Carissa Fowler came up with the line "But I don't know how to shoot a machete" during her audition for the role of Gwen.
"Dance of the Dead" was hand-picked by director Sam Raimi for distribution through his new label Ghosthouse Underground at Lionsgate.
Unlike most zombie films, aside from the sound of sirens in a very early scene, there are no police officers or military soldiers present or seen at anytime in the film.
Rob Tapert of Ghost House Pictures said, "This was a movie that Sam Raimi and myself watched on a Sunday afternoon, we howled and we howled till Sam's wife and kids started banging on his office door wondering if we were alright. I think I've watched it about five times so far."
The screenplay for "Dance of the Dead" was written in 1998, before zombie movies had returned to the mainstream.