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In an interview, Kyle Edward Ball stated that he spelled the film's title slightly differently from the song it takes its name from, so that children searching for the song would not accidentally find the film.

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Apart from the dialogue of the cartoon characters on the television, the film contains roughly 500 words of dialogue in total.

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A glitch during one of the online film festival screenings made the film downloadable, and it spread wildly, going viral on many social media sites such as TikTok and YouTube before its official release.

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Director Kyle Edward Ball said on Twitter that the two child actors initially had a line containing some profanity. However, while trying to record their dialogue, the boy was uncomfortable saying the line and the girl struggled not to laugh. Recording took about 8 minutes, but it was cut from the film regardless.

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Director Kyle Edward Ball voiced the monster.

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It was shot over seven days.

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Heck was a short film made before this one as a proof of concept. It is more comprehensible and helps explain this film. It can be found on YouTube.

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It was shot in director Kyle Edward Ball's mother's house.

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In a 2023 interview on the Roger Ebert website, Kyle Edward Ball spoke about people seeing things as they are and the question of whether something is really there: "Since my YouTube channel, I've enjoyed playing with people's imaginations: holding a shot for a certain amount of time, including a sound you can't quite make out. Other people have brought this up, your mind starts picking out details that aren't even in the grain. During those dark shots, I was hoping people would play with their imaginations. Minds may be playing tricks on them, but is the grain playing tricks on people? I didn't think about it until people said, 'I see something there, is there something there?' And I was like, 'Well, is there? I don't know.'" There is a scene in the film where someone is standing in the dark, and he has not yet told anyone what it is. He does not think he will. Everyone will wonder which frame it is, but he knows very well that there is a single frame with someone standing in the dark. For now he will keep this secret. The only other person who could know is his cinematographer, Jamie McRae, and he hasn't told anyone either. There is a chance he has forgotten that someone is standing in the frame. Most things were intentional; things that play with people's fears and dreams, what we have in common. But the grain playing tricks was just a happy accident.

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Lucas Paul (Kevin) and Ross Paul (Dad) are father and son in real life.

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The film's budget was raised through online crowdfunding.

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The film grossed over 2 million dollars on a budget of 15 thousand dollars, earning back roughly more than 100 times its budget.

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A baby photo of director Kyle Edward Ball can be seen on the wall in this film.

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Although the film was not rated in the US, it received a PG rating in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and an 18 rating in Birmingham, England.

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One of the cartoons shown on the television during the film, The Cobweb Hotel (1936), was also used in the background in the opening scenes of the 1988 film Night of the Demons.

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The opening title sequence was made by director Kyle Edward Ball.

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