In a fake trailer within the movie, a narrator says, "You've seen The Creature from the Black Lagoon, you've seen The Monster of Piedras Blancas... well, no, you probably haven't... But you've never seen anything like this!"
Jeanne Carmen and John Harmon play a comedy scene set at a lighthouse, referencing the 1959 original; co-director Wayne Berwick played the little boy in the 1959 film.