"I know this might sound just lame, but one day it came to me. The kid got yanked into the mirror, but he had left Reggie downstairs. What was going on downstairs? Reggie hears this crash and he could run upstairs and take it from there. So it was that simple breakthrough that made me realize I could write a whole story now. Then also, there was an idea to go into a new direction. Rather than be contained in the one claustrophobic town, it would then become almost a road movie. A few years later Reggie would team up with the Mike who was older and they would go on an adventure to track down and kill the Tall Man once and for all. So, once I had that in mind, it was a pretty straight shot to make that sequel movie."

"I just don't get off on funerals, man, they give me the creeps."

"Beware the ball, beware the tall man, beware the never dead."

"Where the dead are no longer that way..."

"A. Michael Baldwin — Mike Pearson"

"If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead!"

"I had a compunction to try to do something in the horror genre and I started thinking about how our culture handles death; it’s different than in other societies. We have this central figure of a mortician. He dresses in dark clothing, he lurks behind doors, they do procedures on the bodies we don’t know about. The whole embalming thing, if you ever do any research on it, is pretty freaky. It all culminates in this grand funerary service production. It’s strange stuff. It just seemed like it would be a great area in which to make a film."

"Kenneth Tigar — Father Meyers"

"Bill Thornbury — Jody Pearson"

"You play a good game boy, but the game is finished. Now you die!"

"BOYYYYY!!!"

"There's this door down here. And I bet there's something behind it."

"Hi guys. Heh heh, just thought I'd come over and see what was going on before the kids got out of summer school. Hey Mike, you want to ride along with me today? It's pretty warm outside and the ice cream's going to be flying fast and furious. Remember how good you were at crowd control last time? Hey, what's going on here?"

"Rubin Kushner — Grandpa Alex Murphy"

"Now, remember: you don't aim a gun at a man unless you intend to shoot him. And, you don't shoot a man unless you intend to kill him. No warning shots. Hey, you listening to me? No warning shots. Warning shots are bullshit. You shoot to kill, or you don't shoot at all."

"Angus Scrimm — The Tall Man"

"George Pastell — Professor Tagore"

"Claire Gordon — Sandra Banks"

"Jess Conrad — Bob Kenton"

"Jack Watson — Superintendent Brown"

"Supt. Brown: Fantastic... There's a huge monster gorilla that's constantly growing to outlandish proportions loose in the streets!"

"Not since "King Kong"...has the screen exploded with such mighty fury and spectacle!"

"[to Dr. Decker over breakfast] What are you having with your poached egg? Murder?"

"Michael Gough — Dr. Charles Decker"

"Konga! Konga! Put me down! Put me down, I say!"

"Margo Johns — Margaret Decker"

"Austin Trevor — Dean Foster"

"Nicholas Bennett — Daniel"

"Stanley Morgan — Inspector Lawson"

"Grace Arnold — Miss Barnesdell"

"Leonard Sachs — Bob's Father"

"Vanda Godsell — Bob's Mother"