According to screenwriter David Coggeshall, this movie was never intended to be any kind of sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) and they only became "related" when Gold Circle, the studio behind both movies, decided they wanted to try and capitalize on the success of the first movie.
Based on a true story. A photograph of the real Wyrick family is shown before the end credits.
Emily Alyn Lind is the daughter of Barbara Alyn Woods. Barbara Alyn Woods played Chad Michael Murray's stepmother on the show One Tree Hill (2003).