Several additional moments of gore were filmed after principal shooting on the movie had wrapped. That is because the Weinsteins, after a test screening of this movie, complained about the lack of blood and demanded re-shoots. Jeff Burr refused, and another director was hired to do the re-shoots. In an interview, Burr commented, "they cut a little bit of (the film) out and they added some badly done blood effects. Badly done, because Terry O'Quinn refused to do it. Really, they were meaningless, so that was irritating."
The makers of this movie originally had Kay Lenz and Season Hubley in mind for the role of Carol. Hubley did, however, play Jennifer in Stepfather III (1992).
This movie was originally intended as a made-for-video release.