First produced cinema movie screenplay solely written by John Hughes. Hughes admitted to not being particularly proud of this script.
One of several slasher movie spoofs released during the early 1980s that parodied the current cycle of films in that genre. The movies include Wacko (1982), Capital del infierno (1982), Student Bodies (1981), Class Reunion (1982), and Sábado 14 (1981).
The University of Pasadena's Pasadena College of the Chiropractic played Lizzie Borden High School.
Advertised as a school-related comedy "From the People Who Brought You Colegio de animales (1978)" (with no mention in the poster or teaser of the horror parody angle), this movie was often perceived erroneously as being a sequel or sequel of sorts.
John Hughes: Uncredited, the teenpic auteur and film's writer as a "girl" in a dress with a paper bag over his head.