This project was originally offered to horror maven and Full Moon Features founder Charles Band as one that would cash in on the then-lucrative and re-energized slasher film sub-genre. But Band did not want to produce the film under the Full Moon banner, since the company maintained a strict policy that forbade human-on-human killing in its horror films (deaths would always come from a creature of some variation, i.e. the Puppet Master franchise). As a result, Band created Shadow Films to produce this film, and several other titles that followed later.
Much of the same cast and crew worked on this film and "Delta Delta Die! (2003)" simultaneously, even using some of the same locations and furniture for each film.
At the office building where Shawn and Maddy work has framed posters of earlier Charles Band productions, such as Curse of the Puppet Master (1998) and Crash and Burn (1990).
The production company, Full Moon Pictures, changed its name to Shadow Entertainment following the release of that label's last film, Jigsaw (2002), making this the first movie to hold the new company logo, Shadow Entertainment.