'Jo Jo Hristova', who plays Mom, is actually a year younger than Michael Strelow, who plays her son.
"Bringing in the Sheaves", the song sung by the Mormons, is the song sung by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955).
Eilis Cahill, in preparation for her role as 16-year-old Lara Baxter, sneaked into a high school and pretended to be a student for a day.
Devon Dionne, who plays Helen, the bloodsucking vampire, doubled as Cinderella for kids' parties, usually right after the shoots
The film took three years to shoot.