Was filmed at the director's family farm.
Before it was canceled, The Dark and the Wicked would have had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
When shooting the scene where the priest is waiting outside the gate at the front of the driveway and Michael pulls up, Xander Berkley actually had a large spider dangling from his hat.
Ella Ballentine, the girl who visits the farm, appeared in Bryan Bertino's previous film, The Monster.
One rainy day on the set, make-up artist Tara Brawley's truck got stuck in the mud out by the pet cemetery and was rescued by the gaffer, Jesse Curl, and his equipment. Jesse Curl is also the inventor of the "Curl Grip", an innovation in dollygrippery employed for the first time in this film.