Actor Fred Pomerleau was badly bruised in the scene where he gets his throat cut by Happy Goldsplatt. After the throat cutting, he falls onto 35MM film cans very hard. His entire chest was bruised from the impact.
The Lansdowne Movie Theater closed in 1987 and a campaign is now underway to restore and reopen this beautiful historic building.
Released direct-to-video at a time when finding horror movies was still difficult in many parts of the United States as a result of the "Satanic Panic" in which religious leaders directly linked horror-themed media to real incidents of murder and suicide. Because the film served as a sort of "check list" of obscure and subversive horror movies, the VHS became a cult item that was copied and passed around among friends through the end of the 1980s and early 90s. Per producer James F. Murray Jr., there were eventually more bootlegs on the market than original tapes. Eventually he had to begin taking copies of cease-and-desist letters to horror conventions in an effort to stop pirates, as the bootlegging meant that no one involved in the movie was earning any royalties.
The wrap-around scenes set in a movie theater were filmed at the Lansdowne Theater in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.
Nick Pawlow discovered make-up artist Jordu Schell at a Fangoria horror convention in the mid 80s. Pawlow was so impressed by Schell's self-made monster masks that he asked Schell for his business card. When this film was being planned, Pawlow and producer James F. Murray Jr. gave Schell a call asking Schell if he wanted to design the zombies for the movie.