The producers had to edit the movie in order to avoid an X rating from the MPAA, despite the fact that none of the movies featured had received a rating higher than R when they were initially released.
The movie has been released fully on the 30th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of Halloween II (1981) as a special feature. The movie is presented in widescreen and in full high definition. On October 15, 2012, the movie has been released on DVD as part of the Universal Vault Series. On October 13, 2020, the movie has received its own Blu-ray release with the television network version from Scream Factory.
15 movies featured in this documentary were selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": La Fiancée de Frankenstein (1935), Deux nigauds contre Frankenstein (1948), L'Homme qui rétrécit (1957), Psychose (1960), Qu'est-il arrivé à Baby Jane? (1962), Les Oiseaux (1963), Rosemary's Baby (1968), La Nuit des morts-vivants (1968), L'Exorciste (1973), Massacre à la tronçonneuse (1974), Les Dents de la mer (1975), Carrie au bal du diable (1976), La Nuit des masques (1978), Alien, le 8ème passager (1979) and Shining (1980).
The movie's DVD and Blu-ray release is presented in the same 1:85.1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical release, which also cropped any segments from other movies that were originally produced using the anamorphic process. The number of terror, suspense, horror and thriller movie clips that are featured and shown from in this documentary totaled to seventy-eight clips.
The television network version has additional movie clips added for network viewing as well as replacing violent clips from other movies. The additional movie clips are from the movies: Psychose phase 3 (1978), Firestarter (1984), Frenzy (1972), Enfer mécanique (1977), Le mystère du château maudit (1940), Massacres dans le train fantôme (1981), Les Survivants de l'infini (1955), L'Étrange Créature du lac noir (1954), L'Homme qui rétrécit (1957), King Kong contre Godzilla (1963), Tarantula (1955), La chose surgit des ténèbres (1957) and Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
Alfred Hitchcock: As himself in an archival footage cameo homage from The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973).