Frontier Amusements released this in Canada in the fall of 1980 as CRIES IN THE NIGHT and then re-released the movie in September of 1982 as FUNERAL HOME.
The building of the Chalmers Funeral Home, consisting of a long house with gables, was later used by William Fruet in a 1990s 2-part episode of Goosebumps he helped direct, titled "Night of the Living Dummy III".
Three cast members all appeared in the classic slasher, Black Christmas. Jack Van Evera, Les Rubie and Robert Warner.
In an interview with star Lesleh Donaldson she said that she always thought of this film as something of a cross between the Little Red Riding Hood fable and Alfred Hitchcock's Psyco (1960).