Robert Englund met his wife, set decorator Nancy Booth, while making this film.
The bathroom graffiti "R + N" was placed by set decorator Nancy Booth for Robert Englund to find in the dailies after they started dating.
A rape scene between Marcus and Suzie was filmed, but later removed. It is missing from both the R-Rated and Unrated cuts.
Stephen Geoffreys who played Evil Ed in Fright Night, can be seen standing beside a Fright Night poster in the El Diablo projection room.
Robert Englund claims the cats in the film would always follow direction, but he was horribly frustrated with the spiders that would barely move once released.