The film follows the formula of the original, with one female lead (Lysette Anthony) playing parts in each of three segments.

Before dying, Ansford transferred all of his money into an account in Zürich and microfilmed the access codes, which were buried with him.

Ansford's body is dragged through a hole in the side of the coffin by large flesh-eating rats, so Laura crawls in after them through a network of underground graveyard tunnels.

However, Bobby acts completely mad and begins to terrorize his mother in the dark house with a sledgehammer and a butcher knife.

Trilogy of Terror II was produced by Dan Curtis Productions and first aired on Showtime on October 30, 1996.

This first segment (screenplay by William F. Nolan and Dan Curtis) is based on Henry Kuttner's short story "The Graveyard Rats", albeit considerably altered.

In Kuttner's tale, the thief is a male cemetery caretaker who habitually steals valuables from the corpses in a graveyard beset by a colony of abnormally large rats.

It was originally written by Matheson for the Dan Curtis omnibus movie Dead of Night.

Trilogy of Terror II was released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on September 2, 2008 and on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber on Oct 22, 2019.