When Shawn is being chased, his visions are shown in the style and with the flashbulb and piano string sound effects of the opening sequence of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A character named Jason Cunningham after the movie's villain (Jason Voorhees) and Sean Cunninghan (the movie's director); the burlap sack which the killer uses as a mask is similar to the mask Jason used in his first appearance in the Friday the 13th series; the camp song heard at the beginning of the episode contains the lyric "crystal lake", which was the name of the camp in the movie.