Director Scott Reynolds changes things up by making all of the blood in the movie a dark, black color. Author John Kenneth Muir writes in his book, Horror Films of the 1990s, about how this visual cue may suggest that Simon never saw his victims as being human, making it easier for him to kill.
Scott Reynolds used three imaginative devices to keep audiences attentive throughout the film. First is the inventive way Karen becomes part of the flashbacks that she goads the tortured Simon into reliving. Second is the use of black maple syrup, instead of red stage blood, in all the murder sequences to keep the disgust factor at a minimum while conversely indulging in the most graphic shocks. And third is Reynolds' riveting use of the colors blue, red, black, white and silver -- literally the only palette he draws from.
Katrina Browne's debut.
While visiting Spain for the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, where The Ugly was nominated for awards, Rebecca Hobbs said people kept mistaking her for Sharon Stone and asking for her autograph.