The film was released to a single theater in Spokane, WA, prompting fans to accuse Miramax of intentionally bombing it.
Rob Zombie was originally set to write, direct and score the film, but he was fired because of creative differences. In an interview, Zombie explained what made him quit was when he submitted a script featuring an older, nastier Crow in a gruesome Spaghetti Western specifically with Scott Glenn in mind for the protagonist. The producers liked his idea until a year later when they saw the box office success for I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and came to Zombie telling him they wanted to make the third movie a teen-slasher possibly starring Skeet Ulrich as the Crow, to which Zombie replied, "This is absurd!" and quit.
The film was released direct-to-video after poor test screenings.
This is the first Crow film in which the Crow features are not created with the use of face paint; in this film, the lines bisecting each eye and at the corners of the mouth to form the smile are formed out of burnt skin, however, there are two vertical lines over each of his eyes and they cross with the horizontal lines on his mouth. The Crow (2024) Takes a different tactic again, but also doesn't use face paint.
Corvis is Latin for crow.