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The Family is named the Baxters because in the name Helen Baxter are the words 'Hell and back'!



The poster for the film is taken from a tattoo on the director's arm created by world renowned horror portraitist, Bob Tyrell on an episode of L.A. Ink





Jo Jo eyes


Jo Jo Hristova, who plays Mom, is actually a year younger than Michael Strelow, who plays her son.




Lara and Dad

Eilis Cahill, in preparation for her role as 16-year-old Lara Baxter, snuck into a high school and pretended to be a student for a day. She got away with it.








Fun with bodybags

Devon Dionne, who plays Helen, the bloodsucking vampire, doubled as Cinderella for kids' parties, usually right after the shoots










"Bringing in the Sheaves", the song sung by the Mormons, is the song sung by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter (1955).













The Mormon scene is a tribute to the classic coffee cup scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946). At one point it is copied shot for shot.













The director's aunt is the world-famous Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, Maya Plisetskaya.










The classical piano soundtrack is performed by the filmmaker's father, Azharik Messerer, a child star of Russian Cinema.








The filmmaker's uncle is the mathematician, Victor Maslov.











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