When the Tate/LaBianca murders are depicted, the shot does not show Sharon Tate being stabbed in the stomach in detail, this is because director Jim Van Bebber highly objected to film a pregnant woman being stabbed in the stomach.
Jim Van Bebber directs, writes, produces, edits and acts in this film, and even financed most of it himself.
To give the effect of someone being shot, 'Jim VanBebber' would break the top off of an egg, empty the yolk and fill the egg with fake blood which he would throw against an actor, this shot had to be edited quickly though.
The extras for the scene in which the family dance around a bonfire covering each other in blood and having sex were actually strippers and prostitutes from a small Cincinatti town.
The film played a couple of festivals as a work-in-progress in 1997. This was the work print of the film complete with splices, grease pencil marks and rough sound and projected from a video tape. The film ran out of funding and was not completed until Dark Sky Films became involved. Only then was the negative cut, the sound edited and mixed, the beginning and end titles shot and the film blown-up to 35mm and the newly completed film was first shown on 18 August 2003.