Initially, House of the Damned was just a 20 minute short. However Sean Weathers eventually elongated the script.
The original title of the movie was "House of the Dead", it was changed in fear that too many movies had that title.
The movie is dedicated to Jahvaughn Lambert, Sean Weathers best-friend who committed suicide before the movie was done editing.
The Kevin character was initially intended to be the main character after Sean Weathers watched Evil Dead II (1987). This was changed in the final draft as Sean felt that people would not be as interested in a man-in-peril formula as they would a woman.
In the climactic fight in the cellar with Liz and Heather, the residue from the dirt ground was so bad that the camera men where rotated in-between takes.