The film's still photographer, Craig Hamrick, provided the setting for two scenes. The "servant's bathroom", where the French maid (played by Darian Caine) is brutally attacked in a Psycho (1960)-inspired shower murder scene, was the bathroom in Hamrick's Brooklyn apartment. And a spooky stairway shown in the film was in the same Tribeca building as his photography studio. Hamrick and the film's producer/star Joe Zaso became friends when Hamrick shot some publicity stills (headshots) for Zaso. The photographer is very familiar with the horror genre; he has written several books about the cult classic "Dark Shadows".
The script was written in ten days.