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Desmodus, the master vampire, obtained his name from Desmodus Rotundis. This is the scientific name for the vampire bat.

"Big 40" received his name from the 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor he drinks. However, 40 oz. drinks were non-existent in the 1970's but the name fit and stayed.

Two scenes, a conversation between Maria and Jacob and a fight scene, had to be re-shot weeks later due to condensation forming on the inside of the camera lens making the footage fuzzy and unusable.

Helen Ann Luther (Hott Wheelz) and Jennifer Fouche (Friday) were longtime friends before making the movie together.

One of Freelove's fangs is gold due to it missing from an earlier encounter with Stone. At the time, fake vampires fangs made to look like gold were unavailable so the make-up department had to paint one. A few years later, vampires fangs made to look gold were available in Halloween shops across the country.

Jacob, Frank, and Maria were characters in Daniel Frazier's college project, "Patience". The writers of Avenging Disco Vampires were satirizing the serious short. "Patience" established the character of Jacob who escaped from prison and took refuge in a mansion. As he waited for his brother Frank to pick him up, he killed his home bound hostage. Avenging Disco Vampires picks up from where the original short left off with the arrival of Frank and Maria.

For five weekends, cast and crew endured a production schedule which began at 5 PM on the allotted Fridays, rested for four hours (6 AM to 10 AM on Saturday), then shot straight until 6 AM Sunday morning, resting from 6 AM until 10 AM before packing up and leaving.

The dance floor used in the movie was built from 9 PM until 6 AM straight the night before it was to be used. The craftsmen who built it were Derrick Hughes, the director of photography, and Aaron White, "Big 40".

On the fourth weekend of shooting, an emergency halt was called to production when one actor (K. C. Jacobs) fainted from exhaustion at 3am.

The rock that Guano and Abyss perch on during the Crypt introduction is an ancient skinning rock used by a Native American tribe centuries before.

Actor Carus Waggoner ("Freelove") twisted his knee and tore his ACL while rehearsing for the final fight between he and Jarrett Tate ("Jacob"). He then shot the entire fight sequence later that night with his injury. That fight scene was re-shot one year later in the early hours of Easter Sunday morning.

During the first "rumble" between the Bloods and Crypts, all the extras were paired up to choreograph their own fights. As the shooting day wore on, several extras left without their fights being shot.

Four of the five vampires that rise from the disco floor during Maria's rescue attempt are producers or crew members. The fifth vampire's identity has yet to be determined.

The vampire featured on the VampTan bottle is director Daniel L. Frazier.

In order to shake the coffin that Chic Chick and Freelove are making out on, director of photography Derrick Hughes lay inside and beat against the ceiling with his fists. During one take, the weight of the two actors on top caused the upper coffin door to collapse on Hughes. Fortunately, there was no serious injury.

Behind schedule, the cast and crew attempted to shoot sixteen pages of action in the space of the final night of shooting. As the night wore on, the director of photography (Derrick Hughes) and the unit production manager (Bill Farro) literally tore pages out of the script and re-wrote several fight sequences. In the end, the night was scrapped in favor of re-scheduling the shoot for another weekend and reducing the sixteen pages to ten to be shot over two nights. As a result of this, alternate fight scene footage exists that has never been seen by anyone.

Before filming the dance sequence in the disco lair, the sound system to play the music for the actors to dance to shorted out. In order to play the music, one of the actor's cars was driven up to the entrance of the set and the car stereo played the song at full volume. Unfortunately, there was so much noise from other devices (such as the fog effects machine) that it was hard for many of the actors to hear the music let alone keep in time with the beat.

The location of Herbert Stoneshickle's grave was on the edge of a cliff 50 feet above the ground. Actor Tom Horn had to do a scene three feet away from the cliff's edge with director Daniel Frazier often shooting sitting on the edge itself. Neither wore safety harnesses.

The character Belozersk says eight lines of dialogue in his first scene. He doesn't utter another word after that for the rest of the movie.

Upon the suggestion from director Daniel Frazier that her character of Akeesha would be a very vain person, actress Laura M. O'Connell decided she would change costumes between scenes. Over the course of the movie Akeesha wears three different outfits.

As actors and extras increasingly became unavailable after shooting a few scenes, their characters disappear throughout the course of the movie with no explanation.

Unit Production Manager Christopher Marksberry provided some of the grunts, growls and even death screams of some of the vampires in post-production. However, his one on-screen role as a gothic vampire was cut from the final edit.

Togger Akin, the actor playing "The Gas," choreographed the dance sequence in the disco lair.

The set for the disco lair was an old barn. The loft served as Freelove's dais over the dance floor but was tricky to shoot in due to many holes in the loft's floor boards. During the dance sequence, Carus Waggoner (Freelove) tripped over a hole and nearly fell through.

Aaron White was so nervous about the costume he designed for his character Big 40, he never looked at himself in a mirror during the entire shoot. It wasn't until after filming wrapped that he saw how he looked in the footage.

During the world premiere, the sound mysteriously cut out halfway into the movie in front of the entire crowd. As producers scrambled to start another copy, actor Jarrett Tate snatched up a microphone and began entertaining the audience.

A rocky cliff was used as the "cave" for the gothic vampire lair. Director Daniel Frazier had to keep shooting at a rapid pace due to the approaching dawn which would have spilled sunlight onto the actors playing the vampires. Shooting wrapped just as the sun began to rise over the horizon.

The original script called for three groups of vampires: disco vampires, gothic vampires and Nosferatu-style vampires. Due to budget and time restrictions, the Nosferatu vampires were eliminated as well as references to all the vampires changing into bat-like humanoid creatures.

The scenes at the country store were shot at the Rabbit Hash General Store in Kentucky, a historic tourist spot. Sadly, the store burned down on February 13, 2016 due to a faulty electrical wire.

The part of "Bones" originally went to another actor. However, the actor failed to show on the day of the shoot so crew member Jason Brown stepped in and played the part.

Nancy Hughes, who played the character Jen, was one of lead actor Jarrett Tate's teachers in high school.

For the battle between Jacob and two goth vampires on top of a wall, an orange light on one side was used to give the effect of an unseen fire pit. Months later, when the footage of one of the victims falling to their death was to be shot the filmmakers scrapped the idea of a fire pit and changed it to a pit of jagged spikes instead.

Two subplots to the movie were included in the initial VHS release. The first subplot was about Frank proposing marriage to Maria and the second about Jacob taking the fall and going to prison after Frank accidentally killed a clerk during a botched robbery attempt. Both these subplots were events that took place before the opening of the movie's time line and were considered minimal to the impact of the film. They were cut for subsequent releases.