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An actual Halifax strip club (now closed) served as location for both the Scotland tavern scenes and the Atlantic City strip club scene.
The oven mitt that Pat McBeth uses to cover up the burn mark has the same tartan as the clan McBeth.
Writer/director Billy Morrissette got the idea for setting Macbeth at a restaurant while in high school. He was working at a Dairy Queen in South Windsor, Connecticut, and was "reading a lot of William Shakespeare at the time".
Detective MacDuff says at one point "I used to be a dancer". Christopher Walken indeed started out as an accomplished dancer.
The same Nova Scotia man happened to own the filming locations for the restaurant, McLeary's Garage, Mac & Pat's trailer, and the den of Mac & Pat's house. He also owned one of the many Camaros.
Among the 1970s trends, fads and inventions depicted in the film are: drive-thru restaurants, vegetarianism, Yahtzee, chicken bites with dipping sauces, tanning salons, the Magic 8 Ball, "MAD" Magazine (with the folding back-page pictures), fondue and streaking.
Billy Morrissette: the man walking his dog (and it's really his dog) in front of the McBeths' house after the McBeths open their restaurant.