Kandi Thompson not only played the lead in the movie, she sang on two songs in the movie. She is the lead singer of Vox Dei, whose song "It's Over" plays during the opening credits. She also performs "The Song of Spearfinger" which plays numerous times in the movie. According to legend, the lyrics she used are actually from the song Spearfinger would sing to her friend, the Raven. Translated, it simply means: "Liver, I eat it."
In the original script, Robin and Vinnie were supposed to be going on a hike to work through relationship problems. There were several scenes shot where they were discussing Vinnie's insecurity over Robin being caught texting her ex. Vinnie doesn't know if Robin is over him or not. Robin even buys Vinnie hiking shoes that were the wrong size, (it is later discovered that they were her ex's shoe size) and the ill-fitting shoes cause Vinnie to fall down during his fight with the giant. After watching the dailies, Luke and Vinnie decided that Vinnie and Robin's chemistry was so good that they appeared to be a healthy couple and the troubled relationship angle was not needed.
"I love you." "I know you think you do." Is an inside joke between producer Vinnie Vineyard and his wife, Julie. It was used in the movie to imply that Vinnie is chasing Robin in a way during the "rocky relationship" story line. When Robin finally says it to him, it signifies that she finally realizes that she did love him, too. The troubled relationship troupe was dropped but they decided to keep the lines in as the couple's inside joke with each other.
The 4 leads in the movie (Kandi, Vinnie, Luke, Travis) make up the paranormal investigative team behind the show "Wrestling With Ghosts". Their experiences that they had on the show looking for the Cherokee legend Spearfinger influenced several story elements used in the film.
This movie is based on true events that happened to Executive Producer and male lead Vinnie Vineyard's brother, John Vineyard. John can be seen on the show "It Happened to Me..." where he goes into detail about his hiking misadventures in the Great Smoky Mountains. Many of his experiences on those hikes, including the tent scenes at night, the two Coors Light beer cans floating in the river, and Vinnie building an effigy of himself (John called this, making a dummy of a dummy), were included. And as Vinnie states in the movie, John used the effigy to escape a real life bear attack.