Gunnar Hansen was hired because his name alone would guarantee a video release. According to the director, Hansen worked for a "very reasonable price" as well.
Paul Talbot said he and Bill Cooke filmed a horror short in college. Once completed, they decided to make it the first segment of an anthology feature called Campfire Tales. They wrote three more stories and tied them all together with framing segments set around a campfire. Over the next few years, they shot the rest of the stories one by one. They financed the shorts by earning money as crew members on commercials and industrials, working day jobs, and getting a few grant awards from two National Endowment for the Arts organizations.
The crew used laundry detergent as snow for the exterior scenes in the Fright Before Christmas segment.
Actor David Avin didn't know how to drive, so all the shots of him driving in the Overtoke segment were filmed with the car parked. The crew shook the car and flashed lights across the windshield to make it seem like the vehicle was moving.
Screenplay was written in 1987.