* DyeingForYourArt: Shawna Loyer, who played the Angry Princess, had to sit in the make-up chair for five hours. Hers was the longest of the creature effects make-up.
* FakeAmerican: Embeth Davidtz (South African born but American ethnically) as Kalina.
* FollowTheLeader: Following the lead of ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999'' and ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' - remakes of 60s haunted house films.
* MythologyGag: The original 1960 film had a gimmick called Illusion-O wherein audiences could wear special glasses to see the "invisible" ghosts. How do the characters in the remake see the ghosts? Through special glasses.
* TheOtherDarrin: The Hammer was played by two different actors.
* PlayingAgainstType: You wouldn't expect [[spoiler: Embeth Davidtz]] to turn out to be the villain, would you?
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The story was originally planned to take place over several days, and featuring a subplot in which Kathy falls for [[SmugSnake Moss]], but the director felt it was ridiculous. He also wasn't pleased with the original plan of Maggie of all people turning out to be TheMole, so [[spoiler:Kalina]] ended up in this role instead.
** In addition, the death of [[spoiler:Kalina]] was originally going to be much, much gorier (complete with [[EyeScream her eyes popping out]] and her brains squirting out) than the finished version and was apparently filmed, but the creators didn't think they'd be permitted to keep it in.

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