Director Paul Lynch said while they were casting the the stripper who lives in the motel building Harvey Keitel's character manages, an actress named Daphne Kastner came in from Montreal who'd done some films and was really interested in the role even though she'd never performed nude before. She ended up admitting that she was really there because she's a huge fan of Keitel. Lynch ended up casting Lolita Davidovich and lost track of Kastner. In the early 2000s Lynch was at a newsstand and saw a picture of Harvey Keitel and his new wife in a magazine, and it was Kastner. They married in 2001 and are still married as of 2024.
Harvey Keitel is the main character in the movie.
The trailer for this movie features reused musical score from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)