Paramount Pictures wanted to produce a bigger budget sequel to the hit movie The Boogey Man (1980), but director/producer Ulli Lommel didn't want to work for a big studio and decided to make the film (which he later had pulled from circulation) as an independent production.
The first half of the original version this movie is built up almost entirely out of flashback footage from part one. Ulli Lommel's Boogeyman 2: Director's Cut (2003) is approximately 85 percent of the footage from the original film. When asked during an interview in 2010 if that was due to a lack of inspiration, Ulli Lommel just replied, "It was ALL inspiration."
This movie was filmed in 1981, but released in 1983.
Filmed for ten days at Ulli Lommel and Suzanna Love's house in Los Angeles, and an additional three days around California.
Director Ulli Lommel and horror author Dennis Etchison worked together on a script for "Boogeyman 2" when it was planned to be a sequel produced by Paramount Pictures.