Dominick Rolandelli failed a horror film class at San Francisco State University because Noctuary's production schedule conflicted with the class' final test.
In the opening sequence there are a series of images on the television that show glimpses of the future; bloody hands, the cup of wine breaking and the cross from Nurse Randa's story.
During the hallway sequence, the bellhop says "Great Party isn't it" This is an exact line from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"
The clock in the hallway sequence shows the time as 2:14 a.m. The numbers 2 and 14 are also associated with the date of Valentines Day. This is referring to the character Tim Valentine. The number 14 is also written several times on the walls in the opening scene of the movie.
When the character "Sandman" enters the senior home, a computer screen has a Wikipedia page for "Ole Lukøje" opened which is the original danish fairy tale about the Sandman.