The inspiration for "Most Ghost Street" comes from the childhood experience of director Wes Craven. When he was young, Craven saw an old man walking outside the window one night. The old man stopped and looked at Craven who was stunned. At a glance, it disappeared into the night, and the murderer in the film came from this. The story of the film was adapted from multiple articles published in the Los Angeles Times in the 1970s. The article stated that a group of Cambodian refugees suffered from nightmares after fleeing to the United States, so that they refused to fall asleep. Some of them died shortly after falling asleep, medical experts said. As "Sudden Asian Death Syndrome". Craven was also deeply influenced by Eastern religions, and was inspired by a student film when he was teaching at Clarkson University. Craven named the villain in the film "Freddy Crew "Ge", because he was often intimidated by a child named "Fred Krueger" at school. As early as 1972, Craven, who had been worried about his childhood humiliation experience, was in "Magic House". The rapist in the film was named "Kruger."
Craven started working on the film's script after finishing "Swamp Alien" in 1981. The script of "Night Ghost Street" has been rejected by many filmmakers, and the first intention to shoot this bloody horror film was Walt Disney Pictures. Of course, the latter hopes to reduce the violent content as much as possible to suit the younger audience. Craven, unwilling to compromise, had to find another choice. Paramount Pictures was also expected to take over. However, the film was not without similarities with Paramount's "Devil Territory", which was filming at the time, and the cooperation between the two parties fell short. In the end, the newly-started Xinxian film company decided to invest in the film. Although Xinxian failed to obtain the distribution rights of the film and owed the crew two weeks of salary during the filming period, for the new line that transitioned from distribution to production, "Meng" "Ghost Street" can be called a milestone in the history of the company's development.
Craven text intends to create a deeper ending for the film, that is, Nancy no longer believes in Kruger and kills him, and then wakes up to find that everything is just a nightmare, but Robert Shaye, president of New Line Films Hope to see a tangled end. Because the producer finally chose the open ending that Saya wanted, Craven, who never wanted to shoot a sequel, categorically refused to direct the 1985 "Most Ghost Street 2".
