Film director DeWitt Jones had to use a lot of visual effects. The wrong lights were ordered for the night scenes, therefore he shot all the scenes in the day and digitally created the night look.
Actress Tarjatta Rose is 5'-9" and Simone Whitlock is 5'-0". Therefore the cinematographer requested that Simone wear extremely high heels and Tarjatta wear socks when they were standing to balance the height better.
Uncanny Pennsylvania is a fictional town like Stephen King's Castle Rock. Film director DeWitt Jones did this for creative control where the aspects of the film's location can't be argued.
Film director DeWitt Jones intentionally tried to create the thriller style where the audience would be imprisoned by their own fear and imagination. This is a formula that Alfred Hitchcock, and Brian DePalma exercised religiously throughout their films. "IMagine" used this same formula and hoped to pull the same shock ending effect that is laced through "Psycho," "The Sixth Sense," "Carrie," and "Angel Heart."