The Children, made in the same year as Friday the 13th (1980), has the same composer asFriday the 13th (1980).
Co-writer / producer Carlton J. Albright struck several deals in the course of making this film. One involved giving to the favored charity of the cemetery caretakers in order to use the cemetery seen in the film. Another involved hiring a local girl as a production assistant so her father would agree to the use of his house.
Writer/producer Carlton J. Albright's kids, Sarah Albright and Nathanael Albright, are cast in this movie as Ellen and Tommy, respectively.
Martin Brennan was reportedly a drug dealer who sold cocaine to the cast and crew during the making of the movie.
Inspired by the Three Mile Island incident of Wednesday, March the 28th 1979 at Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, USA where a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township.