During his speech about the Dagmar family, Dave (Monte Markham) notes that the home's first owner sold corpses to the "University over in Essex County" - a reference to author H.P. Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University, which was located there.
Numerous characters in this film are named after characters or people associated with the Lucio Fulci film The House by the Cemetery (1981), which this film was inspired by.
During the credits, around 1:20:00, there is a bonus scene.
Paul Burress, who plays Billy Dee, is actually the pastor of a local church in the town where this movie was shot on location, and his daughter Zorah Burress plays the ghost girl Fiona Dagmar.