Trivia

Director Samuel Victor decided to make the film after sitting at a screening of the original for teenagers and young adults, noting that the majority did not find it frightening, but remarked on the core story keeping their interest.

Star Gemma Atkinson is a big fan of horror films, and remembers enjoying the original in her youth.

The tagline "Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality" is a quote from an Emily Dickinson poem, chosen by the director as it ironically reflects Barbara's inability to admit the death of family members, who eventually resurface as the undead.

Many iconic scenes from the original film are re-created with exact camera shots, whilst other scenes are re-imagined using modern camera techniques including crane, dolly and steadicam shots.

When re-writing the film, one of the small changes the director made was to set Barbara as a British born character living in America. Her father was an American serviceman who impregnated her British mother during a war, in which he dies, and this is why she is visiting his grave in the opening scenes. This change to the original was added to reflect the fact that a small British company were making their first film likely to be seen in the United States, reflecting a small British outsider, nervously hoping to fit in around larger American personalities.