When Vincent Price was asked what he thought of the short, he said that it was "the most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality - better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard."
An early form of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) can be seen in the upper-left corner of the screen at 4:45.
Was originally conceived as a children's book.
The Saturn Sandworm seen later in Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) first appears in this short film.
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