For more than two decades, the movie was almost better known as the "lost Carpenter film" due to its scarce availability on home video. Contrary to many countries in Europe where the movie actually got released on VHS, there has never been an official VHS release in America. Warner Bros. finally released it on DVD in 2007.
When Leigh is watching tv in her apartment there is a news report about the death of nurse Elizabeth Solley. Elizabeth Solley is the name of Jamie Lee Curtis's character in Carpenter's The Fog.
The script was originally written for cinema.