Trivia

First produced cinema movie screenplay solely written by John Hughes. Hughes admitted to not being particularly proud of this script.

The killer was played by the father of Anthony Kiedis of the band the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

One of several slasher movie spoofs released during the early 1980s that parodied the current cycle of films in that genre. The movies include Wacko (1982), Pandemonium (1982), Student Bodies (1981), Class Reunion (1982), and Saturday the 14th (1981).

The University of Pasadena's Pasadena College of the Chiropractic played Lizzie Borden High School.

The film was cut by around thirteen minutes when broadcast on ABC in 1987.

John Hughes: Uncredited, the teenpic auteur and film's writer as a "girl" in a dress with a paper bag over his head.

Chuck Berry: As himself.