Final theatrical feature film of veteran actors Melvyn Douglas, Fred Astaire, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Both Fred Astaire (who plays Ricky Hawthorne) and Melvyn Douglas (who plays Dr. John Jaffery) are mentioned in Peter Straub's source "Ghost Story" novel on which the movie is based.
Of the four actors who played the young versions of the veteran main characters, three died before reaching the age of 60: Kurt Johnson (Young Edward Wanderley) died of AIDS on February 12, 1986 at the age of 33, Tim Choate (Young Ricky Hawthorne) was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 24, 2004 at the age of 49 and Mark Chamberlin was killed in a bicycle accident on March 22, 2011 at the age of 55. As of 2023, Ken Olin is the only surviving member of the group.
Interiors were constructed inside the abandoned Union Station, the former New York Central Railroad's passenger train station on Broadway in Albany, NY and included a two story set. The murder or death scene was filmed on the second floor of that set. Scenes were filmed in sequence and the two story set was significantly aged after the death scene so that it later appeared as the derelict house. After the movie, the old station was refurbished and restored to its former grandeur and served as office space for Fleet Bank and now Bank of America.