Director McClain Lindquist is also a Mortician.
James C Morris signed on for the role of the Old Man without ever even have read the script.
The original short story was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843.
Chris Hanson used real blood and animal guts to create the vivid and disturbing special effect images. He picked them up earlier that day from a local butcher. The smell on set was unbearable and made many of the hardened crew sick to their stomachs.
The entire crew was Utah based. Either being born and raised in Utah or were living within the state at the time of filming.