The end credits feature a cover of the 1962 song "Monster Mash" by the female-fronted punk rock band Bobsled. Their cover hasn't been released elsewhere, and by the time the film came out in 1997, the band had already split up.
Christopher Masterson was the only actor in the wraparound segment that was actually in his teens when it was filmed, being 6 years younger than Jay R. Ferguson and Kim Murphy , and 9 years younger than Christine Taylor.
The producers of this film had to pay some money to the people who made the earlier and similarly titled horror anthology Campfire Tales (1991) to reuse the title for this movie.
It was originally intended for a theatrical run, and even received a one-off screening in America in 1997. The film however would eventually become a direct to video title, being released in Australia and some European countries later in 1997, and then in America during late 1998.
Coincidentally, two urban legends from the film ("The Hook" and the more obscure "People Can Lick Too") were also featured on the Canadian anthology cartoon Freaky Stories (1997), which premiered the same year as Campfire Tales.