Despite receiving top billing on the DVD releases of this film, cult hero Bruce Campbell only makes a brief appearance in the film as a policeman at the end.
The film was shot in an actual grocery store in Bell, California during the evenings when the store was closed.
The Paramount VHS video cover (along with various other video and DVD releases) and the film's trailers all reveal the identity of the killer, thus spoiling the film's dramatic tension.
The song that Randy (Sam Raimi) sings is the one Shelly sings in The Evil Dead (1981), directed by Raimi.
Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, and Ted Raimi were all heavily promoted by Paramount as the stars of the film, and their names feature prominently on video and DVD artwork. None of them are actually the stars of the picture.