Despite the movie's subtitle, ticks aren't insects. They're arachnids, more closely related to spiders and scorpions.
Special FX creator Doug Beswick wrote the original screenplay two decades earlier under the title "Cycle of Blood."
During a Q&A at Dragon*Con in 2008, Ami Dolenz said that one of her main memories of making the film is the fake blood, which would stick to her skin and hair.
Shot in five weeks.