Released two years before BLADE it contains many of the same scenes: a board meeting of vampires, a bloody rave, etc.
The film's trailer features scenes not included in the final cut of the film.
Several of the supporting characters were named after noted horror-film directors (Jacques Tourneur, Dario Argento, Edgar G. Ulmer, Roy Ward Baker, etc).
The film was inspired by the 1988 computer game "Nighthunter" by Ubisoft, where the player is also a vampire hunter, and it was apparently the favourite game of director Rick Jacobson's son. An alternative - and more believable - story is that Jacobson took inspiration from the 1990 adult film "Tight *unter", where a vampire is frequently disappointed after going down on women he sleeps with because they find his teeth uncomfortable.