The director/producer cited BBC program Dead of Night: The Exorcism as one of the major inspirations for the story.
Screenwriter John Oak Dalton appears briefly in a group on a haunted house tour.
The home in which the film was shot is located in a very rural area of Waynesville, Ohio. The location belongs to Production Assistant Rachel Carter's family, who collectively own it and use it for auctions, sales, and family events, including a large family reunion every June. According to a metal slate inside the home, the metal siding was pieced together from 1936-1937, though the age of the house is estimated to be from the 1890s. Up to 17 children originally lived in the home during the 1930s-1950s. Prior to filming Haunted House on Sorority Row at this location, many exteriors from Eric Widing's "Hellhounds" were also shot on the property.
The eerie droning sound featured in the daytime field scene comes from a recording of a WWII era German air raid siren.
The sequence with the mirror in the field was not in the original script.