Contains scenes from "Graduation Day"
As a major investor in the film, producer Richard Caliendo (whose only film this was) insisted that his niece Stephani's dance troupe, the Sweetheart Dancers, be given prominent screen time in the film, much to the chagrin of director Alan Plone. Despite their incongruous appearance in a slasher movie, they became one of the more well-liked aspects of the film. Plone later came to accept the enduring popularity the group continues to receive because of the film. The dancers also appear in an end-credit scene hastily leaving the hot tub wearing bikinis, a shot that logically doesn't fit anywhere in the story itself.
Runner, one of the three escaped convicts, and the one whose death via plastic bag suffocation is the main poster image associated with the film, was played by Tony Brown, a some-time actor and journalist for the Wichita Eagle Beacon newspaper. He asked to be embedded in the film production in order to write behind-the-scenes articles. After being cast as Runner, he worked for free because the newspaper was paying him anyway. His eventual review panned both the film and his own performance.
Megan Wyss, who plays Joni, is the sister of actress Amanda Wyss, who starred in the original Nightmare On Elm Street.
Lucinda Brewe's debut.