[2] It features make-up effects by horror FX legend Tom Savini, who also appears in the film.

Over the course of filming, the cinematographer (Joseph Pilato) and a female gaffer (Susan Chapek) begin to enter into a romantic relationship.

Unbeknownst to them, the film's director is secretly making a snuff documentary with an unwilling cast and crew.

In the behind-the-scenes documentary After Effects on the Synapse DVD, the three principal filmmakers involved - Dusty Nelson, Pasquale Buba, and John Harrison - discuss the film's evolution.

[4] They had met while working at a television station in Pittsburgh and later apprenticed under horror filmmaker George A. Romero on his 1977 film Martin.