The doctor of the sanitarium, Dr West, is named for Doctor Herbert West, the main character from "Herbert West--Reanimator" one of H.P. Lovecraft's earliest publications.
The O'Reilly family (Kiefer, Michelle, Sean Patrick, Summer, Phoenix and Harmony) take seven of the 14 speaking roles.
Howard Lovecraft and The Frozen Kingdom is the fictional story of American horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft.