* TheCameo - [[CreatorCameo Wes Craven]] appears near the end of the movie. [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Heather Langenkamp]] appears briefly as a corpse.
** Music/AliceCooper cameos in yet another Wes Craven film!
* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Yup, that's electrically charged [[TheXFiles Walter Skinner]] trying to kill [[Series/ChicagoHope Dr. Kronk]].
** Ted Raimi appears as one of Jonathan's friends.
** John Tesh is a newscaster.
** Timothy Leary is a television evangelist.