To make the actors feel more comfortable during the sex scenes, Jim Van Bebber would often direct naked.
The extras for the scene in which the family dance around a bonfire covering each other in blood and having sex were actually strippers and prostitutes from a small Cincinatti town.
The film played a couple of festivals as a work-in-progress in 1997. This was the work print of the film complete with splices, grease pencil marks and rough sound and projected from a video tape. The film ran out of funding and was not completed until Dark Sky Films became involved. Only then was the negative cut, the sound edited and mixed, the beginning and end titles shot and the film blown-up to 35mm and the newly completed film was first shown on 18 August 2003.