blown in front of the camera from off-screen, especially since there's no snow hitting the road, and it's coming from the side, not above.

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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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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.

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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.

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Trivia: The first "Critters" film to be rated R, as well as the first film in the series to not feature actors Don Keith Opper and Terrance Mann.

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Trivia: Dee Wallace has said her character "Aunt Dee" was originally meant to be Helen Brown from the original film (and she still considers them to be the same), but the character had to be renamed for legal reasons since this film and the original were made by different studios.

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