Lisa Pelikan contracted bronchitis during the making of this movie. Pelikan revealed in an online interview that she never received a percentage from the box office profits of this film.
The title character in this picture has a parent who is religious fanatic. In Carrie au bal du diable (1976) it was her mother, in this film, it is her father.
After the box office success of Carrie au bal du diable (1976), some strikingly similar movies appeared, described by critics as rip-offs and knock-offs. The Initiation of Sarah (1978) was a tele-movie starring Kay Lenz as an outcast with telekinetic powers at a college where a cruel sorority bullies her and plays pranks on her. Horrible carnage (1978) starred Lisa Pelikan as a misfit at an elite private school who takes revenge on her tormentors using her psychic power over snakes. Ruby (1977) was another. All four film titles feature the first name of the title protagonist character.
Final theatrical feature film of actress Florida Friebus who portrayed Miss Tooker and who continued to work in television for a short time until about 1982.
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