The unrated version of the movie was shown in sixty theatres on its debut weekend across the United States and Canada. Most of the theaters were unaware of the extent of the extreme violence in the film, and nearly all of the theaters had stopped playing the movie by Monday morning.
The first horror movie to be theatrically released unrated in mainstream cinemas across the United States since George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978). When the MPAA kept giving this movie an NC-17 rating with each submission, the filmmakers decided to circumvent them, and go straight to a major cinema chain and show them the film. When AMC theaters saw the uncut movie, they loved it. Then, after hearing just how much of the violence would have to be cut out to get an R-rating by the ratings board, AMC agreed to release this movie in their theaters unrated. However, they later pulled the film from their theaters, when it was released for only a few days.
During the meeting, when Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd) is offering the bounty, one character mentions Jason Voorhees. He then also mentions he comes from the town of Glen Echo, and that town's urban legend is known as Leslie Vernon, a reference to Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006).
The crew is almost entirely the same crew who made Hatchet (2006), one of Writer and Director Adam Green's stipulations for whether or not he would return to the helm for this movie.
According to the horror website bloody-disgusting.com, this movie's final tally of fake blood used in its making, is one hundred thirty-six gallons. That's eighty-one gallons more, and more than double the amount used in the making of Hatchet (2006), which reportedly used fifty-five gallons of fake blood.
Adam Green: Appears vomiting on the sidewalk at the end of the opening credits, reprising his role as one of Ben and Marcus' friends from the first film.