Trivia / Creepshow 2

• The Cameo:
  • Stephen King appears as a truck driver in "The Hitchhiker" segment.
  • King's personal secretary, Shirley Sonderegger, has a cameo as Mrs. Cavanaugh in "Old Chief Wood'nhead" (although you don't see her face).
  • Stephen King's house even has a cameo in the animated wraparound segment!
• Fake Mixed Race: Sam Whitemoon is intended to be of mixed race. He is played by Holt McCallany, a non-native actor of Irish ancestry.
• Fatal Method Acting: Thankfully averted for Daniel Beer, who played Randy in "the Raft". He actually got a bad case of hypothermia during filming; it was so bad that his skin turned green! He was hospitalized, made a full recovery and was able to finish filming the segment.
• What Could Have Been:
  • This was going to have the same number of stories as its predecessor but due to budget constraints had to cut them down to three. The unmade segments were:
    • A zombies-and-bowling tale called Pinfall^note The story is about two bowling teams that get into a snuffle when one of the teams kills the other for the prize money resulting in the dead team coming back to life to take revenge., based on an unpublished short by King. Years later, Pinfall is adapted into a graphic novel and included as a bonus in a special edition Blu-ray set released by Arrow Video.
    • The Cat from Hell^note The story is about this rich old man who is being haunted by a demonic cat who is trying to kill him. So he hires a hit man to kill the cat to horrifying results., a published story that was later adapted by Romero for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.
  • Barbara Eden (yes, THAT Barbara Eden) was originally going to play the hit & run driver in "The Hitchhiker" but ultimately dropped out.

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