Filmed before any of the other films about the Black Dahlia, including Brian De Palma and Ulli Lommel's films about the subject.
Actresses, Kristen Kerr and Masuimi Max, were both cast in Ramzi Abed's "Black Dahlia Movie" before later being cast in David Lynch's film, "Inland Empire".
The film has changed its title five times, finally staying with "The Devil's Muse" to disconnect itself from all of the other films that refer to the Black Dahlia murder case by name.
Fictionalization of the same real events at the core of Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006), True Confessions (1981), Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975), that were also fundamental for the development of I Am the Night (2019), The Black Dahlia (1988), influenced Black Dahlia (2006), Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991), portrayed in documentaries like The Black Dahlia (1998), The Black Dahlia (1999), The Black Dahlia (2006) and inspired the name of the band The Black Dahlia Murder.