The special effects were Emmy nominated.
All three actors who play the main teenagers - Rodney Scott, Nicki Aycox and Scott Cooper - were in their early to late 20s: Scott was 21, Aycox was 24, and Cooper was 29.
At 35:20 there is a poster of "No one here gets out alive," the first biography of Jim Morrison of The Doors.
Scott Cooper, who guest stars in this episode, would later direct Gillian Anderson in the movie The Pale Blue Eye (2022).