Trivia / The Gate

• One-Book Author: Christa Denton (Glen's sister) never acted again, while Louis Tripp (Terry) played Terry again in the film's sequel and only appeared in TV movies and short films afterwards.
• Sleeper Hit: This unheralded film with a largely unknown cast finished a completely-unexpected #2 at the box office on its opening weekend, apparently a beneficiary of the horrible reviews that the #1 film, Ishtar, had gotten. Discouraged from seeing the Beatty-Hoffman film, enough filmgoers were intrigued by the advertising for The Gate that it made back 2/3rds of its $6 million budget on just that opening weekend, and word-of-mouth sustained it for the rest of the summer. It ended up grossing $13 million.