- Nightmare Fuel: The way poor Jer the bartender screams "HELP ME!!" just before the gargoyle decapitates him. Also nightmare fuel in-story, since Preston is still haunted by it in his dreams even years later.
- Retroactive Recognition: Julianne Moore makes her film debut as Susan in the Lot 249 segment.
- Spiritual Successor: To Creepshow and Creepshow 2. Considering on how the television series was initially pitched as a spinoff to Creepshow, it isn't much of a stretch. In fact, Tom Savini has gone on record to state that this is the real Creepshow 3, unlike the In Name Only one that came out 16 years later.
- Visual Effects of Awesome: The scene of the wife turning into a gargoyle is probably one of the best transformations ever done with practical effects, one could argue the effects are good enough to rival the transformation from The Fly (1986). The following bit of her taking off through the roof of Preston's apartment however is achieved with some rough stop motion work.
- At least with the stop motion, it's only a couple seconds long.
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