The cabin Jeffrey lives in was also used in the movies Eraser (1996) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984).
Due to their limited screen time, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis almost declined to reprise their roles as Harry and Shelley. The story would have started in Los Angeles with Vada already having moved in with her Uncle Phil, while Harry and Shelley moved out of the country. However, director Howard Zieff convinced both to participate as he felt that it was key to the story that Vada had a stronger bond with her dad since the first movie, and had now accepted Shelley as her stepmother.
This is the last film that Howard Zieff directed, because he became increasingly debilitated by Parkinson's disease.
Producers attempted to get Macaulay Culkin to appear in a brief flashback sequence reprising his role briefly as Thomas J. Sennett from the first film. Culkin was too busy with other projects at the time, and his character is only briefly referenced in this film as a result.