In the opening scene, the book store shelves are filled with Fear Street books with the author listed as "Robert Lawrence". The letters "R.L." in R.L. Stine's name stand for Robert Lawrence.
The Fear Street book the woman buys at the store from Heather is "The Wrong Number". It was originally published on March 1st, 1990 by Simon Pulse. It is the fifth book in the original Fear Street series. The main character in this book is named Deena.
Skull Face's costume was inspired by R.L. Stine's "Halloween Night II" from the Point Horror book series.
In certain parts of the film, Josh says: "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start", that sequence is the famous Konami code. It's a cheat code used by video game players in order to gain special powers during a game made by the company Konami. The first known use of this code was in the game Gradius (1985).
Despite the film's title "Fear Street", the movie is focused on murders that happen in Shadyside as a whole. The actual street in the title has not yet been shown, or even mentioned.