The film is based on a 1978 incident in Pasadena, California where a local girls convent school held a dance for the boys from a nearby honor camp.
The name of the Pre-Raphaelite famous painting that Lisa Taylor (Virginia Madsen) was recreating at the pond was "Ophelia" (1851) by artist John Everett Millais.
The movie playing in the theater is Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985). However, the scenes are shown out of order. Not surprisingly, both movies were made by the Paramount Pictures studio.