Several aspects of the film were left on the cutting room floor, most notably an entire subplot concerning Peg's psychological state and her sexuality, including a sexual relationship between her and her teacher.
The novel written in conjunction with the movie has many interesting extra facts about the story and the characters. In the film, it's clear the Woman can see that Peggy is pregnant and even says "Bahbee" in broken English. The book says that she knew this from the beginning and, when addressing Peggy and her mother to ask for help in Gaelic the first time she saw them, the book confirms that she said, "Will you help me, mothers?"
The book 'The Woman' will be released to coincide with the film.
Sean Bridgers's character is named Chris Cleek. The sixteenth century Scottish legend of the Sawney Bean clan, a family of incestuous cannibals who roamed the East coast of Scotland, and who were the inspiration for the feral cannibals in the novel by Jack Ketchum, on which the film was based, closely resembles the story of Christie-Cleek, which is attested from the early 15th century. Christie Cleek is a mythical Scottish cannibal said to have lived during a famine in the mid-fourteenth century.
Alexa Marcigliano's debut.