* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/TobeHooper was apparently fired midway through production with producer Anant Singh finishing the movie himself.
* FakeAmerican: Most of the supporting cast are South African performers [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent barely bothering to disguise their native accents]].
* ParodyRetcon: According to one of the screenwriters, he and Creator/TobeHooper planned the movie to be a ''lot'' more tongue-in-cheek than it turned out, which explains the over-the-top approach in many scenes. This apparently was the main reason Hooper was fired, as the producers wanted a straightforward horror movie...about a possessed laundry presser.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/StephenKing worked at an industrial laundry for a brief time before his writing career took off. One assumes he did not enjoy the experience.
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