Colm Feore took it upon himself to make friends with all the child actors, as he didn't want any of them to be genuinely scared of him.

Stephen King's favorite television special of his own.

The cane that Andre Linoge has is the same one that Stu Redman used in Stephen Kings 'The Stand' - Das letzte Gefecht (1994).

One of four Stephen King screen adaptions Jeffrey DeMunn has featured in. The others are Die Verurteilten (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and Der Nebel (2007).

The book that Cat reads to the children, "The Little Puppy", was a favorite of Danny Torrance in "The Shining" (another Stephen King story).

The movie takes place on Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine, the same setting as Stephen King's Dolores (1995). This is alluded to in the script.

Linoge's name is a corruption of the French word for snow, "la neige". Stephen King's characters often have French or French-derived last names, since his favorite setting, Maine, has a large number of inhabitants who are descended from French immigrants.

The series refers to Derry, the fictional town in other Stephen King works, Stephen Kings Es (1990) and "Insomnia".

The book Dolores Claiborne, whose title character is briefly mentioned, is also told in flashbacks as all but the final scenes of this is. In Stephen King's time line, the present sections of Dolores Claiborne take place after the flashback sections of this film meaning she is somewhere on the island during these events.

Adapted straight for the screen. The script was published as a book.

Stephen King personally selected Craig R. Baxley to direct after viewing Twilight Man (1996)

A character's last names is Hopewell. Stephen King used that name for another character in "The Langoliers", from his novella "Four Past Midnight".

Auditions were scheduled for January 9, 1998, in Southwest Harbor, ME. A massive freezing rain storm arrived on that day and left the entire state a disaster area. (Three other states and four Canadian provinces were also affected; parts of Quebec and Ontario were hit harder than Maine.)

Near the end of the movie, Mike Anderson is leaving on the ferry. On the side of the ferry it says "Captain Henry Lee", which is the ferry that runs between Swans Island and Mount Desert Island in Maine.

When Martha Clarendon is going to answer the door, there are several canes and umbrellas in a stand by the front door, and one of them just happens to have a silver animal topping, that looks quite a bit like a wolf, foreshadowing her fate.

According to Stephen King Standards and Practices objected to the line "one mother of a storm". King explained that the line was a variation on the phrase "the mother of all..." and was not meant to imply profanity.

In Part 1, 'Timothy Daly (I)''s character tells his deputy, "Not unless you happen to see superman hanging out in the alley." Daly does the voice of Superman in the WB animated series Superman (1996).

In the scene that features Kat Withers and Billy Soames in the supply house, pay attention to the can of apple juice that Billy picks up to bash Kat over the head with. The label is actually a picture of the wolf head cane that belongs to Linoge.

When Martha Clarendon is heading towards the door, Linoge's head outline looks like a clown. This could be a reference to "IT", another Stephen King book.

Linoge is just the name Legion with the letters moved. Legion is another name for the Devil.

Tim Daly's costar from Wings, Steven Weber, also starred in the Stephen King miniseries of The Shining.

In the Kat/Billy scene in the shed, not only does the logo on the can of apple juice change to a wolf's head, but the brand name changes from McCann ' s to McCANE'S.

The ad that Stephen King makes a cameo in is also featured in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (2004), where King plays Johnny B. Goode.

When Linoge arrives at the house of the elderly woman, his silhouette through the glass of the front door looks like Alec Guinness from Ladykillers (1955).

Debrah Farentino, who plays a character named Molly, has a daughter named Molly in real life.

Casey Siemaszko previously appeared in Stand by Me - Das Geheimnis eines Sommers (1986), which is also based on Stephen King's works.

Protagonist actors Tim Daly and Jeffrey DeMunn played comic book heroes on Superman (1996) and The Walking Dead (2010) respectively. Antagonist actor Colm Feore has played comic book villains in Thor (2011) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro (2014).

A bit of foreshadowing.... When Linoge is taken to the holding cell, constable Anderson tells him to "reach his arms up and grab the bars". When Linoge does this, you notice his face wincing in pain... sort of like an elderly person with joint ailments.

Stephen King: Does an ad on the smashed-in TV in Martha Clarendon's house for the litigation law firm of Macintosh & Redding (1-800-1-STIK-EM).

It was all a massive bluff. Linoge was old and dying. Even though he had supernatural powers, like any other demon if enough people banded together against him, good would have prevailed. Roanoke Island was continuously used as a comparison to Little Tall. And the threat was "what happened to Roanoke will happen to Little Tall" .... but what no one realized was that Linoge never said that he had anything to do with what happened on Roanoke. AND he never said what SPECIFICALLY happened on Roanoke. Like all demons, he used cheap parlor tricks to manipulate and intimidate. And to make 200 people actually believe they had no choice. Ultimately, in the end, they came to realize they fell for a diabolical scam. To reiterate Linoge's last words ... "perhaps you tricked yourselves".