In fact, Deborah is expecting a child who she will give birth to after a car accident that will cost her her life.

Director Marcello Andrei and his co-writers originally conceived the film with an original idea of a dying woman passing the child she is bearing to another person.

[3] Giuseppe Pulieri stated that the script he worked one was ruined by a producers attempt to exploit the film as part of the "demonic possession" cycle of films.

[3] Pulieri stated that "The script stayed ten years in the drawer, I even pestered Raymond Stross into making it, to no avail … they altered the story, the in all the usual bullshit: the witches, the sorcerer, the special effects..."[3] The film began shooting on May 13, 1974.

[3] A Black Ribbon for Deborah was distributed theatrically in Italy by Alpherat on 26 September 1974.